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Conference eBook is ready

Maarja Savan 16. April 2010
The eBook Transforming Culture in the Digital Age is ready!

The file can be accessed here, you are welcome to distribute the link!
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Tweeting at the conference

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 15. April 2010
As te conference is strongly rooted in the digital age, then as there are Twitter users actively tweeting on the conference some of the discussions have already moved to digital environment You can follow the discussions in twitter and check out the conference keywords Transformingculture or Digitalculture. If you also tweet on the conference, please use either of the hastags: #digitalculture ja #transformingculture to help to aggregate the knowledge.

Check out the discussions online!
#Transformingculture
#digitalculture

PS! if you also blog and would like to promote your conference realted posts, leave the link to the comments.
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Changes in the programme

Maarja Savan 07. April 2010
After a long period of preparations we have reached what we hope will be the final version on the conference programme.
Unfortunately prof. Ziva Ben-Porat will not be able to attend. Our new keynote is professor of cultural studies Rein Raud, rector of Tallinn University.

Conference venues and other important sites were added to the new version of conference locations map.
See you all in Tartu in less than a week!
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Conference programme available

Maarja Savan 22. January 2010
The conference programme is finally published together with the links to the abstracts.
See also where the presentations originate from on map of conference papers.


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Season's greetings

Maarja Savan 23. December 2009
The conference organisers wish you all a peaceful and joyous Christmas season and a very happy and productive new year. We hope to publish full conference programme with abstracts by 10th of January.
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Registration is open

Maarja Savan 14. December 2009
Today the notifications of acceptance were sent to the submitters of abstracts. In case you did not receive a response please contact the conference secretary.
The conference registration is now open! Also the initial conference programme is up, there will be three intensive days of conference with 18 sessions of interesting presentations plus a social programme day that will take you to explore some local treasures. Read more, Comments: 2

Conference abstract submission closed

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 27. November 2009
As the deadline of the abstract submission has passed, the page has now been closed. We will review the abstracts as soon as possible and will announce acceptations and declines on 14th of December. We hope that everyne who gets accepted can also come to Tartu in April to our conference which promises to be exiting and intellectually stimulating event.
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Extended abstracts from the keynote speakers

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 18. November 2009
We have started to upload keynote speakers abstracts to the conference website. Take a look at Ziva Ben-Porat's, Nico Carpentier's and Raine Koskimaa's extended abstracts. Meanwhile we hope to have all the abstracts up on the website soon!
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Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat and prof. Raine Koskimaa as keynotes for the conference

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 22. September 2009
Professor Ziva Ben-Porat and professor Raine Koskimaa have agreed to come to the conferece and present as keynote speakers. This completes the list of five keynote speakers reprsenting the variety of academic backgrounds and reflecting the interdiciplinary nature of the conference Read more, Comments: 0

Nico Carpentier as a keynote for the conference

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 07. September 2009
Nico Carpentier has agreed to become the keynote speaker of the conference. See also our other distinguished keynote speakers Edward A. Shaken and Marju Lauristin.
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Abstract submission is now open

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 03. September 2009
Conference call is being distributed now and you are all welcome to subite your abstract through the abstract submission form.
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Marju Lauristin and Edward A. Shanken - Keynotes for the conference

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 30. August 2009
Professor Marju Lauristin form University of Tartu and Associate Professor Edward A. Shanken from university of Amsterdam have agreed to become keynote speakers for the conference. Click here for more information on the keynotes of Transforming Culture in the Digital age.
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Conference call for papers published

Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt 27. August 2009
We have now officially kicked off the conference with publishing the call for paper and launching a new conference website. There is lots of more stuff to come.
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