[Irtalk] Exciting Open Access news: Prof Stevan Harnad will be speaking at the LIASA Conference!

[Elsabe Olivier]

LIASA announcement : Prof Stevan Harnad will be a speaker at the LIASA conference in October.

Stevan Harnad, who was born in Hungary, is currently Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Universite du Quebec at Montreal, where his research focuses on categorisation, communication and cognition. Prof Harnad and his EPrints research team <http://www.eprints.org/> at Southampton University is at the forefront in the critical developments in Open Access for the past decade.

Prof Harnad will address this critical issue in this talk at the LIASA Conference.

Open Access

When: Thursday 6 October 2011 (Session 7)

Where: ELICC Auditorium

Time: 08:30 - 09:15

How: Prof Harnad will speak to the conference delegates via satellite link direct from Canada.

Make sure you are there!

LIASA Conference News

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Click here http://www.liasa.org.za/sites/default/files/notices/Third%20draft%20of%20conference%20programme%201%20September%202011%20(3).pdf for the latest
updates on the Conference Programme.

Click here <http://www.liasa.org.za/node/623> to download a DAC Grant application form.


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