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- 11) Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology
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- 29) Art and Virtual Environment Symposium
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- 32) Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
- 33) Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist
- 34) The Linguistics of Humor
- 35) Literary Texts in an Electronic Age
- 36) National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure
- 37) Postmodern Culture
- 38) PSYCHE
- 39) Research on Virtual Relationship
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An anthology of essays from Postmodern Culture is available in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practical engagements with the postmodern–from AIDS and the body to postmodern politics. Writing by George Yudice, Allison Fraiberg, David Porush, Stuart Moulthrop, Paul McCarthy, Roberto Dainotto, Audrey Ecstavasia, Elizabeth Wheeler, Bob Perelman, Steven Helmling, Neil Larsen, David Mikics, Barrett Watten. Book design by Richard Eckersley.
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Presenting the proceedings of an important conference held in Blantyre, Malawi in November of 1992, this volume represents a significant step for the African Christian church toward incorporating indigenous African arts and culture into it liturgy. Recognizing that the African Christian church continues to define itself in distinctly Western terms, forty-nine participants from various denominations and all parts of Africa– Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon–and the United States met to share ideas and experiences and to establish strategies for the indigenization of Christianity in African churches.
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“Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology” by Chuck Welch is to be published in Fall 1994 by University of Calgary Press. The 42 chapter, 350 page text includes an index, 147 illustrations and six major appendices including the largest extensive listing of underground mail art zines in existence. A thorough listing of nearly 100 international private and institutional mail art archives appears in another important appendice.
But what is mail art? Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. “Eternal Network introduces readers to a lively exchange with international mail art networkers from five continents. The book include snail mail and e-mail addresses, fax, and telephone numbers for many active mail artists. Readers are invited to participate — to corresponDANCE with global village artists who quickstep beyond establishment boundaries of art.
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IT&D V1N1 Table of Contents 230 lines
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES
ISSN 1073-5127
Volume I, No. 1 January, 1994
ARTICLES
INTRODUCING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES
(itdV01N1 mcnulty)
Tom McNulty, Editor
BUILDING AN ACCESSIBLE CD-ROM REFERENCE STATION
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Rochelle Wyatt and Charles Hamilton
ABSTRACT: This case study describes the development of an accessible CD-ROM workstation at the Washington Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Included are descriptions of hardware and software, as well as selected CD-ROM reference sources. Information is provided on compatibility of individual CD-ROM products with adaptive technology hardware and software.
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESSIBLE USER INTERFACE FOR PEOPLE WHO
ARE BLIND OR VISION IMPAIRED AS PART OF THE RE-COMPUTERIZATION
OF ROYAL BLIND SOCIETY (AUSTRALIA)
(itdV01N1 noonan)
Tim Noonan
ABSTRACT: In 1991, Royal Blind Society (Australia) and Deen Systems, a Sydney-based software development company, undertook a major overhaul of RBS information systems intended to enhance access to RBS client services as well as employment opportunities for blind and vision impaired RBS staff. This case study outlines the steps taken and principles followed in the development of a computer user interface intended for efficient use by blind and vision impaired individuals.
THE ELECTRONIC REHABILITATION RESOURCE CENTER AT
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK)
(itdV01N1 holtzman)
Bob Zenhausern and Mike Holtzman
ABSTRACT: St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York, is host to a number of disability-related network information sources and services. This article identifies and describes key sources and services, including Bitnet listservs, or discussion groups, the UNIBASE system which includes real-time online conferencing, and other valuable educational and rehabilitation-related network information sources.
THE CLEARINGHOUSE ON COMPUTER ACCOMMODATION (COCA)
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Susan Brummel and Doug Wakefield
ABSTRACT: Since 1985, COCA has been pioneering information policies and computer support practices that benefit Federal employees with disabilities and members of the public with disabilities. Today, COCA provides a variety of services to people within and outside Government employment. The ultimate goal of all COCA’s activities is to advance equitable information environments consistent with non-discriminatory employment and service delivery goals.
DEPARTMENTS
JOB ACCOMMODATIONS
(itdV01N1 jobs)
Editor: Joe Lazzaro
lazzaro@bix.comK – 12 EDUCATION
(itdV01N1 k12)
Editor: Anne Pemberton
apembert@vdoe386.vak12ed.eduLIBRARIES
(itdV01N1 library)
Editor: Ann Neville
neville@emx.cc.utexas.eduONLINE INFORMATION AND NETWORKING
(itdV01N1 online)
Editor: Steve Noble
slnobl01@ulkyvm.louisville.eduCAMPUS COMPUTING
(itdV01N1 campus)
Editor: Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, Ph.D.
hilton-chalfen@mic.ucla.edu
Copyright (c 1994) by (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. Authors of individual articles retain all copyrights to said articles, and their permission is needed to reproduce any individual article. The rights to the journal as a collection belong to (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. IT&D encourages any and all electronic distribution of the journal and permission for such copying is expressly permitted here so long as it bears no charge beyond possible handling fees. To reproduce the journal in non-electronic format requires permission of its board of directors. To do this, contact the editor.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Tom McNulty, New York University
(mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu)
EDITORS
Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Carmela Castorina, UCLA
Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA
Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology
Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin
Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind
Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA
Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John’s University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Carmela Castorina, UCLA
Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA
Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology
Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK
Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin
Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind
Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA
Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation
Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John’s University
ABOUT EASI (EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION)
Since its founding in 1988 under the EDUCOM umbrella, EASI has worked to increase access to information technology by persons with disabilities. Volunteers from EASI have been instrumental in the establishment of Information Technology and Disabilities as still another step in this process. Our mission has been to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access to information technologies. We seek to spread this information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. EASI makes extensive use of the internet to disseminate this information, including two discussion lists:
EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU(a general discussion on computer access) and
AXSLIB-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
(a discussion on library access issues). To join either list, send a “subscribe” command to
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including the name of the discussion you want to join plus your own first and last name. EASI also maintains several items on the St. Johns gopher under the menu heading “Disability and Rehabilitation Resources”.
For further information, contact the EASI Chair:
Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
NRCGSH@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDUor the EASI office:
EASI’s phone: (310) 640-3193
EASI’s e-mail: EASI@EDUCOM.EDU
Individual ITD articles and departments are archived on the St. John’s University gopher. To access the journal via gopher, locate the St. John’s University (New York) gopher. Select “Disability and Rehabilitation Resources,” and from the next menu, select “EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information.” Information Technology and Disabilities is an item on the EASI menu.
To retrieve individual articles and departments by e-mail from the listserv: address an e-mail message to:
listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
leave subject line blank
the message text should include the word “get” followed by the two word file name; for example:
get itdV01N1 contents
Each article and department has a unique filename; that name is listed below the article or department in parentheses. Do NOT include the parentheses with the filename when sending the “get” command to listserv.
NOTE: ONLY ONE ITEM MAY BE RETRIEVED PER MESSAGE; DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE GET COMMANDS IN A SINGLE E-MAIL MESSAGE TO LISTSERV.
To receive the journal regularly, send e-mail to:
listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
with no subject and either of the following lines of text:
subscribe itd-toc “Firstname Lastname”
subscribe idt-jnl “Firstname Lastname”
(ITD-JNL is the entire journal in one e-mail message while ITD-TOC sends the contents with information on how to obtain specific articles.)
To get a copy of the guidelines for authors, send e-mail to:
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with no subject and the following single line of text:
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M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artist-run journal of contemporary art, is a fresh, lively, contentious, and provocative forum for new ideas in the arts.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G is published twice a year in the fall and spring.
It is edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor.
Subscriptions for
2 ISSUES (1 YEAR):
$12 for individuals:
$20 for institutions
4 ISSUES (2 YEARS):
$24 for individuals;
$40 for institutions
- Foreign subscribers please add $10 per year for shipping abroad and to Canada: $5
- Foreign subscribers please pay by international money order in U.S. dollars.
All checks should be made payable to Mira Schor
Send all subscriptions to:
Mira Schor
60 Lispenard Street
New York, NY 10013
Limited supply of back issues available at $6 each, contact Mira Schor for information.
Distributed with the Segue Foundation and the Solo Foundation
MFS, a journal of modern and postmodern literature and culture, announces the following forthcoming special issues:
February, 39.1: “Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent”
May, 39.3: “Toni Morrison”
November, 40.1: “The Cultural Politics of Displacement” Barbara Harlow, guest editor
We also continue to accept submissions for forthcoming special issues on “Autobiography, Photography, Narrative,” Timothy Dow Adams, Guest Editor (deadline: April 1, 1994); “Postmodern Narratives (deadline: October 1 1994); “Sexuality and Narrative,” Guest Editor, Judith Roof (deadline: March 1, 1995).
MFS is published quarterly at Purdue University and invites submissions of articles offering theoretical, historical, interdisciplinary, and cultural approaches to modern and contemporary narrative. Authors should submit essays for both special and general issues in triplicate paper copy or duplicate paper copy and IBM-compatible floppy; please include a self- addressed, stamped envelope for the return of submissions. Send submissions to:
Patric O’Donnell
Editor
MFS
Department of English
Heavilon Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1389
Address inquiries to the editor at this address or by e-mail at
pod@purccvm (bitnet);
pod@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Internet)
Subscriptions to MFS are $20 for individuals and $35 for libraries. Back issues are $7 each. Address subscription inquiries to:
Nel Fink
Circulation Manager
MFS
Department of Englis
h Heavilon Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1389
Tell your friends! Tell your librarians! The new Minnesota Review‘s coming to town!
Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. The new Minnesota Review is published biannually and originates from East Carolina University beginning with the Fall 1992 special issue.
Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to:
Jeffrey Williams, Editor
Minnesota Review
Department of English
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Manuscript submissions wanted in all interdisciplinary fields!
Nomad is a forum for those texts that explore or examine the undefined regions among critical theory, visual arts, and writing. It is a bi-annual, not-for-profit, independent publication for provocative cross-disciplinary work of all cultural types, such as intermedia artwork, metatheory, and experimental writing, as well as literary, theoretical, political, and popular writing. While our editorial staff is comprised of artists and academics in a variety of disciplines, NOMAD strives to operate in a space outside of mainstream academic discourse and without institutional funding or controls.
Manuscripts should not exceed fifteen pages (exclusive of references); any form is acceptable. If possible, please submit manuscripts on 3.5″ Macintosh disks, in either Microsoft Word or MacWrite II format, or by E-mail. Each manuscript submitted on disk must be accompanied by a paper copy. Otherwise, please send two copies of each manuscript. Artwork submitted must be no larger than 8 1/2″ x 11″, and in black and white. PICT, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files on 3.5″ Macintosh disks are acceptable, if accompanied by a paper copy (or via E-mail, bin-hexed or uuencoded). All artwork must be camera-ready. Submissions by regular mail should include a SASE with sufficient postage attached if return is desired. Diskettes should be shipped in standard diskette mailing packages.
Subscriptions: $9 per year (2 issues)
Send Manuscripts and Inquiries to:
NOMAD, c/o
Mike Smith
406 Williams Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, 32306
msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
“In NOMAD, the rarest combinations of interests are treated with respect and exposed to the eyes of those who can most appreciate them.”
The MIT Press
Edited by: Rosalind Kraus
Annette Michelson
Yve-Alain Bois
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Hal Foster
Denis Hollier
John Rajchman
“OCTOBER, the 15-year-old quarterly of social and cultural theory, has always seemed special. Its nonprofit status, its cross- disciplinary forays into film and psychoanalytic thinking, and its unyielding commitment to history set it apart from the glossy art magazines.”
--Village Voice
As the leading edge of arts criticism and theory today, OCTOBERfocuses on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue examines interrelationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts.
Come join OCTOBER‘s exploration of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Subscribe Today!
Published Quarterly ISSN 0162-2870. Yearly Rates: Individual $32.00; Institution $80.00; Student (copy of current ID required) and Retired: $22.00. Outside USA add $14.00 postage and handling. Canadians add additional 7% GST. Prepayment is required. Send check payable to OCTOBER drawn against a US bank, MasterCard or VISA number to:
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In all arts there is a physical component . . . We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts.
–Paul Valery
This list was formed to serve as a vehicle for (1) distribution of an interactive literary journal: RIF/T and related exchange, and (2) collection of any information related to contemporary poetics.
RIF/T provides a forum for poets that are conversant with the media to explore the full potential of a true electronic journal.
Dynamic–not static, RIF/T shifts and riffs with the diction of “trad” poetry investigating a new, flexible, fluid poetry of exchange.
Archives of e-poetry and related files are stored in the e-poetry FILELIST.
To receive a list of files send the command
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G. David Garson, Editor
Ronald Anderson, Co-editor
The official journal of the Social Science Computing Association, SSCORE provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire and share information on the research and teaching applications of microcomputing. Now, when you subscribe to Social Science Computer Review, you automatically become a member of the Social Science Computing Association.
Quarterly Subscription prices: $48 individual, $80 institutions Single Issue: $20 Please add $8 for postage outside the U.S. Canadian residents add 7% GST
Duke University Press/ Journals Division / Box 90660 /Durham NC 27708
Studies in Popular Culture, the journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South, publishes articles on popular culture and American culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events–any of the material or conceptual conditions of life. The journal enjoys a wide range of contributors from the United States, Canada, France, Israel, and Australia, which include distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in mass communications, philosophy, literature, and religion.
Please direct editorial queries to the editor:
Dennis Hall
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville KY 40292
tel: (502) 588-6896/0509
Fax: (502) 588-5055
Bitnet: DRHALL01@ULKYVM
Internet: drhall01@ulkvm.louisville.edu
All manuscripts should be sent to the editor care of the
English Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292Please enclose two, double-spaced copies and a self-addressed stamped envelope. Black and White illustrations may accompany the text. Our preference is for essays that total, with notes and bibliography, no more than twenty pages. Documentation may take the form appropriate for the discipline of the writer; the current MLA stylesheet is a useful model. Please indicate if the work is available on computer disk. The editor reserves the right to make stylistic changes on accepted manuscripts.
Studies in Popular Culture is published semiannually and is indexed in the PMLA Annual Bibliography. All members of the Association receive Studies in Popular Culture. Yearly membership is $15.00 (International: $20.00). Write to:
the Executive Secretary
Diane Calhoun-French
Academic Dean
Jefferson Community College-SW
Louisville, KY 40272
for membership, individual issues, back copies, or sets. Volumes I- XV are available for $225.00.
For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you may wish to check out VIRUS 23.
2 and 3 are even and odd, 2 and 3 are 5, therefore 5 is even and odd.
VIRUS 23 is a codename for all Erisian literature
Don Webb
6304 Laird Dr.
Austin TX 78757
0004200716@mcimail.com
VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs.
All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from:
VIRUS 23
Box 46
Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
T4N 5E7
Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting’s alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out).
For more information online contact:
Darren Wershler-Henry
grad3057@writer.yorku.ca
The first issue of ViViD Magazine is now available. ViViD is a hypertext magazine about experimental writing and creativity in cyberspace. We are actively seeking contributions for the next issue.
The magazine is presented in the colorful, graphics environment of a Windows 3.1 Help File. You will need Windows 3.1 to read the magazine.
The magazine will also be available via anonymous FTP at “ftp.gmu.edu”, to obtain it:
ftp ftp.gmu.edu
username: anonymous
password: (your email address)
cd pub/library
binary
get VIVID1.ZIP
For more information on ViViD, contact the editor, Justin McHale.
Internet address:
jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu
announcing a new list available from:
listserv@uriaccTo subscribe to Zines-L send a message to:
listserv@uriacc.uri.eduon one line type:
SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name
PMC-MOO has moved. To connect to PMC-MOO, you must now:
telnet
hero.village.virginia.edu 7777
Once you’ve connected to the server, you should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO.
PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can meet other subscribers of the journal, sponsor or participate in live conferences. PMC-MOO also provides a way to share and discuss, in real time across the internet, any texts accessible from a gopher server, including those generated by Postmodern Culture and by PMC-TALK. Finally, it provides an opportunity to experience (or help to design) simulated object-lessons in postmodern theory.
Your experience of PMC-MOO will be considerably more enoyable with a client program: clients for Mac, DOS, and Unix are available via anonymous ftp from:
parcftp.xerox.com
Association for History and Computing UK Branch Conference
The Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK Branch) will be held at the University of Hull between 12 and 14 April 1994. As well as existing members of the Association, we are anxious to see those of our “mainstream” colleagues who have so far resisted the blandishments of Information Technology, but think they might now want to get involved — particularly with the impending arrival of courseware products coming out the Teaching and Learning Technology Program (TLTP).
The “major” theme of the conference will be to explore what computerate historians have to learn from disciplines cognate with History, or those from which we have traditionally filched elements of our methodology. We hope to have sessions which focus on Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Geography, Sociology and Textual Studies, with reference to time-frames ranging from the medieval to the near-contemporary.
The “minor” theme is to be the role of computing in the modern History Curriculum, broadly defined: from what’s going on in secondary schools and colleges post-National Curriculum; through the undergraduate program, with special reference to TLTP products; to the IT component of postgraduate training courses being developed under the 1+3 arrangements favored by ESRC and the British Academy.
We shall, of course, be issuing invitations to a number of keynote speakers, but would be very grateful to receive offers of papers on any of the subjects identified above.
Further particulars and booking forms can be obtained from:
Steve Baskerville
Dean of the School of Arts
University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull, HU6 7RX
Phone: 0482-465684
(Secretary: Louise Danby)
E-mail: s.w.baskerville@amstuds.hull.ac.uk
Ten years ago, before the celebrated Westfield Conferences that gave life to the AHC, there was a select gathering of people interested in historical computing met at Hull to discuss their common interests. We would like to see as many of you as possible come here again in 1994 to discuss the agendas of the next decade!
Steve Baskerville
University of Hull
In May of 1994, The Banff Centre is Virtually the Only Place to be
The Banff Centre for the Arts, in Banff, Alberta, Canada will host two important conferences on cyberspace and virtual reality. The first conference, 4CYBERCONF, to be held May 20 through 22, is a prestigious annual event that brings together theoreticians and practitioners to discuss the implications of cyberspace.
Immediately following is the ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM to be held May 23 and 24. This event focuses on artistic approaches to virtual reality, providing an opportunity for critical inquiry of the political, practical and aesthetic concerns around new media and cultural practices.
Over the course of the two conferences, the work of eight groups of artists who have completed virtual environments at the Banff Centre will be installed at various sites.
Participants may register for either or both events.
4CYBERCONF –
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE
MAY 20, 21, and 22, 1994
THE BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
INTRODUCTION
4CYBERCONF deals with the issues of cyberspace on many different levels. The technologies of virtual reality, networking and digital media are investigated from a critical standpoint that examines their social and cultural impacts and meanings. This conference considers cross-cultural contributions to the space and time of cyberspace, embraces the challenge of design for virtual environments and cybersound and suggests a new perception of space that challenges conventional views. Cyberspace is a space in flux where shared identities collide with discussions of diversity and the most potent constructions are the discussions that define and delineate these new environments.
In the matrices and the nets, there is a growing society that ranges from architects to aboriginal artists to anarchists, from cyborgs to Silicon Valley sophisticates to cyberpunks. 4CYBERCONF offers the opportunity for exchange within and between these confluent and diverse interests.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The Fourth Conference on Cyberspace is scheduled to take place over three days, with regular sessions, demonstrations and a “birds of a feather” meeting space for conference participants to exchange ideas and information. In addition, there will be an evening Round Table Discussion on Friday, May 20th and a Dinner on Sunday, May 22nd.
CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS
This is a call for paper and panel proposals, approximately twenty of which will be selected by the Program Committee for development and presentation at the conference. Papers submitted by individuals will be grouped by the Program Committee by theme.
The following is a list of the general topics of interest to the Program Committee.
ECONOMICS OF CYBERSPACE
Everyone talks about the information economy but few are willing to face up to its implications: A nation’s wealth will be based on the information it produces. Commercial services may become the primary focus of the Net. Our copyright laws will need to be totally re- written for cyberspace. Intellectual property will become the most valued commodity of this new economy. Who will determine what’s public domain and what’s privatized? This session will deal with those issues and will provide a forum for exploring a dramatically different approach to economic issues.
THE SOUNDS OF CYBER
Cyberspace will be an environment vibrant with sound. While much of the technical investigation of virtuality has concentrated on the image, some of the richest and most compelling results have been achieved with audio. This theme will focus on the aesthetics, theory and practice of creating sound in immersion environments, as well as the synergy of sound and image in virtual space.
DIVERSITY, TECHNOLOGY AND CYBERSPACE
It is tough out there on the planetary streets, but is cyberspace a territory with a better immigration policy? How do individuals and groups gain access to cyberspace? Are technologies culturally, linguistically and gender specific? Are questions of authenticity relevant in cyberspace? How can technology be created and applied to serve the needs of varied communities, such as aboriginal groups and those from the myriad of cultural diasporas? How are the social constructions of body, gender, desire, race, place, economy and language built in cyberspace? What is imported, what is modified and what is created in human interaction and meaning within cyberspace; how does it then affect other experiences?
CYBER NARRATIVES
How and to whom are stories being structured and told in cyberspace? What are the entertainment industry`s distribution outlets? What tools are available to create cyber tales – and do these permit creative expression? What are the structures of interactive texts? What is the relationship between reading and authoring, viewing and creating? Are there existing forms of criticism – for example, architectural, literary, film, media, art, cultural studies – relevant to describing cyber stories? What new critical tools do we need? Are there genres in cyberspace?
THE POETICS OF CYBERSPACE: DESIGNING THE VIRTUAL
Traditional concepts of design travel poorly in cyberspace. Papers are invited that investigate the new design issues that must be resolved if virtual environments are to become compelling, evocative and effective. New tools and new approaches and the role of the design profession in cyberspace are critical aspects of this investigation.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Proposals for papers and panels should be presented in abstracts of approximately 1000 words. Panel proposals should include abstracts of papers. Copies of illustrations and photographs can be submitted at this time. Persons proposing a panel should contact potential panelists prior to submitting. All proposals are due in hard copy and on disk at the address below by February 15, 1994. Papers selected for presentation, either as part of a theme session or a panel, are due May 1, 1994, in hard copy and digital form. Selected presenters will be notified by March 15, 1994. The final papers should be between 3000 and 6000 words. Papers will be allotted a half hour for presentation. Panels should not exceed one hour.
Videotapes, recordings and other forms of presentation will be considered as part of panels or as a component of sessions. Submitted material on videotape, optical disk, film, and other media, will be returned.
Brief biographical information may accompany submissions on a separate page.
Because all accepted abstracts will be published as the Collected Papers of the Fourth Conference on Cyberspace and available at the conference, we ask that you observe the following format guidelines:
Proposals should be printed on one side of 8.5″ x 11″ paper, single spaced, with one inch margins and in 12- point Times-Roman, unless there is specific artistic purpose to breaking this convention. Do not number the pages. Provide six copies, and a floppy disk with both ASCII and Word versions.
The first page should start with:
TITLE
(Proposed Session)
Your Name
Your Affiliation
Body of paper or abstract
DEADLINES
FEBRUARY 15, 1994 Deadline for submission of papers, abstracts and proposals inclusion in 4Cyberconf.
MARCH 15, 1994 Notification date of selection for presentation:
APRIL 8, 1994 Deadline for registration for both conferences: (Late registration will be available as space permits and at an extra charge)
NOTE: Submission of an abstract or proposal indicates your intention, obligation, and capability to write/present/demonstrate the corresponding, full- length work if chosen.
All materials should be sent to:
4CYBERCONF
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE
Submissions
Media Arts
The Banff Centre for the Arts
box 1020-8
Banff, Alberta, T0L 0C0
Canada
E-MAIL: 4cyber@acs.ucalgary.caPHONE: 403-762-6652
FAX: 403-762-6665
The ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM will be held immediately following 4CYBERCONF and is intended to facilitate dialogue and debate among artists, presenters and participants.
This is an invitation to attend this two-day event that will include presentations and discussions on art, culture and new media technologies in the 1990s. In addition, virtual environment artworks will be exhibited and discussed by the artists. Since many of these works will never be shown again, this symposium represents an opportunity to experience and analyze some of the worlds that are shaping developments in virtual reality.
The eight groups of artists who participated in the Art and Virtual Environments Project, include: Will Bauer and Steve Gibson; Toni Dove and Michael Mackenzie; Diane Gromala, Marcos Novak and Yacov Sharir; Perry Hoberman; Ron Kuivila; Brenda Laurel and Rachel Strickland; Michael Naimark; Michael Scroggins and Stewart Dixon. Over the past three years, these artists have explored this innovative medium at Banff and in the process developed important advances in the field.
Presentations on art and virtual environments will be made by writers and thinkers invited to investigate current cultural practices. Speakers may include Frances Dyson, N.Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Erkki Huhtamo, Rob Milthorp, Margaret Morse, Jeanne Randolph, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Nell Tenhaaf, Gene Youngblood and others. Writings on art, culture and virtual environments have also been commissioned to stimulate discussion and analysis of culture and new technologies. The end result is one of the most important critical investigations in the short history of virtual reality.
The Art and Virtual Environments Project, undertaken by the Computer Applications and Research Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, has been funded by The Department of Canadian Heritage and CITI (Centre for Information Technologies Innovation). The Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the Art and Virtual Environments Project sponsors: Silicon Graphics Inc., Alias Research, The Computer Graphics Lab in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Apple Canada, The Intel Corporation, and AutoDesk Inc.
LOCATION
Both conferences will be held at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. The Centre provides a comfortable setting nestled in one of the most picturesque environments in North America. Founded in 1933, The Banff Centre has evolved into an exciting, multi- disciplinary entity that is an experience unto itself. Artists, academics, professionals, business leaders, administrators and scientists come here to learn in an efficient, service-oriented setting that happens to be surrounded by some of the most breathtaking mountain wilderness in the world.
Banff is located 125 kilometers, or a scenic 1 1/2 hour drive, west of the city of Calgary. The Calgary International Airport services daily flights from most major centers in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Orient. Bus service is available directly from the airport or downtown Calgary.
For Further Information Regarding Registration Please Contact:
Virginia Campbell
The Banff Centre for Conferences
Box 1020 – Station 11
Banff, Alberta
Canada T0L 0C0
Tel: (403) 762-6202
Fax: (403) 762-6388
This is a summary of the information that will shortly be available on the University of Quebec Gopher. Anybody who wants more information, or a hard copy of this information (plus a small ad to be posted on a physical bulletin board), should contact:
Prof. Pierre Lemieux
Pierre_Lemieux@uqah.uquebec.ca
1. About the University
The Universite du Quebec a Hull (UQAH) is a branch of the University of Quebec. It is located in Hull, in the Province of Quebec (Canada), just across Ottawa in the National Capital Region.
2. The Chaos and Society Workshop at UQAH
The June Conference is organized by the Chaos and Society Workshop, directed by Prof. Alain Albert et Prof. Pierre Lemieux. The objective of the Chaos and Society Workshop is to stimulate research on the relations between chaos theory, complexity and the study of society (especially the idea of a spontaneous or anarchistic order).
One of the topics that has raised some interest recently at the Workshop were the ideas discussed by Prof. Albert and Lemieux on the possibilities of building models of Artificial Anarchy.
3. The June 1-2, 1994, Chaos and Society International Conference
3.1. General Description
The objective of the Conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of academics and scholars interested in the interface between chaos and complex-system theory and the social sciences. This two-day conference is to be held on June 1 and 2, 1994, in the Hull-Ottawa region (Canada). Formal papers will be presented and discussed. Papers can be presented in either English or French. (Most will probably be in English.) We are exploring the possibility of simultaneous translation during some of the lectures and discussions.
Examples of Topics of Interest:
- What is the significance of the chaos paradigm for the social and humane sciences (including economics, sociology, political science, ethnology, philosophy…)? To which extent can society be analyzed as a chaotic, complex or living system?
- What can nonlinear dynamic simulation techniques contribute to the study of society?
- What is the meaning of information, evolution, and spontaneous order in the social sciences as compared to the physical sciences?
- To which extent were these elements already present in some schools of social sciences (v.g., the Austrian School of Economics)?
- After Artificial Life, what is the future of Artificial Economics, Artificial Politics, Artificial Sociology, etc.?
- What is their relevance to contemporary problems?
We expect a group of 50 to 75 participants, mainly academics, at the Conference.
They will include:
1) Authors of papers;
2) Discussants who will comment on the papers and start the workshop-type discussion.
3) Simple participants (academics, scholars, students, government officials and business executives) who will be able to attend the lectures and participate in discussions.
Here is a tentative schedule as of December 15, 1993:
Wednesday, June 1 8:45-10:30 Opening, paper, comment and discussion 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:45 Paper, comment and discussion 13:00-14:45 Lunch for all participants 15:00-16:30 Workshops I, II, III 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:30 Workshops I, II, III 19:00 Dinner for all participants Thursday, June 2 8:45-10:30 Paper, comment and discussion 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:45 Paper, comment and discussion 13:00-14:45 Lunch for all participants 15:00-16:30 Workshops I, II, III 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:30 Workshops I, II, III 18:30 End of Conference
The Organizing Committee is made of
- Dr. Jacques Plamondon, Professor of Philosophy of Science and President of Universite du Quebec a Hull (UQAH)
- Prof. Paul Bourgine, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Laboratory, CEMAGREF (Antony, France)
- Dr. Bernardo Huberman, Research Fellow, Xerox PARC
- Prof. Alain Albert, Professor of Economics, Business Administration Department, UQAH
- Prof. Pierre Lemieux (Conference Director), Visiting Professor of Economics, Business Administration Department, UQAH
3.2. Call for Papers
Any person interested in presenting a paper must E-mail a one page abstract to the Organizing Committee before January 31, 1994. Each submission must contain the author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone, fax and E-mail numbers. The Organizing Committee will reach a decision on accepted papers and notify the authors in February. Accepted authors will then be asked to send their papers (hard copy and electronic version) before April 30, 1994, so that they be made available to discussants in time. Papers may be in English or French. They will later be published in the conference proceedings.
Please send abstracts to:
Pierre_Lemieux@uqah.uquebec.ca
3.3. Registration
Registration fees (in Canadian dollars) Category Before Feb. 28, 1994 from Feb. 28 to April 30 Academics 150 250 Students 150 150 Others 300 500
The registration fees include dinner on June 1 and lunches on June 1 and 2. Registration fees will be reimbursed if registration is canceled before April 30, 1994. All registration must be paid before April 30, 1994. Please make your check to the order of “Universite du Quebec a Hull.”
________________________________________________________
Registration form
First Name, Middle Initial, LAST NAME:
Title:
Name and title preferred on badge:
Occupation:
Organization/Company:
Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
I would like to register as:
author of paper
discussant
participant
Please send check (to the order of “Universite du Quebec a Hull”) to Prof. Pierre Lemieux
Date:
Please note that all registrations must be paid by check before April 30, 1994. (Special rates apply before February 28; see above.) Please make your check to the order of “Universite du Quebec a Hull” and send to:
Prof. Pierre Lemieux
Universite du Quebec a Hull
P.O. Box 1250, Station B
Hull, Quebec J8X 3X7
CANADA
Fax: 1 (819) 595-3924
E-mail: Pierre_Lemieux@uqah.uquebec.ca
3.4. Hotel Accommodation, Information and Registration
Forthcoming.
3.5. Logistics Information
Located on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river, Hull is only a few miles from the National Capital of Canada and 10 miles from the Ottawa International Airport.
3.6. Important Deadlines To Remember
January 31, 1994 Authors who want to submit papers must have sent a one-page abstract. See “Call for Papers”.
February 27 Last date to register at reduced tariff. See “Registration”.
February 28 Accepted authors will have been notified by Organizing Committee. See “Call for Papers”.
April 29 Last date to cancel registration and get a reimbursement. See “Registration”.
April 30 Authors must have sent their papers. See “Call for Papers”. Last date to register. Registration fees must be received at UQAH. See “Registration”
4. Whom to Contact
For any information on this Conference, please contact:
Prof. Pierre Lemieux
Universite du Quebec a Hull
P.O. Box 1250, Station B
Hull, Quebec
Canada J8X 3X7
Tel.: 1 (819) 595-3833
Fax: 1 (819) 595-3924
E-mail:Pierre_Lemieux@uqah.uquebec.ca
EJVC is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research and discussion of all aspects of computer- mediated human experience, behavior, action, and interaction.
Information about EJVC may be obtained by sending e-mail to:
LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET
or
LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU
with one or more of the following lines in the text:
SUBSCRIBE EJVC-L YourFirstname YourLastName
GET EJVC WELCOME
INDEX EJVC-L
Also, the file is available by anonymous ftp to:
byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
in the pub/ejvc directory.
Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artistis a research project investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative writers.
The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware, critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to sites of publication.
We would like to request writers to submit their works for review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach creative writing for the hypertext format.
To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or hardcopy to:
Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist
3 Westcott Upper
London, Ontario
N6C 3G6
E-mail: KEEPC@QUCD>QUEENSU.CA
Scholars are invited to submit manuscripts/reviews that meet the following criteria:
ISSUES: The Journal invites critical reviews of films, documentaries, plays, lyrics, and other related visual and performing arts. The Journal also invites original manuscripts from all social scientific fields on the topic of popular culture and criminal justice.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: To submit material for the Journal, please subscribe to CJMOVIES through the listserv and a detailed guidelines statement will automatically follow.
To subscribe, send a message with the following command to:
LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1:
SUBSCRIBE CJMOVIES YourFirstName YourLastName
Manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to:
The Editors
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
SUNYCRJ@ALBNYVM1.BITNET
or SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU
MANAGING EDITORS:
Sean Anderson and Greg UngarEditors
Journal of CriminalJustice and Popular Culture
School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA 135
Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222
INTERNET:
SA1171@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or GU8810@uacsc1.albany.edu
LIST ADMINISTRATOR:
Seth RosnerSchool of Criminal Justice, SUNY
SR2602@uacsc1.albany.edu or SR2602@thor.albany.edu
High quality papers are solicited for a symposium on the state of the art in the linguistic analysis of humor to be held at the forthcoming ISHS ’94, the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Humor Studies in Ithaca, NY (June 22-26, 1994).
Papers in all areas of linguistics dealing with theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of the study of humor, joking, laughter, etc., from the point of view of linguistics are invited for the first ever symposium on the linguistics of humor.
Send three copies of a one page (250 words max) abstract to:
Salvatore Attardo
Youngstown State University
Dept. of English
Youngstown, OH, 44555-3415
USA
E-mail attardo@cc.ysu.edu
E-mail submissions (ASCII text, TeX/LaTeX or binhexed Macintosh MSWord) are encouraged.
Abstracts should state name, affiliation and address of the author(s) and state clearly the problem(s) addressed, the solution(s) provided, and the methodology adopted. An extra page for references, examples, etc. is allowed. References and citations should use the LSA or HUMOR style sheets.
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 1994. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by March 20, 1994. Authors should register for the ISHS conference with:
M. A. Rishel
Writing Program
375 Roy H. Park School of Communications
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ph. (607) 274-3324
Fax (607) 274-1664
E-mail rishel@ithaca.bitnet
If you have already submitted an abstract to M. A. Rishel and wish to be considered for the symposium, submit the abstract to S. Attardo with a cover letter clearly stating this fact.
- Conference AnnouncementLITERARY TEXTS IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE:
SCHOLARLY IMPLICATIONS AND LIBRARY SERVICES
31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing
April 10-12, 1994 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Electronic technologies are not replacing the book so much as they are changing its form and its role in scholarship. Rising interest in electronic texts is evident in the development of new computational approaches to the study of literature, the appearance of electronic text centers on university campuses, and an expanding publishing industry in electronic books. This conference will examine the role of electronic texts in the humanities and the implications of these technologies for libraries. Conference speakers will discuss this latest development in the human pursuit of the literary arts from a variety of perspectives, including the production and acquisition of electronic texts, strategies for storage and dissemination, software for the retrieval and analysis of electronic texts, problems of bibliographic control and intellectual property, and publishing trends.
Offered in conjunction with the conference is an optional preconference workshop in the practical use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in the organization of electronic texts for interchange and research. Conducting the workshop will be C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, an editor of the recently released Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange, a text- representation standard based on SGML syntax.
Who should attend: This conference will be of interest to librarians, academic computing staff, publishers and distributors of electronic texts, and humanities scholars interested in the possibilities of electronic texts.
PROGRAM
Sunday, April 10
11am-5pm Registration
1-4:30pm Preconference Workshop on using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago
5-6:30pm Reception
6:30-7:30pm Dinner
8pm Keynote Address (Lincoln Hall Theater) AUTHORS AND READERS IN AN AGE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS Jay David Bolter Professor School of Literature, Communication, & Culture Georgia Institute of Technology
Monday, April 11
8-9:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES: A COMING OF AGE Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers and Princeton Universities
THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE: ELECTRONIC TEXT MARKUP FOR RESEARCH C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago
9:30-10am Break
10-11:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND MULTIMEDIA IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINE Anita Lowry Head, Information Arcade, Main Library University of Iowa
HUMANIZING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC TEXT PROCESSING Mark Tyler Day Associate Librarian Indiana University
11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own)
1-2:30pm COHABITING WITH COPYRIGHT IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT Mary Brandt Jensen Director, Law Library Professor, School of Law University of South Dakota
STANDARDS, INTERCONNECTIONS, AND THE NONPROFIT DOMAINS Michael Jensen Electronic Media Manager University of Nebraska Press
3-5pm Software Demonstrations
5-7pm Dinner (on your own)
7-9pm Software Demonstrations
Tuesday, April 12
8-9:30am THE FEASIBILITY OF WIDE-AREA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS IN LIBRARIES: A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS John Price-Wilkin Information Management Coordinator Alderman Library, University of Virginia
THE SCHOLAR AND HIS LIBRARY IN THE COMPUTER AGE James W. Marchand Professor Department of Germanic Languages and Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:30-10am Break
10-11:30am THE CHALLENGES OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE LIBRARY: BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND ACCESS Rebecca Guenther Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress
PROJECT GUTENBERG: TRYING TO GIVE AWAY A TRILLION ETEXTS BY THE END OF 2001 Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College
11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own)
1-2:30pm DURKHEIM’S IMPERATIVE: THE ROLE OF HUMANITIES FACULTY IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES REVOLUTION Robert A. Jones Professor, Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
THE MATERIALITY OF THE BOOK: ANOTHER TURN OF THE SCREW Terry Belanger University Professor, University of Virginia
GENERAL INFORMATION
Location: Except as noted, all conference events will take place in the Illini Union on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois.
Registration and Fees: The fee for the conference is $340 ($380 after March 11, 1994), which includes the Sunday night dinner, refreshments, and a copy of the Clinic proceedings. Registration for the optional SGML workshop is $40. Registration is limited, and early registration is recommended. A limited number of reduced-fee registrations are available for those who might otherwise be unable to attend; for consideration, submit a written request by March 11, 1994.
Transportation: Champaign-Urbana is served by TWA, Midway Express, American Eagle, and Northwest Commuter. AMTRAK service is available from Chicago and points south. Champaign is located 135 miles south of Chicago on Interstate routes 72, 74, and 57.
Accommodations: Rooms have been allocated for participants at the hotels listed below. Participants must make their own reservations, and should do so before March 9, 1994. Please indicate that you are attending the library data processing conference.
Illini Union University Inn
1401 W. Green St. 302 E. John St.
Urbana, IL 61801 Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-1241 (217) 352-8132
Single: $54 + tax Single: $54 + tax
Double: $62 + tax Double: $61 + tax
Continuing Education Units: Participants will earn 1.1 CEU for attending this meeting.
Refunds: Refunds will be made if you find that you cannot attend and you notify us in writing by March 16, 1994. You must cancel your own hotel reservations.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLINIC, PLEASE CALL (800) 982-0914 OR (217) 333-2973, OR SEND YOUR QUESTION VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL TO:
DPC@ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU
REGISTRATION FORM
Literary Texts in an Electronic Age:
Scholarly Implications and Library Services
31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing
April 10-12, 1994
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Registration Form
Name ____________________________________________________________ Title____________________________________________________________ Organization Name________________________________________________ Business Address_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Phone Number (___)_______________________________________________ Email address____________________________________________________
Registration Fees: $340 ($380 after March 11) ________ $40 SGML workshop ________ TOTAL FEES ________
Method of Payment: __Check enclosed (make payable to GSLIS/University of Illinois) __Charge to credit card __Visa __MasterCard Card #___________________________Exp. date_______ Signature________________________________________
Any special needs (access, meals, etc.)?_________________________ _________________________________________________________________
If there are issues you are especially interested in, or if you have particular questions about the topics that will be addressed at this conference, please write them below. We will pass them along to the speakers. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
You may register by mail by sending this form to the address below, by phone (217-333-2973 or 800-982-0914), by fax (217-244-3302), or by electronic mail:
(dpc@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Library and Information Science Building
501 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, Illinois 61820-6212
National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure
On October 14th, 15th and 16th, the Center for Art Research in Boston will sponsor a National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure.
Participants will explore the impact of the Clinton Administration’s AGENDA FOR ACTION and proposed NII legislation on the future of the arts and the humanities in 21st Century America.
The symposium will bring together government officials, academics, artists, writers, representatives of arts and cultural institutions and organizations, and other concerned individuals from many disciplines and areas of interest to discuss specific issues of policy which will effect the cultural life of *all* Americans during the coming decades.
To participate, submit a 250-word abstract of your proposal for a paper, panel-discussion or presentation, accompanied by a one-page vitae, by March 15, 1994.
Special consideration will be given to those efforts that take a critical perspective of the issues, and are concerned with offering specific alternatives to current administration and congressional agendas.
The proceedings of the symposium will be video-taped, and papers and panels will be published on CD-ROM. For further information, reply to:
jaroslav@artdata.win.net
via return e-mail.
Thank you, Jay Jaroslav
—
Jay Jaroslav, Director jaroslav@artdata.win.net CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH 241 A Street Boston, MA voice: (617) 451-8030 02210-1302 USA fax: (617) 451-1196
Postmodern Culture
A SUNY Press Series
Series Editor: Joseph Natoli
Editor: Carola Sautter
Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities Michigan State University
We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines–green politics to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential campaign to Rodney King–and academic discourses from art and literature to politics and history, sociology and science to women’s studies, form computer studies to cultural studies.
This series is designed to detour us off modernity’s yet-to-be- completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto postmodernism’s “forking paths” crisscrossing high and low culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business and academy, page and screen, “our” narrative and “theirs,” formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse, analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives, truths and parodies of truths.
By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link our present ungraspable “balkanization” of all thoughts and events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them. Modernity’s “puzzle world” to be “unified” and “solved” becomes postmodernism’s multiple worlds to be represented within the difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and diversity shapes and then re-shapes.
Accordingly, manuscripts should display a “postmodernist style” that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic spheres, “inscribes” within as well as “scribes” against realist and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple- narratives and “culturally relative” rather than “foundational.”
Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to:
Joseph Natoli
Series Editor
20676jpn@msu.edu
or
Carola Sautter
Editor
SUNY Press
SUNY Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural issue of PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness (ISSN: 1039-723X).
PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration form the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. PSYCHE publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the medium. PSYCHE also publishes a hardcopy version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated, synopsized, or eliminated form the hardcopy version.
Types of Articles:
The journal publishes from time to time all of the following varieties of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are peer reviewed; all articles are reviewed by editorial staff.
Research Articles reporting original research by author(s). Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some combination of the two. Articles of special interest occasionally will be followed by a selection of peer commentaries. Peer Reviewed.
Survey Articles reporting on the state of the art research in particular areas. These may be done in the form of a literature review or annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be peer reviewed.
Discussion Notes critiques of previous research. Peer Reviewed.
Tutorials introducing a subject area relevant to the study of consciousness to non-specialists.
Letters providing and informal forum for expressing opinions on editorial policy or upon material previously published in PSYCHE. Screened by editorial staff.
Abstracts summarizing the contents of recently published journal articles, books, and conference proceedings.
Book Reviews which indicate the contents of recent books and evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as textbooks.
Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission deadlines, etc.
Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be published: available grants; positions; journal contents; proposals for joint research; etc.
Notes for Authors:
Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles directly to the executive editor. Submissions should be in a single copy if submitted electronically of four (4) copies if submitted by mail.
Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author’s name; address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address. Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100- 200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind, meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened for publication in the print version of PSYCHE, the author will be responsible for making any alterations requested by the editors.
Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII.
If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by readers locally.
Authors of accepted articles assign to PSYCHE the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCHE as the original source of publication.
Subscriptions:
Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to:
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Have you had an interesting virtual relationship
on electronic networks? A research team wants
your story. Material acknowledged and terms
respected. Both research articles and a
general press (trade) book planned.
Mail to Either Address
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( A Distributed Knowledge Project Undertaking )
April 22nd and 23rd, 1994
The Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
SCREENSITES 94 is a conference organized by the students of the Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University. Papers, presentations, panel discussions, and informal gatherings will discuss the screen as sites of knowledge, control, culture, aesthetics, interaction, power and experience. This conference will give participants a chance to present their ongoing research to an audience from a wide variety of disciplines and fields.
The “screen” occupies an increasingly significant position in 20th Century culture. New cultural sites and structuring metaphors inevitably accompany screen-dependent media such as film, television, virtual reality, and computers. These phenomena deserve continued critical attention. This conference seeks submissions that will enhance our understanding of the screen– its lure, its formal properties, its varied uses, its economy, and its ubiquity. Should metaphors of sight be the favored analytical preoccupation when describing the screen and the fixation of its viewers, or would metaphors of “site” hold greater promise? Do screens have distinct, cross-contextual implications or are “effects” more usefully understood as they are determined and/or discovered by users, producers, viewers or spectators? How might the contributions of Communication Studies, Film Theory, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, and Performance Theory be helpful in elaborating the utility of screen- or non- screen-specific modes of analysis? Papers addressing issues of class, race, ethnicity, taste and proclivity, gender and orientation are encouraged along with interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approaches.
SCREENSITES 94 will be held at The Graduate Program in Communications building which is located on the main campus of McGill University in the centre of downtown Montreal. For more information please call 514/398-7667 or make contact by e-mail:
CYWB@musicA.mcgill.ca
Send abstract or paper submission on disk or hard copy, by mail or fax to:
SCREENSITES 94
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3465, rue Peel
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1W7
tel.: 514/398-7667 or 514/398-4110
fax.: 514/398-4934
electronic mail: CYWB@musicA.mcgill.ca
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 1994
– FIN –
La meme-chose en francais (sans accents):
A l’ecran 94- Invitation a soumettre des projects de conferences
A l’ecran est un colloque organise par les etudiant-e- s du Program d’etudes superieures en communications de l’Universite McGill. Conferences, sessions plenieres, et rencontres informelles seront l’occasion de se concentrer sur l’ecran, et sur l’ecran en tant que source d’information, de controle, de culture, d’esthetique, de societe, de pouvoir et d’experience. Ce colloque donnera l’occcasion aux participant-e-s de presenter leurs recherches a un public provenant d’un grand nombre de disciplines au Program d’etudes superieures en communications.
L’ecran occupe une position importante dans la culture du vingtieme siecle. De nouveaux sites culturels et de nouvelles metaphores accompagnent inevitablement les media qui dependent de l’ecran: le cinema, la television, la realite virtuelle et les ordinateurs. Ce colloque sollicite des soumissions que contribueront a notre comprehension de l’ecranQ sa predominance, son attrait, ses proprietes et ses divers usages. Les systemes d’echanges symboliques que determinent la valeur culturelle et economique sont aussi dignes d’interet. Par exemple, les metaphores visuelles devraient- elles etre au centre de nos preoccupations lorsqu’on s’interesse a l’ecran et a ses publics, ou devrait-on plutot utiliser a des metaphores de lieux? Les ecrans ont-ils des implications concretes qui persistent a travers les contextes, ou doit-on s’attarder aux effets qui sont determines et/ou decouvents per les utilisateurs, les productrices, ou les spectateurs? Quelles sont les contributions des domaines des communications, des etudes du cinema, des etudes culturelles, des points de vue “marginaux”, des theories de la performance face a ces questions? Les conferences traitant des questions de classe, de race, d’ethnicite, de genres et d’orientation sont encouragees, de meme que les approches interdisciplinaires et multi-theoriques.
Le Program d’etudes superieures en communications est situe sur le campus de McGill, au centreville de Montreal. Pour plus d’information, veuillez composer le (514) 398.76.67 ou communiquer per courrier electronique a l’adresse suivante:
CYWB@musicA.mcgill.ca
FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca
FEMISA is conceived as a list where those who work on or think about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world politics, international political economy, or global politics, can communicate.
Formally, FEMISA was established to help those members of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association keep in touch. More generally, I hope that FEMISA can be a network where we share information in the area of feminism or gender and international studies about publications or articles, course outlines, questions about sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to the International Studies Association.
To subscribe:
send one line message in the BODY of mail-message
sub femisa your name
to:
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unsub femisa
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listserv@mach1.wlu.ca
I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you.
Owner: Deborah Stienstra
stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
Department of Political Science University of Winnipeg
HOLOCAUS on
LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET
or
LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU
HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail discussion groups (“lists”) at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is sponsored by the University’s History Department and its Jewish Studies Program.
To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need and Internet or Bitnet computer account. From that account, send this message to:
LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET
or
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.eduSUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname
Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the world right now).
Owner:
JimMott@spss.comThe HOLOCAUS policies are:
- 1. The coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-Semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930’s and 1940’s, as well as related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy.
- 2. We are especially interested in reaching college teachers of history who already have, or plan to teach courses on the Holocaust. In 1991-92, there were 265 college faculty in the US and Canada teaching courses on the Holocaust (154 in History departments, 67 in Religion, and 46 in Literature). An even larger number of professors teach units on the Holocaust in courses on Jewish history (taught by 273 faculty) and World War II (taught by 373), not to mention many other possible courses. Most of these professors own PC’s, but do not use them for e-mail. We hope our list will be one inducement to go on line. HOLOCAUS will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on films and slides, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course.
- 3. H-Net is now setting up an international board of editors to guide HOLOCAUS policy and to help stimulate contributions.
- 4. HOLOCAUS is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a PhD in History. The moderator will solicit postings (by e- mail, phone and even by US mail), will assist people in subscribing and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The moderator will also solicit and post newsletter type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions). It may prove feasible to commission book and article reviews, and to post book announcements from publishers. Anyone with suggestions about what HOLOCAUS can and might do is invited to send in the ideas.
- 5. The tone and target audience will be scholarly, and academic standards and styles will prevail. HOLOCAUS is affiliated with the International History Network.
- 6. HOLOCAUS is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer- oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from across the world. Our first list on urban history, H- URBAN@UICVM, recently started up with Wendy Plotkin as moderator. H-WOMEN is in the works, with discussions underway about other possibilities like Ethnic, Labor, and US South. We are helping our campus Jewish Studies program set up JSTUDY (restricted to the U of Illinois Chicago campus, for now), and are considering the creation of H- JEWISH, also aimed at academics, but covering the full range of scholarship on Jewish history. If you are interested in any of these projects, please e-write Richard Jensen, for we are now (as of late April) in a critical planning stage.
- 7. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across the country in more effective use of electronic communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on request from Richard Jensen, the director, at:
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NewJour-L aims to accomplish two objectives; it is both a list and a project.
FIRST:
NewJour-L is the place to announce your own (or to forward information about others’) newly planned, newly issued, or revised electronic networked journal or newsletter. It is specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability.
It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and newsletters as they become available on electronic networks. Scholarly discussion lists which regularly and continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or preprints may also be reported, for those journal-like sections.
We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet, Usenet or other media will forward them to NewJour-L, but this does run a significant risk of boring subscribers with a number of duplicate messages. Therefore, NewJour-L IS filtered through a moderator to eliminate this type of duplication.
It does not attempt to cover areas that are already covered by other lists. For example, sources like NEW-LIST describe new discussion lists; ARACHNET deals with social and cultural issues of e-publishing; VPIEJ-L handles many matters related to electronic publishing of journals. SERIALST discusses the technical aspects of all kinds of serials. You should continue to subscribe to these as you have done before, and contribute to them.
SECOND:
NewJour-L represents an identification and road-mapping project for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa. NewJour-L will expand and continue that work.
As new publications are reported, a NewJour-L support group will develop the following services — planning is underway & we ask that anyone who would like to participate as below, let us know:
- A worksheet will be sent to the editors of the new e-publication for completion. This will provide detailed descriptions about bibliographic, content, and access characteristics.
- An original cataloguing record will be created.
- The fully catalogued title will be reported to national utilities and other appropriate sites so that there is a bibliographic record available for subsequent subscribers or searchers.
- The records will feed a directory and database of these titles.
Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work will expand over the next year. We thank you for your contributions, assistance, and advice, which will be invaluable.
SUBSCRIBING:
To subscribe, send a message to:
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Leave the subject line blank.
In the body, type: SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L FirstName LastName
You will have to subscribe in order to post messages to this list.
To drop out or postpone, use the standard LISTSERV (Internet) directions.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
For their work in defining the elements of this project and for their support to date, we thank:
Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor
David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems & Network Support
Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original Cataloguing Development
John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems & Network Support
Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library, Cataloguing and Indexing Development
Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor
We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and we welcome your interest in it. This project is co-ordinated through:
The Association of Research Libraries
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
e-mail: osap@cni.org
(Ann Okerson)
The POPCULT list is now in place. It is open to analytical discussion of all aspects of popular culture. The list will not be moderated. Material relevant to building bridges between popular culture and traditional culture will be very strongly encouraged.
To subscribe, unsubscribe, get help, etc, send a message to:
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SEND/LIST POPCULT
UNSUBSCRIBE POPCULT
It is possible to send multiple commands, each on a separate line. Do not include your name after SUBSCRIBE POPCULT. In some ways this server is a simplified version of the major servers, but it is also more streamlined. I recommend, to start, that you put SUBSCRIBE on one line, and HELP on the next line. That will give you a full listing of available commands.
To send messages to the list for distribution to list members for exchange of ideas, etc, send messages to:
popcult@camosun.bc.ca
Owner:Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca Professor Dept of English ph (604) 370-3342 (o) Camosun College (fax) (604) 370-3346 3100 Foul Bay Road Victoria, BC Off. Paul Bldg 326 CANADA V8P 5J2
Princeton University
The position of humanities computing consultant at Princeton University is part of a dynamic and forward-looking team of instructional and media specialists whose mission is to support teaching and learning. Please submit resumes to the address below — e-mail submissions are particularly welcome. Apply promptly, as we would like to fill the position immediately. You may also send questions about the position directly to me:
balestri@phoenix.princeton.edu.Diane BalestriManager, Instructional and Media Services
Princeton University
SEARCH REOPENED
Humanities Consultant
Information Services within CIT at Princeton University seeks a consultant to support faculty members and students in humanities disciplines who use information technologies in teaching and research. The consultant will join the Instructional and Media Services group.
Responsibilities include: proactive consulting with humanities departments and faculty about instructional and research needs; identifying, installing, testing, and documenting software tools and applications; supporting faculty and students in software use. In addition, the consultant will work closely with the language laboratory coordinator on acquisition, installation, and use of software and multimedia applications for language instruction. The consultant will provide expertise in text data bases and text analysis for faculty in all disciplines and expertise in word processing and printing with non-Roman characters and fonts.
Qualifications: minimally, a Master’s degree in a humanities discipline. Excellent knowledge of one or more foreign languages required. Strong background (at least two years) supporting computer users in one or more of the humanities disciplines taught at Princeton. Knowledge of both instructional and research applications is required, as is the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to move easily among a variety of hardware platforms, including Intel-based and Macintosh systems. Must enjoy outreach to faculty in humanities disciplines and must possess superior oral and written communications skills.
Application deadline: February 10, 1994.
Send resume and letter of application to:
Bruce Finnie
Computing and Information Technology
87 Prospect Avenue
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
609-258-3943 (fax)
finnie@pucc.princeton.edu (e-mail)
Princeton University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Below is a full list of application deadlines for NEH programs, plus contact numbers for individual programs. All telephone numbers are in area code 202. To receive guidelines for any NEH program, contact the Office of Publications and Public Affairs at (202) 606-8438. Guidelines are normally available at least two months in advance of application deadlines.
DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS
James C. Herbert, Director (606-8373)
PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING
Higher Education in the Humanities (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994
Institutes for College & University Faculty (Barbara Ashbrook; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 Summer 1995
Science & Humanities Education (Susan Greenstein; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994
Core Curriculum Projects (Fred Winter; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994
Two-Year Colleges (Judith Jeffrey Howard; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994
Challenge Grants (Thomas Adams; 606-8380) 1 May 1994 December 1994
Elementary & Secondary Education in the Humanities (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 December 1994
Teacher-Scholar Program (Annette Palmer; 606-8377) 1 May 1994 September 1995
Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education Higher Education (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994
Elementary & Secondary Education (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 October 1994
DIVISION OF FELLOWSHIPS & SEMINARS
Marjorie A. Berlincourt, Director (606-8458)
PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Fellowships for University Teachers (Maben D. Herring; 606-8466) 1 May 1994 1 January 1995 Fellowships for College Teachers & Independent Scholars (Joseph B. Neville; 606-8466) 1 May 1994 1 January 1995 Summer Stipends (Thomas O'Brien; 606-8466) 1 October 1994 1 May 1995 Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs (Maben D. Herring; 606-8466) 15 March 1994 1 September 1995 Younger Scholars Program (Leon Bramson; 606-8463) 1 November 1994 1 May 1995 Dissertation Grants (Kathleen Mitchell; 606-8463) 15 November 1994 1 September 1995 Study Grants for College & University Teachers (Clayton Lewis; 606-8463) 15 August 1994 1 May 1995 Summer Seminars for College Teachers (Joel Schwartz; 606-8463) Participants 1 March 1994 Summer 1994 Directors 1 March 1994 Summer 1995 Summer Seminars for School Teachers (Michael Hall; 606-8463) Participants 1 March 1994 Summer 1994 Directors 1 April 1994 Summer 1995
DIVISION OF PRESERVATION & ACCESS
George F. Farr, Jr., Director (606-8570)
PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Library & Archival Research Projects (Vanessa Piala/Charles Kolb; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 January 1995 Library & Archival Preservation/Access Projects (Karen Jefferson/Barbara Paulson; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 January 1995 National Heritage Preservation Program (Richard Rose/Laura Word; 606-8570) 1 November 1994 July 1995 U. S. Newspaper Program (Jeffrey Field; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 July 1995
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Marsha Semmel, Acting Director (606-8267)
PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Humanities Projects in Media (James Dougherty; 606-8278) 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Humanities Projects in Museums & Historical Organizations (Fredric Miller; 606-8284) 3 June 1994 1 January 1995 Public Humanities Projects (Wilsonia Cherry; 606-8271) 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Humanities Projects in Libraries (Thomas Phelps; 606-8271)
Planning 4 February 1994 1 July 1994 Implementation 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Challenge Grants (Abbie Cutter; 606-8361) 1 May 1994 December 1994
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Guinevere L. Griest, Director (606-8200)
PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Scholarly Publications (Margot Backas; 606-8207) Editions (Douglas Arnold; 606-8207) 1 June 1994 1 April 1995 Translations (Helen Aguerra; 606-8207) 1 June 1994 1 April 1995 Subventions (606-8207) 15 March 1994 1 October 1994 Reference Materials (Jane Rosenberg; 606-8358) Tools (Martha B. Chomiak; 606-8358) 1 September 1994 1 July 1995 Guides (Michael Poliakoff; 606-8358) 1 September 1994 1 July 1995 Challenge Grants (Bonnie Gould; 606-8358) 1 May 1994 December 1994 Interpretive Research Programs (George Lucas; 606-8210) Collaborative Projects (Donald C. Mell; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 July 1995 Archaeology Projects (Bonnie Magness-Gardiner; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 April 1995 Humanities, Science, and Technology (Daniel Jones; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 July 1995 Conferences (David Coder; 606-8210) 15 January 1994 1 October 1994 Centers & International Research Organizations (Christine Kalke; 606-8210) Centers for Advanced Study 1 October 1994 1 July 1995 International Research 1 April 1994 1 January 1995
DIVISION OF STATE PROGRAMS
Carole Watson, Director (606-8254)
Each state humanities council establishes its own grant guidelines and application deadlines. Addresses and telephone numbers of these state programs may be obtained from the NEH Division of State Programs.
CHALLENGE GRANTS PROGRAM
Applications are submitted through the Divisions of Education, Research, and Public Programs. Deadline is 1 May 1994 for projects beginning December 1994.
Announcing the “gopheur LITTERATURES” at the Universite de Montreal.
Address:
gopher.litteratures.Umontreal.ca 7070
or through the University of Montreal Main Gopher:
Address:
gopher.Umontreal.ca
Gopher servers are sprouting like mushrooms these days. Not only universities have gopher servers, but also departments now. They can be very useful tools to locate information and students here are very fond of them. They are also the first step towards much more sophisticated modes of accessing collections of research and bibliographic data, e-texts, etc…
The “Gopheur LITTERATURES” at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) just happens to be the first gopher dedicated to teaching, research and publications on French Literature, Quebecois Literature and Francophone Literatures, and also the first gopher to do so in french, albeit without the accents for the moment. (In the future we will offer the choice between ASCII and ISO-LATIN, as is currently being done on others gophers in the province of Quebec).
The “Gopheur LITTERATURES” is in construction. This means it will be evolving. Items on the main menu indicate a program of research conducted at the Department of etudes francaises. The goal of the gopher is to offer electronic documentation on the Departement d’etudes francaises, and to establish a resource center for information, tools, links, documents, local and international, to be used by the computing community of French scholars and students.
All comments and suggestions of sites of interest to French Studies should be sent to:
Gophlitt@ere.Umontreal.caChristian Allegre
allegre@ere.umontreal.ca
Universite de Montreal
Departement d’etudes francaises