About Our Conference
The ICEMs are conferences of the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics (ISGEm). They provide an opportunity for those interested in ethnomathematics to gather to exchange ideas formally in papers, less formally in demonstrations and field trips, and socially in conference events. The first ICEM was held in 1998 in Granada, Spain, followed in 2002 by ICEM-2 (II-CIEM) in Ouro Preto, Brazil. Auckland, New Zealand hosted ICEM-3 in February 2006. Thus, the fourth conference will located in a fourth continent! Also, 2010 will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of ISGEm.
The Executive Board of the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics, meeting at in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2006, selected Towson (near Baltimore), Maryland, USA, to be the site of the Fourth International Conference on Ethnomathematics (ICEM-4) in 2010. The Chief Organizer is Lawrence Shirley, and his institution, Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, will be the location of the sessions. The local sponsors of the conference are the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics. The organizational host is the North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics (NASGEm)
Ethnomathematics in the 21st Century
In keeping both with the exponential explosion of mathematically based tools for education and business and with our strong Indigenous focus, our graphics for this conference show both the advancing trends in the mathematical tools that are available, as evidenced by the beautiful fractal by Sandy Kato, and as tools are being used to create expressions by people who have roots in the Indigenous Tribes of North America, as evidenced by The Beautiful Wall, by Shane Williams.
Call for Papers & Program Schedule
An International Academic Program Committee, chaired by Tod Shockey (U. Toledo) is currently working on the Call for Proposals, which will be posted here as soon as it is ready. We think will will follow the classic process of having you send your abstracts and papers via email form to the Committee initially. Once we have a program of presentations, we will post the program and the abstracts on the webpage.
About Our Graphics
In keeping both with the exponential explosion of mathematically based tools for education and business and with our strong Indigenous focus, our graphics for this conference have been created by two people with roots in the Indigenous Tribes of North America. The fractal was created by Sandy C. Kato, using modern tools that allow people to focus on their creative designs. Such a tool was used by Shane Williams (Anishinaabe) who is only 13 years old. He created the Beautiful Wall in a workshop lead by Ron Eglash this past summer.
Contact
Please send any queries, comments, and suggestions to the organizer, Lawrence Shirley, at LShirley@towson.edu.