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Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 12 Jan 89 19:48:55 EST
Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 494. Thursday, 12 Jan 1989.
(1) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:38 EST (44 lines)
From: Terrence Erdt <ERDT@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: Call for Nominations: CHum
(2) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:51:37 GMT (39 lines)
From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Arabic/English computing
(3) Date: Wed, 11 JAN 89 10:35:32 GMT (44 lines)
From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: CATH88 report now on the file-server
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:38 EST
From: Terrence Erdt <ERDT@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: Call for Nominations: CHum
Computers and the Humanities
Call for Nominations and Applications
News & Notes Editor
Courseware Review Editor
Book Review Editor
To accommodate the increase in number of issues from four to
six per year, the journal Computers and the Humanities is expanding
its number of editors. Applications and nominations are therefore
invited for the positions of:
Notes and News Editor to manage a new feature of the Journal
that will report on newsworthy products, services, information
resources, upcoming meetings, and other items of interest to
computer using humanists. The editor will be responsible for
creating a network of international contributors.
Courseware Editor to elicit and assign for review computer
applications and hardware designed for instruction in any area of
the humanities.
Book Review Editor to elicit and assign for review books
falling within the domain of humanities computing, from technical
treatises on programming languages to discussions of the
philosophic implications of treatises on computer-based models of
psychology.
Candidates should have significant interest in research
and publication in the humanities and possess sound knowledge
of the use of computers in the field. Of particular importance is
the capacity to work in areas of the humanities outside one's
specialization and to meet deadlines. Prospective editors should
have ready access to electronic mail.
Nominations and applications, including CVs and a statement
describing computer experience and areas of expertise should be
sent to:
Terrence Erdt erdt@vuvaxcom
Associate Editor
Computers and the Humanities
Grad. Dept. of Library Science
Villanova University
Villanova, PA USA 19085
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:51:37 GMT
From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Arabic/English computing
Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre
and Centre of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge
jointly announce a two-day seminar on
Bilingual Computing in Arabic and English
6th and 7th September 1989
Call for papers: Papers for the indicated sessions are invited.
THEMES
* Bilingual word-processing: manufacturers' presentations; users'
experiences; the need for standards.
* Computer-assisted language learning: Arabic as a foreign language;
language education of young native-speakers.
* Machine translation (Arabic/English)
* Computing and Islamic Studies.
* Computer based lexicography with special reference to the compilation of
dictionaries. (Monolingual Arabic or bilingual English/Arabic).
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Date: Wed, 11 JAN 89 10:35:32 GMT
From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, 1988
Conference Report
This was the second conference on the theme of Computers and
Teaching in the Humanities to be organised by the Office for
Humanities Communication and the University of Southampton, with
the support of the ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing), CTISS (Computers in Teaching Initiative Support
Service) and the AHC (Association for History and Computing),
and, this time around, some sponsorship from IBM. It attracted a
similar mixture of attendees to that of the preceding conference,
more or less evenly divided between academic staff from both
universities and polytechnics with a third estate drawn from the
growing body of arts computing support staff. It was unlike the
previous conference however (also held at Southampton a year ago)
in two respects. The first conference had resembled a bazaar,
with numerous parallel sessions organised as workshops
introducing specific applications areas with the aid of a volume
of essays (since published as IT in the Humanities, ed Rahtz,
Ellis Horwood, 1988). This conference built on the evident
interest generated by the first, laying a greater stress on the
practical problems of introducing computing tools to the
undergraduate curriculum. It also had a more unified programme,
exemplified by the conference subtitle `Redefining the
humanities'. To many delegates, it seemed, the chief effect of
the introduction of computing had been to provoke a re-evaluation
of the methods and priorities of teaching methods in the
humanities, quite independent of any technological
considerations.
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