All, For those of you interested in this, also consider checking out this year's State of Play conference, happening at the same time. The formal announcement is attached, but in short, there will be a range of interesting people speaking, and we will have birds of feather panel sessions on a range of topics, such as law, economics, security, quantitive vs qualitative methodologies in VWs, kids and games, mixed reality (aka ARGS and PMOGs), inter alia. There will also be a graduate students symposium the day before (June 18), with a number of scholarships available to get PhD students to NYC for serious conversation. For details on this, please contact: Dan Hunter Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School Adjunct Associate Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Research: http://ssrn.com/author=243354 dhunter@nyls.edu Hope to see you in at our place in June. Kind regards, Chris - Christopher Wong Project Manager, Peer-to-Patent Fellow, Center for Patent Innovations @ New York Law School e: christopher.wong@law.nyls.edu - --------------------------------------------------------- From: Kerstin Radde <kerstin.radde@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de> Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM Subject: [Air-L] German Summer School on Virtual Worlds Research To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org HOW VIRTUAL IS REALITY? We would like to call your attention to this year's Summer School "How Virtual is reality?" (http://how-virtual-is-reality.eu/) held in Bremen (Germany) from July 10 to July 19. The course is mainly addressed to graduate and postgraduate students like Master students and PhD candidates, but undergraduates with experience in the field are also very welcome to apply! As a cooperation of the University of Bremen, the University of Oldenburg and the Jacobs-University (Bremen) the Summer course will broach the issue of the relevance of new environments like "Second Life" or "World of Warcraft" for nowadays culture and social life with special focus on rituals and religions. Instructed by more than 15 international teachers, the participants of the Summer School will engage into the interdisciplinary study of practical methods and theoretical approaches for the scientific handling of ritual and media. The media will not only be subject to methodological, theoretical and practical research and discussion but will also serve as platform for academic exchange and teaching. After this Summer School participants will be able to design and perform research projects on religion in and within Virtual Worlds. Please forward this information to everyone who might be interested in the course! A banner and a poster will soon be available on the "Media" section of the website. We are looking forward to many interesting applications! The organizers Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Simone Heidbrink -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dr. phil. Dipl. Theol. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Universität Bremen - FB 9 - Institut für Religions- wissenschaft und-pädagogik Badgasteiner Str. 1/SPT D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67911 F. +49 (0)421 218 7491