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Journal and Book Announcements: 1) _Essays in Postmodern Culture_ 2) _Black Ice Books_ 3) _Black Sacred Music_ 4) _boundary 2_ 5) _The Centennial Review_ 6) _College Literature_ 7) _Contention_ 8) _Differences_ 9) _Discourse_ 10) _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ 11) _GENDERS_ 12) _M/E/A/N/I/N/G_ 13) _Minnesota Review_ 14) _Nomad_ 15) _October_ 16) _RIF/T_ 17) _SSCORE_ 18) _Studies in Popular Culture_ 19) _Virus 23_ 20) _ViViD Magazine_ 21) _Zines-L_ Calls for Papers and Participants: 22) _PMC-MOO_ 23) _Call for Papers on Don DeLillo_ 24) _Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture_ 25) _Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture_ 26) _Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ 27) _Postmodern Culture_ 28) _PSYCHE_ Conferences and Societies: 29) _The Network Services Conference_ Networked Discussion Groups: 30) _FEMISA: Feminism, Gender, International Relations_ 31) _HOLOCAUS: Holocaust List_ 32) _NewJour-L_ 33) _Popcult List_ Grants: 34) _Duke University: Travel-to-Collections Grants_ 1)-------------------------------------------------------------- ESSAYS ON POSTMODERN CULTURE Available in December, 1993: An anthology of essays from _Postmodern Culture_ is forthcoming in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practical engagments with the postmodern--from AIDS and the body to postmodern politics. --"I laughed, I cried. The feelgood critical book of the year." --Jonathan Beasley --"Two thumbs up!" --Chris Barrett CONTENTS: George Yudice, "Feeding the Transcendent Body" Allison Fraiberg, "Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and other Indiscretions: Resurfacing the Body in the Postmodern" David Porush and Allison Fraiberg, "Commentary: An Exchange" Stuart Moulthrop, "You Say You Want a Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media" Paul McCarthy, "Postmodern Pleasure and Perversity: Scientism and Sadism" Roberto Maria Dianotto, "The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release" Audrey Ecstavasia, "Fucking (with Theory) for Money: Towards an Interrogation of Escort Prostitution" Elizabeth Wheeler, "Buldozing the Subject" Bob Perelman, "The Marginalization of Poetry" Steven Helmling, "Marxist Pleasure: Jameson and Eagleton" Neil Larsen, "Postmodernism and Imperialism: Theory and Politics in Latin America" David Mikics, "Postmodernism, Ethnicity, and Underground Revisionism in Ishmael Reed" Barrett Watten, "Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov" ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound) 0-19-508753-4 (paper) _Essays in Postmodern Culture_ will be available at the MLA in Toronto December, 1993 2)-------------------------------------------------------------- _BLACK ICE BOOKS_ _Black Ice Books_ is a new alternative trade paperback series that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative. The first four books include: _Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation_ Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various other unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark Leyner, William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurdice, Stephen Wright, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and many others. "One of the least cautious, nerviest editors going, Larry McCaffery is the No-Care Bear of American Letters." -- William Gibson. "A clusterbomb of crazy fiction, from a generation too sane to repeat yesterday's lies." -- Tom Robbins _New Noir_ Stories by John Shirley John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of extreme people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle with the seduction of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence. "John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell." -- Clive Barker _The Kafka Chronicles_ a novel by Mark Amerika The _Kafka Chronicles_ is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters an unusual cast of angry yet sensual characters "Mr Amerika--if indeed that is his name--has achieved a unique beauty in his artful marriage of Blake's lyricism and the iron- in-the-soul of Celine. Are we taking a new and hard-hitting Antonin Artaud? Absolutely. And much more." --Terry Southern _Revelation Countdown_ by Cris Mazza Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more resembling loss of control. "Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electricity." --LA Times Discount Mail-Order Information: You can buy these books directly from the publisher at a discount. Buy one for $7, two for $13, three for $19 or all four for $25. We pay US postage! (Foreign orders add $2.50 per book.) ___ Avant-Pop ___ New Noir ___ The Kafka Chronicles ___ Revelation Countdown Please make all checks or money orders payable to: Fiction Collective Two Publications Unit Illinois State University Normal, IL 61761 3)-------------------------------------------------------------- _Black Sacred Music_ A Journal of Theomusicology Presenting the proceedings of an important conference held in Blantyre, Malawi in November of 1992, this volume represents a significant step for the African Christian church toward incorporating indigenous African arts and culture into it liturgy. Recognizing that the African Christian church continues to define itself in distinctly Western terms, forty-nine participants from various denominations and all parts of Africa-- Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon--and the United States met to share ideas and experiences and to establish strategies for the indigenization of Christianity in African churches. Other special issues by single copy: The William Grant Still Reader presents the collected writings of this respected American composer. Still offered a perspective on American music and society informed by a diversity of experience and associations that few others have enjoyed. His distinguished career spanned jazz, traditional African-American idioms, and the European avant-garde, and his compositions ranged from chamber music to opera. Sacred Music of the Secular City delves into the American religious imagination by examining the religious roots and historical circumstances of popular music. Includes essays on musicians Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Madonna, and 2 Live Crew. Subscription prices: $30 institutions, $15 individuals. Single issues: $15. Please add $4 for subscription outside the U.S. Canadian residents, add 7% GST. Duke University Press/Box 90660/Durham NC 27708 4) -------------------------------------------------------------- _boundary 2_ an international journal of literature and culture Paul Bove, editor Forthcoming in 1993: The Violence of Light in the Land of Desire; or How William Jones Discovered India / Jenny Sharp Veiled Woman and Veiled Narrative in Tahar Ben Jelloun's _The Sandchild_ / John. D. Erickson The Ideologies and Semiotics of Fascism: Analyzing Pound's _Cantos 12-15_ / Stephen Hartnett Lionel Trilling, _The Liberal Imagination_, and the Emergence of the Cultural Discourse of Anti-Stalinism / Russell J. Reising Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey toward Eleusis in _To the Lighthouse_ / Tina Barr %Saxa loquuntur%: Freud's Archaeology of the Text / Sabine Hake Deleuze's Nietzsche / Petra Perry A Tyranny of Justice: The Ethics of Lyotard's Differend / Allen Dunn Thinking\Writing the Postmodern: Representation, End, Ground, Sending / Jeffrey T. Nealon Three issues annually Subscription prices: $48 institutions, $24 individuals, $16 single issues. Please add $6 for postage outside the U.S.. Duke University Press/ Box 90660 /Durham NC 27708 5) -------------------------------------------------------------- _The Centennial Review_ Edited by R.K. Meiners _The Centennial Review_ is committed to reflection on intellectual work, particularly as set in the University and its environment. We are interested in work that examines models of theory and communication in the physical, biological, and human sciences; that re-reads major texts and authoritative documents in different disciplines or explores interpretive procedures; that questions the cultural and social implications of research in a variety of disciplines. **SPECIAL ISSUE** POLAND: FROM REAL SOCIALISM TO DEMOCRACY Winter 1993 Guest Editor: Stephen Esquith Essays on events and ideas in recent Polish history, culture, and politics. Adam Michnik: _An Interview with Leszek Kolakowski_ Marek Ziolkowski: _The Case of the Polish Intelligentsia_ Marian Kempny: _On the Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Study of Post-Communist Culture_ Plus: Lagowski, Narojek, Szszkowska, Buchowski, and others. Please begin my _CR_ subscription: ___ $12/year (3 issues) ___ $18/two years (6 issues) (Add $4.50 per year for mailing outside the US) Please send me the special issue: ___ _Poland: From Real Socialism to Democracy_ Name____________________________________________ Address_________________________________________ City____________________________________________ State/County____________________________________ Zip_____________________________________________ Please make your check payable to _The Centennial Review_. Mail to: _The Centennial Review_ 312 Linton Hall Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824-1044 6) -------------------------------------------------------------- _College Literature_ A Triannual Literary Journal for the Classroom Edited by Kostas Myrsiades A triannual journal of scholarly criticism dedicated to serving the needs of College/University teachers by providing them with access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literature in new ways. "_College Literature_ has made itself in a short time one of the leading journals in the field, important reading for anyone teaching literature to college students." J. Hillis Miller University of CA, Irvine "Congratulations on some extremely important work; you certainly seem attuned to what is both valuable and relevant." Terry Eagleton Oxford University "In one bold stroke you seem to have turned _College Literature_ into one of the things everyone will want to read." Cary Nelson "My sense is that _College Literature_ will have substantial influence in the field of literacy and cultural studies." Henry A. Giroux "A journal one must consult to keep tabs on cultural theory and contemporary discourse, particularly in relation to pedagogy." Robert Con Davis Forthcoming issues: Third World Women's Literature African American Writing Cross-Cultural Poetics Subscription Rates: US Foreign Individual $24.00/year $29.00/year Institutional: $48.00/year $53.00/year Send prepaid orders to: _College Literature_ Main 544 West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 (215)436-2901 / (fax) (215)436-3150 7) -------------------------------------------------------------- _CONTENTION_ Debates in Society, Culture, and Science _Contention_ is: "...simply a triumph from cover to cover." Fredrick Crews "...extremely important." Alberta Arthurs "...the most exciting new journal that I have ever read." Lynn Hunt "...superb." Janet Abu-Lughod "...an important, exciting, and very timely project." Theda Skocpol "...an idea whose time has come." Robert Brenner "...serious and accessible." Louise Tilly Subscriptions (3 issues) are available to individuals at $25.00 and to institutions at $50.00 (plus $10.00 for foreign surface postage) from: Journals Division Indiana University Press 601 N. Morton Bloomington IN 47104 ph: (812) 855-9449 fax: (812) 855-7931 8) -------------------------------------------------------------- _Differences_ A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies QUEER THEORY: LESBIAN AND GAY SEXUALITIES (Volume 3, Number 2) Edited by Teresa de Lauretis Teresa de Lauretis: _Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities An Introduction_ Sue Ellen Case: _Tracking the Vampire_ Samuel R. Delany: _Street Talk/Straight Talk_ Elizabeth A. Grosz: _Lesbian Fetishism?_ Jeniffer Terry: _Theorizing Deviant Historiography_ Thomas Almaguer: _Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior_ Ekua Omosupe: _Black/Lesbian/Bulldagger_ Earl Jackson, Jr.: _Scandalous Subjects: Robert Gluck's Embodied Narratives_ Julia Creet: _Daughter of the Movement: The Psychodynamics of Lesbian S/M Fantasy_ THE PHALLUS ISSUE (Volume 4, Number 1) Edited by Naomi Schor and Elizabeth Weed Maria Torok: _The Meaning of "Penis Envy" in Women (1963)_ Jean-Joseph Goux: _The Phallus: Masculine Identity and the "Exchange of Women"_ Parveen Adams: _Waiving the Phallus_ Kaja Silverman: _The Lacanian Phallus_ Charles Bernheimer: _Penile Reference in Phallic Theory_ Judith Butler: _The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary_ Jonathan Goldberg: _Recalling Totalities: The Mirrored Stages of Arnold Schwarzenegger_ Emily Apter: _Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem_ Single Issues: $12.95 individuals $25.00 institutions ($1.75 each postage) Subscriptions (3 issues): $28.00 individuals $48.00 institutions ($10.00 foreign surface postage) Send orders to: Journals Division Indiana University Press 601 N Morton Bloomington IN 47404 ph: (812) 855-9449 fax: (812) 855-7931 9) -------------------------------------------------------------- _DISCOURSE_ Volume 15, Number 1 SPECIAL ISSUE FLAUNTING IT: LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES Kathryn Baker: Delinquent Desire: Race, Sex, and Ritual in Reform Schools for Girls Terralee Bensinger: Lesbian Pornography: The Re-Making of (a) Community Scott Bravmann: Investigating Queer Fictions of the Past: Identities, Differences, and Lesbian and Gay Historical Self-Representations Sarah Chinn and Kris Franklin: "I am What I Am" (Or Am I?): Making and Unmaking of Lesbian and Gay Identity in _High Tech Boys Greg Mullins: Nudes, Prudes, and Pigmies: The Desirability of Disavowal in _Physical Culture Magazine_ JoAnn Pavletich: Muscling the Mainstream: Lesbian Murder Mysteries and Fantasies of Justice David Pendelton: Obscene Allegories: Narrative Structures in Gay Male Porn Thomas Piontek: Applied Metaphors: AIDS and Literature June L. Reich: The Traffic in Dildoes: The Phallus as Camp and the Revenge of the Genderfuck Single Issues: $12.95 individuals $25.00 institutions ($1.75 each postage) Subscriptions (3 issues): $25.00 individuals $50.00 institutions ($10.00 foreign surface postage) Send orders to: Journals Division Indiana University Press 601 N Morton Bloomington IN 47404 ph: (812) 855-9449 fax: (812) 855-7931 10) ------------------------------------------------------------ _The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ We are very pleased by the great interest in the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_. There are already more than 1,280 people subscribed. Our first issue was distributed in March 1993. The future looks very interesting. Editors are working on Special Issues on education, law, qualitative research, and dynamics in virtual culture. The _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ (EJVC) is a refereed scholarly journal that fosters, encourages, advances and communicates scholarly thought on virtual culture. Virtual culture is computer-mediated experience, behavior, action, interaction and thought, including electronic conferences, electronic journals, networked information systems, the construction and visualization of models of reality, and global connectivity. EJVC is published monthly. Some parts may be distributed at different times during the month or published only occasionally (e.g. CyberSpace Monitor). If you would be interested in writing a column on some general topic area in the Virtual Culture (e.g. an advice column for questions about etiquette, technology, etc. ?) or have an article to submit or would be interested in editing a special issue contact Ermel Stepp Editor-in-Chief of Diane Kovacs Co-Editor at the e-mail addresses listed below. You can retrieve the file EJVC AUTHORS via anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (pub/ejvc) or via e-mail to listserv@kentvm or listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Cordially, Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief MO34050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu 11) ------------------------------------------------------------- _GENDERS_ Ann Kibbey, Editor University of Colorado, Boulder Since 1988, _GENDERS_ has presented innovative theories of gender and sexuality in art, literature, history, music, photography, TV, and film. Today, _GENDERS_ continues to publish both new and known authors whose work reflects an international movement to redefine the boundaries of traditional doctrines and disciplines. ------------------------------ _GENDERS_ is published triannually in Spring, Fall, Winter Single Copy rates: Individual $9, Institution $14 Foreign postage, add $2/copy Subscription rates: Individual $24, Institution $40 Foreign postage, add $5.50/subscription Send orders to: University of Texas Box 7819 Austin TX 78713 12) ------------------------------------------------------------- M/E/A/N/I/N/G A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artist-run journal of contemporary art, is a fresh, lively, contentious, and provocative forum for new ideas in the arts. M/E/A/N/I/N/G is published twice a year in the fall and spring. It is edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor. M/E/A/N/I/N/G #13 is a vivid mix of writings by artists and art historians. Curtis Mitchell's "Working the Park" considers the sublime and the abject through the travails of an installation artist's efforts at public sculpture; Jordan Crandall's "Transactional Space" speaks of new systems of art communication and production at the limits of information technology; Jo Anna Isaak sheds new light on colonialist discourse in Matisse's "The Comfy Chair"; painting illiteracy is considered in Mira Schor's "Course Proposal;" Daryl Chin's "Those Little White Lies" critiques art history as an instrument of capitalism; an artist's spiritual sources are explored in David Reed's "Media Baptisms." Also in this issue: Definitions of "Art" by Stewart Buettner; Book and video reviews by Barry Schwabsky, Susan Bee, Johanna Drucker, Stephen O'Leary Harvey, and Robert C. Morgan. >From issue #13, Spring 1993 "The sublime consists of a major dose of entropy, with the picturesque as only a condiment." -- Curtis Mitchell "In all likelihood, what Matisse actually saw of a harem was what any tourist would see -- the high outer walls of the compound." -- Jo Anna Isaak "If 'good' painting is suspect and unseen, then it might help to look at some bad painting just as closely." -- Mira Schor "The artwork becomes a Marxist Christmas tree on which are hung gaudy baubles of 'late capitalism.'" -- Daryl Chin "Rationality or belief don't work well now for painting. Suspension--doubt, works best." -- David Reed Subscriptions for 2 ISSUES (1 YEAR): $12 for individuals: $20 for institutions 4 ISSUES (2 YEARS): $24 for individuals; $40 for institutions * Foreign subscribers please add $10 per year for shipping abroad and to Canada: $5 * Foreign subscribers please pay by international money order in U.S. dollars. All checks should be made payable to Mira Schor Send all subscriptions to: Mira Schor 60 Lispenard Street New York, NY 10013 Limited supply of back issues available at $6 each, contact Mira Schor for information. Distributed with the Segue Foundation and the Solo Foundation 13) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Minnesota Review_ Tell your friends! Tell your librarians! The new _Minnesota Review_'s coming to town! **now under new management** Fall 1992 issue (n.s. 39): "PC WARS" includes essays by: * Richard Ohmann "On PC and related matters" * Michael Berube "Exigencies of Value" * Barry Sarchett "Russell Jacoby, Anti- Professionalism, and the Politics of Cultural Nostalgia" * Michael Sprinkler "The War Against Theory" * Balance Chow "Liberal Education Left and Right" Spring 1993 issue (n.s. 40): "THE POLITICS OF AIDS" Poetry, Fiction, Interviews, Essays. topics include: * Queer Theory and activism. * Public image of AIDS. * Politics of medical research. * Health care policies. Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. The new _Minnesota Review_ is published biannually and originates from East Carolina University beginning with the Fall 1992 special issue. Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to: Jeffrey Williams, Editor _Minnesota Review_ Department of English East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 14) ------------------------------------------------------------ NOMAD An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Humanities, Arts, And Sciences ************************************************************** Manuscript submissions wanted in all interdisciplinary fields! Nomad is a forum for those texts that explore or examine the undefined regions among critical theory, visual arts, and writing. It is a bi-annual, not-for-profit, independent publication for provocative cross-disciplinary work of all cultural types, such as intermedia artwork, metatheory, and experimental writing, as well as literary, theoretical, political, and popular writing. While our editorial staff is comprized of artists and academics in a variety of disciplines, NOMAD strives to operate in a space outside of mainstream academic discourse and without institutional funding or controls. Manuscripts should not exceed fifteen pages (exclusive of references); any form is acceptable. If possible, please submit manuscripts on 3.5" Macintosh disks, in either MicroSoft Word or MacWrite II format, or by E-mail. Each manuscript submitted on disk must be accompanied by a paper copy. Otherwise, please send two copies of each manuscript. Artwork submitted must be no larger than 8 1/2" x 11", and in black and white. PICT, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files on 3.5" Macintosh disks are acceptable, if accompanied by a paper copy (or via E-mail, bin-hexed or uuencoded). All artwork must be camera-ready. Submissions by regular mail should include a SASE with sufficient postage attached if return is desired. Diskettes should be shipped in standard diskette mailing packages. Subscriptions: $9 per year (2 issues) Send Manuscripts and Inquiries to: NOMAD, c/o Mike Smith 406 Williams Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, 32306 (msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) ***************************************************************** "In NOMAD, the rarest combinations of interests are treated with respect and exposed to the eyes of those who can most appreciate them." ***************************************************************** 15) ------------------------------------------------------------- _October_ Art | Theory | Criticism | Politics The MIT Press Edited by: Rosalind Kraus Annette Michelson Yve-Alain Bois Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Hal Foster Denis Hollier John Rajchman "OCTOBER, the 15-year old quarterly of social and cultural theory, has always seemed special. Its nonprofit status, its cross- disciplinary forays into film and psychoanalytic thinking, and its unyielding commitment to history set it apart from the glossy art magazines." --Village Voice As the leading edge of arts criticism and theory today, _OCTOBER_ focuses on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue examines interrelationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts. Come join _OCTOBER_'s exploration of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Subscribe Today! Published Quarterly ISSN 0162-2870. Yearly Rates: Individual $32.00; Institution $80.00; Student (copy of current ID required) and Retired: $22.00. Outside USA add $14.00 postage and handling. Canadians add additional 7% GST. Prepayment is required. Send check payable to _OCTOBER_ drawn against a US bank, MasterCard or VISA number to: MIT Press Journal / 55 Hayward Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 / TEL: (617) 233-2889 / FAX: (617) 258-6779 / E-Mail: journals-orders@mit.edu 16) ------------------------------------------------------------- _RIF/T_ E-Poetry Literary Journal In all arts there is a physical component . . . We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts. --Paul Valery This list was formed to serve as a vehicle for (1) distribution of an interactive literary journal: _RIF/T_ and related exchange, and (2) collection of any information related to contemporary poetics. _RIF/T provides a forum for poets that are conversant with the media to explore the full potential of a true electronic journal. Dynamic--not static, _RIF/T_ shifts and riffs with the diction of "trad" poetry investigating a new, flexible, fluid poetry of exchange. Archives of e-poetry and related files are stored in the e-poetry FILELIST. To receive a list of files send the command INDEX e-poetry to: LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU as the first line in the body of your mail message (not your Subject: line). To subscribe to e-poetry, send the command SUB e-poetry your name to: LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU via mail message (again, as the first line in the body of the mail, not the Subject: line). For example: SUB e-poetry John Doe Owner: Ken Sherwood v001pxfu@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu 17) ------------------------------------------------------------- _SSCORE_ Social Science Computer Review G. David Garson, Editor Ronald Anderson, Co-editor The official journal of the Social Science Computing Association, _SSCORE_ provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire and share information on the research and teaching applications of microcomputing. Now, when you subscribe to _Social Science Computer Review_, you automatically become a member of the Social Science Computing Association. Recent articles: Social Impacts of Computing: Codes of Professional Ethics Ronald Anderson Teledemocracy and Political Science William H. Dutton Trends in the Use of Computers in Economics Teaching in the United Kingdom Guy Judge and Phil Hobbs The Essentials of Scientific Visualization: Basic Techniques and Common Problems Steve E. Follin Psychology: Keeping up with the State of the Art in Computing Charles Huff Computer Assistance in Qualitative Sociology David R. Heise Automating Analysis, Visualization, and Other Social Science Research Tasks Edwin H. Carpenter From Mainframes to Micros: Computer Applications for Anthropologists Robert V. Kemper, Ronald K. Wetherington, and Michael Adler Quarterly Subscription prices: $48 individual, $80 institutions Single Issue: $20 Please add $8 for postage outside the U.S. Canadian residents add 7% GST Duke University Press/ Journals Division / Box 90660 /Durham NC 27708 18) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Studies in Popular Culture_ Dennis Hall, editor. _Studies in Popular Culture_, the journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South, publishes articles on popular culture and American culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events--any of the material or conceptual conditions of life. The journal enjoys a wide range of contributors from the United States, Canada, France, Israel, and Australia, which include distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in mass communications, philosophy, literature, and religion. Please direct editorial queries to the editor: Dennis Hall Department of English University of Louisville Louisville KY 40292 tel: (502) 588-6896/0509 Fax: (502) 588-5055 Bitnet: DRHALL01@ULKYVM Internet: drhall01@ulkvm.louisville.edu All manuscripts should be sent to the editor care of the English Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. Please enclose two, double-spaced copies and a self-addressed stamped envelope. Black and White illustrations may accompany the text. Our preference is for essays that total, with notes and bibliography, no more than twenty pages. Documentation may take the form appropriate for the discipline of the writer; the current MLA stylesheet is a useful model. Please indicate if the work is available on computer disk. The editor reserves the right to make stylistic changes on accepted manuscripts. _Studies in Popular Culture_, is published semiannually and is indexed in the _PMLA Annual Bibliography_. All members of the Association receive _Studies in Popular Culture_. Yearly membership is $15.00 (International: $20.00). Write to the Executive Secretary, Diane Calhoun-French, Academic Dean, Jefferson Community College-SW, Louisville, KY 40272, for membership, individual issues, back copies, or sets. Volumes I- XV are available for $225.00. 19) ------------------------------------------------------------ _VIRUS 23_ For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you may wish to check out _VIRUS 23_. 2 and 3 are even and odd, 2 and 3 are 5, therefore 5 is even and odd. _VIRUS 23_ is a codename for all Erisian literature Don Webb 6304 Laird Dr. Austin TX 78757 0004200716@mcimail.com _VIRUS 23_ is the annual harcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs. All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from: _VIRUS 23_ Box 46 Red Deer, Alberta Canada T4N 5E7 Various chunks of _VIRUS 23_ can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out). For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry: grad3057@writer.yorku.ca 20)------------------------------------------------------------ ViViD Magazine The first issue of ViViD Magazine is now available. ViViD is a hypertext magazine about experimental writing and creativity in cyberspace. We are actively seeking contributions for the next issue. The magazine is presented in the colorful, graphics environment of a Windows 3.1 Help File. You will need Windows 3.1 to read the magazine. The magazine will also be available via anonymous FTP at "ftp.gmu.edu", to obtain it: ftp ftp.gmu.edu username: anonymous password: (your email address) cd pub/library binary get VIVID1.ZIP ----------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on ViViD, contact the editor, Justin McHale. Internet address: jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 1 Features: Articles: What is Cyberspace? What is Hypertext? Multiple Fiction and Multiple Worlds. News items: "Matrix News," a section featuring news items, notices and reviews concerning cyberspace. "Treasure of the Internet," a section which details interesting sites and services on the Internet. Experimental writing: Poemtexts Explodedview Texts 21) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Zines-L_ announcing a new list available from: listserv@uriacc To subscribe to _Zines-L_ send a message to: listserv@uriacc.uri.edu on one line type: SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name 22) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Postmodern Culture_ announces PMC-MOO PMC-MOO is a new service offered (free of charge) by _Postmodern Culture_. PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can interact with other subscribers of the journal and participate in live conferences. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by _Postmodern Culture_ and by PMC-TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object- lessons in postmodern theory. PMC-MOO is based on the LambdaMOO program, freeware by Pavel Curtis. To connect to PMC-MOO, you *must* be on the internet. If you have an internet account, you can make a direct connection by typing the command telnet dewey.lib.ncsu.edu 7777 at your command prompt. Once you've connected to the server, you should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO. If you do not receive these onscreen instructions, but instead find yourself with a straight login: and password: prompt, it means that your telnet program or interface is ignoring the 7777 at the end of the command given above, and you will need to ask your local user-support people how to telnet to a specific port number. If you have the Emacs program on your system and would like information about a customized program for PMC-MOO that uses Emacs, contact pmc@unity.ncsu.edu by e-mail. 23) ------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS for "RAIDS ON THE CONSCIOUS: New Essays on Don DeLillo" A special cluster for _Postmodern Culture_, Jan. 1994 ****************************************************** Since the early Seventies, Don DeLillo's work (fiction, drama, and journalism) has played an important role in the literature of what has gradually become known as the "postmodern condition." DeLillo's novels and plays investigate the problem of subjectivity in an environment increasingly governed by, perhaps even constructed purely of information and its various modes of transmission. Identity in DeLillo is dominated by a sense of anxiety concerning the formation of "self" from this patchwork of postmodern discourses, and is often further problematized by the lurking suspicion that there is no longer any stable referential framework behind the blizzard of signifiers; a suspicion that ideals, goals, and even individuality are categories as "empty" as poststructuralist theory tells us are the images, words, and digits with which we are surrounded; that identity is as arbitrary, illusory, and transient as the "sign." The breakdown of various Western master narratives which is often at the heart of DeLillo's novels--a breakdown discussed by, among others, Lyotard--contributes to this "vacuuming out" of substance. The result is a "postnarrative" world where the acontextual, the enigmatic, the arbitrary and fundamentally anti-rational continually threaten to become the sole reality--as in Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." Furthermore, in DeLillo's works this cultural identity crisis often "bleeds" into the characters' private anxieties; in fact, the boundary between public and private is the barrier which DeLillo seems to believe the postmodern condition threatens to breach. Some line has been crossed, and in DeLillo's work identity is now formed from the outside in, the product of a ceaseless anti-Cartesian barrage of decontextualized messages and undifferentiated signals from without. The governance of this situation has devolved from powerful but recognizable individuals onto shadowy larger "bodies": corporations, intelligence agencies, the academy and, perhaps most importantly, terrorist organizations. Beyond such barely tangible agents DeLillo posits a postmodern sublime, the force described in Libra as the "world inside the world." Papers are solicited which respond to these issues in DeLillo's work (fiction, drama, and journalism) for possible inclusion in a special issue (January, 1994) of the electronic journal Postmodern Culture, and in a hard cover edition to be published later in 1994 or in early 1995. Papers should address the problems of how literature and other forms of public language support and/or resist the construction of the postmodern relationship of author, text, and reader; how these identities and their relationships are maintained, thwarted, or altered through a concatenation of public spectacle, random violence, and decontextualized language; and how the control of a massively disoriented narrative (or former narrative) of and about these identities increasingly depends upon a variety of ill- defined and vaguely sinister "postindividual" agencies. Comparative essays utilizing other authors, films, music and other forms of popular culture are welcomed. Abstracts (250-500 words) should arrive no later than Oct. 15th, and the *first* drafts of papers (15-30 pages) will be due no later than December 15th. Inquiries, abstracts and rough drafts may be sent electronically to: Glen Scott Allen at e7e4all@toe.towson.edu, or Stephen J. Bernstein at bernstein_s@crob.flint.umich.edu or by regular mail to Prof. Glen Scott Allen or Prof. Stephen J. Bernstein English Dept. Dept. of English Towson State University University of Michigan-Flint Towson, MD 21204 Flint, MI 48502 24) ------------------------------------------------------------ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CALL FOR ARTICLES EJVC: Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Special Issue: Gender Issues in Computer Networking Issue Editor: Leslie Reagan Shade McGill University Graduate Program in Communications czsl@musica.mcgill.ca; shade@well.sf.ca.us EJVC is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research and discussion of all aspects of computer- mediated human experience, behavior, action, and interaction. This special issue of the EJVC will be devoted to gender issues in networking. Despite the abundance of various private networks and the meteoric growth of the Internet, this rapidly expanding user base does not include an equal proportion of men and women. How can women become equally represented in the new "electronic frontier" of cyberspace? Issues to be discussed can include, but are not limited to, the following: * Access issues--to hardware, software, and training. What barriers do women face? What are some success stories. * How can women be given the technical expertise to become comfortable and versatile with computer networking? * Interface design: can there be a feminist design? * How can networking realize its potential as a feminist tool? * How can women scholars exploit networking's technology? * What information technology policies could be developed to ensure computer networking equity for women, as well as minorities? * How does one define computer pornography and "offensive" material on the net? Should it be allowed? * How should sexual harassment on the net be treated? * Are women-only groups necessary? * How do women interact on MUDS and MOOs? * What net resources exist for women? Deadlines: December 1, 1993 (submission of abstracts) April 1, 1994 (submission of contributions) Abstracts will be reviewed by the issue editor for appropriateness of content and overall balance of the issue as a whole. In turn, authors will then be invited to submit full- length contributions, which will be peer-reviewed by the journal's normal editorial process before final acceptance for publication. The issue editor encourages correspondence about proposed contributions even before submission of an abstract. Potential contributors may obtain a more detailed statement about the focus and range of this special issue by sending email to the issue editor with the subject line: EJVC Issue or by anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu, directory/pub/ejvc, get ejvc.shade.call. Further information about EJVC may be obtained by sending e-mail to LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU with one or more of the following lines in the text: SUBSCRIBE EJVC-L YourFirstname YourLastName GET EJVC WELCOME INDEX EJVC-L Also, the file is available by anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in the pub/ejvc directory. 25) ------------------------------------------------------------ ********************* Call for Submissions ********************* _Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ is a research project investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative writers. The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware, critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to sites of publication. We would like to request writers to submit their works for review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach creative writing for the hypertext format. To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or hardcopy to: _Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ 3 Westcott Upper London, Ontario N6C 3G6 E-mail: KEEPC@QUCD>QUEENSU.CA 26)------------------------------------------------------------ THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURE CALL FOR PAPERS Scholars are invited to submit manuscripts/reviews that meet the following criteria: ISSUES: The Journal invites critical reviews of films, documentaries, plays, lyrics, and other related visual and performing arts. The Journal also invites original manuscripts from all social scientific fields on the topic of popular culture and criminal justice. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: To submit material for the Journal, please subscribe to CJMOVIES through the listserv and a detailed guidelines statement will automatically follow. To subscribe, send a message with the following command to LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1: SUBSCRIBE CJMOVIES YourFirstName YourLastName Manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to: The Editors, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture SUNYCRJ@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU MANAGING EDITORS: Sean Anderson and Greg Ungar Editors Journal of CriminalJustice and Popular Culture, School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA 135 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222 INTERNET: SA1171@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or GU8810@uacsc1.albany.edu LIST ADMINISTRATOR Seth Rosner School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA SR2602@uacsc1.albany.edu or SR2602@thor.albany.edu 27) ------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers _PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness_ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural issue of _PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness_ (ISSN: 1039-723X). _PSYCHE_ is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. _PSYCHE_ publishes material relevant to that exploration form the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. _PSYCHE_ publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the medium. _PSYCHE_ also publishes a hardcopy version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated, synopsized, or eliminated form the hardcopy version. Types of Articles: The journal publishes from time to time all of the following varieties of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are peer reviewed; all articles are reviewed by editorial staff. Research Articles reporting original research by author(s). Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some combination of the two. Articles of special interest occasionally will be followed by a selection of peer commentaries. Peer Reviewed. Survey Articles reporting on the state of the art research in particular areas. These may be done in the form of a literature review or annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be peer reviewed. Discussion Notes critiques of previous research. Peer Reviewed. Tutorials introducing a subject area relevant to the study of consciousness to non-specialists. Letters providing and informal forum for expressing opinions on editorial policy or upon material previously published in _PSYCHE_. Screened by editorial staff. Abstracts summarizing the contents of recently published journal articles, books, and conference proceedings. Book Reviews which indicate the contents of recent books and evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as textbooks. Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission deadlines, etc. Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be published: available grants; positions; journal contents; proposals for joint research; etc. Notes for Authors Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles directly to the executive editor. Submissions should be in a single copy if submitted electronically of four (4) copies if submitted by mail. Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author's name; address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address. Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100- 200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind, meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened for publication in the print version of _PSYCHE_, the author will be responsible for making any alterations requested by the editors. Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII. If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by readers locally. Authors of accepted articles assign to _PSYCHE_ the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge _PSYCHE_ as the original source of publication. Subscriptions Subscriptions to the electronic version of _PSYCHE_ may be initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to: LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET 28) ------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************* Announcement and Call for Submissions _Postmodern Culture_ ************************************* _Postmodern Culture_ A SUNY Press Series Series Editor: Joseph Natoli Editor: Carola Sautter Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities Michigan State University We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines--green politics to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential campaign to Rodney King--and academic discourses from art and literature to politics and history, sociology and science to women's studies, form computer studies to cultural studies. This series is designed to detour us off modernity's yet-to-be- completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto postmodernism's "forking paths" crisscrossing high and low culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business and academy, page and screen, "our" narrative and "theirs," formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse, analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives, truths and parodies of truths. By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link our present ungraspable "balkanization" of all thoughts and events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them. Modernity's "puzzle world" to be "unified" and "solved" becomes postmodernism's multiple worlds to be represented within the difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and diversity shapes and then re-shapes. Accordingly, manuscripts should display a "postmodernist style" that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic spheres, "inscribes" within as well as "scribes" against realist and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple- narratives and "culturally relative" rather than "foundational." Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to: Joseph Natoli Series Editor 20676jpn@msu.edu or Carola Sautter Editor SUNY Press SUNY Plaza Albany, NY 12246-0001 29) ------------------------------------------------------------- NSC'93 The Network Services Conference 1993 Warsaw, Poland, 12-14 October 1993 Invitation Networking in the academic and research environment has evolved into an important tool for researchers in all disciplines. High quality network services and tools are essential parts of the research infrastructure. Building on the success of the first Network Services Conference in Pisa, Italy, NSC'93 will focus on the issue of providing services to customers, with special attention paid to the actual usage of the various tools available. We will address the impact of today's global tools on service development and support, the changing function of traditional tools and services (such as archives), new services (such as multi-media communications), the future role of the library and the effects of commercialization of networks and network services. Customer support at the institutional and campus level, and the role of support in accessing global services, will also be covered. Talks, tutorials, demonstrations and other conference activities will address the needs of the research, academic, educational, governmental, industrial, and commercial network communities. Tutorial sessions on specific network services have been integrated into the regular conference program. Practical issues in the use of these services and tools will be covered in detail by experts. Throughout the conference, participants will be able to get hands-on experience in the well-equipped demonstration area. NSC'93 is being organized by EARN in conjunction with EUnet, NORDUnet, RARE, and RIPE. To get a preliminary program and registration form, send e-mail to: LISTSERV@FRORS12.BITNET (or LISTSERV@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR) In the body of the message, write: GET NSC93 ANN2 David Sitman EARN 30) ---------------------------------------------------------- _FEMISA_ FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca _FEMISA_ is conceived as a list where those who work on or think about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world politics, international political economy, or global politics, can communicate. Formally, _FEMISA_ was established to help those members of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the _International Studies Association_ keep in touch. More generally, I hope that _FEMISA_ can be a network where we share information in the area of feminism or gender and international studies about publications or articles, course outlines, questions about sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to the _International Studies Association_. To subscribe: send one line message in the BODY of mail-message sub femisa your name to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca To unsub send the one line message unsub femisa to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you. Owner: Deborah Stienstra stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca Department of Political Science University of Winnipeg 31)------------------------------------------------------------- _HOLOCAUS: Holocaust list_ HOLOCAUS on LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail discussion groups ("lists") at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is sponsored by the University's History Department and its Jewish Studies Program. To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need and Internet or Bitnet computer account. From that account, send this message to LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu: SUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the world right now). Owner: JimMott@spss.com The HOLOCAUS policies are: 1. The coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-Semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930's and 1940's, as well as related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy. 2. We are especially interested in reaching college teachers of history who already have, or plan to teach courses on the Holocaust. In 1991-92, there were 265 college faculty in the US and Canada teaching courses on the Holocaust (154 in History departments, 67 in Religion, and 46 in Literature). An even larger number of professors teach units on the Holocaust in courses on Jewish history (taught by 273 faculty) and World War II (taught by 373), not to mention many other possible courses. Most of these professors own PC's, but do not use them for e-mail. We hope our list will be one inducement to go on line. _HOLOCAUS_ will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on films and slides, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course. 3. H-Net is now setting up an international board of editors to guide _HOLOCAUS_ policy and to help stimulate contributions. 4. _HOLOCAUS_ is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a PhD in History. The moderator will solicit postings (by e- mail, phone and even by US mail), will assist people in subscribing and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The moderator will also solicit and post newsletter type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions). It may prove feasible to commission book and article reviews, and to post book announcements from publishers. Anyone with suggestions about what _HOLOCAUS_ can and might do is invited to send in the ideas. 5. The tone and target audience will be scholarly, and academic standards and styles will prevail. _HOLOCAUS_ is affiliated with the _International History Network_. 6. _HOLOCAUS_ is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer- oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from across the world. Our first list on urban history, _H- URBAN@UICVM_, recently started up with Wendy Plotkin as moderator. _H-WOMEN_ is in the works, with discussions underway about other possibilities like Ethnic, Labor, and US South. We are helping our campus Jewish Studies program set up _JSTUDY_ (restricted to the U of Illinois Chicago campus, for now), and are considering the creation of _H- JEWISH_, also aimed at academics, but covering the full range of scholarship on Jewish history. If you are interested in any of these projects, please e-write Richard Jensen, for we are now (as of late April) in a critical planning stage. 7. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across the country in more effective use of electronic communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on request from Richard Jensen, the director, at: campbelld@apsu or u08946@uicvm.uic.edu 32) ------------------------------------------------------------- NewJour-L@e-math.ams.org NewJour-L aims to accomplish two objectives; it is both a list and a project. FIRST: NewJour-L is the place to *announce* your own (or to forward information about others') newly planned, newly issued, or revised *ELECTRONIC NETWORKED* journal or newsletter. It is specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability. It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and newsletters as they become available on electronic networks. Scholarly discussion lists *which regularly and continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or preprints* may also be reported, for those journal-like sections. We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet, Usenet or other media will forward them to NewJour-L, but this does run a significant risk of boring subscribers with a number of duplicate messages. Therefore, NewJour-L IS filtered through a moderator to eliminate this type of duplication. It does not attempt to cover areas that are already covered by other lists. For example, sources like NEW-LIST describe new discussion lists; ARACHNET deals with social and cultural issues of e-publishing; VPIEJ-L handles many matters related to electronic publishing of journals. SERIALST discusses the technical aspects of all kinds of serials. You should continue to subscribe to these as you have done before, and contribute to them. SECOND: NewJour-L represents an identification and road-mapping project for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa. NewJour-L will expand and continue that work. As new publications are reported, a NewJour-L support group will develop the following services -- planning is underway & we ask that anyone who would like to participate as below, let us know: -A worksheet will be sent to the editors of the new e-publication for completion. This will provide detailed descriptions about bibliographic, content, and access characteristics. -An original cataloguing record will be created. -The fully catalogued title will be reported to national utilities and other appropriate sites so that there is a bibliographic record available for subsequent subscribers or searchers. -The records will feed a directory and database of these titles. Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work will expand over the next year. We thank you for your contributions, assistance, and advice, which will be invaluable. SUBSCRIBING: To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@e-math.ams.org Leave the subject line blank. In the body, type: SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L FirstName LastName You will have to subscribe in order to post messages to this list. To drop out or postpone, use the standard LISTSERV (Internet) directions. ACKNOWLEDGMENT: For their work in defining the elements of this project and for their support to date, we thank: Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems & Network Support Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original Cataloguing Development John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems & Network Support Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library, Cataloguing and Indexing Development Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and we welcome your interest in it. This project is co-ordinated through: The Association of Research Libraries Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 e-mail: osap@cni.org (Ann Okerson) 33) ------------------------------------------------------------ popcult@camosun.bc.ca Popular Culture The POPCULT list is now in place. It is open to analytical discussion of all aspects of popular culture. The list will not be moderated. Material relevant to building bridges between popular culture and traditional culture will be very strongly encouraged. To subscribe, unsubscribe, get help, etc, send a message to: mailserv@camosun.bc.ca There should not be anything in the 'Subject:' line and the body of the message should have the specific keyword on a line by itself. Some keywords are: SUBSCRIBE POPCULT HELP LISTS SEND/LIST POPCULT UNSUBSCRIBE POPCULT It is possible to send multiple commands, each on a separate line. Do not include your name after SUBSCRIBE POPCULT. In some ways this server is a simplified version of the major servers, but it is also more streamlined. I recommend, to start, that you put SUBSCRIBE on one line, and HELP on the next line. That will give you a full listing of available commands. To send messages to the list for distribution to list members for exchange of ideas, etc, send messages to: popcult@camosun.bc.ca Owner: Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca Professor Dept of English ph (604) 370-3342 (o) Camosun College (fax) (604) 370-3346 3100 Foul Bay Road Victoria, BC Off. Paul Bldg 326 CANADA V8P 5J2 34) ------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************ John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History Special Collections Library Duke University TRAVEL-TO-COLLECTIONS GRANTS 1993-94 Three or more grants of up to $1000 are available to (1) graduate students in any academic field who wish to use the resources of the Center for research toward M.A., Ph.D., or other postgraduate degrees; (2) faculty members working on research projects; or (3) independent scholars working on nonprofit projects. Funds may be used to help defray costs of travel to Durham and local accommodations. The major collection available at the Hartman Center at the current time is the extensive Archives of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), the oldest advertising agency in the U.S. and a major international agency since the 1920's. It is anticipated that the advertisements (1932+) and a moderate amount of agency documentation from D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) will be available for research by autumn 1993. The Center holds several other smaller collections relating to 19th and 20th century advertising and marketing. REQUIREMENTS: Awards may be used between November 15, 1993 and December 31, 1994. Graduate student applicants (1) must be currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any academic department and (2) must enclose a letter of recommendation from the student's advisor or project director. Please address questions and requests for application forms to: Ms. Ellen Gartrell, Director John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History Special Collections Library Duke University Box 90185 Durham NC 27708-0185 Phone: 919-660-5836 Fax: 919-684-2855 email: egg@mail.lib.duke.edu DEADLINES: Applications for 1993-94 awards must be received or postmarked by September 30, 1993. Awards will be announced by the end of October.