Dear AoIR-ists, If you know of anyone interested in intercultural information ethics, please pass on the following announcement from Elizabeth Buchanan, director of The Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - and, of course, chair of the AoIR ethics working group. (And please feel free to edit appropriately...) == The Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is pleased to announce Dr. Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University will lecture on ³An Impending Global ICE Age?: East-West Perspectives on Information and Computer Ethics,² as part of his 2006-07 CIPR Information Ethics Fellowship. A prominent philosopher and information ethics scholar, Dr. Ess is Co-chair, CATaC conferences, Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers, and Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published extensively in the areas of History of Philosophy, Ethics, Culture, Technology, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Online research ethics. Dr. Ess was selected as a CIPR Information Ethics Fellow to honor his prestigious contributions to the field of information and computer ethics, and in particular, his work on East-West perspectives on ethics. While in residence at the CIPR, Dr. Ess will also lecture to SOIS graduate students on different cultural values and communicative preferences and their impact on effective web design. Dr. Ess¹s work will be highlighted in the CIPR Occasional Papers, available at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/research_papers.html Please join us Monday, November 13, 2006, 11:30, Bolton Hall, 521, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus. The lecture is also available via live video stream at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/index.html == thanks - and thanks to Elizabeth Buchanan! - c. Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.phpD Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23