<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 32px; "><b>Special Session 1: Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage</b></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#710000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; "><b>Call for participation</b></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; "><b>A special session will be held as part of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong, organised by DIHA (Digital Intangible Heritage in Asia).</b></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">The aim of this special session is to provide a platform for culture heritage researchers, museum curators, educators, digital media specialists, linguists, designers and others in these related industries
to present the challenges in their respective fields with a view to promote opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. We believe that collaboration at this level will spark major breakthroughs in highlighting awareness of intangible heritage in Asia.</span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Project abstracts are invited on all aspects from the following sub-fields including, but not limited to:</span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Submissions are welcome from researchers, developers, curators and exhibition designers. Please submit your abstract (300 words) to
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:diha@ntu.edu.sg">diha@ntu.edu.sg</a></b> by
<b>1 September 2012</b>. Participants will be notified about the status of their submission by 15 September 2012.</span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><font size="5"><span style="font-size:16.0px">The participants of this special session also will be able to attend the entire program of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong</span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.nodem.org/conferences/hong-kong-2012/">
<http://www.nodem.org/conferences/hong-kong-2012/></a> </span><font size="5"><span style="font-size:16.0px">.</span></font></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; "><b>About DIHA</b></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">DIHA is an interdisciplinary research cluster involving several researchers across Schools and Colleges in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) as well as external partners. DIHA captures the
vibrant cultural and linguistic fusion of the Asia Pacific region through interdisciplinary lenses.</span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font size="5" style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size:16.0px">Go to the DIHA website</span></font><span style="font-size: 12px; "><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://linguistics.hss.ntu.edu.sg/ResearchinLMS/DIHA/index.html">
<http://linguistics.hss.ntu.edu.sg/ResearchinLMS/DIHA/index.html></a> </span><font size="5" style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size:16.0px">.</span></font></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; "><b>DIHA Co-founders</b></span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "> </span><br><blockquote cite="mid:96F87A70-2DC5-4E6F-9D2C-921D9F3FE691@ntu.edu.sg" type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">cultural research and inquiries in intangible heritage</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">enviromental and ecological issues and intangible heritage</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">the role of language and cultural knowledge repositories in the conservation of intangible heritage</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">curating intangible heritage in museums</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">interface and design of digital media for the exhibition of intangible heritage</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">meaning-making and the interpretation of intangible heritage exhibitions</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">visual media and memory and intangible heritage</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">innovative ways of accessing intangible heritage resources</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; "><font size="5"><span style="font-size:16.0px">Assoc Prof. Ng Bee Chin | School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Email:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mbcng@ntu.edu.sg">
mbcng@ntu.edu.sg</a></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size:12.0px"> </span></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Visiting Assoc. Prof. Halina Gottlieb | School of Humanities and Social Sciences / The Interactive Institute, Sweden. Email:
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; "><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:halina.gottlieb@tii.se">
halina.gottlieb@tii.se</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </span></blockquote></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>