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MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM is now available from MIT Press. This
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l'Ecole Normale Superieure)
Pourquoi "clearinghouse" ?
Parce que l'ambition de cette structure n'est pas d'etre
seulement un "centre de recherches", mais aussi un centre de
rencontres, de partage, d'information et de critique constructive
mutuelles, de mise au point et de clarification. _Webster's_
partage sa definition du terme entre "le fait de clarifier" et un
lieu de "collection, de traitement et de distribution de
l'information"; le lieu, autrement dit, non seulement d'une
reflexion solide et formatrice mais aussi d'une definition
disciplinaire collective.
Pourquoi "Clinamens" ?
Parce que l'entreprise ne pourra, dans cette optique, avoir
sens et valeur que si chacun accepte le detour, le "pas de cote",
l'ecart qui, l'eloignant un peu de ses preoccupations les plus
directes ou quotidiennes, le rapprochera de ceux qui, dans des
domaines adjacents, auront consenti le meme effort et renforcera
ainsi son entreprise.
Lucrece decrivait par le terme de "clinamen" la "legere
deviation des atomes" qui permet leur rencontre et leur
"accrochage". Ce detournement de vocation, cet "ambitus", cette
declinaison, Marx y lisait le signe d'une volonte arrachee au
destin, d'une liberte plus forte que les determinismes... Faire
travailler ensemble des "anglicistes" et les inviter a fertiliser
mutuellement leur travail en prenant conscience des savoirs qui
les rassemblent et des interrogations qu'ils ont en commun plutot
qu'en se renfermant sur le champ clos de leur stricte specialite
-pratique un peu trop repandue- n'est pas une mince ambition.
Il peut sembler qu'uelle vaille la peine de s'en donner les
moyens.
A terme, Clinamens organisera
- Des seminaires de methodologie critique
- Des seminaires de "work-in-progress"
- Des cycles de conferences
- Des debats contradictoires
- Des equipes de recherches "sous-disciplinaires"
- Une equipe de recherche theorique interdisciplinaire
- Des colloques
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actvites de quatre equipes de recherches. (Voir le calendrier
reproduit au verso.) On se renseignera sur le detail de ces
dernieres en prenant l'attache des responsables:
1) "Incidences de la psychanalyse sur les etudes
anglicistes" Responsable Patrick Di Mascio
(Tel : 43-38-56-47)
2) "Episteme" (Epistemologie et litterature 16e-18e
siecles)
Responsable Gisele Venet (Tel : 60-46-56-63)
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concernee.
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An International Conference On
The Sociology and Anthropology of Performance:
Public and Private, May 29-31, 1992, Ottawa
Submissions are invited for an international symposium which
explores "performance" with reference to both public and private
domains as well as the links between the two. Scholars with an
interest in the performing arts (e.g. dance, music, media etc.)
as well as those with interest in private performance (e.g.
ritual, meditation, shamanism etc.) are invited to attend a
three-day symposium at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
With regard to public performance, our focus is on the social
science of the performing arts (i.e. demonstrative acts involving
skills). Examples would include:
- dance choreography as a special form of communication
- theatre as a vehicle of social expression
- music and musicology as social expression or elitism
- media and performing arts
- sacred Vs. the secular in performing arts
- public ritual performance (Puja, ritual-drama etc.)
Private performance focuses on the social science of the use of
demonstrative acts in the private domain and includes:
- meditation
- sadhana, personal ritual-drama
- physical and mental yogas
- the ritual control of experience
- ritual transformation
- ritual or transpersonal epistemologies
- esoteric epistemologies
These categories are neither mutually exclusive or
exhaustive. You are welcome to suggest topics in relation to our
broad outline by email or snail mail. Please include a title and
a short abstract. We also require a brief C.V. which is needed
to bolster our funding applications.
Mail your submissions to: Email submissions to:
BRIAN_GIVEN@CARLETON.CA
V. Subramaniam Brian J. Given
Political Science Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University Carleton U.
Ottawa, Ont. Ottawa, Ont.
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I'M THINKING OF SOMETHING ROUND: BEUYS' CHALKBOARDS
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
I am a San Francisco artist interested in art as experimentation. I
am soliciting individuals who are interested in participating in a
telecommunications art experiment/project. This project will attempt
to gather ideas from around the world. I have created a file that
I would like to have forwarded around the world, where each individual
me,involved would add an idea to a list. Once the file is returned to
I will attempt to execute an idea from the list.
Those who are interested in this project, please send me your address
and I will mail you the file and detailed instructions.
Elliot Anderson
San Francisco State University
eliota@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
"An Equal Opportunity Artist...""
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dis*Klo'zher
call for papers
The editorial collective of disClosure is pleased to announce that it
is now accepting submissions for its second issue. disClosure is a
social theory journal edited by graduate students at the Uniersity of
Kentucky, and is designed to provide a forum of multi-disciplinary
dialogue between the humanities and the the social sciences. By
exploring alternative forms of discourse, our goal is to address
contemporary intellectual concerns through a rigorous examination
of history, space, and representation. As our title suggests, we
encourage fresh perspectives that trancend the strictures and
structures set in place by traditional disciplary boundaries.
______________________________________________________________________
Issue 2- "The Buying and Selling of Culture"
Deadline - 1 March 1992
Submissions for the second issue could address the following
issues:
Commodifactions of: PLACE, HERITAGE, PRACTICE, the IMAGE, EDUCATION,
IDEAS, CONTRACEPTION, RELIGION, the "SELF" &
"POTENTIAL",the SPECTACLE, ART
Aesthetics and: TECHNOLOGY/RESISTANCE/COMMODIFCATION/THEORY/
DOMINATION
Resistance: AVANT GARDE? POSTMODERN? GRASS ROOTS? SUICIDAL?
AUTONOMY?
______________________________________________________________________
We accept submissions from all theoretical perspecitves and all genres
(essay, interview, review, poetry, artwork and others), from both
inside and outside the academy. disClosure is a refereed journal whose
selections are based solely on quality and originaltiy. Graduate
studetns, factulty and nonacademics are equally encouraged to submit
works. Send three copies of manuscripts fromated to MLA guidlines,
double-spaced, and less than 10,000 words to:
disClosure
106 Student Center
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0026
PHONE: 606/2572931
EMAIL: DISCLOSURE@UKCC.UKY.EDU
to order an issue, please send $5 (individual) or $10 (library) in the
form of a check or money order payable to disClosure.
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NEW JOURNAL: STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY, a journal devoted to the study
of psychoanalysis and cultural criticism in the humanities, social
sciences, and fine arts, invites the submission of manuscripts in
either current MLA or APA style. Psychoanalytic here is used in the
broadest sense to include Freudian, neo-Freudian, Lacanian, Jungian,
British school, ego psychology, etc., etc., perspectives.
We are also interested in locating people interested in reviewing books
for us. If you would like more information, please contact me via
e-mail at ra471av@tcuamus or via "snail mail" at
Christina Murphy, Editor
STUDIES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Box 32875
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX 76129
(817) 921-7221
Thanks. I look forward to hearing from you and receiving subscriptions
and submissions.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
* SYMPOSIUM: THE PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA PROJECT *
* computer-supported cooperative development *
* of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy *
as part of the
13th International Congress on Cybernetics
NAMUR (Belgium), August 24-28, 1992
After the succesful organization of a symposium on "Cybernetics and
Human Values" at the 8th World Congress of Systems and Cybernetics
(New York, June 1990), and of the "1st Workshop of the Principia
Cybernetica Project" (Brussels, July 1991), the third official
activity of the Principia Cybernetica Project will be a Symposium
held at the 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics. The official congress
languages are English and French.
The informal symposium will allow researchers interested in
collaborating in the Project to meet. The emphasis will be on
discussion, rather than on formal presentation. Contributors are
encouraged to read some of the available texts on the PCP in order
to get acquainted with the main issues (Newsletter available on
request from the Symposium Chairman).
Symposium Theme
Principia Cybernetica is a collaborative attempt to develop a
complete and consistent cybernetic philosophy, moving towards a
transdisciplinary unification of the domain of Systems Theory and
Cybernetics. PCP is meta-cybernetical in that we intend to use
cybernetic tools to develop and analyze cybernetic theory. These
include the computer-based tools of hypertext, electronic mail,
and knowledge structuring software.
PCP is to be developed as a dynamic, multi-dimensional conceptual
network. The basic architecture consists of nodes, containing
expositions of concepts using different media, connected by links,
representing the associations that exist between the nodes. Both
nodes and links can belong to different types expressing different
semantic and practical categories.
PCP will focus on the clarification of fundamental concepts and
principles of the cybernetics and systems domain. Concepts include:
Complexity, Information, Variety, Freedom, Control, Self-
organization, Emergence, etc. Principles include the Laws of
Requisite Variety, of Requisite Hierarchy, and of Regulatory
Models.
The PCP philosophy is systemic and evolutionary, based on the
spontaneous emergence of higher levels of organization or control
(metasystem transitions) through blind variation and natural
selection. It includes:
a) a metaphysics, based on processes or actions as ontological
primitives,
b) an epistemology, which understands knowledge as constructed
by the subject, but undergoing selection by the environment;
c) an ethics, with the continuance of the process of evolution
as supreme value.
Philosophy and implementation of PCP are united by their common
framework based on cybernetic and evolutionary principles: the
computer-support system is intended to amplify the spontaneous
development of knowledge which forms the main theme of the
philosophy.
Papers can be submitted on one or several of the following
topics:
The Principia Cybernetica Project
Cybernetic Concepts and Principles
Evolutionary Philosophy
Knowledge Development
Computer-Support Systems for Collaborative Theory Building
Submission of papers
People wishing to present a paper in the Principia Cybernetica
symposium should quickly send the application form, together
with an abstract of max. 1 page, to the addresses of the
Symposium chairman AND of the Congress secretariat (IAC) below.
They will be notified about acceptance not later than 2 months
after receipt, and will receive instructions for the
preparation of the final text. In principle, all application
forms should be received by December 31, 1991, but it may be
possible to come in late. People wishing to present a paper
in a different symposium can directly submit their abstract
to the secretariat.
For submissions of papers to, or further information about,
the Principia Cybernetica symposium, contact the symposium
chairman:
Dr. Francis Heylighen
PO-PESP, Free Univ. Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels,
Belgium
Phone +32 - 2 - 641 25 25 Email fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be
Fax +32 - 2 - 641 24 89 Telex 61051 VUBCO B
For congress registration, or further information about the
congress, contact the secretariat:
International Association for Cybernetics
Palais des Expositions, Place Ryckmans, B-5000 Namur,
Belgium
Phone +32 - 81 - 73 52 09 Email cyb@info.fundp.ac.be
Fax +32 - 81 - 23 09 45
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PERFORATIONS, an Atlanta-based journal of language, art, and
technology, is seeking contributors for a special issue with the
theme: AFTER THE BOOK. This issue will be devoted to work about
the demise of The Book As We Knew It, the rise of hypertext, and
the possibilities for writing in the world post-ink-and-linearity.
We're particularly interested in in work approaching hypertext
from film and video theory, in critical work on hyperfiction, in
hypertexts on-disk or in print extracts, and in work challenging
our position that hypertext, in its transcendence of the
restrictions of the paper book and the one-way movie, represents
writing's first true step beyond Sterne/Joyce and film/video.
Essays, print and graphic collages, fictions, or hybrids of any
sort are welcome. No restrictions on style, no minimum or
maximum length; we're hoping that contributors will send us
serious and adventurous work that they might hesitate to submit
to a more traditional journal.
Deadline: March 15, 1992 (negotiable for authors preceding
submissions with queries). Macintosh-readable disks preferred,
all formats acceptable. Send queries and submissions to:
libgess@emuvm1.bitnet/Richard Gess, Guest Editor, PERFORATIONS,
428 Oakview Rd, Decatur, GA 30030.
About PERFORATIONS: Atlanta's Public Domain alternative arts
collective published the first issue of PERFORATIONS in September
1991. PEFORATIONS is a journal where theorists, critics, and
artists contrbute equally to examinations of current issues in
language, art, and technology. Issues are theme-oriented: Fall
1991 was about "The Post-mortem Condition," and Winter 1992
(now in press) is about "Conspiracies, Esthetics and Politics,"
and features an interview with Jean-Francois Lyotard and a
hyperfiction disk. Spring 1992, due in May, will be "After the
Book;" issues beyond will consider "Dreams, Bodies, and
Technologies," "Multi-, Mini-, and Quasi-Culturalisms," and
"Virtual and Performative Architectures." PERFORATIONS is
distributed regionally to a growing audience of working artists
in all genres and scholars in all disciplines; publication in
PERFORATIONS is a way of communicating beyond the usually
suspected readers for both artists and academics. For
subscription/back issue information, contact
libgess@emuvm1.bitnet.
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The next issue of the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)
Centre for Textual Studies newsletter _Computers & Texts_
will be centred on the use of computing in the areas of
Philosophy/Logic. This is a preliminary call for submissions
by anyone interested in this subject. Format and deadline details
are available upon request.
The areas we are hoping to cover in the issue are:
An overview of the use of computers and Philosophy
Electronic Texts: their availability and usefulness
Simulation packages
Review of Ethics software
Review of Logic Software
Bulletin Boards, Electronic mail, and other computer
-based resources of use to Philosophers
Please feel free to suggest other areas which you think should
be included.
Thanks in advance,
Stuart Lee
Research Officer
CTI Centre for Textual Studies
Oxford University Computing Service
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel:0865-273221
Fax:0865-273275
E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX
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TO ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS:
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Frontenac Review
Dept. of French Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
Telephone: (613) 545-2090
Fax: (613) 545-6300
Email: warderh@qucdn.queensu.ca
January 1992
The Frontenac Review invites you to submit articles on The
'Nouveau Roman'for its winter 1991 edition (number 8) and on
Acadian literature for its Fall 1992 edition (number 9).
Initial submissions should follow the guidelines established
by the M.L.A. If your article is accepted we will ask you to
submit the same article on diskette (IBM compatible), in
Wordperfect 5.1
format.
The committee will not be responsible for returning articles.
All candidates will be informed of the committee's decision
within a reasonable time limit.
The Frontenac Review is searched annually by the Bibliographie
der Franzoesischen Literaturwissenschaft and by the MLA
International Bibliography.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
** The Nouveau Roman (no. 8) -- January 30, 1992 **
Acadian Literature (no. 9) -- September 1, 1992
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The ACH will be organising two sessions at the 1992 MLA
Convention, to be held December 27-30, 1992, in New York City,
around Mark Olsen's position paper proposing a new direction
for computer-aided studies of literature (summary below).
Please contact Paul Fortier -- FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET .
Deadline for submission of paper or abstract March 1, 1992 to
FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET. People presenting papers at the the MLA
Convention MUST be members of the MLA. Announcement of
acceptance April 1, 1992.
---------------
Signs, Symbols and Discourses: A New Direction
for Computer-aided Literature Studies.
Mark Olsen*
University of Chicago
mark@gide.uchicago.edu
Abstract
Computer-aided Literature Studies have failed to have a
significant impact on the field as a whole. This failure is
traced to a concentration on how a text achieves its
literary effect by the examination of subtle semantic or
grammatical structures in single texts or the works of indi-
vidual authors. Computer systems have proven to be very
poorly suited to such refined analysis of complex language.
Adopting such traditional objects of study has tended to
discourage researchers from using the tool to ask questions
to which it is better adapted, the examination of large
amounts of simple linguistic features. Theoreticians such
as Barthes, Foucault and Halliday show the importance of
determining the lingusitic and semantic characteristics of
the language used by the author and her/his audience.
Current technology, and databases like the TLG or ARTFL,
facilitate such wide-spectrum analyses. Computer-aided
methods are thus capable of opening up new areas of study,
which can potentially transform the way in which literature
is studied.
[ ... ]
--------------------
[A complete version of this paper is now available through the
HUMANIST fileserver, s.v. OLSEN MLA92. You may obtain a copy
by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST --
either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to
ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say
interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET OLSEN MLA92
HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to
ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only
line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems
should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you
have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate
alternatives.]
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NEW JOURNAL FOR 1992
COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK (CSCW)
An International Journal
Editorial Team:
LIAM BANNON JOHN BOWERS
Copenhagen Business School Dept. of Psychology
Institute of Computer & Univ. of Manchester
Systems Sciences, Denmark U.K.
CHARLES GRANTHAM MIKE ROBINSON
Dept. of Organizational Studies Centre for Innovation&
Univ. of San Francisco Cooperative Technology
USA Univ. of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
KJELD SCHMIDT SUSAN LEIGH STAR
Cognitive Systems Group Dept. of Sociology &
Ris~ National Laboratory Social Anthropology
Denmark University of Keele
U.K.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): An International
Journal will be devoted to innovative research in Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It will provide an
interdisciplinary forum for the debate and exchange of ideas
concerning theoretical, practical, technical and social issues
in CSCW.
The journal arises as a timely response to the growing
interest in the design, implementation and use of technical
systems (including computing, information, and communications
technologies) which support people working cooperatively.
Equally, the journal is concerned with studies of the process
of cooperative work itself - studies intended to motivate the
design of new technical systems, and to develop both theory
and praxis in the field. The journal will encourage
contributions from a wide range of disciplines and
perspectives within the social, computing and allied human and
information sciences.
In general, the journal will facilitate the discussion of all
issues which arise in connection with the support requirements
of cooperative work. It is intended that the journal will be
of interest to a wide readership through its coverage of
research related to - inter alia - groupware, socio-technical
system design, theoretical models of cooperative work,
computer mediated communication, human-computer interaction,
group decision support systems (GDSS), coordination systems,
distributed systems, situated action, studies of cooperative
work and practical action, organisation theory and design, the
sociology of technology, explorations of innovative design
strategies, management and business science perspectives,
artificial intelligence and distributed AI approaches to
cooperation, library and information sciences, and all manner
of technical innovations devoted to the support of cooperative
work including electronic meeting rooms, teleconferencing
facilities, electronic mail enhancements, real-time and
asynchronous technologies, desk-top conferencing, shared
editors, video and multi-media systems. In addition, we
welcome studies of the social, cultural, moral, legal and
political implications of CSCW systems.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Manuscripts (5 Copies) relating to any of the above-mentioned
themes and topics are invited for submission. Manuscripts
should be submitted to the Journals Editorial Office at the
address below:
Editorial Office (COSU)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 17
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Detailed instructions for authors and other information (such
as submission via email or on disk) can be obtained from the
above address or by electronic mail on: HUSOC@KAP.NL (Please
mark your message CSCW).
______________________________________________________________
INFORMATION REQUEST FORM
Please fill in the information form and send to:
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Att. M. van der Linden
P.O.Box 989
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Email: husoc@kap.nl
O Please send me a FREE SAMPLE COPY of Computer Supported
Cooperative Work
O Please send me your brochure listing publications in
Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence
NAME:_______________________________________________________
ADDRESS:____________________________________________________
CITY:________________________________ STATE:________________
COUNTRY:____________________________________________________
POSTAL CODE:_________________________ DATE:_________________
EMAIL:______________________________________________________
PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT IN BLOCKLETTERS
IF YOU REPLY BY EMAIL, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME AND
POSTAL ADDRESS.
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NC92 TELENETLINK CONGRESS
A Collective, Ubiquitous, Congress In Progress
Networking dialogue has been central to mail art and
telecommunication art projects. Telecommunciation artists, for
example, use personal computers to download work for modification,
detournement, or appropriation into other artworks--creative
authorship is shared. Mail artists also share co-authorship in
postal exchanges. The recycled surfaces or contents of mailing
tubes, envelopes, and parcels travel thousands of miles around
the world as many artists alter a single item. Gradually, a
global collage of artist postage stamps, rubber stamped images,
cryptic messages, and slogans emerge.
As NC92 facilitator, I have formed a "Telenetlink
Congress" whose purpose is centered on reaching readers and the
telematic community through magazines, bulletin board services
like NYC's "Echo," Chicago's "Artbase" BBS, and by accessing
internationally distributed USENET newsgroups such as alt artcom,
and rec arts fine. I view these collective efforts as a
ubiquitous "congress in process" extending throughout the
1992 Networker Congress year.
Participation may involve any form of
telecommunication exchange, e-mail, fax, video phones, etc. Send
your Telenetlink Congress statements and project proposals via
(e)mail to Cathryn L. Welch@dartmouth.edu. or fax to Chuck
Welch, Telenetlink Congress (603) 448-9998.
Participating in the NC92 Telenetlink Congress begins when
readers send a brief one page statement about "how you envision
your own role as a networker." Proposals and projects that
would interconnect the mail art and telematic communities are
also welcome. Periodic updates concerning telenetlink project
initiatives will be posted over Usenet newsgroups rec. arts
fine and alt. artcom. All statements received from artists
in the telematic community will be part of the NC92 "Networker
Database Congress," a collection that will be made available
for research at the University of Iowa's "Alternative
Traditions in the Contemporary Arts Archive."
*Art that networks explores and expands the communication
process as it encourages democratic access to free
communication. By cutting through social, cultural and
political hierarchies, we can dissolve boundaries and discover
corresponding worlds of mail and telecommunications art.*
# # # # *** Further information about scheduled NC92 events is
available by writing to these facilitators:
H.R. Fricker, Buro fur kunstlerische Umtriebe, CH 9043 Trogen,
Switzerland Peter W. Kaufmann, Bergwisenstrasse 11, 8123
Ebmatingen, Switzerland Netlink South America: Clemente Padin,
Casilla C. Central 1211, Montevideo,Uruguay
Netlink East: Chuck Welch, PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755
Netlink South: John Held Jr. 7919 Goforth, Dallas, Texas
75238
Netlink Midwest: Mark Corroto, PO Box 1382, Youngstown, Ohio
44501
Netlink Subspace: Steve Perkins, 221 W. Benton, Iowa City, Iowa
52246
Netlink West: Lloyd Dunn, PO Box 162, Oakdale, Iowa 52319 ***
# # # #
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________________________________________________________________
| LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING: |
| |
| FORGING CONNECTIONS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL |
| |
| AND COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOMS |
| |
| April 3, 1992 |
|______________________________________________________________|
The fifth annual Computers and English Conference for high
school and
college teachers of writing.
Sponsored by the Program in English New York Institute of
Technology
The conference has two primary themes:
o how computers and specifically computer networks can be
used to ally high school and college teachers of English,
and
o how computers are changing the way literature is created,
taught,understood and written about.
Possible Topics
o Computer access in a muliticultural environment
o Computers and the changing definitions of literacy
o Growing interest in desktop publishing for students and
faculty
o Teleconferencing and distance learning
o Classroom uses of on-line databases and searches
o Classroom uses of hypertext and hypermedia
o Computer discussion groups for students and/or teachers
o Varied features of personal contact in an electronic
environment
o Computers and the learning-disabled student
o Continuing teacher education and telecommunications
o Demonstrations of software programs you have designed
o Effects of computers on testing and assessing
individually or collaboratively composed writing
Send requests for information to:
Department of English
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, New York 11568
Att: Ann McLaughlin (516) 686-7557.
Conference Fee: $50.00 (prior to conference date) $35.00 for
matriculated graduate students. Fee includes coffee and buffet
luncheon. Hotel accomodations available near campus at East
Norwich Inn (East Norwich, NY).
________________________________________________________________
|Pre-Registration Form |
| |
|Please register me for the Fifth-Annual NYIT Computers and |
|Writing Conference: |
| |
| Name: _________________________________________________ |
| Address: _________________________________________________ |
| _________________________________________________ |
| _________________________________________________ |
| E-Mail: _________________________________________________ |
| School: _________________________________________________ |
| Amount Enclosed: $ ___.___ |
| Mail completed form to |
| Department of English |
| New York Institute of Technology |
| Old Westbury, New York 11568 |
| Att: Ann McLaughlin (516) 686-7557. |
|________________________________________________________________|
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SECTION on SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND TECHNOLOGY at the
SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ANNUAL MEETINGS in AUSTIN, TEXAS
MARCH 27-31, 1992.
CONTACT: Raymond Eve
****PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED****
I would like to mention to you (somewhat belatedly, I
fear), the upcoming section on "Science, Knowledge, and
Technology" to be held at the Southwestern Social Science
Association Annual Meetings in Austin, Texas. Dates for the
meeting's paper sessions will be March 27 - 31, 1992. The
S,K, and T paper sessions will probably be scheduled on
Thursday and/or Friday of that week.
Unfortunately, the SWSA forgot to include the listing
of the "Science, Knowledge, and Technology" section (and a
section organizer -- yours truly) in the initial call for
papers. This was an oversight, and you may be sure that the
section will exist again in '92.
The section has only existed for two previous years,
but the response has been truly outstanding, and
interestingly, excellent papers of common interest were
given by scholars as diverse as sociologists, arts and
literature faculty, anthropologists, and physical science
faculty.
I would also like to take this opportunity to draw your
attention to a "Workshop for the Disciplines" session I've
been asked to organize on Friday morning at 10 a.m. of the
meetings. It will be entitled "Postmodern Culture:
Convenient Myth or Imperative Paradigm?". This session has
several very well known people scheduled for it, and their
disciplines include: literature, architecture, political
science, and sociology. We should have on hand many
individuals interested in most postmodern theory and in
chaos theory, as well as many other interesting S, K, and T
topics.
Hope we will see you in Austin in the spring!
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POSTECH@WEBER.UCSD.EDU -- DISCUSSION GROUP ON
POST-STRUCTURALISM AND TECHNOLOGY
Phil Agre (UC San Diego) and John Bowers (Univ. of Manchester) have
started a netmail discussion group on post-structuralism and
technology. (You can define those terms however you like.) To be
added, send a short note to postech-request@weber.ucsd.edu. Make
sure to include a network address that's accessible from the
Internet (me@here.bitnet, uucpnode!me@gateway.somewhere.edu,
me@machine.here.ac.uk, me@ibm.com, whatever). We'll collect
addresses for a month or so and then we'll invite everyone to send
a note to the group introducing themselves and advertising their
work.
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* *
* East-West Conference *
* on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education *
* *
* April 6-9, 1992 *
* Moscow, Russia *
* *
* SECOND REVISED ANNOUNCEMENT *
* *
* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *
* *
****************************************************
The aims of the East-West Conference on Emerging Computer
Technologies in Education are to provide a forum for the exchange of
ideas between Eastern and Western scientists and to present to the
Soviet educational community the current state-of-the-art on the
theory and practice of using emerging computer-based technology in
education. The Technical Programme includes invited talks,
presentations of about 80 research/development and review papers,
posters, and demonstrations. An exhibition of educational hardware
and software products is also anticipated.
The conference is designed to cover the following subfields of
advanced research in the field of computers and education:
- Artificial Intelligence and Education
- Educational Multi-Media and Hyper-Media
- Learning Environments, Microworlds and Simulation
The Conference is organised and sponsored by: Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), International Centre for
Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), and Soviet Association
for Artificial Intelligence (SAAI).
The Conference will take place in the ICSTI Building in Moscow.
Information
~~~~~~~~~~~
For further information please contact:
Conference content and program:
Dr Peter Brusilovsky (eastwest@plb.icsti.su)
Accomodation and visa support:
Mr Vladislav Pavlov (use the conference FAX number).
Registration: Dr Viacheslav Rykov (use the conference FAX number).
Exhibition: Dr Jury Gornostaev (enir@ccic.icsti.msk.su)
Conference addresses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
Kuusinen str. 21b, Moscow 125252, Russia
E-mail: eastwest@plb.icsti.su or eastwest%plb.icsti.su@ussr.eu.net
Telex: 411925 MCNTI
FAX: +7 095 943 0089
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ENVIRONMENT AND THE LATINO IMAGINATION
* * Conference announcement * *
Cornell University will host a conference on "Environment and the
Latino Imagination" that will involve the participation of
environmentalists, artists, poets, activists, and other invited
speakers who will address one of the holes in mainstream environmental
research--the persectives of U.S. Latinos and their ways of imagining
their relationship to their environment.
The conference will take place April 30-May 2, l992.
Please direct inquiries to:
Debra A. Castillo or Barbara Lynch
Dept. Romance Studies Environmental Toxicology
Goldwin Smith Hall Fernow Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
or bitnet to bgcy@cornella
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SWIP-L
Announcing the formation of a new e-mail list called the SWIP-L, an
information and discussion list for members of the Society for Women
in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist philosophy.
To subscribe to this list send the following one-line message to
LISTSERV@CFRVM or LISTSERV@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU
Subscribe SWIP-L
To post messages to the list send them to SWIP-L@CFRVM or to SWIP-L@
CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU
The idea of the list is to have a place to share information about
SWIP meetings and other feminist philosophy meetings, calls for papers,
jobs for feminist philosophers, as well as to engage in more substantive
discussion of issues related to feminist philosophy. While it is open
to people who are not SWIP members, this is a list meant for feminist
philosophers; please don't subscribe unless that is a description you
are comfortable applying to yourself.
LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet)
Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet)
University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531
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AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Founded in 1888, the American Folklore Society is the
American learned and professional society for folklorists. It
offers an intellectual and social forum for the field of
folklore through an annual meeting, publications, specialized
activities of interest-group sections, various prizes and awards,
and other services to its membership.
The JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE is a lively forum for
recent work in this field. Recent issues have treated such
topics as Gospel quartets, the Greenwich Village Halloween
Parade, the zombi, cowboy poetry gatherings, Latinismo and
heritage politics, nocturnal death syndrome among the Hmong,
folklore in Richard Wright's "Black Boy", and reviews of a wide
range of books, exhibitions, films, and records.
The Annual Meeting will be held October 15-18, 1992 in
Jacksonville, Florida. The call for papers will appear in the
February Newsletter.
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD
The DIRECTORY has been compiled from members' responses and
submissions from folklore programs and organizations throughout
North America. The DIRECTORY contains:
* alphabetized name and address entries for 1200
folklorists, most of which also contain telephone and
E-mail information and areas of interest
* detailed descriptive entries for academic and public
programs in folklore
* indexes to the member directory entries by interest
area and place of residence
The Directory is available for $10 to members of the American
Folklore Society, and for $15 to nonmembers, with a 10% discount
on orders of 10 copies or more.
To order the Directory: Send a check made payable to the
American Folklore Society and marked "1992 AFS Directory" to
Book Orders Department (EM)
American Folklore Society,
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Washington, DC 20009.
-----------------------MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION--------------------
Membership in the American Folklore Society brings the following
benefits:
* JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (quarterly)
* NEWSLETTER (bimonthly)
* reduced registration rates for the Annual Meeting
* discounted prices on volumes in the PUBLICATIONS OF THE
AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY series; the Society's
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD; and the
"Folklore" volume of the annual MLA INTERNATIONAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
* right to vote in Society's elections and to hold
Society office
* right to be considered for Society prizes and awards
* access to various kinds of low-cost insurance offered
to Society members by outside insurers
To become a member of the American Folklore Society:
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life member $800.
Send a check made payable to the American Folklore Society to
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MEANING HOLISM
NEW SUMMER SEMINAR
Directors: JERRY FODOR & ERNIE LEPORE
Location: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Dates: June 29 - August 14, 1992 (seven weeks)
Holism about meaning and intention content has shaped much of
what is most characteristic of contemporary philosophy of language and
philosophy of mind. The seminar is devoted to the question whether
the individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic
expressions is inherently holistic. For example, we will discuss
arguments that are alleged to show that themeaning of a scientific
hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that the
content of a concept depends on the entire belief system of
which it is a part. Implications of holistic semantics for other
philosophical issues (intentional explanation, translation Realism,
skepticism, connectionism, etc.) will also be explored. Authors to be
read include Quine, Davidson, Lewis, Block, Field, Dummett, Dennett,
Churchland and others. In addition, we will use Holism: a Shopper's
Guide, Fodor, J. and E. LePore, 1992, Basil Blackwell.
The National Endowment for the Humanities will provide a summer
stipend of $3,600 for travel, book and living expenses, to those
selected as participants in this seminar. Applications must be
postmarked not later than 2 March, 1992.
For further information and for application forms, please write to:
Meaning Holism Seminar
Philosophy Department
Davidson Hall
Douglass Campus, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (USA)
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ADDICT-L is an electronic conference for mature discussion of the
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The focus of this list is to provide an information exchange network
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-- Subscriptions of those interested will be added by the listowner
-- Subscribers should look forward to educating themselves about
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-- Intended as an information exchange network and discussion group
Possible Appropriate Subjects:
-- Discussion of etiology of addictions
-- Effects of addictions
-- Recovery from addiction and 12 Step Programs
-- Recent article publications relevant to addiction literature
-- Networking with others having related interests
Drug/Alcohol addiction has a way of becoming an easy topic of
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Subscription Procedure:
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providing accurate information on a variety of Jewish concerns in
ways that inspire us to action. Using electronic mail and computer
networks, PJML connects activist Jews and our allies from across the
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An electronic discussion group called BUDDHA-L has recently been
formed towards the end of providing a means for those interested in
Buddhist Studies to exchange information and views. It is hoped that
the group will function as an open forum for scholarly discussion of
topics relating to the history, literature and languages, fine arts,
philosophy, and institutions of all forms of Buddhism. It may also
serve as a forum for discussion of issues connected to the teaching
of Buddhist studies at the university level, and as a place for
posting notices of employment opportunities.
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR SERIES
ISSUES IN CRITICISM
Summer Seminar
Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique
June 25-30, 1992
State College, Pennsylvania
WAI-CHEE DIMOCK, Department of English, University of California,
San Diego. Author of Empire for Liberty: Melville and the
Poetics of Individualism (1989) and Symbolic Equality: Political
Theory, Law, and American Literature (forthcoming); co-editor of
the forthcoming Class and Literary Studies. Professor Dimock
will focus on the shifting configurations of gender and history.
MARJORIE LEVINSON, Department of English, University of
Pennsylvania. Editor of Rethinking Historicism (1989) and author
of Keats's life of Allegory: the Origins of Style (1988) and
other monographs treating Romantic poetry. Professor Levinson
will concentrate on cultural materialism.
BROOK THOMAS, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine. Author of Cross-Examination of
Law and Literature (1987) and The New Historicism and Other
Old-Fashioned Topics (1991). Professor Thomas's central topic
will be the crisis of representation.
The Penn State Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique
offers faculty members in departments of English and modern
languages the opportunity to survey the major issues in and
freshen their knowledge of approaches to literature that
emphasize the relations between text and culture, including those
presently identified under the broad label of the New
Historicism. Seminar participants will hear presentations by
three well-known scholar-critics--Wai Chee Dimock, Marjorie
Levinson, and Brook Thomas--and engage in seminar-type
discussions organized by these leaders. Registrants are asked to
indicate their first and second choices for morning seminar
groups. The schedule and atmosphere are intended to encourage
informal discussions among participants.
For further information contact:
Wendell Harris
Department of English
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Telephone: 814-863-2343 or 814-865-9243
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AFRICA-L on LISTSERV@BRUFPB.BITNET Forum Pan-Africa
A Pan-African forum for the discussion of the interests of African
peoples (in Africa, and expatriate), and for those with an interest
in the African continent and her peoples. Of special interest will
be ways to help facilitate the flow of communications (electronic and
other) to and from Africa. News, light-hearted discussions, and
cultural and educational items are welcome.
To subscribe to AFRICA-L send the following message to
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FEMREL-L on LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
FEMREL-L is an open discussion and resource list concerning women
& religion and feminist theology. Our goal is open, stimulating
discussion on any and all issues pertaining to these topics. All
religions, creeds, beliefs, opinions, etc. are welcome, although we
do ask that participants respect differences.
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Owners: Cathy Quick
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AN ON-LINE CATALOGUE OF THE GEORGETOWN CENTER FOR TEXT AND TECHNOLOGY
Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology of the
Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University has been
compiling information about projects in electronic text in the
humanities. Currently we have details on over 300 projects in 27
countries.
Because this information is constantly being updated, any printing
would be obsolescent. Consequently, we have created an on-line
Catalogue that is searchable through Internet and dial-in access.
Thus far, response has been gratifying; last month we logged over
100 inquiries.
An illustrated User's Guide to the Catalogue of Projects in
Electronic Text is available free of charge through surface mail.
In addition, a public-domain version of KERMIT and a keyboard-
mapping program can be obtained through file transfer protocol
(ftp). For further information, please contact me personally at
the address below, rather than sending to the list.
James A. Wilderotter II
Project Assistant
Center for Text and Technology
Academic Computer Center
Reiss Science Building, Room 238
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Tel. (202) 687-6096
BITNET: Wilder@Guvax
Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu"
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ARL DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS,
AND SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION LISTS (hard copy version)
Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be
accessed free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated
academic networks, it is not always a simple chore to find out
what is available. The Directory is a compilation of entries for
over 500 scholarly lists, about 30 journals, over 60 newsletters,
and 15 "other" titles including some newsletter-digests. The
directory gives specific instructions for access to each
publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding
relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if
not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems.
Content editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael
Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa.
Editor of the scholarly discussion lists/interest groups is Diane
Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries. The printed ARL
directory is derived from widely accessible networked files
maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory will point
to these as the principal, continuously updated, and
free-of-charge sources for accessing such materials.
Michael Strangelove's directory of electronic journals and
newsletters is now available from the Contex-L fileserver and
consists of two files. These may be obtained, if you are at a
Bitnet site, by sending the interactive commands:
Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl1 Directry
Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl2 Directry
or, from any e-mail site, by sending a mail message to
LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.BITNET with the text:
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No blank lines or other text should precede these lines, and no
other text should follow them. For further information,
contact Michael Strangelove at 441495@UOTTAWA
Diane Kovacs' directory of scholarly discussion groups is
available from LISTSERV@KENTVM and consists of eight files.
These may be obtained, if you are at a Bitnet site, by
sending the interactive commands:
Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist Readme
Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist Index
Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File1
Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File2
Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File3
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Tell Listserv at Kentvm Get Acadlist File5
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LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET with the text:
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information contact:
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