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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 07:26:10 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: FYI Re New Conference...
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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Einstein meets Magritte
An interdisciplinary reflection on
science, nature, human action and society
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Conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
May 29 / June 3, Brussels, Belgium
Never before has humanity made such an attempt as now to take its fate
into
its own hands (science and technology). The increasing speed of current
global changes, however, leads to a sense of disorientation. Need this
paradox be resolved, and if so, can it be dealt with from a perception
that
knowledge and actions lead to ever larger fragmentation?
Different attitudes prevail, involving respectively;
(1) an attempt to reconstitute a form of unity, often projecting the
hope
that the alleged unwanted effects of scientific and technological
progress
will become comprehensible and eventually controllable;
(2) a relativist attitude, depicting the modern worldview, with its
instruments and products (western science and technology), as one among
many conceivable,and probably not the most desirable, course for
humanity.
Each of these attitudes tends to portray the other as a caricature.
'Relativists' stigmatize attempts at unification as dictatorial,
unfeasible
and naive. Relativism, in its turn, is said to lead anywhere and nowhere
at
all. The aim of the conference is to gather scholars from different
domains, inviting them to set up a dialogue between the above
attitudes,
and integrate the more relevant insights of both into a new perspective
on
global change.
We have taken up the two myths of Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte,
because we believe that where they 'meet' some significant clues might
be
revealed. How does science (producing knowledge and technology)
confront
art (producing revelations and sensations)? Do we have to oppose life
'within object' (the conscious ordering of the physical and social
world,
symbolized in 'Einstein') to a form of life 'beyond object' (symbolized
in
the imagery of Magritte)?
Tentative list of invited speakers:
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Zygmunt BAUMAN, Leeds University, United Kingdom.
Rosi BRAIDOTTI, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Bob EDWARDS, Cambridge University. United Kingdom.
Murray GELL-MANN, Caltech and Santa Fe Institute, USA.
Adolf GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Jurgen HABERMAS, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Douglas HOFSTADTER, Indiana University, USA.
Julian JAYNES, Princeton University, USA.
Daniel KOSHLAND, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Niklas LUHMAN, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Constantin PIRON, University of Geneva, Switserland.
Michel SERRES, Sorbonne-Stanford, France.
Isabelle STENGERS, University of Brussels, Belgium.
Zeev STERNHELL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Bas VAN FRAASSEN, Princeton University, USA.
Francisco J. VARELA, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France.
James WATSON, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
Four workshops will be held during the conference on the following
themes:
1. Science, society and the university.
2. The nature of life (and death).
3. A world in transition.
4. Worldviews and the problem of synthesis.
Conference proceedings "Einstein meets Magritte : An
interdisciplinary
reflection on science, nature, human action and society", will be
published, including contributions of participants. Anyone wishing to
take
part in the conference, or to receive a second announcement containing
a
more complete programme, should fill in the reply form and return it to
us.
Organising committee:
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Diederik Aerts,
Paul Devroey,
Patrick De Wilde,
Christiaan Sybesma,
Jeffrey Tyssens,
Jozef Van Bellingen,
Luc Van Langenhoven,
Ludo Veny.
Conference secretary:
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Linda Dasseville
DINF, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
tel: 32 2 629 34 90,
fax: 32 2 629 34 95,
e-mail: einmag@vub.ac.be
For more information concerning the 'scientific aspect' of the
conference
contact:
Diederik Aerts
TENA,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
tel: 32 2 629 32 39 or 32 15 22 07 05
fax: 32 2 629 22 76 or 32 15 22 51 98
E-mail: diraerts@vub.ac.be
or:
Christiaan Sybesma,
BIOF,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
tel: 32 2 629 32 69
E-mail: csybesma@vnet3.vub.ac.be
The conference is part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the
'Vrije
Universiteit Brussel', which was founded in 1969 as a separate
university
from the 'Universite Libre de Bruxelles'. It is co-organised by CLEA,
an
interdisciplinary research centre at this university investigating the
possible ways of integrating different worldviews.
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INTEREST FORM:
I am interested in taking part in the conference "Einstein meets
Magritte :
An interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human action and
society", and wish to receive the second announcement.
Name:.......................................................
Affiliation:.......................................................
Fax:.......................................................
E-mail:.......................................................
Tel.:.......................................................
I wish (yes\no) to submit a paper, and if 'yes' include with this form
an abstract (not more than 1 page).
I prefer to present the paper as :
(1) contributed talk ( )
(2) poster ( )
(indicate preference)
Tentative title of the talk :......................................
...................................................................
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All correspondence should be sent to "Einstein meets
Magritte", TENA, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: einmag@vub.ac.be
More info is available on the World-Wide Web, at URL:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Conf/EinmagAn.html
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 17:28:17 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: IREX Grant Opportunities for US Scholars and Institutions
(fwd)
Forwarded message:
From irex@info.irex.org Wed Oct 5 14:58:10 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: irex
To: IREX
Subject: IREX Grant Opportunities for US Scholars and Institutions
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*** IREX ANNOUNCES 1995-1996 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ***
American scholars in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged
to
apply for the programs described below; eligibility requirements vary
by
program. Please contact IREX for further information on these and other
programs.
International Research & Exchanges Board
1616 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 628-8188 Fax: (202) 628-8189
E-mail: irex%irexmain@irex.org
gopher: info.irex.org, port 70
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities
Application deadline: November 1, 1994
Research placement and access for predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars
at
institutions in the host country for a period of 2-12 months. Regions:
Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Newly
Independent
States.
Research Residencies
Application deadline: November 1, 1994
Research Residents spend 9-12 months in the host region/country
pursuing
individual research and improving language skills. IREX requires
Research
Residents to submit quarterly reports on developments in the local
academic and policy communities. Regions: Albania, Baltic States,
Croatia,
Macedonia, Newly Independent States, Slovenia, Slovakia.
Bulgarian Studies Seminar
Application deadline: November 1, 1994
One-month fellowships for American scholars wishing to improve their
knowledge of the Bulgarian language and culture. The seminar, held in
Sofia during the month of July, consists of lectures on Bulgarian
language, history, culture, and literature. Topics vary each year to
complement the needs and interests of each group of scholars. Region:
Bulgaria.
Special Projects in Library and Information Science
Application deadline: January 15, 1995
Opportunities for support of librarians, archivists, and information
specialists pursuing projects relating to Central and Eastern Europe
and
Eurasia. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Newly
Independent States.
Special Projects
Application deadline: March 1, 1995
Financial support for collaborative projects in the study of Central
and
Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Proposals from all disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences are welcome. All projects must involve
American and non-American participants from one or more of the eligible
countries. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern Europe, Newly
Independent States.
Short-Term Travel Grants
Application deadlines: October 1, 1994; February 1, 1995; and June 1,
1995
IREX offers travel grants for scholarly projects focusing on Central
and
Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Mongolia. Support is available for brief
visits (1-2 weeks) for individuals who do not require administrative
assistance from IREX. Regions: Baltic States, Central & Eastern
Europe,
Mongolia, Newly Independent States.
US Host Universities for Graduate Students from Eurasia and the Baltics
[Edmund S. Muskie and Freedom Support Act Fellows]
Application Deadline: January 27, 1995
These Fellowships are funded through the US Information Agency and
administered by IREX and three other organizations to bring graduate
students from the countries of Eurasia and the Baltics for one- and
two-year, degree and non-degree programs in professional fields. IREX
accepts proposals from US universities with masters-level programs in
economics, journalism/mass communications, and library and information
science to serve as host universities for approximately 90 fellows.
US Host Institutions for Teaching Assistants from Russia
(Russian Teaching Assistants Program-RTAP)
Application deadline: October 7, 1994
RTAP, a new program funded by the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch of
the
US Information Agency, matches Russian Teaching Assistants with US two-
and four- year academic institutions. US host institutions may apply to
receive teaching assistants for either a six- or eight- month program.
Russian participants are recent graduates of pedagogical institutes and
primarily specialists in the field of English. The TAs may also serve
as
resource persons in departments of Russian language and culture, either
as
occasional lecturers in courses related to Russian language, society,
and
culture. In addition to serving as a TA, the Russian participants will
enroll in two to three courses per semester to broaden their
understanding
of their fields of specialization and/or American culture and society.
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 12:24:24 -0500
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From: Raymond Benton
Subject: eco literary criticsm
I am looking for journal references or any information you can give me
on
literary criticism from an ecological or environmental point of view.
There is feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, etc.
Is there a budding scholarship in ecological/environmental literary
criticism? I have searched both my academic library systems, including
MLA, and my local public library system using key words that come to
the
mind of a non-literary scholar. Please respond to me personally rather
than to the list. Thank you very much.
Ray Benton
Loyola University Chicago
Water Tower Campus
rbenton@orion.it.luc.edu
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 10:52:32 LCL
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From: "Yvonne Edgren (PG)"
Subject: Re: eco literary criticsm
Hi
in response to your request I don't know of any such thing as
"eco-
criticism" per se, but it is an area that cultural theorists are
interested in. Do you know of Andrew Ross? His book -Strange
Weather- published by Verso may be interesting for you. He takes
more of a literary approach to science rather than the other way
round, but its a start. There is a chapter on global warming (which
I haven't read) and one each on "new age" philosophies and
cyberpunk
which I have.
Good Luck, Yvonne.
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 09:14:28 -0500
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From: "james w. maertens"
Subject: Re: eco literary criticsm
Dear Raymond and all--
I'm posting this to the list mainly because this list needs to have
some
activity. In answer to the query, yes there is a blooming branch of
criticism
called ecological criticism and there will be the first annual
conference of a
new organization around that specialty. The group, and/or their journal
is
called ISLE (Interdisciplinary studies of literature and ecology or the
environment or something like that). I am not intimately involved with
this
branch but have a friend who is and I have forwarded your message to
him,
Raymond. I will take the liberty of recommending him and his address,
knowing
what an e-mail fiend he is. The ISLE group has an internet list too, as
I
recall. The fellow to contact is Blaine E. Cross at
Cross003@maroon.tc.umn.edu.
He is a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota writing a
dissertation
on literature and ecological thinking.
Very interesting field for Romantics like me especially, who like to
walk in the
woods with a copy of Wordsworth under the arm, but also for more
hard-headed
types and a lot of interdisciplinary chat very relevant to the
Literature and
Science interface.
Cheers,
James Maertens
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Dr. James W. Maertens
Adjunct Professor of Humanities
Lakeland Medical-Dental Academy
maert003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
4509 Drew Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN 55410
(612) 924-9266
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 12:52:23 -0400
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From: richard.grusin@LCC.GATECH.EDU
Subject: JOB ANNOUNCEMNTS
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS TO ANY INTERESTED PARTIES OR LISTS.
JOB ANOUNCEMENTS
Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC)
is
engaged in the fundamental reconfiguration of the role of higher
education
in an increasingly technological, multicultural environment. Currently
offering an undergraduate degree in Science, Technology, and Culture
(STAC)
and a master's degree in Information Design and Technology (IDT), LCC
is
also responsible for providing courses in literature, communication,
and
culture to all Georgia Tech undergraduates. In keeping both with our
current programs and with an eye toward developing a PhD program in the
history, theory, and practice of technologies of representation, we seek
to
fill 5-7 tenure-track positions. All of the new faculty will share
LCC's
commitment to interdisciplinary work at the theoretical and applied
levels,
as well as to the integration of new electronic technologies into
humanities and communication education. We are especially interested
in
considering applications from minority candidates. We will begin
evaluating applications on October 31, and continue until all positions
are
filled.
1. ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTS AND PEDAGOGY: 1 or 2 positions. Expertise
in
the teaching of writing and rhetoric in the larger context of new
verbal
and visual modes of representation made possible by new electronic
environments. Willingness to extend electronic pedagogy beyond
traditional
writing programs to our broader curriculum in literature,
communication,
and culture. CV and dossier to Professor Jay David Bolter, School of
Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of
Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165.
2. VIDEO AND MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION: 2 positions. Significant
production
experience in digital video, multimedia, or video-multimedia
integration
required. Expertise in one or more of the following areas: film theory
and
history, narrative theory, cultural theories of representation, media
theory, cognitive theory, graphic design. CV and dossier to Professor
Peter McGuire, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture,
Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0165.
3. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES: 1 or 2 positions. Expertise in
cultural
studies of science and technology with an emphasis in one of the
following
areas: 18th-century, postcolonialism, theories of race and gender,
non-western cultures. Interest in literature and science,
intercultural
communication, critical theories of technology, or media studies
desired
but not required. CV and dossier to Professor Anne Balsamo, School of
Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of
Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165.
4. FILM STUDIES: 1 position. Specialization in film
theory/history/criticism with an emphasis in one or more of the
following
areas: international, third world, or experimental cinema; narrative
theory; media studies; science and technology studies. CV and dossier
to
Professor J. P. Telotte, School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0165.
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richard grusin
director of undergraduate studies
school of literature, communication, and culture
georgia institute of technology
atlanta, georgia 30332-0165
tel: 404-894-2739
fax: 404-853-0373
email: richard.grusin@prism.gatech.edu
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 10:10:27 -0500
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From: Jan Shepherd
Subject: Project Mind
Hi everyone,
Thought some of you might be interested in the book Project Mind
which our foundation is based on. I have included our announcement
below. Those who find the ideas of our foundation, Project Mind, of
interest are invited to email me and ask for any or all of:
1. 10 page essay, "Science Can Become Holistic."
2. Subscription info. on our mind/matter list "MOCHIN."
3. A recent S.E.N., "micro" book review on PROJECT MIND.
Basically, we believe science to be the greatest spiritual
undertaking ever, but that scientists have yet to recognize the
spiritual nature of their vocation. Hopefully, what are now
"Eureka" sparks of creative vision, that drive the vast
mechanical enterprise we call "science," will become more
enduring connections with the source of that vision and thus less
fragmented and polluting in their technological "spin-offs."
We'll be pleased to hear from you,
Jan Shepherd
Project Mind Foundation
email: jshepher@loyalistc.on.ca
"Science: the ultimate spiritual endeavor"
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| Join our MOCHIN mind/matter list discussing world transformation! |
|Send:subscribe mochin yourfullname, to:listserv@israel.nysernet.org|
| or write me for details: jshepher@loyalistc.on.ca |
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Materialism is the unconscious conviction that existence
is substantially physical. Just as the restriction of mind
by matter occludes mind, the restriction of matter by mind
reveals mind. - T.Kun
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PROJECT MIND FOUNDATION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Project Mind Foundation is based on the book of the same name
by T.Kun and has founding members in Canada, France, India,
Israel and the U.S.A. Our preliminary statement of purpose is:
"to free the human spirit from the crushing illusion of
materialism by using the transformative genius, latent
in all humans, to eliminate real and addictive lack."
Our foundation is in the process of forming a "radical,
breakthrough, creativity think tank" to realize this purpose. The
essence-theory behind Project Mind is itself a creativity
breakthrough and makes possible the first hard proposal for
reconciling outer and inner paradigms ("science and spirit")
in a
balanced, high-energy synthesis that preserves the essentials of
both. The back cover of the book, Project Mind, reads:
What is life? What is death? What is the secret of the cosmos?
Had the great minds of the past found all the answers, would
there still be such suffering?
The author claims to have found the key to the cosmic riddle
and declares open war on death & taxes!
Earth stewardship and population control are urgent problems, yet
current thinking fails to address root causes of global crisis or
the inevitability of scientific and technological expansion.
While knowledge cannot be contained, science can become more
vision-driven and holistic. Progress can be fueled and channeled
by esoteric principles of creativity that truly empower and
validate science and industry rather than emasculate them, which
environmentalism is often perceived as trying to do.
We were each created for a purpose. Working toward that purpose
is a privilege and a joy. Otherwise, work, in spite of
conventional satisfactions, tends to drudgery and wage-slavery.
True purpose ultimately implies compassionately creative world
transformation. Project Mind seeks the cooperation of those who
share this vision.
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PROJECT MIND - The Conscious Conquest of Man & Matter Through
Accelerated Thought - by T.Kun, ISBN 1-880646-02-1, softcover,
304 pages including appendix, glossary, index and references,
$17.45, postpaid, foreign $19.45, from Unimedia Publishing,
Box 247, Indian Rocks Beach, FL 34635. Distributed by Bookpeople,
New Leaf and Baker & Taylor. Available through most bookstores.
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 15:27:44 EDT
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From: "Gregory H. Ritter"
Subject: Conspiracy & Paranoia in Literature
One of the ideas I'm batting around for my M.A. in Literature
thesis is "conspiracy/paranoia in literature." That's a real
broad topic, I know, but at this point I'm just doing some
preliminary research to see if that's what I really want to write
about. Therefore I was hoping I could get some suggestions on
places to begin my research from you folk.
What I *AM NOT* looking for (so please DON'T send me):
--NOT a list of various "real" or perceived conspiracies a la
the
stuff on alt.conspiracy
--NOT contacts for conspiracy publications like Conspiracy Nation
or Fortean Times or other fringe newsletters and zines.
--NOT contacts for "conspirators" or contacts for "anti-
conspiracy" organizations/individuals
--NOT a place on your or anybody else's e- or snail-mailing list
for conspiracy pamphlets, zines, etc.
What I *AM* looking for (so please DO send me):
--titles or authors of novels that have conspiracies/paranoia as
a central theme (I'm already thinking of those by Thomas Pynchon,
Robert Anton Wilson, Don Delillo, Umberto Eco).
--titles or authors of critical works that have to do with
a) conspiracy theories and/or paranoia as a cultural
phenomenon
b) conspiracy theories and/or paranoia as a literary
phenomenon
Please direct mail regarding this to my private e-mail address
below, not the list.
Thanks!
--
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* GREG RITTER Department of English *
* eng3ghr@hibbs.vcu.edu Virginia Commonwealth U. *
* Richmond, VA *
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* Progress is a comfortable disease --e.e. cummings *
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 21:01:46 -0700
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From: Eric Smith
Subject: Re: eco literary criticsm
In-Reply-To: <199410071552.IAA07693@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
I have just noticed the queries and replies concerning
"ecocriticism"
that have come over the SLS net. The group someone referred to is
actually called ASLE (the Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment). The journal affiliated with the group is called ISLE
(Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment). The journal
was actually started independently from ASLE, but just this weekend at
the second annual business meeting of ASLE we voted to adopt the
journal,
since Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the sponsor, will no longer
be
able to support it. ASLE is now two years old and has quickly swelled
to
over 600 members and has an international chapter in Japan, as well as
members in Australia, New Zealand India, and the US. It's a
very exciting group and we're always looking for new members. The
current
president is Cheryll Glotfelty at U of Nevada at Reno. Her address and
phonbe number are Cheryll Glotfelty, English Department, University of
Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, (702) 784-6223.
The group's e-mail network is rather on the fritz right now,so
"real" mail might be best for now.
I am very interested in wherever SLS and ASLE might converge, so
send me a note if you're interested in the social influences of science
on environmental attitudes, especially in 19th century American
culture,
but I'm interested in more contemprary issues involving the
"authority"
of science in creating discourse about nature, the natural, etc.
Join ASLE!
Eric Todd Smith
English Dept.
U.C. Davis
Davis, CA 95616
etsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 08:55:37 MET
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From: "Shai Ophir, ISE/Israel, DTN 882-3470"
Subject: Re: Project Mind
Hi Jan,
Can you pls forward me the following:
3. A recent S.E.N., "micro" book review on PROJECT MIND.
Thanks,
Shai.
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 09:15:37 -0700
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From: Eric Smith
Subject: Re: Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment (ASLE)
In-Reply-To: <199410051230.FAA27184@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
To those of you who read my message about ASLE yesterday (and to anyone
interested in environmental issues and literature): the ASLE e-mail
network is back up and running. To subscribe, simply send a
subscription
request to (asle-request@unr.edu).
I urge you to get on the network and moreover to join ASLE.
Eric Todd Smith
English Dept.
U.C. Davis
Davis, CA 95616
etsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 15:49:58 +0100
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From: ucrhjon
Subject: public understanding of science research
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE:
1994 REVIEW OF RESEARCH
The UK Committee on Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) has
commissioned the first of a projected annual series of reviews of
research in the field for"practitioners". They reckon that
there
is good academic work going unnoticed by people actually trying to
promote public understanding of science. As a remedy, they prescribe a
reader-friendly review of selected research findings, written in a
non-academic style. We have agreed to organise and produce the first
such review, to appear next Spring.
The first stage is to discover what those findings might be. While the
final digest will be highly selective (and we shall take advice
on the selection), we would like the compilation of publications to be
as comprehensive as possible.
We shall have time for a reasonably thorough scan of core journals, and
of standard databases (ISI, Medline etc). But we also believe that
there
are materials, especially in fields like educational research, health
education, and museum evaluation, which remain in the grey
literature.
So, if you have produced any work in this area in 1994 (give or take a
month or two) which has not found its way into the journals, or if you
know of anyone else who has, please let us know. Better still,
send us a copy - by the end of January 1995, please.
We plan to deposit any collection that accrues with the Information
Service of the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science in London, so that
it will be generally accessible. We will also
of course send copies of our final bibliography, and of the review, to
anyone who contributes material.
We hope that the review, once established, will not only help
disseminate academic findings, but also become a channel for users
to communicate with researchers, and thus contribute to
formulation of new projects in our field.
Do get in touch if you can help, or if you would just like to know more
about what we propose.
Thanks very much,
Jon Turney
Adrian Briggs.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Please reply to:
Jon Turney,
Department of History, Philosophy and Communication of Science,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
fax 071-916-2425
tel 071-387-7050 x3521 e-mail
j.turney@ucl.ac.uk
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:13:50 -0700
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: tlaporte@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU
Subject: Re: public understanding of science research
In-Reply-To: <57013.ucrhjon@ucl.ac.uk>
Dear Jon Turney:
This is an interesting proposal but it seems to mean something a bit
more
fulsome in two regards than simply the "public understanding of
science"
in two regards. I post this message in the hopes of clarification.
The
first extension in meaning would I suppose be work in the "public
agreement with scientists regarding the value of what they do" with
less
emphasis on the degree to which the public has absorbed an acquaintance
with the substance of particular scientific fields. A second possible
extension in meaning would run in another direction, i.e., the public's
understanding of the benefits of scientific knowledge as expressed
through
problem solving technologies. Perhaps both meanings are intended. If
the
second extension were intended, to what degree is there an interest, as
well, in the public's understanding of the social dysfunctions of
technologies as they express scientific knowledge in ways that prompt
perverse social and policy outcomes?
Thanks for what clarification you can provide.
Todd R. La Porte
University of California, Berkeley
On Fri, 14 Oct 1994, ucrhjon wrote:
> PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE:
> 1994 REVIEW OF RESEARCH
>
> The UK Committee on Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) has
> commissioned the first of a projected annual series of reviews of
> research in the field for"practitioners". They reckon
that there
> is good academic work going unnoticed by people actually trying to
> promote public understanding of science. As a remedy, they
prescribe a
> reader-friendly review of selected research findings, written in a
> non-academic style. We have agreed to organise and produce the
first
> such review, to appear next Spring.
>
> The first stage is to discover what those findings might be. While
the
> final digest will be highly selective (and we shall take advice
> on the selection), we would like the compilation of publications to
be
> as comprehensive as possible.
>
> We shall have time for a reasonably thorough scan of core journals,
and
> of standard databases (ISI, Medline etc). But we also believe that
there
> are materials, especially in fields like educational research,
health
> education, and museum evaluation, which remain in the grey
> literature.
>
> So, if you have produced any work in this area in 1994 (give or
take a
> month or two) which has not found its way into the journals, or if
you
> know of anyone else who has, please let us know. Better still,
> send us a copy - by the end of January 1995, please.
>
> We plan to deposit any collection that accrues with the
Information
> Service of the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science in London, so
that
> it will be generally accessible. We will also
> of course send copies of our final bibliography, and of the review,
to
> anyone who contributes material.
>
> We hope that the review, once established, will not only help
> disseminate academic findings, but also become a channel for users
> to communicate with researchers, and thus contribute to
> formulation of new projects in our field.
>
> Do get in touch if you can help, or if you would just like to know
more
> about what we propose.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Jon Turney
> Adrian Briggs.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Please reply to:
> Jon Turney,
> Department of History, Philosophy and Communication of Science,
> University College London,
> Gower Street,
> London WC1E 6BT
>
> fax 071-916-2425
> tel 071-387-7050 x3521 e-mail
j.turney@ucl.ac.uk
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 16:15:49 +0100
Reply-To: S.A.Burwood@philosophy.hull.ac.uk
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: "S.A.Burwood"
Subject: Body Matters Conference
PLEASE CIRCULATE
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
+++ BODY MATTERS +++
A CONFERENCE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL
APRIL 4-5 1995
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
The Cartesian legacy has furnished contemporary thinking with a
paradigm
of the body as an inert, closed, and anonymous object. The viability
of
this paradigm has been increasingly questioned; by philosophers,
cultural
theorists, literary theorists, sociologists, etc., and particularly by
feminist writers in all these areas. This conference aims to draw
together people from a variety of disciplines in an attempt to rethink
this anonymous body.
We are seeking proposals for papers in any related area and from any
discipline (approximately 25 minutes). Titles and abstracts (c 500
words) by December 21 to:
Steve Burwood and Gill Jagger,
"Body Matters" Conference
Department of Philosophy
University of Hull
North Humberside
HU6 7RX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 482 465995
Fax: +44 482 466122
email: s.a.burwood@phil.hull.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 11:04:35 +0100
Reply-To: ucrhjon@ucl.ac.uk
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: ucrhjon
Subject: Re: public understanding of science research
To Todd La Porte,
Thanks for your request for clarification. The answer is that I
interpret
the term "public understanding of science" as generally as
possible, to
include attitudes (positive or negative) toward science and technology,
or
particular sciences and technologies, among other things. A handy
inclusive
definition of interest is the rubric for the journal Public
Understanding of
Science, which "covers all aspects of the inter-relationahips
between
science (including technology and medicine) and the public. Topics ...
include: surveys of public understanding and attitudes towards science
and
technology; perceptions of science; popular representations of science;
scientific and para-scientific belief systems; science in schools;
history
of science education and popular science; science and the media;
science
fiction; scientific lobbying; evaluative studies of science exhibitions
and
interactive science centres; scientific information services for the
public;
popular protest against science ('anti-science'); science in developing
countries and appropriate technology."
When we get some feedback on what kinds of research the particular
audiences
we are aiming at find it useful to hear about, we may narrow the search
somewhat.
Does this help?
Jon Turney
---------------------
Dept. History, Philosophy and Communication of Science,
University College London
Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
email j.turney@ucl.ac.uk
In message Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:13:50 -0700,
tlaporte@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
> Dear Jon Turney:
>
> This is an interesting proposal but it seems to mean something a
bit more
> fulsome in two regards than simply the "public understanding
of science"
> in two regards. I post this message in the hopes of clarification.
The
> first extension in meaning would I suppose be work in the
"public
> agreement with scientists regarding the value of what they do"
with less
> emphasis on the degree to which the public has absorbed an
acquaintance
> with the substance of particular scientific fields. A second
possible
> extension in meaning would run in another direction, i.e., the
public's
> understanding of the benefits of scientific knowledge as expressed
through
> problem solving technologies. Perhaps both meanings are intended.
If the
> second extension were intended, to what degree is there an
interest, as
> well, in the public's understanding of the social dysfunctions of
> technologies as they express scientific knowledge in ways that
prompt
> perverse social and policy outcomes?
>
> Thanks for what clarification you can provide.
>
> Todd R. La Porte
> University of California, Berkeley
>
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 22:05:21 +0059
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: B+R Samizdat Express
Subject: Internet-on-a-Disk #6, October 1994
INTERNET-ON-A-DISK #6, October 1994
Newsletter of public domain and freely available electronic texts
Circulation: direct = 3200, indirect (estimated) 100,000+
This newsletter is free for the asking. To be added to the
distribution
list, please send requests to (samizdat@world.std.com). If you don't
have an email address, we can send it to you by snail-mail on IBM or
Mac diskette -- $30 for ten diskettes -- one with all the back issues,
followed by the next nine issues. B&R Samizdat Express, PO Box 161,
West Roxbury, MA 02132.
Permission is granted to freely distribute this newsletter in electronic
form.
We plan to produce new issues about once a month (with time off for
summer vacation). We welcome submissions of articles and information
relating to availability of electronic texts on the Internet and their
use in
education.
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WHAT'S NEW
(texts recently made available by ftp, gopher, www, and LISTSERV)
from the Gutenberg Project --
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu /pub/etext/etext94
http://med-amsa.bu.edu/Gutenberg/welcome.html
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (2000010.txt)
The American by Henry James (ameri10.txt)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (dlleg10.txt)
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott (ffabl10.txt)
McTeague by Frank Norris (mcteg10.txt)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (sense11.txt)
Summer by Edith Wharton (summr10.txt)
American Hand Book of Daguerrotype by Samuel Humphrey (1858)
(amdag10.txt)
illustrations for the above, as .gif files (amdgf10.zip)
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux (phant10.txt
The Picture of Dorian Gray (dgray10.txt)
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer (fuman10.txt)
The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley (hbook10.txt)
Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson (chtem10.txt)
The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins (hhotl10.txt)
The Well At The World's End, by William Morris (wwend10.txt)
1994 History and Practice of the Art of Photography (hipho10.txt)
from wiretap
ftp 130.43.43.43 /Library/Classics
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (pride.ja)
Peer Gynt's Onion by Anthony Campbell (gynt-on.txt)
from Association des Bibliophiles Universels
classic works in French
ftp ftp.cnan.fr /pub/ABU
cubaud@cnam.fr
Unfortunately, these texts are in a variety of formats, and it
may be difficult to convert a given document to plain ASCII or
some other form that will work in your word processor.
works include Jules Verne "De la terrre a la lune" and
"Les forceurs de blocus", Rene Descartes
"Discours de la methode", Fontenelle "Entretiens sur la
pluralite
des mondes habites", Chanson de Roland, Racine Athalie,
La Bible (Edition Louis Segond), Blaise Pascal "La machine
d'arithmetique", Malbranche "Meditations sur l'humilite et
la penitence, Rousseau "Les reveries du promeneur solitaire"
Country Studies on World-Wide Web from Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc/gov/homepage/country.html
(This is a comprehensive, up-to-date, book-length study. It looks
great on-line with a Mosaic browser. But for those who need
plain ASCII, it will take quite a lot work to convert it from html.)
Ethiopia
U.S. Army Area Handbooks
gopher umslvma.umsl.edu/library/govdocs/armyahbs
(These are each comprehensive, up-to-date, book-length studies.
This is valuable information, but the gopher server gives it to you
in little pieces. To download a single book may mean retrieving
200 or more separate gopher files.)
China, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Philippines, Singapore,
Somalia, South Korea, and Yugoslavia
United Nations
gopher nywork1.undp.org 70
They've added a lot of new material, including resolutions from the
48th
session of the General Assembly and also Security Council resolutions
for
1994.
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SUGGESTION -- PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
While very few K-12 schools have good Internet connections, nearly all
have PCs or Macintoshes. And one of the best ways to introduce them
to the treasures of the Internet is by providing them with electronic
texts
on disks. (That's a lot easier and cheaper than giving them
printouts.)
For those who do not have the capability or the time to retrieve
electronic texts from the Internet, many are available at a nominal
price
from PLEASE COPY THIS DISK, a project of The B&R Samizdat
Express. For further information, send email to
samizdat@world.std.com
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WEB NOTES:
WEB ACCELERATOR: If you use the World-Wide Web, you need the
new browser from Mosaic Communications. Connect to http://mcom.com
and get Netscape. It's free and installs quickly. I have a Windows PC
with a
14.4k baud modem. In the past, with Mosaic from NCSA, I had to turn
off
the graphics to get reasonable response time. Now with Netscape (AKA
Mozilla), I leave the graphics on and still it goes about four times as
fast. It's like getting a much faster modem for free.
YAHOO: Check out Yahoo -- http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo. There
you'll
find over 16,000 URLs organized by subject category in a cascade for
menus.
It looks like this is updated daily.
SEARCH TOOLS: Check out Meta Index --
http:\\cui_www.unige.ch/meta-index.html -- for a wide selection of tools
to
help you find what you want on the World-Wide Web. My favorite is the
WebCrawler, which you can get to directly at
http://www.biotech.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html.
WHITE HOUSE: The White House now has a Web server
(http://www.whitehouse.gov), with pointers to lots of other useful new
government sites. These include The Government Information Locator
Service,
which is in the beginning stages but looks very promising
(http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/index.html). Also take a look at the
subject
index of on-line government information
(http://www.fedworld.gov/#usgovt).
The White House server itself is quite good. It allows you to leave
an entry in the "guestbook" to register your opinion of this
new service,
and also allows you to write your comments on any issue of concern to
you
for the consumption of White House staffers. On the lighter side, you
can
take a guided tour of the White House, or view Al Gore's favorite
political
cartoons. This site is well worth exploring. It can open the Federal
government right in your classroom, making it appear immediate and
accessible, rather than remote and bureaucratic. If done right, this
approach could encourage many more people to take a more active
interest
in government and in solving the nagging social and economic problems
that government tries to deal with.
CALIFORNIA ELECTION: The California state elections are now on line
(thanks to Digital Equipment). Take a look at
http://www.election.ca.gov/
for pre-election info about all the races and candidates. And on
election
day, get live, rapidly up-dated results, enhanced by maps and graphs to
help
you understand the meaning of the numbers.
BRITANNICA: The Encyclopedia Britannica will be on-line very shortly.
You can check a demo today at http://www.eb.com/eb.htm I understand
that
they will have the entire 1995 edition on the Web, with powerful search
capabilities and hypertext links to related Internet sites, and even an
on-line dictionary (if you don't understand a word in an encyclopedia
entry,
simply
clicking on that word will give you the definition.) This will not be
free,
but it will be very inexpensive for the value you get. (Meanwhile, I
understand that the Gutenberg Project is hard at work to make available
the etext of an early, public domain edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.)
(Several readers have asked if they could "subscribe" to our
home page --
a document listing hundreds of URLs in html format. We're willing to
do
that with updates four times a year for $10. Send mail to
samizat@world.std.com if you are interested.)
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EUREKA! I CAN RUN A WEB SERVER FROM MY PC AT
HOME WITH AN ORDINARY MODEM AND SLIP ACCOUNT
By Richard Seltzer
I have a Web server running off my 486 Windows PC at home. I'm doing
this
with a 14.4K baud modem and a SLIP account from tiac (The Internet
Access
Company in Bedford, Mass.) I'm a writer, not a computer wizard, and
wizards
I know hadn't been able to tell me how to do it or even if it could be
done.
Even queries to the help desk at tiac and to Web-related newsgroups had
gotten me nowhere. Hence my sense of accomplishment that I was able to
figure it out.
What does this mean? I can -- at no additional cost -- publish my
articles,
my lists of disks, my kids' pictures, anything I choose to a global
audience.
All I do is create documents using word processor software, add some
extra markup codes (hypertext markup language), and file the documents
in
the right directory on my PC. Then so long as my system is turned on,
I
am connected to my Internet provider, and I am running the server
software,
anyone with a browser on the Web can see my pages.
It was in a newsgroup that I found the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions
document) which pointed me to the right file at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). I quickly downloaded it, unzipped
it, and followed instructions. I still haven't messed with the
configuration or done anything fancy. It's all on default. It was
incredibly easy. It took less than half an hour after I found the
file.
I immediately phoned my son at Yale. He opened my URL, and the pages
came
up quickly.
(The newsgroup where I found the FAQ is comp.infosystems.www.misc.
You can retrieve the FAQ from
http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html
For NCSA's Windows Web server program, httpd for Windows, retrieve the
file
whp11ay.zip from the ftp site fpt.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the
/Web/ncsa_httpd/contrib directory).
I haven't had a chance to check how many simultaneous users it can
handle.
(I gather from the instructions that when busy it can run out of room in
the
Windows message queue.)
This experiment tells me:
1) It is very easy for an individual or a school to set up Web pages for
the
fun of it and let the world see them (the only cost is the SLIP account
--
which in my case if $29 for 40 hours per month, or $49 for 300 hours
per
month).
2) You could even run a cottage business this way (like many bulletin
boards
are run today), announcing to your audience the hours that the machine
will
be available.
3) Anyone can become a player in this game -- instantly. It takes no
capital investment (assuming you already have a PC), and you don't have
to
put your info on someone else's commercial Web server, unless you
really
need commercial grade service. You can do it all yourself.
And if you already have a SLIP account there is zero incremental cost.
4) You could use such a primitive setup to experiment and figure out
what
your school or library might want to do on the Web in the future. You
could
build a school club around this. You could also post agendas and
minutes for
community organizations, publish greeting-card messages to friends and
family, publish articles and stories, give a local business some
minimal
Internet visibility, or even start your own business.
I have big plans for this little machine of mine. For the benefit of
the
curious, I'll leave the system on for a few hours each evening -- 6 PM
to 9
PM Eastern Time, in the US. If you'd like to check it out, try
http://199.3.129.189/index.htm
There's nothing of any significance there yet. I'm just getting
started.
But it doesn't take long to author html pages -- just adding markup to
existing documents. I'll probably have back issues of the newsletter
(maybe with hypertext links to the sites referenced), and our disk
catalog broken up by subject. Please send me your suggestions. And
also
please let me know if you can and will mirror these pages on your own
server so more people can get to the information more easily.
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CATALOGING THE INTERNET
by Richard Seltzer, B&R Samizdat Express
The Internet continues to amaze me -- enormous repositories of
information and numerous little outposts of creativity and
initiative. Every day dozens of new sites come on line. I love to see
papers by elementary school kids with hypertext links to the source,
rather than footnotes. I love to follow the threads of my thought from
one page to another over the World Wide Web, and lose track of where I
am
and what the source of the information is, as I immerse myself in the
content. I love the array of better and better search tools that let
me
quickly find useful sites
This is a scholar's dream, right?
Maybe.
Unfortunately, Internet addresses change; files get moved to other
directories or other machines or are simply deleted. Just because I
saw
it today doesn't mean I'll be able to find it tomorrow. The on-line
source you "cite" with a hypertext link may not exist when
someone goes
to check it out.
Can substantial scholarship be built on such shifting ground? Is
there
any way to make this massive flux of information more tangible and
structured -- more amenable to cataloging, so its benefits can be more
accessible and lasting?
On the one hand, the Internet looks like an enormous library. On the
other
hand, it's a librarian's nightmare.
That's one of the problems we are trying to deal with through our
PLEASE COPY THIS DISK project. We want to capture the best electronic
texts from the Internet and put them into a tangible form that is
organized
and easy for everyone to use -- even people who don't yet have Internet
access.
Now that we have over 300 disks (the equivalent of about 700 electronic
books), it's time to take the next step -- to catalog this material so
it
can be readily handled in a traditional library environment. Then
students and scholars will be able to find what they want when they
need
it, and get to it again later, independent of the vagaries of Internet
files.
We are looking for a library that would like to be a repository for our
rapidly growing collection. We would provide such a library with a
complete
current
set (a value of over $3000), and would send new disks as they are
created. (
We now add over two dozen disks per month). In exchange, we would like
that
library to promptly catalog the collection and make that cataloging
information available to the world-wide library community.
A typical disk contains one to three related books, and the README
documents provide details about the origin of the material -- usually
the
Internet site from which it was obtained. We would like the catalog
entries to cross-reference those sites. Hence by cataloging our disks,
you would also be cataloging the best public domain and freely
available
etexts on the Internet (U.S. Government, UN, and NATO information as
well as classic works of literature).
If you are interested in this project, please contact us as soon as
possible at samizdat@world.std.com.
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HEY, THIS IS GREAT. BUT HOW CAN I USE IT?
by Richard Seltzer, B&R Samizdat Express
Electronic texts can be copied at very little cost. If teachers were
to
take advantage of them,
o they could save money by not having to buy as many traditional books,
o they could greatly expand the breadth of information available to
students,
o they could introduce students to the learning environment of the
future,
o they could create their own anthologies tailored to their particular
classroom needs, etc.
But today, even though many teachers see the potential and praise the
concept, very few of them actually use electronic texts in the
classroom.
The main barrier appears to be that everyone is short of time. Despite
good intentions, most people just don't get around to making lesson
plans
and study guides for the use of this new kind of material. Even if
they
have the creativity, they simply don't have the energy to work out how
to
take full advantage of this new kind of resource.
We would like to gather and redistribute study guides, lesson plans and
other such classroom aids related to educational use of electronic
texts
-- to encourage teachers to develop such aids, and to share them with
others who could benefit. .
We will send ten free disks of etexts (your choice from the PLEASE COPY
THIS DISK collection) to any teacher who sends us a study guide/lesson
plan of this kind -- whether it deals with etexts in general or with
specific works or classes of works found in our collection. It need
not
be long (a few good pages should suffice). But it should be practical
and useful.
Please send your submissions by email to samizdat@world.std.com. And
please
include a note attesting that it is your work and that you wish to make
it
generally available, in the public domain. We will then do what we can
to
spread your work to other teachers -- using this newsletter and our new
Web server and also including it on selected disks.
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Back issues are available from us on request, and are also found at the
archives of Computer underground Digest (CuD), housed at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
ftp ftp.eff.org /pub/Publications/CuD/Internet_on_a_Disk
gopher gopher.eff.org /Publications/CuD/Internet_on_a_Disk
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Internet_on_a_Disk
They are also available from a web server in London
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/gordo/samizdat.html = catalog of
disks
available from PLEASE COPY THIS
DISK
" " /internet_disk1.html =
issue #1
" " /internet_disk2.html =
issue #2 etc.
(As noted above, we're just starting our own tiny web server at
http://199.3.129.189/index.htm For now, it's only available for a
few hours in the evening, Eastern Time).
They are also found at such sites as:
gopher sjuvm.stjohns.edu /Disabilities & Rehabilitation Resources/
/EASI/EASI's list of available Internet etexts
And also at the GRIST On-Line BBS at (212)787-6562.
You are welcome to include this publication on your bbs or ftp or
gopher or webserver. Please let us know the address, and we'll add it
to
this list.
NB -- Depending on time and place, Richard Seltzer could be available
for speaking engagements.
Published by PLEASE COPY THIS DISK, B&R Samizdat Express,
PO Box 161, West Roxbury, MA 02132. samizdat@world.std.com
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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 11:01:20 PDT
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: Eric Dahlin
Subject: ACH/ALLC '95
Please post!
My apologies for any duplicate mailings.
Eric Dahlin
HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
1995 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC 95
JULY 11-15, 1995
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference--the major forum for literary, linguistic and
humanities computing--will highlight the development of new
computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities,
the development of significant new computer-based resources for
humanities research, especially focusing on the issues and problems
of networked access to materials, and the developing applications,
evaluation, and use of traditional scientific and computing
techniques in humanities disciplines.
TOPICS: We welcome submissions on topics and applications focused
on the humanities disciplines, defined as broadly as possible:
languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art,
linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, creative writing, and
cultural studies. We are interested in receiving technical
proposals that focus on the cutting edge issues of the application
of scientific tools and approaches to humanities disciplines;
discipline-based proposals that focus on some of the more
traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities
disciplines, including text encoding, hypertext, text corpora,
computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic,
semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library
and research-based proposals that focus on significant issues of
text documentation and information retrieval; and tools-focused
proposals that offer innovative and substantial applications and
uses for humanities-based teaching and research, throughout the
academic and research worlds.
The deadline for submissions is 31 DECEMBER 1994.
REQUIREMENTS: Proposals should describe substantial and original
work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing
methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied
to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include
some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies
in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular
application in the humanities (e.g., a study of the style of an
author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based
approaches to the problem and should include some critical
assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals
should include conclusions and references to important sources.
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Abstracts of 1500-2000 words should be submitted
for presentations of thirty minutes including questions.
SESSIONS: Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited.
These should take the form of either:
(a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word
statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of
1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is
willing to participate in the session; or
(b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The panel organizer should submit
an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will
be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that
each speaker is willing to participate in the session.
POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
ACH-ALLC '95 will include poster presentations and software and
project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with
poster presentations) to give researchers an opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined
problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational
mode.
By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more
interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters will have the
opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to
discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in
the same topic. Posters are actually several large pieces of paper
that present an overview of a topic or a problem. Poster presenters
are given space to display two or three posters, and may provide
handouts with examples or more detailed information.
Poster presenters must be present at their posters at a
specific time during the conference to describe their work and
answer questions, but posters will remain up throughout the
conference. Specific times will also be assigned for software or
project demonstrations. Further information on poster presentations
is available from the Program Committee chair.
Posters proposals and software and project demonstrations will be
accepted until February 15, 1995 to provide an opportunity for
submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full
paper. Poster or software/project demonstration proposals should
contain a 300 to 500 word abstract in the same format described
below for paper proposals. Proposals for software or project
demonstrations should indic ate the type of hardware that would be
required if the proposal is accepted.
Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a
viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research.
FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay
particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which
do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for
reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to
the deadline.
All submissions should begin with the following information:
TITLE: title of paper
AUTHOR(S): names of authors
AFFILIATION: of author(s)
CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address
E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact),
followed by other authors (if any)
FAX NUMBER: of main author
PHONE NUMBER: of main author
(1) Electronic submissions
These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a
wordprocessor, and should not contain TAB characters or soft
hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings
and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes,
if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than
footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end.
Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that
cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an
explanation of the markup scheme after the title information and
before the start of the text.
Electronic submissions should be sent to
Elaine Brennan
with the subject line "
