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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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span>The World Social Science Forum will be held 13-15 October 2013 in Montreal (hosted by the International Social Science Council and the Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council). Scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines and across the world will come together to address the ways in which digital technologies are being developed and used. There are two major focus areas: how they are transforming different spheres of social life and how they are transforming the social sciences and research practices.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The full call for papers is attached, and more details can be found at <a href="http://www.wssf2013.org">http://www.wssf2013.org</a> Deadline for abstracts is 15 January.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please distribute widely.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>Professor dr Sally Wyatt<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>Programme Leader<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=358 height=80 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CDD78C.22C6F570" alt="Description: cid:image003.png@01CDABB2.B91D83A0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>Director, WTMC (Wetenschap, Technologie en Moderne Cultuur)<br><a href="http://www.wtmc.net/">Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>Professor, Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>