[A2k] Fwd: [UCGH] UC Atlas Conference on global disparities

[Gavin Baker]

Here's an upcoming call for papers on global inequalities, including
a section on the digital divide. It would be great to see someone
present a paper on differentials in access to knowledge.
--
Gavin Baker
Intern
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
USA
tel: +1 (202) 296-2296 x116
fax: +1 (202) 872-0884
gavin@arl.org


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> From: Stephanie DeVita <devitast@yahoo.com>
> Date: July 16, 2007 10:35:22 AM EDT
> To: ucgh@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [UCGH] UC Atlas Conference on global disparities
>
> Mapping Global Inequality - University of California - UC Atlas
> Conference
>
> December 13-14 2007 - University of California UC Santa Cruz
>
> Website: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html < http://
> ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html>
>
> For several years there has been debate in the academic and popular
> media about the implications of globalization for poverty and
> inequality. The debate has, however, become stalled partly because
> it is too narrowly conceived, being focused almost exclusively on
> income inequality and on the national scale. The conference will
> expand this debate by both mapping global inequality at various
> scales and by
> deploying multidisciplinary perspectives to take the debate beyond
> income inequality.
>
> Commissioned papers will cover the latest trends in health
> inequalities and social outcomes, migration and inequality, wealth
> and other material inequalities, as well as aspects of the digital
> divide and gl obalization/ anti-globalization. Prior to the
> conference, online maps, figures, animations will be developed
> based on commissioned papers. Both online presentations and a print
> atlas will be published based on the conference.
>
> The goals of the conference are:
>
> * to advance the debate about global integration, inequality and
> poverty,
> * to present workshops on the latest techniques in mapping global
> inequality
> * to make the results of discussion promptly available through
> accessible online maps, figures and interactive utilities.
>
> Speakers will include: Goran Therborn (Cambridge University), Tony
> Shorrocks (UN WIDER), Peter Tugwell (Center on Global Health,
> University of Ottawa), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global
> Development), Helmut Anheier (UCLA Center for Globalization and
> Policy Research).
>
> Conference topics
>
> 1. Health Inequalities and Social Outcomes
> 2. Migrations and Inequality
> 3. Wealth and Other Material Inequalities
> 4. Digital Divide and Globalization/Anti-Globalization
> 5. Gender Inequalities
>
> Skills workshops on:
>
> * Poverty Mapping
> * Understanding Inequality
> * Using Google Maps
> * GIS
>
> The UC Atlas is currently accepting abstracts for paper sessions.
> Paper presentations will be fifteen minutes long covering our five
> conference topics.
>
> Please submit a title, abstract, name and affiliation, to
> Conference Submissions <mailto: mapinequality@ucsc.edu>
> (mapinequality@ucsc.edu).  Abstracts are due by August 1st 2007. To
> present a paper you must be registered for the conference.
>
> Supporters (preliminary list)
>
> * Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of
> California
> * Institute for the Future, Palo Alto
> * UNU-World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER),
> Helsinki
> * Center for Global Development, Washington.
> * Center for Globalization and Policy Research, UCLA
> * Center for I nternational Earth Science Information Network,
> Columbia
> University
> * Center on Global International and Regional Studies, UCSC
>
> Contact Ben Crow <mailto: bencrow@ucsc.edu> (bencrow@ucsc.edu),
> Sociology Department, University of California Santa Cruz. Phone:
> 831 459 5503.
>
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