Cultural Virtual Worlds

Tom Boellstorff (who, btw, is also the new editor of AA) sends word of a Call for Papers for Cultures of Virtual Worlds co-sponsored by Intel Research and UC Irvine. It will take place in a “living lab” which sports “a filtered-air environment, a large-scale visualization lab, a network lab, and labs for optical devices, nanotechnology and media arts.” Some funding may be available to graduate students to defray the cost of attending.

Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.