11.0416 conferences and colloquia

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:31:46 +0000 (GMT)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 416.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (60)
Subject: MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks

[2] From: Adrian Alexander <alexander@FAXON.COM> (39)
Subject: Colloquium on Scholarly Communication

[3] From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca> (100)
Subject: COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS (1998)

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:52:39 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
November 24, 1997

THE ACH GUIDE TO HUMANITIES-COMPUTING TALKS
AT THE 1997 MLA CONVENTION
December 27-30

Among several conferences recently added to the NINCH CONFERENCE CALENDAR
<http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html> is an extremely useful
compilation by the Association for Computers in the Humanities of
computing-related sessions and talks at the upcoming 1997 conference of the
Modern Language Association (in Toronto, Ontario, from December 27 through
30).

For this invaluable guide go to <http://www.ach.org/mla97/guide.html>.
Some of these talks do not require conference registration. However for
information on the MLA Convention see <http://www.mla.org/set_con.htm> [Dec
5 is deadline for pre-registration and guaranteed housing]

Below are some of the 30 sessions included in the ACH listing (not all of
these sessions are themselves exclusively computer-related)

58: Electronic Culture I: CyberStyle
60: Ethnic Science Fiction
94: The Muse Collaborates: Writing Communities for Learning Literature and
Composition
97: Revolution or Evolution? Electronic Resources in the Humanities
119: Multimedia Literature: Hypertext and Beyond
129: Exploring the Relation between Instructional Design and Technical
Communication
174: Talking the Digital Talk
175: What's New with William Morris
207: Computers and Theory
288: Beyond "Community": New Perspectives on the Making of Knowledge
308: Electronic Texts in the Humanities
343: The Refereed Electronic Journal
347: New Compositions, New Configurations I
352: Technology in the Classroom
355: Electronic Culture II: A Theory Performance
362: Drama as Public Fantasy II: Barely Touching
393: Pedagogy in the Ruins of the University
428: Problems in the Romance Epic I
456: Wrestling the Word: Teaching Poetry in the Contemporary Classroom
485A: The Role of Statistics in Computer Studies in Language and Literature
534: Electronic Culture III: Cyborgs, Performance, and the Political
600: Technologies of Inscription and Reproduction
604: Romantic Media III: Composite Forms and Transmediations
614: Cyborg for Hire: Postindustrial Work in Contemporary American Culture
624: Literary Theory and Children's Literature: Reflections on the Past and
Predictions for the Future
640: Computer Conferencing in Literature and Language Classes
655: Spatial and Geometric Metaphors for Text

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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:41:10 +0000
From: Adrian Alexander <alexander@FAXON.COM>

Cross-posted. Second announcement.

THE FAXON INSTITUTE'S SECOND ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
ISSUES, January 7-8, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana

This interactive conference for research library decision-makers, scholarly
publishing executives, chief academic officers, and scholars will be held
at the Hotel Intercontinental in New Orleans, just prior to the Midwinter
Meeting of the American Library Association.

Wednesday, January 7 - Opening Reception and Dinner; Keynote Address by
Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, January 8 - Robert Siegel, co-host of National Public Radio's
"All Things Considered", will moderate a series of four roundtable sessions
in which attendees can participate in a dialogue on scholarly communication
issues:

I. Electronic Publishing and the Scholarly Communication Process

II. Emerging Intellectual Property Models

III. Evolution of Licensing Models for Electronic Information

IV. Funding Issues and Scholarly Communication

Full conference registration fee of $295.00 includes opening reception and
dinner on January 7, roundtable discussion participation, and continental
breakfast, lunch, breaks, and closing reception on Thursday, January 8.
Payment by check, MC, Visa, or AmEx accepted.
Registration form is available at:

http://www.faxon.com/html/fi_frm.html

Special conference room rates have been secured at the Hotel
Intercontinental for Colloquium participants ($125.00 single/$138.00
double). For reservations, call the hotel's direct reservation line at
800-445-6563. Attendees can remain at the Intercontinental throughout ALA
Midwinter at the same low rate.

For further information, contact Adrian W. Alexander, The Faxon Institute,
at alexander@faxon.com.

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Adrian W. Alexander, MLS
Senior Manager, Strategic Development
The Faxon Company, Inc.
Head, The Faxon Institute
913-865-5560 (Voice)
913-865-5818 (Fax)
alexander@faxon.com
http://www.faxon.com

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:12:45 +0000
From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca>
Subject: COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS (1998)

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COCH/COSH CALLS FOR PAPERS
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Dear Colleagues,

Below please find the calls for papers for COCH/COCH, and jointly-sponsored
sessions with COCH/COSH, at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada.

1. MOVING RESEARCH ON-LINE (COCH/COSH)
2. COMPUTING THE MODERNIST NOVEL (COCH/COSH & ACCUTE)
3. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (COCH/COSH & CSRS)

The full texts of these CFPs are given below.

With best wishes,

Ray Siemens

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*1. MOVING RESEARCH ON-LINE

A session of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-28, 1998).

Readers of the World Wide Web often expect to find the best that has been
thought and written on-line. Yet academe is yet to make a firm transition
from traditional to electronic publishing. Issues such as peer review,
copyright, encoding, professional recognition of electronic scholarship, and
the lack of authoritative reference sources are often cited. To many, the
essential infrastructure for on-line research is not so far in place, but
electronic scholarly projects today are increasingly both facing and
overcoming these constraints. How such projects are doing so is instructive.

Proposals for papers on projects that are now engaging the challenge of
putting research on-line are welcome, as on topics such as

- missing links: essentials missing or in progress of becoming
- engaging off-line critical discourse with an on-line community
- shifting paradigms and stretching the critical envelope
- editing dynamically, or publishing a staged process rather than a final
product
- as well, moving TEACHING online

Paper abstracts (two pages maximum) should be sent (before January 15) to:

Ian Lancashire
Department of English
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1A1

Electronic Mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca

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*2. COMPUTING THE MODERNIST NOVEL

A joint session of ACCUTE and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of
Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-28, 1998).

Electronic editions of the modernist novel, embedded in electronic
technologies on and off the World Wide Web, give rise to innovative ways of
representing the text and in studying it. Possible
topics for this session include:

- ways in which computer technology affects the study of a specific
modernist author or novel
- theoretical connections between computer technology and a specific
modernist author or novel
- computer technology as an explicit or implicit theme in modernist fiction
- descriptions and demonstrations of ongoing projects involving computers
and modernist fiction

Paper abstracts (two pages maximum) should be sent (before January 15) to:

Michael Groden
Department of English
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 3K7

Electronic Mail: mgroden@acm.org

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*3. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

A joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa (May 28-30, 1998).

Reflecting larger societal trends, the past several years have seen a rise
in the importance of computing technology to our work; they have also seen
an increased recognition of the body of scholarly approaches and tools,
influenced by the electronic medium, that aid in one's teaching, study, and
research. The New Humanism, Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Renaissance:
nominal allusions abound that suggestively ally this late twentieth-century
movement with the print-oriented technological revolution in the period of
our study; urging that such comparison may not be ill-founded are a large
number of valuable computing tools and resources available today to
Renaissance academics (and, of course, far beyond this group).

This session seeks to explore ways in which computing technology has added
and can add to the field of Renaissance studies. Paper proposals assisting
in this exploration -- critical and scholarly work, discussions and
presentations of resources, and so forth -- may be sent (before November 15;
extended to December 5 for COCH/COSH members) for consideration in this
joint session to

Raymond Siemens
Department of English
University of Alberta
3-5 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E5

Electronic Mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca

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R.G. Siemens
Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5.
Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html
wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142
e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca
www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm

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