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Subject:        NACIS 2013 - Greenville, SC
Date:   Fri, 24 May 2013 12:09:07 -0400 (EDT)
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North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) 2013 -
Greenville, SC - October 9-11
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*/Alberto Cairo to Keynote/**//*//

The program chair is pleased to announce Alberto Cairo will keynote the
NACIS annual meeting in Greenville during the Friday evening banquet!

Alberto Cairo teaches infographics and visualization at the School of
Communication of the University of Miami since January 2012. Cairo is
the author of /The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information
Graphics and Visualization/. He has taught at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005-2009), and has been director of
infographics and multimedia at El Mundo online (Spain 2000-2005) and
Editora Globo (Brazil, 2010-2011).

Cairo has taught and organized workshops and training programs for
universities and media organizations in more than twenty countries. His
website is www.thefunctionalart.com
<http://www.thefunctionalart.com/> and can be followed on Twitter:
@albertocairo

*/Call for Participation/*

There is still time to submit your ideas for NACIS 2013. Talks, papers,
poster, and demonstration proposals are welcome until June 15^th .

More information, including submission guidelines, travel grants, and
hotel reservations can be found at www.nacis.org/2013.
<http://kelso.it/x/nacis2013>

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*/Special Session on the Cartographies of the South/*

The site of the 2013 conference, Greenville, South Carolina, invites
attention to be directed to the very rich themes and heritage of
cartographies of the south.  This begins with various conceptions of
"the south" in American history, but it can and should also be expanded;
for Canadians, for example, all of the United States apart from Alaska
is "the south".  The South Pole and the southern hemisphere in its
entirety are accessible, as is the cartography of the south side of that
tree or anything else.  "Down south" as a euphemism also yields some
productive possibilities for the cartographies of the body and much
else.  The objective of the session is to be inclusive and imaginative,
and see where that leads. It'll lead us down south!


If interested in this special session, please send informal abstracts of
no more than 150 words, by June 15th, via the web form at
www.nacis.org/abstracts <http://www.nacis.org/abstracts>. Questions?
Send them to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.

Thanks, and see you in Greenville!

Nathaniel Vaughn KELSO
Program Chair


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