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     global cultural flows and public cultures in a diasporic world
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5)   _Discourse_: Theoretical studies in media and culture
6)   _Journal of Ideas_, Vol 2 #2/3: Contents
7)   _Music and Connectionism_, edited by Peter M. Todd and D. Gareth 
     Loy (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1991)
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     New Direction for Computer-aided Literature Studies"
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23)  The fifth annual Computers and English Conference for high 
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     for Women in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist 
     philosophy
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     August 14, 1992
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     of addictions experienced by a large portion of society
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     group on a  variety of Jewish concerns in the tradition of 
     %tikkun olam%
33)  BUDDHA-L, a networked discussion group on Buddhist Studies
34)  Pennsylvania State University Summer Seminar on Historicisms and 
     Cultural Critique, State College, PA: June 25-30, 1992
35)  AFRICA-L, a networked discussion group on the interests of  
     African peoples
36)  FEMREL-L, a networked discussion group concerning women & 
     religion and feminist theology.

     Network Resources:

37)  On-line catalogue of the Georgetown Center for Text and Techology
38)  ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Scholarly 
     Discussion Lists (available in hard copy and via e-mail)

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              Announcing SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES #55
              (Volume 18, number 3 = November 1991)

                POSTMODERNISM AND SCIENCE FICTION

Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism (ICR)

Jean Baudrillard. Two Essays
     1. Simulations and Science Fiction  
     2. Ballard's _Crash_

In Response to Jean Baudrillard (N. Katherine Hayles, David Porush,
  Brooks Landon, Vivian Sobchack) and to the Invitation to Respond
  (J.G. Ballard)

Christopher Palmer: The Birth of the Author in Philip K. Dick's
  _Valis_

Scott Bukatman: Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System

Roger Luckhurst: Border Policing: Postmodernism and Science Fiction

David Porush: Prigogine, Chaos, and Contemporary Science Fiction

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and
  Haraway

Review Articles:

Roy Arthur Swanson. Postmodernist Criticism of Pynchon

Peter Ohlin. SF Film Criticism and the Debris of Postmodernism

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. The McCaffery Interviews
                           Chaos and Culture
                           Gane's Baudrillard

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The Philosophy Category on GEnie

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Philosophy on the WELL

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 Journal of Ideas, Vol 2 #2/3 -- contents

 Journal of Ideas - ISSN 1049-6335 is published quarterly by

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 OF IDEAS
 John Locke

 ENERGY FLOW AND ENTROPY PRODUCTION
 IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
 Brian A. Maurer
 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
 Daniel R. Brooks
 University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada

 ON THE ROAD TO CYBERNETIC IMMORTALITY:
 A Report on the First Principia Cybernetica Workshop
 Elan Moritz
 The Institute for Memetic Research, Panama City, Florida

 THE ORIGINS OF THE CAPACITY FOR CULTURE
 Jerome H. Barkow
 Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. B3H 1T2, Canada

 FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, FREE WILL AND EVOLUTION
 Jerome H. Barkow

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                              BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:

                           MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM
                                  edited by
                       Peter M. Todd and D. Gareth Loy

MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM is now available from MIT Press.  This 
280-pp. book contains a wide variety of recent research in the 
applications of neural networks and other connectionist methods to
the problems of musical listening and understanding, performance, 
composition, and aesthetics.  It consists of a core of articles 
that originally appeared in the Computer Music Journal, along
with several new articles by Kohonen, Mozer, Bharucha, and others, 
and new addenda to the original articles describing the authors' 
most recent work. Topics covered range from models of 
psychological processing of pitches, chords, and melodies, to 
algorithmic composition and performance factors.  A wide variety 
of connectionist models are employed as well, including back-
propagation in time, Kohonen feature maps, ART networks, and 
Jordan- and Elman-style networks.  We've also included a 
discussion generated by the Computer Music Journal articles on 
the use and place of connectionist systems in artistic endeavors.

We hope this book will be of use to a wide variety of readers, 
including neural network researchers interested in a broad, 
challenging, and fun new area of application, cognitive scientists 
and music psychologists looking for robust new models of musical 
behavior, and artists seeking to learn more about a potentially 
very useful technology.

Please drop me a line if you have any questions, and especially if 
you take up the gauntlet and pursue research or applications in 
this area!

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  | PREMIERES FALL 1991 . . .                                      |
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  |          JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA      |
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  |     Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education  |
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Editor: David H. Jonassen (University of Colorado-Denver)
Associate Editor: Scott Grabinger (University of Colorado-Denver)

The Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia is designed to 
provide a multi-disciplinary forum and serve as a primary information 
source to present and discuss research and applications on Multimedia 
and Hypermedia in education.  The main goal of the Journal is to 
contribute to the advancement of the theory and practice of learning 
and teaching using these powerful technological tools that allow the 
integration of images, sound, text and data.

Reviewed by leaders in the field, this international quarterly 
Journal is published for researchers, developers, professors, 
teachers, teacher educators, curriculum coordinators, and all 
interested in the educational research and applications of 
Multimedia and Hypermedia at all levels.

Journal articles include any educational aspect of Multimedia and
Hypermedia and take the form of:

       o Research papers               o Case studies
       o Experimental studies          o Review papers
       o Book/courseware reviews       o Tutorials
       o Courseware experiences        o Opinions

Departments include:
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Viewpoint - examines ideas and their relationships in the field.

Multimedia Projects: Issues and Applications - discusses the 
practical and theoretical problems and issues associated with 
current state-of-the-art multimedia/hypermedia projects (Edited 
by Greg Kearsley, George Washington University)

Developers' Dialogue - examines interesting, unexplored, broad 
themes, issues and decisions faced by developers (Edited Carrie 
Heeter, Michigan State Univ.)

Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia Abstracts - abstracts 
noteworthy researchappearing in journals and databases.

Product Reviews - provides in-depth reviews with screen images of
multimedia/hypermedia products (Edited by Robert Beichner, SUNY-
Buffalo)

Book Reviews - provides critical reviews of books in the field 
Edited by Philip Barker, Teesside Polytechnic)

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advance the knowledge and quality of teaching and learning at all 
levels with computing technologies through the encouragement of 
scholarly inquiry related to computing in education and the 
dissemination of research results and their applications.

AACE consists of five membership divisions.  And each division 
provides members with an annual conference and publications.  The 
following respected journals represent the topic areas of these 
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   - Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
   - Journal of Computing in Childhood Education
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                            CLINAMENS
                
                      E.N.S. Fontenay/St Cloud
                         31 Avenue Lombart
                      92266-Fontenay-aux-Roses
                    Tel : 47-02-60-50, poste 530
                         Fax : 47-02-34-32

              L'E.N.S. annonce la creation de CLINAMENS
(CLearinghouse INterdisciplinaire `Anglicisme et Methodologie' de 
                     l'Ecole Normale Superieure)

Pourquoi "clearinghouse" ?

     Parce que l'ambition de cette structure n'est pas d'etre 
seulement un "centre de recherches", mais aussi un centre de 
rencontres, de partage, d'information et de critique constructive 
mutuelles, de mise au point et de clarification.  _Webster's_ 
partage sa definition du terme entre "le fait de clarifier" et un 
lieu de "collection, de traitement et de distribution de 
l'information"; le lieu, autrement dit, non seulement d'une 
reflexion solide et formatrice mais aussi d'une definition 
disciplinaire collective.

Pourquoi "Clinamens" ?  

     Parce que l'entreprise ne pourra, dans cette optique, avoir 
sens et valeur que si chacun accepte le detour, le "pas de cote", 
l'ecart qui, l'eloignant un peu de ses preoccupations les plus 
directes ou quotidiennes,  le rapprochera de ceux qui, dans des 
domaines adjacents, auront consenti le meme effort et renforcera 
ainsi son entreprise.
     Lucrece decrivait par le terme de "clinamen" la "legere 
deviation des atomes" qui permet leur rencontre et leur 
"accrochage".  Ce detournement de vocation, cet "ambitus", cette 
declinaison, Marx y lisait le signe d'une volonte  arrachee au 
destin, d'une liberte plus forte que les determinismes...  Faire 
travailler ensemble des "anglicistes" et les inviter a fertiliser 
mutuellement leur travail en prenant conscience des savoirs qui
les rassemblent et des interrogations qu'ils ont en commun plutot 
qu'en se renfermant sur le champ clos de leur stricte specialite 
-pratique un peu trop repandue- n'est pas une mince ambition.  
Il peut sembler qu'uelle vaille la peine de s'en donner les 
moyens.

     A terme, Clinamens organisera

          - Des seminaires de methodologie critique
          - Des seminaires de "work-in-progress"
          - Des cycles de conferences
          - Des debats contradictoires
          - Des equipes de recherches "sous-disciplinaires"
          - Une equipe de recherche theorique interdisciplinaire
          - Des colloques

     Des cette annee debutent le cycle de conferences et les 
actvites de quatre equipes de recherches.  (Voir le calendrier 
reproduit au verso.)  On se renseignera sur le detail de ces 
dernieres en prenant l'attache des responsables:

          1) "Incidences de la psychanalyse sur les etudes 
              anglicistes"  Responsable Patrick Di Mascio  
              (Tel : 43-38-56-47)
          2) "Episteme" (Epistemologie et litterature 16e-18e 
               siecles)
               Responsable Gisele Venet  (Tel : 60-46-56-63)
          3) "Telos" (Linguistique)
               Responsable Laurent Danon-Boileau  (Tel : 
               43-26-98-78)
          4) "Irlande"
               Responsable Alexandra Poulain  (Tel : 
               45-24-05-09)

     L'assistance aux conferences est libre dans la limite des 
places disponibles.  *Les specialistes d'autres disciplines 
sont les bienvenus.* La participation aux equipes de recherche 
est possible apres contact avec le responsable de l'equipe 
concernee.

     Tous renseignements complementaires (horaires, salles, 
dates ou sujets non encore determines) peuvent etre obtenus 
aupres du responsable de CLINAMENS : 

                                Marc Chenetier
                            ENS Fontenay/St. Cloud
                                  Bureau 105
                              31 Avenue Lombart
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Submissions for RD 1 (Spring 1992) must be postmarked by 15 December 
1991.

Submissions for RD 2 (Fall 1992) will be accepted until 31 August 
1992.

SUBSCRIPTIONS:
                        1 Year  2 Years
Student                 $16.00  $30.00
Individual/Institution  $24.00  $44.00
Please add 7% for GST.  Made checks payable to RD.

Individuals who have access to e-mail can receive electronic versions 
of the journal free of charge by sending their name, status (student, 
faculty, other) and e-mail address to the editors.

ADDRESS:

Editors, RD
York University
c/o Graduate Programme in English
215 Stong College
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
CANADA  M3J 1P3

bitnet: RD@WRITER YORKU.CA

EDITORS:
         Stephen N. Matsuba
         Rod Lohin

EDITORIAL BOARD:
         Clint Burnham
         Cecily Devereux
         Mark Dineen
         Gayle Irwin
         Sherry Rowley
         Glenn Stillar
         Scott Wright

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE is a new international journal to be 
published by Longman U.K. in June. It brings together the work of 
those interested in the field of stylistic analysis, the elucidation 
of literary and non- literary texts and related areas.  It explores 
the connections between stylistics, critical theory, linguistics, 
literary criticism and their pedagogical applications.

Interested contributors should write to:

M.H.Short
Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language
University of Lancaster
LANCASTER
LA1 4YT
U.K.

e-mail enquiries to Tony Bex, University of Kent at Canterbury:
arb1@ukc.ac.uk

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            *************CALL FOR PAPERS*************

                 An International Conference On
         The Sociology and Anthropology of Performance:
           Public and Private, May 29-31, 1992, Ottawa

Submissions are invited for an international symposium which
explores "performance" with reference to both public and private
domains as well as the links between the two.  Scholars with an
interest in the performing arts (e.g. dance, music, media etc.)
as well as those with interest in private performance (e.g.
ritual, meditation, shamanism etc.) are invited to attend a
three-day symposium at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.

With regard to public performance, our focus is on the social
science of the performing arts (i.e. demonstrative acts involving
skills).  Examples would include:

- dance choreography as a special form of communication
- theatre as a vehicle of social expression
- music and musicology as social expression or elitism
- media and performing arts
- sacred Vs. the secular in performing arts
- public ritual performance (Puja, ritual-drama etc.)

Private performance focuses on the social science of the use of
demonstrative acts in the private domain and includes:

- meditation
- sadhana, personal ritual-drama
- physical and mental yogas
- the ritual control of experience
- ritual transformation
- ritual or transpersonal epistemologies
- esoteric epistemologies

     These categories are neither mutually exclusive or
exhaustive.  You are welcome to suggest topics in relation to our
broad outline by email or snail mail.  Please include a title and
a short abstract.  We also require a brief C.V. which is needed
to bolster our funding applications.

Mail your submissions to:             Email submissions to:

                                      BRIAN_GIVEN@CARLETON.CA

V. Subramaniam                        Brian J. Given
Political Science                     Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University                   Carleton U.
Ottawa, Ont.                          Ottawa, Ont.

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           I'M THINKING OF SOMETHING ROUND: BEUYS' CHALKBOARDS

                       CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

I am a San Francisco artist interested in art as experimentation. I 
am soliciting individuals who are interested in participating in a
telecommunications art experiment/project.  This project will attempt
to gather ideas from around the world.  I have created a file that
I would like to have forwarded around the world, where each individual
me,involved would add an idea to a list.  Once the file is returned to 
I will attempt to execute an idea from the list.

Those who are interested in this project, please send me your address
and I will mail you the file and detailed instructions.

Elliot Anderson
San Francisco State University
eliota@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu

"An Equal Opportunity Artist...""

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                               dis*Klo'zher

                              call for papers

The editorial collective of disClosure is pleased to announce that it 
is now accepting submissions for its second issue.  disClosure is a 
social theory journal edited by graduate students at the Uniersity of 
Kentucky, and is designed to provide a forum of multi-disciplinary 
dialogue between the humanities and the the social sciences. By 
exploring alternative forms of discourse, our goal is to address 
contemporary intellectual concerns through a rigorous examination 
of history, space, and representation. As our title suggests, we 
encourage fresh perspectives that trancend the strictures and 
structures set in place by traditional disciplary boundaries.
______________________________________________________________________
    Issue 2- "The Buying and Selling of Culture"
    Deadline - 1 March 1992
    Submissions for the second issue could address the following 
    issues:

Commodifactions of: PLACE, HERITAGE, PRACTICE, the IMAGE, EDUCATION,
                    IDEAS, CONTRACEPTION, RELIGION, the "SELF" &
                    "POTENTIAL",the SPECTACLE, ART
Aesthetics and:     TECHNOLOGY/RESISTANCE/COMMODIFCATION/THEORY/
                    DOMINATION
Resistance:         AVANT GARDE? POSTMODERN? GRASS ROOTS? SUICIDAL?
                    AUTONOMY?
______________________________________________________________________
We accept submissions from all theoretical perspecitves and all genres
(essay, interview, review, poetry, artwork and others), from both 
inside and outside the academy. disClosure is a refereed journal whose
selections are based solely on quality and originaltiy. Graduate
studetns, factulty and nonacademics are equally encouraged to submit
works.  Send three copies of manuscripts fromated to MLA guidlines,
double-spaced, and less than 10,000 words to:

disClosure
106 Student Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506-0026
PHONE: 606/2572931
EMAIL: DISCLOSURE@UKCC.UKY.EDU

to order an issue, please send $5 (individual) or $10 (library) in the
form of a check or money order payable to disClosure.

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             NEW JOURNAL: STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY, a journal devoted to the study
of psychoanalysis and cultural criticism in the humanities, social
sciences, and fine arts, invites the submission of manuscripts in
either current MLA or APA style.  Psychoanalytic here is used in the
broadest sense to include Freudian, neo-Freudian, Lacanian, Jungian,

British school, ego psychology, etc., etc., perspectives.

We are also interested in locating people interested in reviewing books
for us. If you would like more information, please contact me via
e-mail at ra471av@tcuamus or via "snail mail" at

Christina Murphy, Editor
STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Box 32875
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX 76129
(817) 921-7221

Thanks.  I look forward to hearing from you and receiving subscriptions
and submissions.

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

     *   SYMPOSIUM:  THE PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA PROJECT       *
     *      computer-supported cooperative development       *
     *        of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy         *

                        as part of the

            13th International Congress on Cybernetics
               NAMUR (Belgium), August 24-28, 1992

After the succesful organization of a symposium on "Cybernetics and 
Human Values" at the 8th World Congress of Systems and Cybernetics 
(New York, June 1990), and of the "1st Workshop of the Principia 
Cybernetica Project" (Brussels, July 1991), the third official 
activity of the Principia Cybernetica Project will be a Symposium 
held at the 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics. The official congress 
languages are English and French.

The informal symposium will allow researchers interested in 
collaborating in the Project to meet. The emphasis will be on 
discussion, rather than on formal presentation. Contributors are 
encouraged to read some of the available texts on the PCP in order 
to get acquainted with the main issues (Newsletter available on 
request from the Symposium Chairman).

Symposium Theme

Principia Cybernetica is a collaborative attempt to develop a 
complete and consistent cybernetic philosophy, moving towards a 
transdisciplinary unification of the domain of Systems Theory and 
Cybernetics. PCP is meta-cybernetical in that we intend to use 
cybernetic tools to develop and analyze cybernetic theory. These 
include the computer-based tools of hypertext, electronic mail, 
and knowledge structuring software.

PCP is to be developed as a dynamic, multi-dimensional conceptual 
network. The basic architecture consists of nodes, containing 
expositions of concepts using different media, connected by links, 
representing the associations that exist between the nodes. Both 
nodes and links can belong to different types expressing different 
semantic and practical categories.

PCP will focus on the clarification of fundamental concepts and 
principles of the cybernetics and systems domain. Concepts include:  
Complexity, Information, Variety, Freedom, Control, Self-
organization, Emergence, etc. Principles include the Laws of 
Requisite Variety, of Requisite Hierarchy, and of Regulatory 
Models.

The PCP philosophy is systemic and evolutionary, based on the 
spontaneous emergence of higher levels of organization or control 
(metasystem transitions) through blind variation and natural 
selection. It includes:

 a) a metaphysics, based on processes or actions as ontological 
primitives,

 b) an epistemology, which understands knowledge as constructed 
by the subject, but undergoing selection by the environment;

 c) an ethics, with the continuance of the process of evolution 
as supreme value.

Philosophy and implementation of PCP are united by their common 
framework based on cybernetic and evolutionary principles: the 
computer-support system is intended to amplify the spontaneous 
development of knowledge which forms the main theme of the 
philosophy.

Papers can be submitted on one or several of the following 
topics:

The Principia Cybernetica Project
Cybernetic Concepts and Principles
Evolutionary Philosophy
Knowledge Development
Computer-Support Systems for Collaborative Theory Building

Submission of papers

People wishing to present a paper in the Principia Cybernetica 
symposium should quickly send the application form, together 
with an abstract of max. 1 page, to the addresses of the 
Symposium chairman AND of the Congress secretariat (IAC) below. 
They will be notified about acceptance not later than 2 months 
after receipt, and will receive instructions for the 
preparation of the final text. In principle, all application 
forms should be received by December 31, 1991, but it may be 
possible to come in late. People wishing to present a paper 
in a different symposium can directly submit their abstract 
to the secretariat.

For submissions of papers to, or further information about, 
the Principia Cybernetica symposium, contact the symposium 
chairman:

Dr. Francis Heylighen
PO-PESP, Free Univ. Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, 
Belgium
Phone +32 - 2 - 641 25 25   Email  fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
Fax   +32 - 2 - 641 24 89   Telex  61051 VUBCO B

For congress registration, or further information about the 
congress, contact the secretariat:

International Association for Cybernetics
Palais des Expositions, Place Ryckmans, B-5000 Namur, 
Belgium
Phone +32 - 81 - 73 52 09   Email  cyb@info.fundp.ac.be
Fax   +32 - 81 - 23 09 45

17)-------------------------------------------------------------

 PERFORATIONS, an Atlanta-based journal of language, art, and 
technology, is seeking contributors for a special issue with the 
theme: AFTER THE BOOK. This issue will be devoted to work about 
the demise of The Book As We Knew  It, the rise of hypertext, and 
the possibilities for writing in the world post-ink-and-linearity. 
We're particularly interested in in work approaching hypertext 
from film and video theory, in critical work on hyperfiction, in
hypertexts on-disk or in print extracts, and in work challenging 
our position that hypertext, in its transcendence of the 
restrictions of the paper book and the one-way movie, represents 
writing's first true step beyond Sterne/Joyce and film/video. 
Essays, print and graphic collages, fictions, or hybrids of any 
sort are welcome. No restrictions on style, no minimum or 
maximum length; we're hoping that contributors will send us 
serious and adventurous work that they might hesitate to submit 
to a more traditional journal.

 Deadline: March 15, 1992 (negotiable for authors preceding 
submissions with queries). Macintosh-readable disks preferred, 
all formats acceptable. Send queries and submissions to: 
libgess@emuvm1.bitnet/Richard Gess, Guest Editor, PERFORATIONS, 
428 Oakview Rd, Decatur, GA 30030.

   About PERFORATIONS: Atlanta's Public Domain alternative arts 
collective published the first issue of PERFORATIONS in September 
1991. PEFORATIONS is a journal where theorists, critics, and 
artists contrbute equally to examinations of current issues in 
language, art, and technology. Issues are theme-oriented: Fall 
1991 was about "The Post-mortem Condition," and Winter 1992 
(now in press) is about "Conspiracies, Esthetics and Politics," 
and features an interview with Jean-Francois Lyotard and a 
hyperfiction disk. Spring 1992, due in May, will be "After the 
Book;" issues beyond will consider "Dreams, Bodies, and 
Technologies," "Multi-, Mini-, and Quasi-Culturalisms," and 
"Virtual and Performative Architectures." PERFORATIONS is 
distributed regionally to a growing audience of working artists 
in all genres and scholars in all disciplines; publication in
PERFORATIONS is a way of communicating beyond the usually 
suspected readers for both artists and academics. For 
subscription/back issue information, contact 
libgess@emuvm1.bitnet.

18)--------------------------------------------------------------

The next issue of the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative) 
Centre for Textual Studies newsletter _Computers & Texts_ 
will be centred on the use of computing in the areas of 
Philosophy/Logic. This is a preliminary call for submissions 
by anyone interested in this subject. Format and deadline details
are available upon request. 

The areas we are hoping to cover in the issue are: 

        An overview of the use of computers and Philosophy 
        Electronic Texts: their availability and usefulness 
        Simulation packages 
        Review of Ethics software
        Review of Logic Software 
        Bulletin Boards, Electronic mail, and other computer
        -based resources of use to Philosophers 

Please feel free to suggest other areas which you think should 
be included. 

Thanks in advance, 

Stuart Lee 
Research Officer 
CTI Centre for Textual Studies 
Oxford University Computing Service 
13 Banbury Road 
Oxford 
OX2 6NN 
Tel:0865-273221 
Fax:0865-273275 
E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX 

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                          TO ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS: 

                               CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Frontenac Review 
Dept. of French Studies 
Queen's University 
Kingston, Ontario 
Canada  K7L 3N6 
Telephone: (613) 545-2090 
Fax: (613) 545-6300 

Email: warderh@qucdn.queensu.ca 

January 1992 

The Frontenac Review invites you to submit articles on The 
'Nouveau Roman'for its winter 1991 edition (number 8) and on 
Acadian literature for its Fall 1992 edition (number 9).  
Initial submissions should follow the guidelines  established 
by the M.L.A.  If your article is accepted we will ask you to 
submit the same article on diskette (IBM compatible), in 
Wordperfect 5.1 
format. 

The committee will not be responsible for returning articles.  
All candidates will be informed of the committee's decision 
within a reasonable time limit. 

The Frontenac Review is searched annually by the Bibliographie 
der Franzoesischen Literaturwissenschaft and by the MLA 
International Bibliography. 

                       DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 

         ** The Nouveau Roman (no. 8) -- January 30, 1992 ** 

           Acadian Literature (no. 9) -- September 1, 1992 

20)-------------------------------------------------------------
                          CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACH will be organising two sessions at the 1992 MLA 
Convention, to be held December 27-30, 1992, in New York City, 
around Mark Olsen's position paper proposing a new direction 
for computer-aided studies of literature (summary below).  
Please contact Paul Fortier -- FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET .

Deadline for submission of paper or abstract March 1, 1992 to
FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET.  People presenting papers at the the MLA
Convention MUST be members of the MLA.  Announcement of 
acceptance April 1, 1992.

                            ---------------

            Signs, Symbols and Discourses:  A New Direction
                 for Computer-aided Literature Studies.

                              Mark Olsen*
                         University of Chicago
                         mark@gide.uchicago.edu
Abstract

     Computer-aided Literature Studies have failed to have a
significant impact on the field as a whole.  This failure is
traced to  a  concentration  on  how  a  text  achieves  its
literary  effect  by  the  examination of subtle semantic or
grammatical structures in single texts or the works of indi-
vidual  authors.   Computer  systems  have proven to be very
poorly suited to such refined analysis of complex  language.
Adopting  such  traditional  objects  of study has tended to
discourage researchers from using the tool to ask  questions
to  which  it  is  better  adapted, the examination of large
amounts of simple linguistic features.   Theoreticians  such
as  Barthes,  Foucault  and  Halliday show the importance of
determining the lingusitic and semantic  characteristics  of
the  language  used  by  the  author  and  her/his audience.
Current technology, and databases like  the  TLG  or  ARTFL,
facilitate   such  wide-spectrum  analyses.   Computer-aided
methods are thus capable of opening up new areas  of  study,

which  can potentially transform the way in which literature
is studied.

[ ... ]

                          --------------------

[A complete version of this paper is now available through the 
HUMANIST fileserver, s.v.  OLSEN MLA92.  You may obtain a copy 
by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- 
either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to 
ListServ@Brownvm.  Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say 
interactively:  TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET OLSEN MLA92 
HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to 
ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only 
line.  For more details see the "Guide to Humanist".  Problems 
should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you 
have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate 
alternatives.]

21)------------------------------------------------------------

                     NEW JOURNAL FOR 1992

          COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK (CSCW)
                   An International Journal

Editorial Team:

LIAM BANNON                         JOHN BOWERS
Copenhagen Business School          Dept. of Psychology
Institute of Computer &         Univ. of Manchester
Systems Sciences, Denmark           U.K.

CHARLES GRANTHAM                    MIKE ROBINSON
Dept. of Organizational Studies     Centre for Innovation&
Univ. of San Francisco              Cooperative Technology
USA                                 Univ. of Amsterdam
                                    The Netherlands

KJELD SCHMIDT                       SUSAN LEIGH STAR
Cognitive Systems Group             Dept. of Sociology &
Ris~ National Laboratory            Social Anthropology
Denmark                             University of Keele
                                    U.K.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW):  An International
Journal  will be devoted to innovative research in Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It will provide an
interdisciplinary forum for the debate and exchange of ideas
concerning theoretical, practical, technical and social issues
in CSCW.

The journal arises as a timely response to the growing
interest in the design, implementation and use of technical
systems (including computing, information, and communications
technologies) which support people working cooperatively.
Equally, the journal is concerned with studies of the process
of cooperative work itself - studies intended to motivate the
design of new technical systems, and to develop both theory
and praxis in the field. The journal will encourage
contributions from a wide range of disciplines and
perspectives within the social, computing and allied human and
information sciences.

In general, the journal will facilitate the discussion of all
issues which arise in connection with the support requirements
of cooperative work. It is intended that the journal will be
of interest to a wide readership through its coverage of
research related to - inter alia - groupware, socio-technical
system design, theoretical models of cooperative work,
computer mediated communication, human-computer interaction,
group decision support systems (GDSS), coordination systems,
distributed systems, situated action, studies of cooperative
work and practical action, organisation theory and design, the
sociology of technology, explorations of innovative design
strategies, management and business science perspectives,
artificial intelligence and distributed AI approaches to
cooperation, library and information sciences, and all manner
of technical innovations devoted to the support of cooperative
work including electronic meeting rooms, teleconferencing
facilities, electronic mail enhancements, real-time and
asynchronous technologies, desk-top conferencing, shared
editors, video and multi-media systems. In addition, we
welcome studies of the social, cultural, moral, legal and
political implications of CSCW systems.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Manuscripts (5 Copies) relating to any of the above-mentioned
themes and topics are invited for submission. Manuscripts
should be submitted to the Journals Editorial Office at the
address below:

          Editorial Office (COSU)
          Kluwer Academic Publishers
          P.O. Box 17
          3300 AA Dordrecht
          The Netherlands

Detailed instructions for authors and other information (such
as submission via email or on disk) can be obtained from the
above address or by electronic mail on: HUSOC@KAP.NL (Please
mark your message CSCW).
______________________________________________________________

INFORMATION REQUEST FORM
Please fill in the information form and send to:

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Att. M. van der Linden
P.O.Box 989
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Email: husoc@kap.nl

O    Please send me a FREE SAMPLE COPY of Computer Supported
     Cooperative Work

O    Please send me your brochure listing publications in
     Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence

NAME:_______________________________________________________
ADDRESS:____________________________________________________
CITY:________________________________ STATE:________________
COUNTRY:____________________________________________________
POSTAL CODE:_________________________ DATE:_________________
EMAIL:______________________________________________________

            PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT IN BLOCKLETTERS

IF YOU REPLY BY EMAIL, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME AND
POSTAL ADDRESS.

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                          NC92 TELENETLINK CONGRESS
                A Collective, Ubiquitous, Congress In Progress

          Networking dialogue has been central to mail art and
telecommunication art projects.  Telecommunciation artists, for 
example, use personal computers to download work for modification, 
detournement, or appropriation into other artworks--creative 
authorship is shared.  Mail artists also share co-authorship in 
postal exchanges.  The recycled surfaces or contents of mailing 
tubes, envelopes, and parcels travel thousands of miles around 
the world as many artists alter a single item.  Gradually, a
global collage of artist postage stamps, rubber stamped images, 
cryptic messages, and slogans emerge.

          As NC92 facilitator, I have formed a "Telenetlink 
Congress" whose purpose is centered on reaching readers and the 
telematic community through magazines, bulletin board services 
like NYC's "Echo," Chicago's "Artbase" BBS, and by accessing 
internationally distributed USENET newsgroups such as alt artcom, 
and rec arts fine.  I view these collective efforts as a
ubiquitous "congress in process" extending throughout the 
1992 Networker Congress year.

          Participation may involve any form of 
telecommunication exchange, e-mail, fax, video phones, etc. Send 
your Telenetlink Congress statements and project proposals via 
(e)mail to Cathryn L. Welch@dartmouth.edu. or fax to Chuck 
Welch, Telenetlink Congress (603) 448-9998.

Participating in the NC92 Telenetlink Congress begins when 
readers send a brief one page statement about "how you envision 
your own role as a networker."  Proposals and projects that 
would interconnect the mail art and telematic communities are 
also welcome.  Periodic updates concerning telenetlink project 
initiatives will be posted over Usenet newsgroups rec. arts 
fine and alt. artcom.    All statements received from artists 
in the telematic community will be part of the NC92 "Networker 
Database Congress," a collection that will be made available 
for research at the University of Iowa's "Alternative 
Traditions in the Contemporary Arts Archive."

*Art that networks explores and expands the communication 
process as it encourages democratic access to free 
communication.  By cutting through social, cultural and 
political hierarchies, we can dissolve boundaries and discover 
corresponding worlds of mail and telecommunications art.*

# # # # *** Further information about scheduled NC92 events is 
available by writing to these facilitators:

H.R. Fricker, Buro fur kunstlerische Umtriebe, CH 9043 Trogen, 
Switzerland Peter W. Kaufmann, Bergwisenstrasse 11, 8123 
Ebmatingen, Switzerland Netlink South America: Clemente Padin, 
Casilla C. Central 1211, Montevideo,Uruguay
Netlink East: Chuck Welch, PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755
Netlink South: John Held Jr. 7919 Goforth, Dallas, Texas 
75238
Netlink Midwest: Mark Corroto, PO Box 1382, Youngstown, Ohio 
44501
Netlink Subspace: Steve Perkins, 221 W. Benton, Iowa City, Iowa 
52246
Netlink West: Lloyd Dunn, PO Box 162, Oakdale, Iowa  52319 *** 
# # # #

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________________________________________________________________
|                     LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING:       |
|                                                              |
|                   FORGING CONNECTIONS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL     |    
|                                                              |
|                      AND COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOMS          |    
|                                                              |
|                                April 3, 1992                 |    
|______________________________________________________________|

    The fifth annual Computers and English Conference for high 
                                school and
                        college teachers of writing.
     Sponsored by the Program in English New York Institute of 
                            Technology

The conference has two primary themes:
     o  how computers and specifically computer networks can be 
        used to ally high school and college teachers of English, 
        and
     o  how computers are changing the way literature is created, 
        taught,understood and written about.

Possible Topics

     o  Computer access in a muliticultural environment
     o  Computers and the changing definitions of literacy
     o  Growing interest in desktop publishing for students and
        faculty
     o  Teleconferencing and distance learning
     o  Classroom uses of on-line databases and searches
     o  Classroom uses of hypertext and hypermedia
     o  Computer discussion groups for students and/or teachers
     o  Varied features of personal contact in an electronic
        environment
     o  Computers and the learning-disabled student
     o  Continuing teacher education and telecommunications
     o  Demonstrations of software programs you have designed
     o  Effects of computers on testing and assessing
        individually or collaboratively composed writing

Send requests for information to:

                            Department of English
                       New York Institute of Technology
                         Old Westbury, New York 11568
                     Att: Ann McLaughlin  (516) 686-7557.

Conference Fee:  $50.00 (prior to conference date) $35.00 for 
matriculated graduate students.  Fee includes coffee and buffet 
luncheon.  Hotel accomodations available near campus at East 
Norwich Inn (East Norwich, NY).
 ________________________________________________________________
|Pre-Registration Form                                           |
|                                                                |
|Please register me for the Fifth-Annual NYIT Computers and      |
|Writing Conference:                                             |
|                                                                |
| Name:     _________________________________________________    |
| Address:  _________________________________________________    |
|           _________________________________________________    |
|           _________________________________________________    |
| E-Mail:   _________________________________________________    |
| School:   _________________________________________________    |
| Amount Enclosed:  $ ___.___                                    |
| Mail completed form to                                         |
|  Department of English                                         |
|  New York Institute of Technology                              |
|  Old Westbury, New York 11568                                  |
|  Att: Ann McLaughlin  (516) 686-7557.                          |
|________________________________________________________________|

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SECTION on SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND TECHNOLOGY at the
SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ANNUAL MEETINGS in AUSTIN, TEXAS
MARCH 27-31, 1992.

CONTACT: Raymond Eve  

****PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED****

     I would like to mention to you (somewhat belatedly, I
fear), the upcoming section on "Science, Knowledge, and
Technology" to be held at the Southwestern Social Science
Association Annual Meetings in Austin, Texas.  Dates for the
meeting's paper sessions will be March 27 - 31, 1992.  The
S,K, and T paper sessions will probably be scheduled on
Thursday and/or Friday of that week.
     Unfortunately, the SWSA forgot to include the listing
of the "Science, Knowledge, and Technology" section (and a
section organizer -- yours truly) in the initial call for
papers.  This was an oversight, and you may be sure that the
section will exist again in '92.
     The section has only existed for two previous years,
but the response has been truly outstanding, and
interestingly, excellent papers of common interest were
given by scholars as diverse as sociologists, arts and
literature faculty, anthropologists, and physical science
faculty.
     I would also like to take this opportunity to draw your
attention to a "Workshop for the Disciplines" session I've
been asked to organize on Friday morning at 10 a.m. of the
meetings.  It will be entitled "Postmodern Culture:
Convenient Myth or Imperative Paradigm?".  This session has
several very well known people scheduled for it, and their
disciplines include: literature, architecture, political
science, and sociology.  We should have on hand many
individuals interested in most postmodern theory and in
chaos theory, as well as many other interesting S, K, and T
topics.
     Hope we will see you in Austin in the spring!

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         POSTECH@WEBER.UCSD.EDU -- DISCUSSION GROUP ON 
               POST-STRUCTURALISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Phil Agre (UC San Diego) and John Bowers (Univ. of Manchester) have 
started a netmail discussion group on post-structuralism and 
technology. (You can define those terms however you like.)  To be 
added, send a  short note to postech-request@weber.ucsd.edu.  Make 
sure to include a  network address that's accessible from the 
Internet (me@here.bitnet, uucpnode!me@gateway.somewhere.edu, 
me@machine.here.ac.uk, me@ibm.com,  whatever).  We'll collect 
addresses for a month or so and then we'll  invite everyone to send 
a note to the group introducing themselves and advertising their 
work.

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          ****************************************************
          *                                                  *
          *               East-West Conference               *
          *  on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education  *
          *                                                  *
          *                 April 6-9, 1992                  *
          *                   Moscow, Russia                 *
          *                                                  *
          *           SECOND REVISED ANNOUNCEMENT            *
          *                                                  *
          *             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION               *
          *                                                  *
          ****************************************************

     The aims of  the  East-West  Conference  on  Emerging  Computer
Technologies in Education are to provide a forum for the exchange of
ideas between Eastern and Western scientists and to present  to  the
Soviet  educational  community  the  current state-of-the-art on the
theory and practice of using emerging computer-based  technology  in
education.   The   Technical   Programme   includes  invited  talks,
presentations  of  about  80 research/development and review papers,
posters, and demonstrations. An exhibition of  educational  hardware
and software products is also anticipated.

     The conference is designed to cover the  following  subfields  of
advanced research in the field of computers and education:

-  Artificial Intelligence and Education
-  Educational Multi-Media and Hyper-Media
-  Learning Environments, Microworlds and Simulation

     The Conference is organised and sponsored by: Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), International Centre for
Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), and  Soviet  Association
for Artificial Intelligence (SAAI).

     The Conference will take place in the ICSTI Building in Moscow.

Information
~~~~~~~~~~~

For further information please contact:

Conference content and program:
              Dr Peter Brusilovsky (eastwest@plb.icsti.su)
Accomodation and visa support:
              Mr Vladislav Pavlov (use the conference FAX number).

Registration: Dr Viacheslav Rykov (use the conference FAX number).

Exhibition:   Dr Jury Gornostaev  (enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su)

Conference addresses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
Kuusinen str. 21b, Moscow 125252, Russia
E-mail: eastwest@plb.icsti.su or  eastwest%plb.icsti.su@ussr.eu.net
Telex: 411925 MCNTI
FAX: +7 095 943 0089

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                ENVIRONMENT AND THE LATINO IMAGINATION
                   * * Conference announcement * *

Cornell University will host a conference on "Environment and the 
Latino Imagination" that will involve the participation of 
environmentalists, artists, poets, activists, and other invited 
speakers who will address one of the holes in mainstream environmental 
research--the persectives of U.S. Latinos and their ways of imagining 
their relationship to their environment. 

The conference will take place April 30-May 2, l992.  
Please direct inquiries to:

Debra A. Castillo                 or     Barbara Lynch
Dept. Romance Studies                    Environmental Toxicology
Goldwin Smith Hall                       Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853

or bitnet to bgcy@cornella

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                                 SWIP-L

Announcing the formation of a new e-mail list called the SWIP-L, an
information and discussion list for members of the Society for Women 
in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist philosophy.

To subscribe to this list send the following one-line message to
LISTSERV@CFRVM or LISTSERV@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU

    Subscribe SWIP-L 

To post messages to the list send them to SWIP-L@CFRVM or to SWIP-L@
CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU

   The idea of the list is to have a place to share information about 
SWIP meetings and other feminist philosophy meetings, calls for papers, 
jobs for feminist philosophers, as well as to engage in more substantive
discussion of issues related to feminist philosophy.  While it is open 
to people who are not SWIP members, this is a list meant for feminist 
philosophers; please don't subscribe unless that is a description you 
are comfortable applying to yourself.

LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER    DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet)
Women's Studies Dept.    DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet)
University of South Florida, Tampa 33620   (813)974-5531

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                   AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY

     Founded in 1888, the American Folklore Society is the
American learned and professional society for folklorists.  It
offers an intellectual and social forum for the field of
folklore through an annual meeting, publications, specialized
activities of interest-group sections, various prizes and awards,
and other services to its membership.

     The JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE is a lively forum for
recent work in this field.  Recent issues have treated such
topics as Gospel quartets, the Greenwich Village Halloween
Parade, the zombi, cowboy poetry gatherings, Latinismo and
heritage politics, nocturnal death syndrome among the Hmong,
folklore in Richard Wright's "Black Boy", and reviews of a wide
range of books, exhibitions, films, and records.

     The Annual Meeting will be held October 15-18, 1992 in
Jacksonville, Florida.  The call for papers will appear in the
February Newsletter.

           MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD

     The DIRECTORY has been compiled from members' responses and
submissions from folklore programs and organizations throughout
North America.  The DIRECTORY contains:

     *    alphabetized name and address entries for 1200
          folklorists, most of which also contain telephone and
          E-mail information and areas of interest

     *    detailed descriptive entries for academic and public
          programs in folklore

     *    indexes to the member directory entries by interest
          area and place of residence

The Directory is available for $10 to members of the American
Folklore Society, and for $15 to nonmembers, with a 10% discount
on orders of 10 copies or more.

To order the Directory:  Send a check made payable to the
American Folklore Society and marked "1992 AFS Directory" to

     Book Orders Department (EM)
     American Folklore Society,
     1703 New Hampshire Ave. NW,
     Washington, DC 20009.

-----------------------MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION--------------------

Membership in the American Folklore Society brings the following
benefits:

     *    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (quarterly)

     *    NEWSLETTER (bimonthly)

     *    reduced registration rates for the Annual Meeting

     *    discounted prices on volumes in the PUBLICATIONS OF THE
          AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY series; the Society's
          MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD; and the
          "Folklore" volume of the annual MLA INTERNATIONAL
          BIBLIOGRAPHY

     *    right to vote in Society's elections and to hold
          Society office

     *    right to be considered for Society prizes and awards

     *    access to various kinds of low-cost insurance offered
          to Society members by outside insurers

To become a member of the American Folklore Society:

     regular member      $50
     student member      $20
     partner member      $20 (partners of members do not receive
                              publications)
     sustaining          $75
     patron              $100
     life member         $800.

Send a check made payable to the American Folklore Society to

     Membership Department (EM)
     American Folklore Society,
     1703 New Hampshire Ave. NW,
     Washington, DC 20009.

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                                 MEANING HOLISM
                               NEW SUMMER SEMINAR

                     Directors: JERRY FODOR & ERNIE LEPORE
                Location: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                 Dates: June 29 - August 14, 1992 (seven weeks)

     Holism about meaning and intention content has shaped much of 
what is most characteristic of contemporary philosophy of language and 
philosophy of mind.  The seminar is devoted to the question whether 
the individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic 
expressions is inherently holistic. For example, we will discuss 
arguments that are alleged to show that themeaning of a scientific 
hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that the 
content of a concept depends on the entire belief system of
which it is a part. Implications of holistic semantics for other
philosophical issues (intentional explanation, translation Realism,
skepticism, connectionism, etc.) will also be explored. Authors to be 
read include Quine, Davidson, Lewis, Block, Field, Dummett, Dennett, 
Churchland and others. In addition, we will use Holism: a Shopper's 
Guide, Fodor, J. and E. LePore, 1992, Basil Blackwell.

     The National Endowment for the Humanities will provide a summer 
stipend of $3,600 for travel, book and living expenses, to those 
selected as participants in this seminar. Applications must be 
postmarked not later than 2 March, 1992.

For further information and for application forms, please write to:

                             Meaning Holism Seminar
                             Philosophy Department
                                 Davidson Hall
                      Douglass Campus, Rutgers University
                         New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (USA)

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many types of addictions experienced by a large portion of society. 
The focus of this list is to provide an information exchange network 
for individuals interested in researching, educating or recovering 
from a variety of addictions.  It is not the intent of this list to 
focus on one area of addiction, but rather to discuss the phenomena 
of addiction as it relates to areas of sexual, co-dependency, eating 
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  -- Discussion of etiology of addictions 
  -- Effects of addictions 
  -- Recovery from addiction and 12 Step Programs 
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  -- Networking with others having related interests 

Drug/Alcohol addiction has a way of becoming an easy topic of
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or LISTSERV@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU 

The Progressive Jewish Mailing List (PJML) is an educational forum, 
providing accurate information on a variety of Jewish concerns in 
ways that inspire us to action.  Using electronic mail and computer 
networks, PJML connects activist Jews and our allies from across the 
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talk about them openly.  But let us continue in the tradition of 
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         or LISTSERV@ULKYVM.BITNET 

   An electronic discussion group called BUDDHA-L has recently been 
   formed towards the end of providing a means for those interested in 
   Buddhist Studies to exchange information and views.  It is hoped that 
   the group will function as an open forum for scholarly discussion of 
   topics relating to the history, literature and languages, fine arts, 
   philosophy, and institutions of all forms of Buddhism.  It may also 
   serve as a forum for discussion of issues connected to the teaching 
   of Buddhist studies at the university level, and as a place for 
   posting notices of employment opportunities. 

   The primary purpose of this list is to provide a forum for serious 
   academic discussion.  It is open to all persons inside and outside 
   the academic context who wish to engage in substantial discussion of 
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   be used for proselytizing for or against Buddhism in general, any 
   particular form of Buddhism, or any other religion or philosophy, nor 
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   Owner: 
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              PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR SERIES 
                       ISSUES IN CRITICISM 

                         Summer Seminar 

          Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique 

                        June 25-30, 1992 

                   State College, Pennsylvania 

WAI-CHEE DIMOCK, Department of English, University of California, 
San Diego.  Author of Empire for Liberty: Melville and the 
Poetics of Individualism (1989) and Symbolic Equality: Political 
Theory, Law, and American Literature (forthcoming); co-editor of 
the forthcoming Class and Literary Studies.  Professor Dimock 
will focus on the shifting configurations of gender and history. 

MARJORIE LEVINSON, Department of English, University of 
Pennsylvania.  Editor of Rethinking Historicism (1989) and author 
of Keats's life of Allegory: the Origins of Style (1988) and 
other monographs treating Romantic poetry.  Professor Levinson 
will concentrate on cultural materialism. 

BROOK THOMAS, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 
University of California, Irvine.  Author of Cross-Examination of 
Law and Literature (1987) and The New Historicism and Other 
Old-Fashioned Topics (1991).  Professor Thomas's central topic 
will be the crisis of representation. 

The Penn State Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique 
offers faculty members in departments of English and modern 
languages the opportunity to survey the major issues in and 
freshen their knowledge of approaches to literature that 
emphasize the relations between text and culture, including those 
presently identified under the broad label of the New 
Historicism.  Seminar participants will hear presentations by 
three well-known scholar-critics--Wai Chee Dimock, Marjorie 
Levinson, and Brook Thomas--and engage in seminar-type 
discussions organized by these leaders.  Registrants are asked to 
indicate their first and second choices for morning seminar 
groups.  The schedule and atmosphere are intended to encourage 
informal discussions among participants. 

For further information contact: 

Wendell Harris 
Department of English 
Pennsylvania State University 
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 
Telephone: 814-863-2343 or 814-865-9243 

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   A Pan-African forum for the discussion of the interests of African
   peoples (in Africa, and expatriate), and for those with an interest
   in the African continent and her peoples.  Of special interest will
   be ways to help facilitate the flow of communications (electronic and
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                      FEMREL-L on LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET

   FEMREL-L is an open discussion and resource list concerning women 
   & religion and feminist theology.  Our goal is open, stimulating
   discussion on any and all issues pertaining to these topics.  All
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AN ON-LINE CATALOGUE OF THE GEORGETOWN CENTER FOR TEXT AND TECHNOLOGY

Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology of the
Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University has been
compiling information about projects in electronic text in the
humanities.  Currently we have details on over 300 projects in 27
countries.

Because this information is constantly being updated, any printing
would be obsolescent.  Consequently, we have created an on-line
Catalogue that is searchable through Internet and dial-in access.
Thus far, response has been gratifying; last month we logged over
100 inquiries.

An illustrated User's Guide to the Catalogue of Projects in
Electronic Text is available free of charge through surface mail.
In addition, a public-domain version of KERMIT and a keyboard-
mapping program can be obtained through file transfer protocol
(ftp).  For further information, please contact me personally at
the address below, rather than sending to the list.

James A. Wilderotter II
Project Assistant
Center for Text and Technology
Academic Computer Center
Reiss Science Building, Room 238
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Tel. (202) 687-6096

BITNET: Wilder@Guvax
Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu"

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          ARL DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, 
          AND SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION LISTS  (hard copy version)

Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be
accessed free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated
academic networks, it is not always a simple chore to find out
what is available.  The Directory is a compilation of entries for
over 500 scholarly lists, about 30 journals, over 60 newsletters,
and 15 "other" titles including some newsletter-digests.  The
directory gives specific instructions for access to each 
publication.  The objective is to assist the user in finding
relevant publications and connecting to them quickly,  even if
not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems.

Content editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael
Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa.
Editor of the scholarly discussion lists/interest groups is Diane
Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries.  The printed ARL
directory is derived from widely accessible networked files
maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs.  The directory will point
to these as the principal, continuously updated, and
free-of-charge sources for accessing such materials.

Michael Strangelove's directory of electronic journals and 
newsletters  is now available from the Contex-L fileserver and 
consists of two files. These may be obtained, if you are at a 
Bitnet site, by sending the interactive commands:

Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl1 Directry
Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl2 Directry

or, from any e-mail site, by sending a mail message to 
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No blank lines or other text should precede these lines, and no 
other text should follow them.  For further information, 
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available from LISTSERV@KENTVM and consists of eight files.  
These may be obtained, if you are at a Bitnet site, by 
sending the interactive commands:

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information contact:

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