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Journal Announcements:
1) Sulfur
2) Denver Quarterly
3) Monographic Review/Revista Monografica
4) SubStance--special issue
5) College Literature
6) differences
7) EJournal
8) erofile
9) Synapse
10) Athanor
11) Artsnet Review
12) EFF News
Symposia, Discussion Groups, Calls for Papers:
13) Problems of Affirmation in Cultural Theory
14) KIDS-91
15) MAGAZINE
16) Literature, Computers and Writing
17) Science and Literature: Beyond Cultural Construction
18) Inter-relations Between Mental and Verbal Discourse
19) Program of "Postmodernist Postmortem" (Jan. 2, 1991)
20) Science, Knowledge, Technology
Other:
21) Note on UNC Press Fire
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Sulfur
Editor
Clayton Eshleman
Contributing Editors Sulfur is Antaeus with a risk.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis It has efficacy. It has
Michael Palmer primacy. It is one of the few
Eliot Weinberger magazines that is more than a
receptacle of talent, actually
contributing to the shape of
present day literary
engagement.
--George Butterick
Correspondents
Charles Bernstein Sulfur must certainly be the
James Clifford most important literary
Clark Coolidge magazine which has explored
Marjorie Perloff and extended the boundaries of
Jerome Rothenberg poetry. Eshleman has a nose
Jed Rasula for smelling out what is going
Marjorie Welish to happen next in the
ceaseless evolution of the
living art.
--James Laughlin
Managing Editor
Caryl Eshleman In an era of literary
conservatism and
Editorial Assistant sectarianism, the broad
L. Kay Miller commitment of Sulfur to both
literary excellence and a
broad interdisciplinary,
unbought humanistic engagement
with the art of poetry has
been invaluable. Its critical
articles have been the
sharpest going over the last
several years.
--Gary Snyder
Founded at the California Institute of Technology in 1981, Sulfur
magazine is now based at Eastern Michigan University. Funded by
the National Endowment for the Arts since 1983, and winnter of
four General Electric Foundation Awards for Younger Writers, it
is an international magazine of poetry and poetics, archetypal
psychology, paleolithic imagination, artwork and art criticism,
translations and archival materials. Some of our featured
contributors have been: Artaud, Pound, Golub, Vallejo, Olson,
Niedecker, Riding, Cesaire, Kitaj, and Hillman. We appear twice
a year (April and November) in issues of 250 pages. Current
subscription rates: $13 for 2 issues for individuals ($19 for
institutions). Single copies are $8.00. Numbers 1, 15, 17 and
19 are only available in complete sets (1-27) at $235.00.
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(Add $4.00 for mailing outside U.S.A).
NAME________________________________________________________
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Start with ____the most recent issue ____ issue #____
Mail check to SULFUR, c/o English Department, Eastern Michigan
Univ., Ypsilanti MI 48197
(Prepayment is required in U.S. Dollars)
For information: 313/483-9787
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DENVER
QUARTERLY
Announces
A SPECIAL ISSUE
FOR SPRING 1990
James Schuyler:
a celebration
This illustrated issue will feature essays
and memoirs by John Ashbery,
Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Douglas Crase,
and many others.
Please send me _____copies of the Schuyler
issue at $5 each. Payment enclosed.
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Name
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Address
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City
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State Zip
OR
Please begin my subscription to the Denver
Quarterly ($15 per year) with the
Schuyler issue.
UNIVERSITY of DENVER
University Park, Denver, Colorado 80208
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DENVER QUARTERLY
Department of English
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Monographic Review
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Revista Monografica
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Box 8401 Odessa, TX 79762-8301
EDITORS
JANET PEREZ GENARO J. PEREZ
Texas Tech University The University of Texas of
the Permian Basin
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Jose Luis Cano Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Madrid, Spain The University of Texas
at Austin
Manuel Duran Estelle Irizarry
Yale University Georgetown University
David W. Foster Elias Rivers
Arizona State University SUNY, Stony Brook
Juan Goytisolo Maria A. Salgado
Paris, France University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Call for
Papers
Number 7 (1991) of the
MONOGRAPHIC REVIEW/REVISTA MONOGRAFICA will be
devoted to Hispanic Subterranean Literatures:
*The Comics
*The Erotic
Papers of twelve to fifteen pages should be prepared
in accord with the MLA Style and submitted before
31 August 1991 to:
Genaro J. Perez, Editor
Monographic Review
Dept. Literature & Spanish
University of Texas/Permian Basin
Odessa, Texas 79762-8301
The MONOGRAPHIC REVIEW/REVISTA MONOGRAFICA, a professional
journal of criticism in the Hispanic Literatures, will be
monographic in character in that each number will be devoted to a
single theme, major writer, or specific literary phenomenon. The
first number comprises essays on Hispanic Children's Literature;
the second treats the Literature of Exile and Expatriation.
Future numbers will cover such subjects as women writers,
Hispanic writers in the United States, the oral tradition in
Hispanic literature, especially in the United States, Spanish
science fiction and literature of fantasy, and many other areas
of relative scholarly neglect. Initially, it will appear on an
annual basis with occasional special numbers.
Vol. I (1985) HISPANIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Vol. II (1986) SPANISH LITERATURE OF EXILE
Vol. III (1987) HISPANIC SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY AND THRILLER
Vol. IV (1988) HISPANIC SHORT STORY
Vol. V (1989) HISPANISM IN NON-HISPANIC COUNTRIES
Vol. VI (1990) HISPANIC WOMEN POETS
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ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL ISSUE OF _SUBSTANCE_ ON THOUGHT AND NOVATION
What's new? How do we know that something is new? How is
"newness" constituted? These are the questions asked by the guest
editor of SUBSTANCE 62/63, the Philosopher and Historian of
Science Judith Schlanger in a special issue on "Thought and
Novation." The answers offered by historians, sociologists,
biologists, philosophers, literary critics, etc. in this 220p
volume are wide-ranging and provoking. The issue includes:
Rene Girard: Innovation and Repetition
Daniel Lindenberg: France 1940-1990: How to Break with Evil?
Saul Friedlander: The End of Innovation? Contemporary Historical
Consciousness and the End of History
Jacques Schlanger: Ideas are Events
Benny Shannon: Novelty in Thinking
Henri Atlan: Creativity in Nature and in the Mind: Novelty in
Biology and in the Biologist's Brain
Yehuda Elkana: Creativity and Democratization in Science
Isabelle Stengers: The deceptions of Power--Psychoanalysis and
Hypnosis
S. van der Leeuw: Archaeology, Material Culture and Innovation
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Deconstruction and the Liberal Order
Elisheva Rosen: Innovation and its Reception
Francis Goyet: Rhetoric and Novation
Ruth Amossy: On Commonplace Knowledge and Innovation
Michel Pierssens: Novation Astray
Judith Schlanger: The New, the Different, and the Very Old
Pierre Pachet: Self-portrait of a Conservative
Alexis Philonenko: Reason and Writing.
Order from:
SubStance
Journal Division
University of Wisconsin Press
114 N. Murray
Madison, WI 53715
USA
One year subscription (3 issues): $19.00 (Individuals); $65.00
(Institutions); $14.00 (Students).
Back issues: $7.00. This special issue: $10.00
For more information:
Michel Pierssens
R36254@UQAM.BITNET or PIERSENS@cc.umontreal.ca
or: Sydney Levy
FI00LEVY@UCSBUXA.BITNET or FI00LEVY@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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COLLEGE LITERATURE
544 Main Hall
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
(215) 436-2901
A triannual journal of scholarly criticism, College
Literature focuses on the theory and practice of literature--both
what is and what should be taught in the college literature
classroom. It encourages a variety of approaches (including
political, feminist, interdisciplinary, and poststructuralist) to
a variety of literatures. In addition to the February general
issues, current and forthcoming special issues include "The
Politics of Teaching Literatures" (June/October 1990), "Literary
Theory in the Classroom" (June 1991), "Teaching Minority
Literatures" (October 1991), and "Teaching Commonwealth or
Postcolonial Literatures" (June 1992).
Submissions--in triplicate--should be 5000-7500 words
(articles) or 2000-4000 words (notes and comments), and should
use internal citations, following current MLA style. College
Literature encourages the submission of papers on disk written
with Nota Bene or in any other IBM-compatible ASCII format; hard
copy and SASE must accompany such submissions. The deadline for
submitting an article intended for a special issue is eight
months before the cover date.
Subscription rates within the US are $15/yr or $27/2yrs for
individuals, $18/yr or $33/2yrs for institutions; single copies
$7 (double issues $14). Outside the US, please add $5/yr for
surface mail or $10/yr airmail.
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d i f f e r e n c e s
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Edited by Naomi Schor & Elizabeth Weed
Vol. 1, No. 1 Vol. 2, No. 1
LIFE AND DEATH IN SEXUALITY: SEXUALITY IN GREEK AND ROMAN
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIETY
AIDS Edited by David Konstan and
With essays by Donna Haraway, Martha Nussbaum
Linda Singer, Janice Doane & With essays by David M.
Devon Hodges, Simon Watney, Halperin, John J. Winkler,
Ana Maria Alonso & Maria Martha Nussbaum, John Boswell,
Teresa Koreck, Avital Ronell, Eva Stehle, Adele Scafuro,
and Rosi Braidotti. Price: Georgia Nugent, and David
$11.75 Konstan. Price: $11.75
Vol. 1, No. 2 Vol. 2, No. 2
THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE: With essays by Nancy
ANOTHER LOOK AT ESSENTIALISM Armstrong, Karen Newman, Tania
With essays by Teresa de Modleski, Cathy Griggers,
Lauretis, Naomi Schor, Luce Judith Butler, and R.
Irigaray, Diana Fuss, Robert Radhakrishnan. Price: $11.75
Scholes, Leslie Wahl Rabine,
and Gayatri Spivak with Ellen Vol. 2, No. 3
Rooney. Price: $11.75 FEMINISM IN THE INSTITUTION
With essays by Michele Le
Vol. 1, No. 3 Doeuff, Ellen Rooney, Rey
MALE SUBJECTIVITY Chow, Rosi Braidotti with
With Essays by Kaja Silverman, Christien Franken, and
Christopher Newfield, Paul Maurizia Boscagli. Price:
Smith, George P. Cunningham, $11.75
Marjorie Garber, and Carole-
Anne Tyler. Price: $11.75
Order from
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tenth & Morton Streets * Bloomington, IN 47405 * 812-855-9449
Major credit cards accepted * Subscriptions available at $28 for
individuals and $48 for institutions (three issues).
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_EJournal_
_EJournal_ is an all-electronic, Bitnet/Internet
distributed, peer-reviewed, academic periodical. We are
particularly interested in theory and praxis surrounding the
creation, transmission, storage, interpretation, alteration and
replication of electronic text. We are also interested in the
broader social, psychological, literary, economic and pedagogical
implications of computer-mediated networks. Texts that address
virtually any subject across this broad spectrum will be given
thoughtful consideration.
Members of the electronic-network community and others
interested in it make up a large portion of our audience.
Therefore we would be interested (for example) in essays about
whether or not anyone should own a communication that has been
shared electronically, about the pragmatics of cataloguing and
indexing electronic publications, about net-based collaborative
learning, about artful uses of hypertext, about the challenges
that distance learning may offer to residential campuses, about
the role of The Matrix in cultural history and Utopian polemic,
about digitally recorded aleatoric fiction, about the
significance of resemblances between the electronic matrix and
neural systems, . . . and so forth.
The journal's essays will be available free to
Bitnet/Internet addresses. Recipients may make paper copies;
_EJournal_ will provide authenticated paper copy from our
read-only archive for use by academic deans or other supervisors.
Individual essays, reviews, stories--texts--sent to us will be
disseminated to subscribers as soon as they have been through the
editorial process, which will also be "paperless." We expect to
offer access through libraries to our electronic Contents,
Abstracts, and Keywords, and to be indexed and abstracted in
appropriate places.
_EJournal_ is now soliciting essays for possible
publication. We will be happy to consider reviews, letters, and
(eventually) annotations that ought to accompany texts we have
already published. We would be happy to add interested
specialists and generalists to our panel of consulting editors.
Please send essays for review, and inquiries, to
ejournal@albnyvms.bitnet
ejournal@rachel.albany.edu
Ted Jennings, Editor, _EJournal_
Department of English
University at Albany, State University of New York
Ron Bangel, Managing Editor (acting)
University at Albany, SUNY
Board of Advisors:
Dick Lanham, University of California at Los Angeles
Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries
Joe Raben, City University of New York
Bob Scholes, Brown University
Harry Whitaker, University of Quebec at Montreal
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ahrens@hartford John Ahrens Hartford
ap01@liverpool Stephen Clark Liverpool
crone@cua Tom Crone Catholic U
djb85@albnyvms Don Byrd Albany
donaldson@loyvax Randall Donaldson Loyola College
ds001451@ndsuvm1 Ray Wheeler North Dakota
eng006@unomal Marvin Peterson Nebraska - Omaha
erdt@vuvaxcom Terry Erdt Villanova
fac_aska@jmuvax1 Arnie Kahn James Madison
folger@yktvmv Davis Foulger IBM - Watson
Research Center
george@gacvax1 G. N. Georgacarakos Gustavus Adolphus
gms@psuvm Gerry Santoro Pennsylvania
State University
jtsgsh@ritvax John Sanders Rochester
Institute of
Technology
nrcgsh@ritvax Norm Coombs Rochester
Institute
of Technology
pmsgsl@ritvax Patrick M. Scanlon Rochester
Institute
of Technology
r0731@csuohio Nelson Pole Cleveland State
ryle@urvax Martin Ryle Richmond
twbatson@gallua Trent Batson Gallaudet
usercoop@ualtamts Wes Cooper Alberta
userlcbk@umichum Bill Condon Michigan
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ANNOUNCING
A NEW RESEARCH TOOL FOR FRENCH AND ITALIAN STUDIES,
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A free electronic newsletter accessible to all on Bitnet
and Internet.
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_EROFILE_ takes advantage of the rapidity of electronic mail
distribution to provide timely reviews of the latest books
in the following areas associated with French and Italian
studies:
- Literary Criticism
- Cultural Studies
- Film Studies
- Pedagogy
- Software
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_EROFILE_ will disseminate a collection of solicited and
unsolicited reviews and therefore welcomes submissions from
QUALIFIED reviewers. Publishers of scholarly journals in
appropriate fields may also wish to consider sending backlogged
reviews to _EROFILE_ for early electronic publication. The
well-known interdisciplinary journal, SUBSTANCE, has already
shown interest in such an arrangement.
_EROFILE_ will also provide an open forum for comments on
previously published reviews. In this way, we hope to create a
on-going dialogue on a variety of issues in the field.
Consequently, our editorial policy will have two aspects: we will
reserve the right to edit reviews, while promising to publish
letters to the editor as they arrive. In much the same spirit as
the _HUMANIST_ listserver then, we trust that letters to the
editor will not abuse our forum by including inappropriately
offensive or unnecessarily familiar language.
___________________________________________________________
We also welcome recommendations of qualified reviewers such as
graduate students who have formed a specialization on any topic
in the above areas.
___________________________________________________________
Please send submissions, subscription requests, and questions on
policy to the editors of _EROFILE_:
EROFILE@ucsbuxa.bitnet
or
EROFILE@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
Submissions should in all cases be forwarded by e-mail or on
diskette, preferably in the form of an ASCII file.
___________________________________________________________
Nota bene:
Those who do not yet share the privilege of Bitnet access will
miss out on a great resource. Please tell your colleagues in
French and Italian to get on-line with the times and to obtain a
Bitnet or Internet account.
___________________________________________________________
editors:
Charles La Via
Jonathan Walsh
Department of French & Italian
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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SYNAPSE
_Synapse_ is a new electronic literary quarterly published by
Connected Education, Inc. The journal seeks poetry, fiction,
and criticism on any cultural issue, from new and established
writers. _Synapse_ will be issued on MS-DOS and Macintosh
diskettes, and over networks. Subscriptions: $15/year.
(Please state format preference.) Manuscripts should be
submitted in ASCII format (with return postage) on MS-DOS or
Macintosh diskettes to William Dubie, Editor, _Synapse_,
150A Ayer Road, Shirley, Massachusetts 01464. Also, submissions
can be sent to CompuServe account 71571,3323. Payment is in
copies.
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ATHANOR (a new journal)
Directors: Augusto Ponzio and Claude Gandelman.
Published by Bari University (Universita degli Studi di
Bari-Istituto di Filosofia del Linguaggio).
Address 6, via Garruba, 70100 BARI, Itali.
Price: 35,000 Italian Lire or their equivalent in dollars for
one annual issue sent by airmail to be paid to
A.Longo Editore, Via Paolo Costa 33, 48100 Ravenna.
Postal Account 14226484.
ATHANOR is published in three languages: French, Italian, English
and we are always looking for contributions. The first issue on
"The Work and its Meaning" has already appeared. The next issue
is on "Art and Sacrifice/Art as sacrific."
The contents of the issue on "The Work and its Meaning" were as
follows:
Emmanuel Levinas: The work and its meaning.
Claude Gandelman: Le corps comme "signe zero."
Omar Calabrese: Il senso nascosto dell'opera.
Guy Scarpetta: Warhol ou les ruses du sens.
Angela Biancofiore: L'opera e il metodo.
Graham Douglas: Signification, metaphor and molecules.
Alain J.J. Cohen: Du narcisssisme electronique.
Rachele Chiurco: Grammatiche dell'immaginazione.
Carlo Pasi: Il senso della fine.
Nasos Vagenas: De Profundis di Rodokanakis.
Luigi di Sirro: Grafie.
Luigi Ruggiero: Del movimento e della flessibilita.
Dialogo con Iannis Kounellis.
The next issue on "Sacrifice" contains texts by Gandelman, Naomi
Greene (UCSBarbara.CA) on the cinema of Pasolini. Mikhal
Friedman
on "Sacrifice" by Tarkovski. Marc LeBot on "Modern art as
sacrificial ritual." Georges Roque on modern art and Louis Marin
on baroque painting... and many others...
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EDITORS: PHILLIP BANNIGAN, SUSAN HARRIS
EDITORIAL POLICY
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ARTSNET REVIEW is a bimonthly magazine.
This magazine is free to be copied.
To get on our mailing list just email to our above address
[Note: the UUCP address is recommended for those on Bitnet and
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Contributions on any arts issues welcome
Contributors to supply for inclusion with their article an
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background / discipline/s.
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*** EFF News #1.00 (December 10, 1990) ***
*** The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. ***
*** Welcome ***
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Editors: Mitch Kapor (mkapor@eff.org)
Mike Godwin (mnemonic@eff.org)
The EFF has been established to help civilize the electronic
frontier; to make it truly useful and beneficial to everyone, not
just an elite; and to do this in a way that is in keeping with
our society's highest traditions of the free and open flow of
information and communication.
EFF News will present news, information, and discussion about the
world of computer-based communications media that constitute the
electronic frontier. It will cover issues such as freedom of
speech in digital media, privacy rights, censorship, standards of
responsibility for users and operators of computer systems,
policy issues such as the development of national information
infrastructure, and intellectual property.
Views of individual authors represent their own opinions, not
necessarily those of the EFF.
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Article 1: Who's Doing What at the EFF
Article 2: EFF Current Activities - Fall 1990
Article 3: Contributing to the EFF
Article 4: CPSR Computing and Civil Liberties Project
(Marc Rotenberg, Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility)
Article 5: Why Defend Hackers? (Mitch Kapor)
Article 6: The Lessons of the Prodigy Controversy
Article 7: How Prosecutors Misrepresented the Atlanta Hackers
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if you cite the source. Where an individual author has asserted
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permission to reproduce.
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Editorial submissions: effnews@eff.org
We can also be reached at:
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USENET readers are encouraged to read this publication in the
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This publication is also distributed to members of the mailing
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Seminar/Symposium on
Problems of Affirmation in Cultural Theory
October 4-6, 1991
The Society for Critical Exchange will sponsor an intensive
seminar/symposium on "Problems of Affirmation in Cultural
Theory," Oct. 4-6, at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio. Persons interested in participating should
contact either David Downing (English, Indiana Univ. of
Pennsylvania) or James Sosnoski (English, Miami Univ. of Ohio).
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ANNOUNCING KIDS-91
Schools, teachers, parents, and others interested in children
in the age group 10 - 15 are invited to help out with KIDS-91.
The project aims at having children participate in a global
dialog from now and until May 12 1991. Some of it will be
electronic--for those who have access to modems and computers
--some of it will be by mail or in other forms.
We want to collect the childrens' responses to these questions:
1) Who am I?
2) What do I want to be when I grow up?
3) How do I want the world to be better when I grow up?
4) What can I do NOW to help this come true?
We want them to draw or in other creative ways "illustrate"
themselves in their future role/world.
The responses will be turned into an exhibition that will be
sent back to the children of the world.
By mid-January 1991 responses have been received from Japan,
Australia, India, Israel, Norway, Finland, USSR, Latvia, the
United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, the
United States and Canada. The responses are available for
educators and others through the archives of the discussion
list KIDS-91@vm1.nodak.edu. There is also a discussion list
for participating kids.
To subscribe to the discussion list, send e-mail to
listserv@vm1.nodak.edu (or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET) with the
BODY or TEXT of the message containing the command
SUB KIDS-91 Yourfirstname Yourlastname
For more information, contact Odd de Presno, Project Director at
opresno@ulrik.uio.no
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MAGAZINE
An Electronic Hotline/Conference
moderated by
Professor David Abrahamson
New York University Center for Publishing
Interested individuals are invited to participate in an
electronic conference, MAGAZINE Hotline, addressing the
journalistic/communicative/economic/technological issues related
to magazine publishing. Though MAGAZINE's primary focus is
journalistic, it also addresses other magazine-publishing matters
of economic (management, marketing, circulation, production,
research), technological, historical and social importance. In
sum, MAGAZINE explores the history, current state and future
prospects of the American Magazine. Among the topics included
are: magazine editorial trends and practices; journalistic and
management norms in magazine publishing; evolving magazine
technologies (those currently in use and new ones envisioned);
the economics of magazine publishing, including the economic
factors influencing magazine content; the history of magazines;
the role of magazines in social development; educational issues
related to teaching magazine journalism; "laboratory" magazine-
project concepts and resources; and studies and research
exploring the issues above.
The conference is edited and moderated by Professor David
Abrahamson of New York University's Center for Publishing, where
he teaches the editorial segments of the NYU Management Institute
graduate Diploma Course in Magazine Publishing and the Executive
Seminar in Magazine Editorial Management. Prof. Abrahamson is
also the president of Plexus Research/Editorial Consultants, a
management consulting firm, and the author of two teaching texts,
"The Magazine Writing Workbook" and "The Magazine Editing
Workbook."
The MAGAZINE Hotline began discussion on October 1, 1990.
Magazine journalism educators, scholars and students, magazine
publishing professionals and other individuals interested in
magazine issues are encouraged to participate. The MAGAZINE
Hotline is sponsored by New York University's Center for
Publishing and Comserve (the online information and discussion
service for the communication discipline).
Those interested in participating in MAGAZINE can subscribe by
either:
(a) sending an interactive message to COMSERVE@RPIECS with the
following command:
Subscribe Magazine First_Name Last_Name
(Example:) Subscribe Magazine Mary Smith
(b) sending this same command (with no other punctuation or
words) in the message portion of an electronic mail
message addressed to either:
COMSERVE@RPIECS (Bitnet)
COMSERVE@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU (Internet)
The moderator of the MAGAZINE Hotline, David Abrahamson, may be
contacted at:
INTERNET: abrahamson@acfcluster.nyu.edu
BITNET: abrahamson@nyuacf.bitnet
VOICE: (212) 689-5446
FAX: (212) 689-1088
MCI-MAIL: 3567652@mcimail.com
USPS: 165 east 32, ny ny 10016
For more information about Comserve, send an interactive message
or electronic mail message to COMSERVE@RPIECS containing the word
"help" (without quotation marks).
For other questions about how to subscribe to the Hotline, send
an electronic mail message to Comserve's editors at
SUPPORT@RPIECS or write to: Comserve, Dept. of Language,
Literature & Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY 12180.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING: THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING IN
THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
April 19,1991
The fourth 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 1991 conference on Literature, Computers and Writing will
focus on the shared challenges high school and college English
teachers face teaching literature and composition in a computer
environment.
The conference has two primary lines of inquiry:
* how are the English studies canon and curriculum changing in
response to computerized learning?
* how should we design projects for collaborative learning in
literature, computers and writing between high schools or between
high schools and colleges to share pedagogical resources and
methods?
In addition to keynote addresses the conference supports
presentations which can be either demonstrations of exercises (no
longer than five minutes) that work well in the English classroom
or arguments (ten to fifteen minutes long) that explain or
justify a philosophy or method for a particular classroom
practice. Please submit a brief abstract detailing your
demonstration or argument. Panel discussions are also welcome.
Be sure to include your name, high school or college affiliation,
address, and daytime phone number.
Suggested Topics:
1. How can computers develop more active readers of
literature?
2. How can teaching writing teach literature?
3. How can we use computers to teach literary genre or
metaphor?
4. How can we use computers to connect writing to literature?
5. How do computers widen or narrow the concept of literature?
6. How can we use computers to teach the role of audience in
literature and writing?
7. How can rhetoric inform the experience of hypermedia?
8. How can speech-act theory apply to hypermedia?
9. How will hypermedia affect the student's understanding of
critical consensus?
10. How do computer-based research projects affect students'
conception of literary research?
11. How do computers in writing and literature classes change
the role of the teacher?
12. How can we use computers to connect high school teachers to
high school teachers and/or college teachers?
13. What resources are available to facilitate high
school-to-high school and college-to-high school
collaboration?
14. How can student collaborative writing, network writing, or
talk-writing, be integrated into a literature class?
Dates for Submission of Proposals
The submission deadline is February 15, 1991. Notification of
acceptance is March 10, 1991.
Send proposals and requests for information to
Department of English
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, New York 11568
Attn: Ann McLaughlin (516) 686-7557
or
r0mill01@ulkyvx.bitnet
72347.2767@compuserve.com
rroyar on NYIT technet (CoSy)
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Call for Proposals
Society for Literature and Science
Annual Conference
October 10-13, 1991
Montreal
International, interdisciplinary organization invites proposals
for papers and sessions on any aspect of the conference theme:
Science and Literature -- Beyond Cultural Construction
Possible topics might include:
-- l'ecriture de la connaissance et la connaissance de
l'ecriture
-- the popular scientific essay
-- literature as technology
-- practices in professional life
-- texts and contexts
-- disciplinary and interdisciplinary language and values
Alternative formats -- workshops, debates, poster sessions,
roundtables, works-in-progress -- will be welcomed
enthusiastically.
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 1991
For further information and for submission guidelines, contact:
David Lux
Bryant College
450 Douglas Pike
Smithfield, RI 02917
Bitnet: LDM116 at URIACC
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II INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
August 04-09, 1991.
II WINTER INSTITUTE
July 8 to August 3, 1991
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
THE INTER-RELATIONS BETWEEN MENTAL AND VERBAL DISCOURSE
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
c a l l f o r p a p e r s
Although the Greek term "Logos" referred both to language and
to cognition, suggesting an intimate relationship between them,
this relation has been traditionally assumed to be relatively
simple: in production, a language-independent train of thought
("mental discourse") is translated (or "encoded") into language
("verbal discourse"); and in reception, verbal discourse is
decoded into its appropriate mental counterpart.
Such a picture of the inter-relations between the two most
important of our intellectual activities has been challenged in
the course of history on many grounds. Most recently, with the
development of empirical disciplines such as artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, semantics, pragmatics,
neurophysiology, cognitive anthropology, and others -- interested
both in language and in mental processes -- and with the renewed
and intense interest of philosophy in these issues, it is clear
that the traditional picture is, to say the least, excessively
simplistic. Given the complexity of the two activities involved,
and the wealth of information on each of them, a proficuous study
of their inter-relations can only be the result of a
co-operative, multi-disciplinary endeavor. It is the purpose of
this Encounter to provide a forum for, and thereby to stimulate,
such an endeavor.
Here are some precisions concerning the kind of contributions and
topics that the organizers are seeking:
1. By choosing the term `discourse', we intend to stress our
interest in processes (mental, verbal), rather than on products.
The latter are to be discussed only in so far as they illuminate
the former.
2. The focus should be on the inter-relations of mental and
verbal discourse, rather than on independent analyses of each.
3. The theme may be envisaged from a number of points of view,
varying in aspect, methodology, and level of analysis. The
following list is not intended to be exhaustive:
METHODOLOGY: phenomenological description; experimental studies;
statistical studies; epistemological analyses;...
LEVELS: historical; comparative; metalinguistic; philosophical;
pragmatic;...
ASPECTS: description and theory; acquisition, development, loss;
pathology; neurophysiology; therapy; applications;...
Any particular kind of mental/verbal interaction can be looked at
through the lense of a specific combination of aspect,
methodology, and level. For instance, suppose one is interested
in the mental/verbal inter-relations involved in the production
and understanding of jokes. One can then investigate how such an
ability is, say, acquired; one's methodology can be, say,
experimental; and one can, say, either investigate only one
culture, or else compare the acquisition of the ability across
cultures.
Different combinations of the above points of view are likely to
be characteristic of different disciplines, or of various
multi-disciplinary combinations, already established or radically
new.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
1. Deadline for submission of 500 words abstracts, in 4
camera-ready copies: February 28, 1991.
2. Address for correspondence:
International Encounter in the Philosophy of Language
CLE/UNICAMP
C.P. 6133
13081 Campinas SP BRAZIL
e-mail (bitnet): eifl@bruc.ansp.br
3. Fees:
U$ 40.00 - if paid until if paid until March 15, 1991
U$ 80.00 - if paid after if paid after March 16, 1991
4. Official Languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English .
5. Winter Institute: There will be a Winter Institute, prior to
the Encounter, for graduate students and faculty. This consists
of up to six one-month intensive courses granting graduate
credits. A list of the courses will be available early in 1991.
Faculty will include well-known foreign and local researchers in
fields related to the theme of the Encounter. Fellowships for
Brazilian and Latin-american students are being negotiated with
financing agencies.
6. Invited Scholars: So far, the following foreign scholars have
agreed to participate as plenary lecturers: James Higginbotham
(MIT), Yorick Wilks (COmputing Research Laboratory, Las Cruces,
New Mexico), Stephen Stich (Rutgers), John Perry (Stanford
University), Humberto Maturana (Universidad de Chile), Frantisek
Danes (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences). Yorick Wilks,
Frantisek Danes and James Higginbotham will also teach graduate
courses during the Winter Institute.
7. Organizing committee:
Marcelo Dascal, chair
Edson Francozo, secretary
Claudia T. G. de Lemos
Eduardo R. J. Guimaraes
Itala L. D'Ottaviano
Rodolfo Ilari, Winter Institute (director)
Please, fill in the form below and mail it as soon as possible.
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Registration Form (fill in with block letters)
Name:____________________________________________________________
Street
Address:___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Country:___________________________________________________
Check those which apply:
__ I WILL contribute a paper. Title: ______________________
________________________________________________________
__ I WILL NOT contribute a paper, but will attend the
Encounter.
__ I wish to attend the WINTER INSTITUTE.
__ I would like to receive further information as soon as
available.
__ Included is cheque no.____________for US $_________.
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Send the registration form to:
International Encounter in the Philosophy of Language
CLE/UNICAMP
C.P. 6133
13081 Campinas SP BRAZIL
e-mail (bitnet): eifl@bruc.ansp.br
You can send your registration through e-mail. In this case,
append your 500-word abstract to the e-mail message. An
acknowledgement will be forwarded within a week's time.
PLEASE, PRINT AND POST
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programme of POSTMODERNIST POSTMORTEM (held on January 2, 1991)
Claude Gandelman. Introductory words on the subject: "Various
interpretations of the POSTMODERNIST concept... is there an
"after"?
David Gurevitch (Philosophy, Bar Ilan University):"Postmod:
rejection of ideology and rejection of the 'avant-garde'
conception".
Mikhal Friedmann (Tel-Aviv University)"Postmodernist Cinema: from
Godard to Godard".
Dagan Moshli (Aechitecture Department, The Israel Institute of
Technology - Technion): "The postmod-deconstructivist
transition".
Sanford Sheymann (Curator of the University Gallery):"On a
postmod painter: Robert Yarbur".
Claudine Elnekaveh (Haifa University). "Postmodernist theater in
Spain".
The afternoon session was devoted to two round-tables:
1. Roundtable session around the book of Brian McHale (Porter
Institute, Tel-Aviv University):Post-Modernist Fiction.
Brian McHale answered the numerous questions that mainly focused
on two main problems: his division of fiction into ontological
types and epistemological types; and his concept of "breaking the
ontological frames" as a characteristic of postmod devices.
2. The second round-table was devoted to the state of
postmodernism in French letters. According to Jacqueline Michel
(Haifa University) none of the contemporary leading French poets
use the term "postmodern" though some of them seem to be heavily
under the influence of postmodernist American poetry. Sylvio
Yeshuah (Tel-Aviv Univ.) evoked the "NON FINITO" component in
Postmodernism and the relation between postmod literature and
"the fragment". David Mendelson (Tel-Aviv University) evoked the
Bible as the source of specific postmodernist games with
typography.
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Sessions on SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND TECHNOLOGY
at the Southwestern Social Science Association
Annual Meetings in San Antonio, Texas.
DATES FOR THE MEETINGS ARE MARCH 27 - 30, 1991.
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: CONSTRUCTION, SELECTION, AND DECONSTRUCTION
Chair: Raymond A. Eve, University of Texas at Arlington
1. "Information Technology as Instantiation of Cultural
Knowledge." Brian Moore, University of Texas at Dallas.
2. "Knowledge as Metaphor." Gretchen Sween, University of
Texas at Dallas.
3. "The Selection and Ordering of Knowledge." John Pester.
University of Texas at Dallas.
4. "Some Social Implications of Chaos Theory." Alex
Argyros, University of Texas at Dallas.
Discussant: Alex Argyros, University of Texas at Dallas
SCIENTICE AND LEGITIMATION: SOME CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Larry Stern, Collin Co. Community College
5. "The Autonomous Scientific Authority of an Unorthodox
Theory about AIDS." Christopher P. Toumey. North
Carolina State University.
6. "The Cultural Basis of American Medical Technology:
Implications for Health Care." Kathryn J. Luchok,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
7. "Cultural Risk: An Analysis of the Social Implications of
Biotechnology." Will D. Boggs, The University of Texas
at Austin.
8. "The Reception of Extrodinary Scientific Claims." Larry
Stern, Collin Co. Community College.
9. "Departmental Structure and Scientific Productivity."
Thomas K. Pinhey, Cal Poly State University and Michael
D. Grimes, LSU.
Discussant: Raymond A. Eve, University of Texas at Arlington
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