3.1000 professional societies, cont. (137)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Fri, 2 Feb 90 20:42:29 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1000. Friday, 2 Feb 1990.
Date: Thursday, 1 February 1990 2312-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Professional Societies Update3
LIST OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES REPRESENTED ON HUMANIST (2/01/90)
+ indicates added since last version of the list
If you know of a more or less official representative or email
address for such societies represented by members of HUMANIST,
please let me know and I will add that information. Bob Kraft
+American Academy of Advertising
[Bern]
American Academy of Religion (some special computer program
sections at annual meetings; cooperation with SBL)
American Anthropological Association (see ANTHRO-L@UBVM ListServer)
[Zubrow]
+American Association for Public Opinion Research
[Bern]
American Association of University Presses (much computer talk)
[Perry]
American Conference on Irish Studies
[Cahalan; see GAELIC-L and FWAKE-L ListServers]
American Dialect Society ("making use of computer technology")
[Maynor]
American Historical Association ("computers in history" things)
[Knox]
American Library Association
[Jacobs]
+American Musicological Society (creating database of texts)
[Mathiesen (Perry)]
American Philological Association (archive of texts, editorial
board for non-print publications, exhibits at annual meetings)
American Philosophical Society (has committee on computer use
and subcommittee on electronic texts; program sessions)
[Owen; see ACH Newsletter 11.2(1989) 13]
American Political Science Association
[Jassel]
+American Psychological Association: Consumer Psychology,
Media Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology
divisions
[Bern]
American Schools of Oriental Research (computer committee and
some attention to program section, displays; cooperation with SBL)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
[Cope ENCOPE@LSUVM, Dill, Wolf, MacNeil]
American Society of Church History (not much computer involvement)
[Zinn]
American Society of Papyrologists (close cooperation with APA)
[Kraft]
Archaeological Institute of America (various computer activities)
[Walsh, Kuniholm]
+Association for Asian Studies (occasional panel, newsletter column)
[Parker]
+Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures
[Warkentin]
Association for Computers and the Humanities
+Association for History and Computing
[Spaeth]
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Association for Women in Computing
+Association Internationale Bible et Informatique
[AIBI Network, contact IWML@UKC.AC.UK (Lambert)]
Association of Public Data Users
[Jacobs]
+Association of University Teachers of English
[Warkentin]
+Bibliographical Society
[Warkentin]
+Bibliographical Society of Canada
[Warkentin]
+Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
[Warkentin]
+Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric
[Warkentin]
College Composition and Communication
[Cahalan]
+College Music Society
[Perry]
+Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour
ordinateurs en sciences humains
+International Association for Neo-Latin Studies
[Warkentin]
International Association for Social Science Information Service
and Technology (IASSIST)
[Jacobs]
International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature
[Cahalan]
International Congress on Medieval Studies (sessions, workshops)
[Zinn]
+International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (one
sponsor of the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies
project at the Univ. of Penn and at the Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem)
[Kraft]
+International Society for the History of Rhetoric
[Warkentin]
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
[Jacobs]
Medieval Academy of America (no indication of computer involvement)
[Zacour, Zinn]
Modern Languages Association (various activities, electronic
publications, program segments and exhibits; details of how
it is all coordinated organizationally are welcome)
+Music Library Association (computer applications a "hot topic")
[Papakhian]
National Council of Teachers of English
[Cahalan; see MBU network]
+North American Patristics Society (no organized computer activity)
[Kraft]
Organization of American Historians
[Knox (non member)]
+Renaissance English Text Society
[Warkentin]
+Society for Music Theory
[Perry]
+Society for the History of Discoveries
[Warkentin]
Society of American Archaeology ("great interest in computers")
[Zubrow]
Society of Biblical Literature (electronic archiving project and
an active Computer Assisted Research Group that coordinates
demonstrations and a program segment each annual meeting)
[Kraft; contact SBLEXEC@UNIX.CC.EMORY.EDU]
South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
[Bode RFB8135@TNTECH (Cope)]
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics ("making use of computer tech.")
[Maynor]
+Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium
[Warkentin]