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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hello John Paul. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Welcome to Doha. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have been living here for a few years and it would be grand meeting up with you sometime. I will be away for the Eid Al-Adha holiday. Perhaps we could connect sometime next week. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>John Impagliazzo, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>The ictQATAR Endowed Chair and Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Computer Science and Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Qatar University, 2713 Doha, Qatar <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Email: </span><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:John@qu.edu.qa">John@qu.edu.qa</a></span></u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Professor Emeritus of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11549 USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>Email: </span><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:John.Impagliazzo@Hofstra.edu">John.Impagliazzo@Hofstra.edu</a></span></u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1F497D'>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Paul Laprise<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 07 November, 2010 17:42<br><b>To:</b> members@sigcis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Greetings from Doha & Cross Disciplinary Conference Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Greetings everyone from Doha, Qatar! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>As an aside, if you are in the vicinity, please let me know and I may be able to arrange for a visit to our campus here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>While a historian of computing, I come from a communications program. Members of one of the major communication professional organizations (ICA- International Communication Organization) has launched an interest group in communication history. They will be hosting a relevant pre-conference this May in Boston. ICA is a larger organization than SHOT and many areas are not relevant to our work. That being said, this newly formed interest group is squarely within our purview and I strongly invite all interested members to please submit proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Announcement follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Please forward to interested parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Call for papers: Mediating War and Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>ICA Preconference sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group Boston, May 26, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This ICA pre-conference brings together communication and history scholars for an exchange of ideas concerning war, technology, media, and history. War and technology are established themes in the fields of history and communication, though hoped-for connections between scholars in both fields have been slow in coming. Careful attention to how historical methods can assist communication scholars in their understanding of these broad themes will offer to pre-conference attendees and presenters alike valuable tools for more thoroughly working history into the field of communication. At the same time, historians will gain new insight into archival texts through the application of communications theory and methodology, leading to exciting developments in both fields. The pre-conference will feature invited speakers from both fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Submitted papers should connect with ideas related to the history of war and technology. The following illustrations of topics suggest—but are not intended to limit—topics suitable for paper submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The role of recording media (including photography, audio technology) in chronicling atrocity and war;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The history of war journalism, as it relates to issues in the history of technology;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The history of information warfare;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The history of the study of communication, as affected by war and technology;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Considerations of transportation as related to the history of war and technology;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• New media and war, including perspectives on surveillance; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The changing roles of technology in the history of battlefield censorship;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Media technology as a variable in home-front morale;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Geopolitical advantage as related to media developments;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The role of military initiatives and investment in the evolution of civilian media technology;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• The international circulation of propaganda in wars hot and cold; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Comparative studies of conflict, technology and media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>We also encourage multi-media presentations and other non-traditional scholarly formats that explore preconference themes in novel ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted no later than November 15, 2010. Send abstracts to David Park at: park@lakeforest.edu . Authors will be informed whether abstracts have been accepted by December 10, 2010. Completed papers will be due by May 1, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The pre-conference will take place on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at the Westin Boston Waterfront, the site of the ICA conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Organized by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Sharrona Pearl, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• Jefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>• David W. Park, Lake Forest College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>This CFP can also be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>http://www.communicationhistory.org/precon/precon.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>John Laprise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Visiting Assistant Professor in the Communication Program<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Northwestern University in Qatar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>