Conference

Conferences, symposiums, workshops, etc.

Independent Sector's Annual Conference

Submitted by epuckett on September 25, 2009 - 1:30pm
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November 4, 2009 - 10:00am - November 6, 2009 - 1:30pm
Event Location: 
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
Renaissance Center Drive
Detroit, MI, 48243
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Creating Campus-Community Partnerships in the Arts Conference

Submitted by Garin on January 10, 2007 - 10:54pm
"Arts of Citizenship first annual conference will build connections among UM faculty, students, staff and community organizations. Our goal is to support the development of sustainable university-community partnerships in the arts, humanities and design and provide opportunities for participants to reflect on the promise and pitfalls of collaborative work. The conference will include a series of workshops led by poet Sekou Sundiata, Linda Frye Burnham (Community Arts Network), Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa-Cruz), Kenneth Anderson (Mosaic Youth theater) and Rebeka Rodriguez (Intersection for the Arts) as well as UM faculty and leaders from community partner organizations.
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CIC Reunion keynote: Richard Fuchs, "The end of the world as we know it - ICTs and development into the future"

Submitted by edwardvielmetti on October 6, 2006 - 3:29pm
Our speaker for the Saturday event, Michigan CIC's annual reunion, has now been confirmed for 1 pm. You and any of your students who might be arriving in town early are welcome to attend. Richard Fuchs of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa will talk on "The End of the World As we Know it?: ICTs and Development into the Future." Also joining us will be Mark Surman, Managing Director of Telecentre.org, the new IDRC / Microsoft / Swiss Dev Agency collaboration.
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CIC Reunion Weekend schedule, Fri Oct 13 - Sun Oct 15 2006

Submitted by edwardvielmetti on September 19, 2006 - 8:33pm
Here's a schedule of plans for the CIC reunion weekend, which is held along with the general School of Information reunion and the iConference. There's a lot going on - we're hoping you can join us. If you have any questions about details or plans for this weekend let Edward Vielmetti, the CIC organizer, know at emv@umich.edu

Friday, October 13

10:30am - noon: SI 575, Community Information Corps seminar (Resnick/Vielmetti). West Hall 311. Alumni and friends welcome to join. George Hotelling will be presenting on his Pizzigati Prize winning CivicSpeak project. (Session details)
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Community Informatics Workshop, Sunday, October 15, 2006

Submitted by edwardvielmetti on September 13, 2006 - 4:36pm
You are invited to attend the Community Informatics workshop at the University of Michigan School of Information, to be held on Sunday, 15 October 2006 before the beginning of the iSchools conference. Organizers This event is jointly sponsored by the Commuity Informatics Initiative at the University of Illinois (Ann Bishop and Chip Bruce), the Community Information Corps at the University of Michigan (Steve Jackson, Maurita Holland, Joan Durrance, Paul Resnick, Dan Atkins, and Edward Vielmetti), and CRACIN at the University of Toronto (Nadia Caidi and Andrew Clement).
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