3.990 professional societies on Humanist (155)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 1 Feb 90 22:04:53 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 990. Thursday, 1 Feb 1990.


(1) Date: Wednesday, 31 January 1990 2103-EST (79 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Professional Societies Update2

(2) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 21:39:35 EST (18 lines)
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Professional Organizations

(3) Date: 01 Feb 90 09:03 EST (34 lines)
From: Jim Cahalan <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
Subject: Societies

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Date: Wednesday, 31 January 1990 2103-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Professional Societies Update2

In the following cumulative list, new entries begin with "+".
If you know of a more or less official representative or email
address for such societies represented on HUMANIST, please let
me know and I will add that information. Bob Kraft

List of Professional Societies Represented on Humanist (1/31/90)
+ indicates added since last version of the list

American Academy of Religion (some special computer program
sections at annual meetings; cooperation with SBL)
American Anthropological Association (see ANTHRO-L@UBVM ListServer)
[Zubrow]
+American Association of University Presses (much computer talk)
[Perry]
+American Conference on Irish Studies
[Cahalan; see GAELIC-L and FWAKE-L ListServers]
American Dialect Society ("making use of computer technology")
[Maynor]
+American Historical Association ("computers in history" things)
[Knox]
+American Library Association
[Jacobs]
American Philological Association (archive of texts, editorial
board for non-print publications, exhibits at annual meetings)
+American Philosophical Society (has committee on computer use
and subcommittee on electronic texts; program sessions)
[Owen; see ACH Newsletter 11.2(1989) 13]
+American Political Science Association
[Jassel]
American Schools of Oriental Research (computer committee and
some attention to program section, displays; cooperation with SBL)
+American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
[Cope ENCOPE@LSUVM, Dill, Wolf, MacNeil]
+American Society of Church History (not much computer involvement)
[Zinn]
American Society of Papyrologists (close cooperation with APA)
[Kraft]
Archaeological Institute of America (various computer activities)
[Walsh, Kuniholm]
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Association for Women in Computing
+Association of Public Data Users
[Jacobs]
+College Composition and Communication
[Cahalan]
+International Association for Social Science Information Service
and Technology (IASSIST)
[Jacobs]
+International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature
[Cahalan]
+International Congress on Medieval Studies (sessions, workshops)
[Zinn]
+Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
[Jacobs]
Medieval Academy of America (no indication of computer involvement)
[Zacour, Zinn]
Modern Languages Association (various activities, electronic
publications, program segments and exhibits; details of how
it is all coordinated organizationally are welcome)
+National Council of Teachers of English
[Cahalan; see MBU network]
+Organization of American Historians
[Knox (non member)]
Society of American Archaeology ("great interest in computers")
[Zubrow]
Society of Biblical Literature (electronic archiving project and
an active Computer Assisted Research Group that coordinates
demonstrations and a program segment each annual meeting)
[Kraft]
+South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
[Bode RFB8135@TNTECH (Cope)]
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics ("making use of computer tech.")
[Maynor]

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 21:39:35 EST
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Professional Organizations

I belong to a number of scholarly organizations in Canada and abroad.
Filtering out those a number of other humanists might belong to, could I
cite: International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, International
Society for the History of Rhetoric, Renaissance English Text Society,
Society for the History of Discoveries, The Bibliographical Society, and
here in Canada of course the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies,
Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric, Toronto Renaissance and
Reformation Colloquium, Association of University Teachers of English,
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Bibliographical Society
of Canada. And that's enough of that!

Germaine Warkentin -- Warkent@utorepas
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies -- CRRS@utorepas
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
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Date: 01 Feb 90 09:03 EST
From: Jim Cahalan <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
Subject: Societies


Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
English Dept., 111 Leonard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Phone: (412) 357-2264


Sent: 01/31/90 09:21 Rcvd: 01/31/90 09:27 Number: 7
To: KRAFT@PENNDRLS From: Jim Cahalan
Subject: societies

I'd add to your list the following:
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) and
CCCC (College Composition and Communication), both of which you'll
probably hear more about from other people. On the network MBU or
"Megabyte University" at the moment there's been some talk and information
about building an NCTE "net," in particular.
My other two are two organizations in my particular specialty that I
belong to, neither of which has much going yet with Email networks but
are ones in which I'd like to see more such activity:
ACIS (American Conference on Irish Studies)
IASAIL (International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature)
I'm on GAELIC-L, the Irish-language network, and also FWAKE-L (the
_Finnegans Wake_ one), but to date have found no other Irish studies
or Irish literature networks, and would very much appreciate a more
generalized Irish Literature/Studies network.

Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature <JMCAHAL@IUP.BITNET>
English Dept., 111 Leonard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Phone: (412) 357-2264