4.0200 Conference: Computers and the Historical Sciences (1/67)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 18 Jun 90 18:29:02 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0200. Monday, 18 Jun 1990.
Date: 17-JUN-1990 21:18:37 GMT
From: Deian Hopkin <DRH@ABERYSTWYTH.AC.UK>
Subject: Conference on Information Transfer in the Historical Sciences
The Association for History and Computing announces a one day session
at the 17th International Historical Congress:
17TH CISH , MADRID 1990 ROUND TABLE
Thursday, 30 August 1990
Methodological and Technical Information Transfer in the
Historical Sciences.
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The Round Table will consist of two linked half-day sessions.
Part 1 is coordinated by Dean Lawrence McCrank of Ferris State
University, the President of the Association for the Bibliography
of History, while Part 2 is jointly coordinated by Dr Deian
Hopkin of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and
Professor Konrad Jarausch of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Associated with the Round Table there will be demonstrations and
an exhibition dealing with the use of computers in history.
PART 1: - BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND ARCHIVAL RESOURCES AND CONTROLS.
... [see below to obtain complete schedule]
PART 2: THE CHALLENGE FOR HISTORICAL INQUIRY
Fresh Perspective and New Methods
...
The purpose of this afternoon session will be to explore the
implications of changing methodological approaches and the
oportunities of novel techiques for the historical use of
computers, since both subjects are closely interrelated. On one
level, the issues which ought to be addressed concern the
dichotomy between the old "new social history" and the new "new
social history" (terms of Natalie Davies) such as the tension
between analysis and narrative, sociological and anthropological
approaches, generalization and individuation and so on. On a
second plane, the subject should involve the results of rapid
developments in data bank methods as well as advances in
quantitative procedures (such as categorical modelling).
... [see below to obtain complete schedule]
ASSOCIATED ORGANISATIONS
Association for the Bibliography of History
American Historical Association
Association for History and Computing
International Commission on Bibliography
International Commission on Quantitative Methods
Canadian Historical Association
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