6.0131 Qs: E-Mail; CALL; Calico; Hypertext; Postmodernism (5/72)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 16:48:01 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0131. Monday, 13 Jul 1992.


(1) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 17:11 CDT (12 lines)
From: Mikeal Parsons <PARSONSM@BAYLOR.BITNET>
Subject: South African institutions on inter/bitnet

(2) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 08:44+0000 (15 lines)
From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE
Subject: CALL (Latin)

(3) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 10:58:47 EDT (6 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: Calico

(4) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 13:41:42 EDT (8 lines)
From: BOULAY@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA
Subject: Hypertext

(5) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 9:26:04 -0400 (EDT) (31 lines)
From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: request for a tutorial on "postmodernism"

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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 17:11 CDT
From: Mikeal Parsons <PARSONSM@BAYLOR.BITNET>
Subject: South African institutions on inter/bitnet

Does anyone know of any South African institutions and/or scholars who
are connected to Bitnet or Internet (or any other international network)?
I have a South African colleague who is interested in joining this and
other discussion groups, but is at this point unaware of any institutional
links to Bitnet in his country. Thanks in advance for your help.
Mikeal Parsons
Baylor University
BITNET: PARSONSM@BAYLOR
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 08:44+0000
From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE
Subject: CALL (Latin)

A student of mine has to write her exam-thesis on CALL with
focus on Latin.
Now she has two questions:
a) Can one point her to a comprehensive introduction on CALL
(including theoretical aspects)
b) Are there any curricula / courses etc in "Latin-CALL"
anywhere?
Thanks in advance,
Fritz Heberlein
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 10:58:47 EDT
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: Calico

Can someone tell me who is in charge of memberships to Calico now and how much
it costs for regular faculty?
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 13:41:42 EDT
From: BOULAY@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA
Subject: Hypertext

I am looking for a complete and up-to-date bibliography on hypertext.
Can anyone help me locate it?
Thanks,
Jean-Michel Boulay
boulay@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 9:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: request for a tutorial on "postmodernism"

Hi,

Once again a chance to expose my ignorance!
In the last few years I've seen more and more discussions of
"postmodernism". It has even reached my one-time academic field of
geography. But all these discussions assume you are already on the bus,
that you know what modernism is, that you know the basic postions of
Derrida and these other dudes. As my phrasing implies, I approach this
with some (healthy) skepticism. That is, is this an intellectual
tempest in a teapot that I am just as well off to ignore, or is it
something or general intellectual and scientific importance that I should
be paying attention to?

To that end, I wonder if there are any articles or books that would serve
as a primer or tutorial (a Cliff's notes?) on postmodernism that lays out
the basic arguments and counter arguments? I'm talking about something
pretty basic, I think, since I managed to to accumulate a couple of
graduate degrees in the social sciences without ever consciously running
into the term "the modern" -- it wasn't until I took my first philosophy
course just-for-fun two years ago that I became aware (in passing, since
it was an intro course on religion) that here was a special term that
apparently has a whole special meaning and baggage with it.

Skeptically but not anti-intellectually,

-- Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H.
j_cerny@unhh.unh.edu