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Journal and Book Announcements: 1) _Science Fiction Studies_ #55: Postmodernism and Science Fiction 2) _Thinknet_: an on-line magazine forum dedicated to thoughtfulness in the cybertime environment 3) _Public Culture_: Shaping the debates about the tensions between global cultural flows and public cultures in a diasporic world 4) _Differences_: A journal of feminist cultural studies 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) 8) _Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia_: a publication of The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education 9) _Clinamens_: CLearinghouse INterdisciplinaire `Anglicisme et Methodologie'de l'Ecole Normale Superieure Calls for Papers and Participants: 10) _RD: Graduate Research in the Arts_ -- call for papers on language, literature, constructions of the self, the academy 11) _Languages and Literature_ -- call for papers on stylistics, critical theory, linguistics, literary criticism and their pedagogical applications 12) Call for papers on the sociology and anthropology of performance, public and private 13) I'm Thinking of Something Round: Beuys' Chalkboards -- call for participants in a telecommunications art experiment/project 14) _disClosure_ -- call for papers on the buying and selling of culture 15) _Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory_ -- a call for papers on psychoanalysis and cultural criticism in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts 16) The Principia Cybernetica Project -- a call for papers on cybernetic concepts and principles, evolutionary philosophy, knowledge development, computer-support systems for collaborative theory building 17) _Perforations_ -- call for papers for a special issue with the theme: AFTER THE BOOK >>>>>>>>>>>>>>ITEMS LISTED BELOW THIS POINT APPEAR IN NOTICE-2 192<<<<<<< <<<<<<< 18) _Computers & Texts_ -- a call for papers on the use of computing in the areas of Philosophy and Logic 19) _The Frontenac Review_ -- a call for papers on the Nouveau Roman and on Acadian Literature 20) ACH/MLA session, New York, 1992: call for papers responding to Mark Olsen's position paper, "Signs, Symbols and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-aided Literature Studies" 21) _Computer-Supported Cooperative Work_ -- call for papers on theoretical, practical, technical and social issues in CSCW 22) NC92, A Collective, Ubiquitous, Congress In Progress -- a call for participants Conferences, Societies, and Networked Discussion Groups: 23) The fifth annual Computers and English Conference for high school and college teachers of writing 24) Section on science, knowledge, and technology at the Southwestern Social Science annual meetings in Austin, Texas: March 27-31, 1992 25) POSTECH: a networked discussion group on post-structuralism and technology 26) East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education, Moscow, USSR: April 6-9, 1992 27) Conference on Environment and the Latino Imagination, Cornell University: April 30-May 2, l992 28) SWIP-L, a networked discussion group for members of the Society for Women in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist philosophy 29) The American Folklore Society 30) Meaning Holism: Summer Seminar at Rutgers University, June 29 - August 14, 1992 31) ADDICT-L, a networked discussion group concerning the many types of addictions experienced by a large portion of society 32) PMJL, Progressive Jewish Mailing List, a networked discussion 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) 1)------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 New subscribers for 1992 (## 56,57, 58) will receive #55 gratis. RATES: USA $14.00 (institutions $21.00); Canada, CAN$ 15.50 (institutions CAN$ 2400). UK and elsewhere overseas, $16.50 in U.S. funds or L 11.00 sterling (institutions $24.50 in US funds or L 16.50 sterling); for airmail add $6.50 in US funds or L 4.50 sterling. Checks or money orders should be made payable to SF-TH Inc. ADDRESS: SF-TH Inc c/o Arthur B. 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Thinknet covers philosophy, systems theory, and meta-theoretical discussions within disciplines. It is your interdisciplinary window on to what significant information sources are available to foster thought- provoking discussion. *CONTENTS* Publication Data Scope of newsletter. Rationale for newsletter. Subscriptions and Submittals address. Bulletin Boards where it may be found. Services offered by newsletter. Staff of this edition. Coda: call for participation. About Thinknet Discussion of goals of Thinknet Newsletter. Prospect for Philosophy and Systems Theory in Cybertime Is there a possibility for a renaissance for philosophy? The Philosophy Category on GEnie Review by Gordon Swobe with list of topics. Philosophy on the WELL Review by Jeff Dooley with list of topics. Origin Conference on the WELL Review by Bruce Schuman with list of topics Internet Philosophy Mailing Lists A review of all know philosophy oriented mailing lists by Stephen Clark. Books Of Note THE MATRIX !%@:: A DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESSING & NETWORKS Other Publications BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONS [a work in progress] Books, Electronic Newsletters, and Cyber-Artifacts Received ARTCOM NEWSLETTER FACTSHEET FIVE Protocols for Meaningful Discussions: ARTICLE by Kent Palmer A consideration of how philosophy discussions might be made more useful and their history accessible by using a voluntary protocol. Thoughtful Communications: EDITORIAL Closing remarks. <<<<<<<<<<<>>>> >>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO GET YOUR COPY kdp ------------------------------------------------------------ *Price* The electronic form is FREE. Hardcopies cost money for reproduction, postage, and handling. *Subscriptions* Send an e-mail message to the following address: thinknet@world.std.com Your message should be of the following form: SEND THINKNET TO YourFullName AT UserId@YourInternetEmailAddress I pickup your Address just as you type it. If it bounces I try to resolve it one time by looking at the rest of you message header. If it bounces again I assume something is wrong with the address. So please give me your exact address with 'UserId' 'atsign' 'Internet path'. I would appreciate you giving me your name so if I need to write you a message I dont have to say 'Hey You'. If you do not reveive a newsletter in a reasonable amount of time, say a few days, please subscribe again with a clearer address, or try an alternate means. Some mailing lists do not include your return mailing address if you use the reply function of your mail reader so you must make sure your return e-mail address is in the body of your message. 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GEnie Client Services 1-800-638-9636 *Or if all else fails* THINKNET PO BOX 8383 ORANGE CA 92664-8383 UNITED STATES 3)-------------------------------------------------------------- P U B L I C C U L T U R E CENTER FOR Shaping The Debates TRANSNATIONAL About The Tensions Between CULTURAL STUDIES Global Cultural Flows And Public Cultures In A Diasporic World Recent Contributors: Marilyn Ivy, Steve Feld, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Elizabeth Traube, Robert Rosenstone, Charles Taylor, Hamid Naficy, Ella Shohat, Partha Chatterjee, Dan Rose, Manthia Diawara USA: individuals $10.00, institutions $20.00. Outside USA: individuals US $14.00, institutions US $24.00. Orders prepaid by check, credit card, or money order in US dollars to Public Culture: University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA 19104-6324. PUBLIC CULTURE is the journal of the CENTER FOR TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES. CTCS at the University of Pennsylvania is an outgrowth of the interests of several individuals and groups, both within and outside theUniversity, in coordinating and stimulating research that focuses on transnational cultural flows, while encouraging communication, debate, and collaboration between scholars and scholarly groups concerned with these issues, throughout the world. CTCS coordinates and supports research, multi-locale roundtables, and transnational collaborative projects, while publishing relevant reports, essays, and extracts from the media in its journal, PUBLIC CULTURE. Enquiries regarding the Center may be addressed to its Co-Directors, Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. 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Clarke: Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender Neil Lazarus: Doubting the New World Order: Marxism and the Claims of Postmodern Social Theory Interview with Antoinette Fouque, Femmes en mouvements: hier, aujourd'hui, demain Subscriptions: $28 (individuals), $48 (institutions), $10 (foreign surface post). Order from: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 601 N. Morton, Bloomington, IN 47404. Phone: 812-855-9449; fax: 812-855-7931. 5)--------------------------------------------------------------------- *%Discourse%* THEORETICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND CULTURE Edited by Roswitha Mueller and Kathleen Woodward *D I S C O U R S E* Volume 14, Number 1 *Jean-Francois Lyotard* "Voices of a Voice" (trans.George Van Den Abbeele) *Meaghan Morris* "Ecstasy and Economics" *Kathryn Milun* "(En)countering Imperialist nostalgia: The Indian Reburial Issue" *Christina von Braun* "Strategies of Disappearance" *Gloria-Jean Masciarotte "The Madonna with Child, and Another Child, and Still Another Child . . . : Sensationalism and the Dysfunction of Emotions" *Tara McPherson and Gareth Evans* "Watch this Space: An Interivew with Edward Soja" BOOK REVIEWS: *Susan Willis* %Consumer Culture and Postmodernism% by MikeFeatherstone *James Schwoch* %The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context% by Mark Poster *Tara McPherson* %Feminism and Youth Culture: from Jackie to Just Seventeen% by Angela McRobbie *Mark Rose* %Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law% by Jane Gaines *Elizabeth Francis* %Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant- Garde% by Susan Rubin Suleiman *Marilyn Edelstein* %Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists% by Elizabeth Grosz Volume 13, Number 2 *Lynne Kirby* "Gender and Advertising in American Silent Film: From Early Cinema to the Crowd" *Maureen Turim* "Viewing/ Reading %Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M% or Motherhood in the Age of Technological Reproduction" *Roswitha Mueller* "Screen Embodiments: Valie Export's %Syntagma% *Robert J. 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Credit card orders call 812-855-9449 or fax information to 812-855-7931. 6)---------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Ideas, Vol 2 #2/3 -- contents Journal of Ideas - ISSN 1049-6335 is published quarterly by the Institute for Memetic Research, POB 16327, Panama City, Florida 32406-1327. [For more information contact E. Moritz at moritz@well.sf.ca.us] 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 7)---------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 8)----------------------------------------------------------------- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | PREMIERES FALL 1991 . . . | | | | JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA | | | | Published by the | | Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ 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: ------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------- To request subscription/membership information or Author Guidelines, contact: AACE P.O. Box 2966 Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA E-mail: aace@virginia.edu Phone: (804) 973-3987 ------------------------------------ The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, educational organization whose purpose is to 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 divisions: - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia - Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education - Journal of Computing in Childhood Education - Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (premieres Fall '92) 9)----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 92266-Fontenay-aux-Roses 47-02-60-50, poste 530 10)-------------------------------------------------------------- 00000000000000000000000000 RD: Graduate Research in the Arts 00000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 A CALL FOR PAPERS AND READERS 00000000000000000000000000 00000000:::::::::::0000000 RD: GRADUATE RESEARCH IN THE ARTS is 000000: DDDDD:000000 a refereed journal dedicated to 0000: DDDDDDD:0000 publishing the work of graduate scholars 000: RRRRR D DD:000 in the Arts. It provides an appropriate 00: R R D DDDD DD:00 forum for their scholarly work and a 0: RRRRR D DDDDD DD:0 collective voice for their issues and 0: R R D DDDDD DD:0 interests. 00: R R D DDDD D:000 Papers for RD are now being solicited 000: R R D DD:000 from graduate students in the Arts, Fine 0000: DDDDDDD:0000 Arts, andHumanities in any of the 00000::: DDDD:::00000 following areas: 0000000::::::::::::0000000 * language, literature and other 00000000000000000000000000 artifacts/artefacts 00000000000000000000000000 * constructions of the self, gender, 00000000000000000000000000 class and race 00000000000000000000000000 * the academy itself and its institutional imperatives. Multidisciplinary and collaborative work isencouraged. Address two copies of each paper to the editors with a SASE and proof of current enrollment in a graduate programme (for instance, photocopy of a student card or letter from the programme). Submissions can also be sent on disk (DOS or Macintosh format) or by e-mail. If you intend to send papers by e-mail, please contact the editors to receive guidelines for indicating foreign or special characters and italics. All submissions should conform to the _MLA Style Manual_. RD is also presently accepting applications from graduate students to act as readers of papers. Volunteers should include a CV, or a brief summary of their scholarly work and publications. DEADLINES: 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 11)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 12)------------------------------------------------------------------ *************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. 13)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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..."" 14)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 15)------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 16)-------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19)------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 22)-------------------------------------------------------------- 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 *** # # # # 23)------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ | 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. | |________________________________________________________________| 24)--------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 25)----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 26)----------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************** * * * 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 27)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 28)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 29)------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 30)------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) 31)------------------------------------------------------------------ ADDICT-L is an electronic conference for mature discussion of the 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 addiction, etc... 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There are Electronic lists devoted to drug/alcohol use for those interested only in that area Subscription Procedure: To subscribe from a bitnet account send an interactive or e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM. Internet users send mail to LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (In mail, leave the subject line blank and make the text of your message the following: SUB ADDICT-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname Questions can be addressed to listowner: David Delmonico Ddelmoni@kentvm.kent.edu 32)---------------------------------------------------------------- PJML on LISTSERV@UTXVM.BITNET Progressive Jewish Mailing List 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 globe. We come from many traditions; if we have differences, let us talk about them openly. But let us continue in the tradition of _tikkun olam_, the just repair of the world. To subscribe to PJML, you will need an electronic mail account that accesses either BITNET or INTERNET. Simply send the following message to either LISTSERV@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU or LISTSERV@UTXVM.BITNET: SUB PJML yourfirstname yourlastname List Moderator: Steve Carr BITNET: RTFC507@UTXVM.BITNET INTERNET: STEVEN.CARR@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU Phone: (512) 453-8540 (h) U.S. Post: 3911-A Ave. F Austin TX 78751 33)--------------------------------------------------------------- BUDDHA-L on LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU 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 topics relating to Buddhism and Buddhist studies. BUDDHA-L is not to be used for proselytizing for or against Buddhism in general, any particular form of Buddhism, or any other religion or philosophy, nor is it to be used as a forum for making unsubstantiable confessions of personal conviction. 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Cocks Senior Consultant Research/Instruction University of Louisville Internet: JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU Bitnet: JACOCK01@ULKYVM 34)--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 35)------------------------------------------------------------------------ AFRICA-L on LISTSERV@BRUFPB.BITNET Forum Pan-Africa 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 other) to and from Africa. News, light-hearted discussions, and cultural and educational items are welcome. To subscribe to AFRICA-L send the following message to LISTSERV@BRUFPB: (Note that this is a BITNET address) SUBSCRIBE AFRICA-L your name and your African interests SET AFRICA-L REPRO For example, subscribe africa-l J. Smith Togo set africa-l repro To obtain a list of current subscribers, send the message "review africa-l" to LISTSERV@BRUFPB.BITNET . List Owner: Carlos Fernando Nogueira (CTEDTC09@BRUFPB) 36)------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 religions, creeds, beliefs, opinions, etc. are welcome, although we do ask that participants respect differences. To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@UMCVMB via mail or interactive message: SUB FEMREL-L your_full_name where "your_full_name" is your name. For example: SUB FEMREL-L Joan Doe Submissions to the list should be sent to: FEMREL-L@UMCVMB.BITNET Owners: Cathy Quick Bonnie Vegiard 37)------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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" 38)------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.BITNET with the text: Get EJournl1 Directry Get EJournl2 Directry No blank lines or other text should precede these lines, and no other text should follow them. For further information, contact Michael Strangelove at 441495@UOTTAWA Diane Kovacs' directory of scholarly discussion groups is 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: Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist Readme Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist Index Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File1 Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File2 Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File3 Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File4 Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File5 Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File6 or, from any e-mail site, by sending a mail message to LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET with the text: Get Acadlist Readme Get Acadlist Index Get Acadlist File1 Get Acadlist File2 Get Acadlist File3 Get Acadlist File4 Get Acadlist File5 Get Acadlist File6 No blank lines or other text should precede these lines, and no other text should follow them. For further information, contact Diane Kovacs at DKOVACS@KENTVM Both directories are also now available in print and on diskette (Dos/WordPerfect and Macintosh/MacWord). For further information contact: Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA or Ann Okerson ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet (202) 232-2466 (voice) (202) 462-7849 (fax)