(Um, this conference invitation is for real - smile!) Dear aoir-ists: We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research centre in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will present the keynote address opening this year's conference on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Culture" (CATaC). Professor Wakeford's address is titled "Technology and mobility at the margins". The programme for CATaC'04 includes presenters from 28 countries focusing on six major themes (Culture: theory and praxis; ICTs and intercultural communication; ICTs and cultural hybridity; Culture and economy; Governments and activists in culture, technology and communication; and Culture, communication, and e-learning) as well as several themed sessions. The programme further includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by distinguished colleagues: 1: The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet 2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun," Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsommer celebrations on June 25-26. For additional information regarding the conference, including the abstract for the keynote address, complete programme, accommodation, registration, and travel information, please see the conference website, <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/> On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard åf Segerstad, and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in Karlstad. Please feel free to address any additional questions to: Charles Ess Drury University Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au