social network and internet stuff, with a peek at Smiley's People. fyi Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:52:22 +0200 (CEST) From: bms@iresco.fr To: BMS RC33 <bms-rc33@services.cnrs.fr> Subject: [bms-rc33] Meeting - Internet, International Relations & Political Science (14-16 Sep Zurich CH) 15th Annual EINIRAS Conference The Evolution of the Internet and the Study of International Relations and Political Science 14-16 September 2005 Zurich, Switzerland ETH Main Building, Room HG GEP. PROGRAM Wednesday 14 September 2:00pm - Close EINIRAS Task Group Meetings Thursday 15 September 09:30 - 09:45 Welcome from Victor Mauer, Deputy Director of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) and Thomas Hodel, General Manager of the International Relations and Network (ISN) 09:45 - 10:45 From Lenin to Hedgehog Heavyweights and Foxy Artists: Social Network Analysis' Political Past and Scientific Future Dr. Karl M. van Meter, Member of the LASMAS and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 - 12:15 The Convergence of Information and Technology Uwe Sujata, Leader, Library System (NEBIS), ETH Bibliothek 12:15 - 13:15 The Semantic Web Dr. Erik Wilde, Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), ETH Zurich 13:15 - 14:30 Lunch at the ETH Dozentenfoyer 14:30 - 15:15 The ISN: Managing Information, Sharing Knowledge Chris Pallaris, ISN Chief Editor 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:30 EINIRAS Task Group Reports 16:30 - 17:30 EINIRAS Member Institute Projects 19:30 Official Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Neumarkt, Neumarkt 5, 8001 Zürich Friday 16 September 09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Address: The Evolution of the Internet and the Study of IR and Political Science Steven Weber, Professor and Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:00 The Googlization of Everything: Electronic Text and the Sustainability of Electronic Resources Professor Siva Vaidyanathan, New York University 12:00 - 13:00 Interleaving Paper and Digital Documents Professor Moira Norrie, Head of the Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zurich 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch at the ETH Dozentenfoyer 14:30 - 15:30 [Title to be confirmed] Professor Richard Rogers, Director, govcom.org 15:30 - 16.00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Information Management in the Private Sector Albert Zaretskie, Senior Information Specialist, Swiss RE 17:00 Close of Conference *************************************************************************** *Karl M. van Meter BMS, Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique * vanmeter@iresco.fr (Bulletin of Sociological Methodology) * tel/fax 33 (0)1 40 51 85 19 bms@iresco.fr * http://www.iresco.fr/revues/bms/Welcome.htm * distribution list bms-rc33@services.cnrs.fr * LASMAS-CNRS RC33, Research Committee Logic & * 59 rue Pouchet Methodology of the International * 75017 Paris, France Sociological Association (ISA) * rc33-isa@wanadoo.fr ***************************************************************************