4.1212 Announcements: Job Opening; Epistolarity Conf. (2/61)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:45:18 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1212. Monday, 8 Apr 1991.


(1) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 16:44:27 EST (27 lines)
From: Elli Mylonas <ELLI@BROWNVM>
Subject: Perseus Project Job Opening

(2) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 07:07 EST (34 lines)
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: Conference : EPISTOLARITY

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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 16:44:27 EST
From: Elli Mylonas <ELLI@BROWNVM>
Subject: Perseus Project Job Opening

The Perseus Project has a full-time position open for a programmer.
Perseus is building a large multimedia hypertext system with digital and
video images, satellite photographs, and texts for teaching and
researching classical Greece. It currently runs under HyperCard. This
position has primary responsibility for implementing Perseus. The
programmer also provides technical support and system management for
office staff and users of Perseus and helps process and structure
textual and image data on the Mac. He or she may do demonstrations of
Perseus at Harvard and off-site. Qualifications: must be experienced
Mac user, some UNIX experience is helpful; programming experience,
preferably with a high level language and familiarity with relational
databases, preferably Foxbase/Dbase or 4D are required. A solid
knowledge of HyperCard and HyperTalk is helpful, or commensurate
experience with other programming environments. The Perseus programmer
has a good opportunity to learn new systems and languages, and to work
in a relaxed research environment. Harvard is an affirmative
action/equal opportunity employer.

Please send cv and other relevant information to Elli Mylonas,
Department of the Classics, 319 Boylston Hall, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138.

(elli@ikaros.harvard.edu)
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 07:07 EST
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: Conference : EPISTOLARITY

L'Association interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'epistolaire (A.I.R.E.)
annonce la tenue d'un colloque international :

"Experiences limites de l'epistolaire :
lettres d'exil, d'enfermement, de folie".

Ce colloque se tiendra du 16 au 18 mai 1991 a l'Universite de Caen (France).

Les communications porteront sur Gerard DE NERVAL, Jeans DE SALISBURY et
Thomas BECKET, May ZIADE et Joubron Kalil JOUBRON, BUSSY-RABUTIN, Paul
CLAUDEL, Marcel PROUST, Victor HUGO, VOLTAIRE, Guez DE BALZAC, Jules
VALLES, Marie DE L'INCARNATION, Antonin ARTAUD, Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU,
Julie DE LESPINASSE, Benjamin FONDANE, Jean-Paul SARTRE, Marie CAPELLE,
Tristan CORBIERE, Donatien-Alphonse DE SADE, Madame ROLAND, Albertine
SARRAZIN, Belle DE ZUYLEN et Constant D'HERMENCHES, ainsi que sur divers
corpus de lettres ("d'espits a des femmes somnambules et mediums du XIXe
siecle", de suicides, de soldats, de detenus psychiatriques, de voyageurs sur
la route des Indes Orientales au XVIIe siecle, de communards deportes, de
bagnardes).

Une exposition a egalement ete mise sur pied dans le cadre du colloque :
"Mail Art".

Pour tout renseignement et pour l'inscription, s'adresser a :

Andre MAGNAN
19, rue Saint-Sauveur
14000 Caen
France
Tel : 31.50.22.88