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Keynotes
We are please to announce the following keynote speakers at our 5th International Conference in e-Social Science:
Kostas Glinos 
Talk Title: e-Infrastructures and e-Social Sciences
Abstract: For Europe to become a hub of excellence in e-Science it is absolutely key to exploiting multi-disciplinary approaches to the big challenges ahead with societal impact. Pan-European collaboration - that can be extended to the global dimension - is the way to go in order to combine complementary knowledge, skills and resources.
In the 'map of science' Social Sciences and Humanities can have a fundamental role to glue many different disciplines and help matching Science with societal expectations.
Because research in 2020 cannot be imagined without the intensive use of sophisticated e Infrastructures, Europe needs to commit to a renewed strategy to tackle the associated challenges and priorities.
Embracing e-Science paradigms is a sign of vitality and a forward looking approach of the Social Sciences and Humanities community!
Kostas Glinos has been with the European Commission since 1992. He now leads the Géant & e-Infrastructures Unit of the Directorate General for Information Society and Media since 1 January 2009. From 2003 to 2008 he was Head of the Embedded Systems and Control unit and interim Executive Director of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking. Previously he was deputy head of Future and Emerging Technologies. Before joining the Commission Kostas worked with multinational companies and research institutes in the U.S., Greece and Belgium. He holds a diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Thessaloniki, a PhD from the University of Massachusetts and a MBA in investment management from Drexel University.
Ian Foster
Talk Title: CIM-EARTH: A Community Integrated Model of Energy and Resource Trajectories for Humankind.
Abstract: We report on a collaborative, multi-institutional project to design a large-scale integrated modeling framework as a tool for decisionmakers in climate and energy policy: CIM-EARTH (Community Integrated Model of Economic and Resource Trajectories for Humankind).
The CIM-EARTH effort is motivated by several assumptions: that the largest uncertainties in the economic impact of climate change lie not in climate itself but in the human response to it, that the full force of modern computational power and computational methods have not yet been brought to economic simulation, and that open code, available to all, is important for progress on these issues. CIM-EARTH is intended as the economic analogue to the successful NCAR Community Climate System Model: an open-source modeling effort with widespread particpation by both developers and users. The CIM-EARTH framework combines geographically based economic simulation with explicit representation of the impacts of a changing climate.
The project is intended to bring together an interdisciplinary community and act as a clearinghouse for development, validation, and comparison of components of integrated assessment models. We show results and discuss implications of studies testing the validity of running economic and climate components of a unified model 'asynchronously', allowing new modeling efforts to focus on the critically underdeveloped areas in economic simulation and to use the output of existing state-of-the-art climate models. We discuss the incorporation of intrinsic and stochastic uncertainty and the modeling of contingent or adaptive climate policies. We also discuss data and research needs for realistically modeling responses to climate change, and strategies for validation of model output.
Dr. Ian Foster is Director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is also the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. Ian's research interests are in distributed, parallel, and data- intensive computing, and the application of these methods in domains such as biomedicine and economics. He has published six books and over 300 articles and technical reports in these areas. His work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazine's Innovator of the Year, and DSc Honoris Causa from the University of Canterbury. Ian Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society.
is world famous as a pioneer in developing advanced distributed computer technologies. He is co-editor of The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure.
Dr. David Theo Goldberg
Talk Title: "Networking Knowledge"
The talk will address whether there are critical changes afoot to how we think about knowledge--its production, composition, distribution, and consequently its very conception--as a consequence of 2.0 and now 3.0 technologies. Some initiatives in humanistic and social scientific knowledge production will be discussed in light of these conceptual remarks.
Dr Goldberg directs the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute (http://www.uchri.org/), Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Critical Theory Institute, at the University of California, Irvine.
He is the co-founder and co-leader of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). HASTAC (http://www.hastac.org/) is a global consortium of eighty plus institutions committed to the development, application, and analysis of digital technologies in, for, and by the humanities, arts, and social scientists in collaboration with technologists, engineers, and computational scientists. He has turned his attention increasingly to promoting the creative and dynamic use of digital technologies to advance research, teaching and learning in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. He and Mimi Ito are developing the MacArthur-UCHRI Research Hub in Digital Media and Learning, a research studio designed to coordinate all research activities around the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative. With Cathy Davidson of Duke University, he is running the annual national HASTAC-Macarthur Competition in Digital Media and Learning, awarding $2 million in grants each year (www.dmlcompetition.net). Goldberg and Davidson have authored a white paper on higher education and participatory learning for the MacArthur MIT Press Series on "The Future of Learning in a Digital World," which they have also expanded into a book due out later this year.
Goldberg has authored several books, among them The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) (http://www.threatofrace.org/), The Racial State (Basil Blackwell, 2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Basil Blackwell, 1993). He has also edited or co-edited many books, including Anatomy of Racism (University of Minnesota Press 1990), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Basil Blackwell 1995), Between Law and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Relocating Postcolonialism (Basil Blackwell, 2002), and The Companion to Gender Studies (Basil Blackwell, 2004)