4.0583 Queries (10/170)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:24:19 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0583. Friday, 12 Oct 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 17:23 EST (20 lines)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: request for institutional addresses

(2) Date: 10 Oct 90 19:31 -0600 (26 lines)
From: Donald MacRae <grfmacrae@brocku.ca>
Subject: A Quest For Texts

(3) Date: Thursday, 11 October 1990 0040-EST (9 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Peter Patton

(4) Date: Thursday, 11 October 1990 0043-EST (13 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Scholarly Discussion Groups

(5) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 08:09 EDT (16 lines)
From: "Leslie Z. Morgan" <MORGAN@LOYVAX>
Subject: Info on Citation?

(6) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 10:44:47 EDT (14 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: computers in teaching?

(7) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 13:39 EST (9 lines)
From: TRACY LOGAN <LOGANT@lafayett.BITNET>
Subject: database of Gregorian chants?

(8) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 09:36:41 EDT (15 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Word for Word

(9) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:57 GMT (28 lines)
From: David Zeitlyn <ZEITLYN@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: message for humanist

(10) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:28 EDT (20 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Query: SCAN Symposium

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 17:23 EST
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: request for institutional addresses

A colleague of mine would much appreciate it if any member of HUMANIST
would pass along to him, through me, the institutional addresses of the
following medievalists:

1) Monika Asztalos
2) Ferruccio Bertini
3) Margaret T. Gibson
4) Fritz Peter Knapp
5) Bernard Guene'e
6) Jean Richard
7) Klaus Grubmu"ller

W. McCarthy
CUA
Washington, D.C.
(MCCARTHY@CUA.BITNET)
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Date: 10 Oct 90 19:31 -0600
From: Donald MacRae <grfmacrae@brocku.ca>
Subject: A Quest For Texts

I have recently read or re-read three books which have a common
theme: documentation of the problems of minority groups in a
society which seems determined to keep them in their place.

The first, *Black Like Me*, is an account from the early 60s, by
J. H. Griffin who darkened his skin to pose as a black in the
southern states in order to learn of the problems they face. The
second is a German work, *Ganz Unten*, by G. Wallraff. This work
purports to be a documentary account of the plight of the Turkish
"guest workers" in Germany who are abused by their employers. It
was written by a reporter posing as a Turk himself. The last of
these is *My Enemy, Myself* by Y. Benur, an Israeli who poses as
an Arab in Israel. Like the others, he too is trying to document,
first-hand, the problems of a group of outcasts who are a part of
the social fabric of the country, but who do not receive their fair
share of the benefits from that society.

My question is simple: can anyone point me in the direction of
other, similar works which have the same theme?

Donald MacRae,
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Date: Thursday, 11 October 1990 0040-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Peter Patton

Are any HUMANISTs in contact with Peter Patton, an early pioneer of
Humanities Computing at the University of Minnesota? I would be
interested in learning his whereabouts.

Thanks, Bob Kraft
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Date: Thursday, 11 October 1990 0043-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Scholarly Discussion Groups

Have any HUMANISTs been keeping a list of the primarily academic
discussion groups on BITNET (and/or other networks)? Several people
have asked me about such a list recently, and it seemed to be worth
having, despite inevitable ambiguities and tendencies to lean to
personal preferences. I have in mind such groups as ANSAX-L, IOUDAIOS,
FOLKL, and the like, with specific, traditional academic focus on an
identified "field" in the humanities.

Thanks, Bob Kraft
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 08:09 EDT
From: "Leslie Z. Morgan" <MORGAN@LOYVAX>
Subject: Info on Citation?


I have just received a flyer "a special introductory offer" for WP
Citation, aliographic citation generator.

Has anyone tried it? Is it worth $79 for a WP user?

Thanks for any information or suggestions.

Leslie Morgan
Foreign Languages
Loyola College in Maryland (MORGAN@Loyvax)

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 10:44:47 EDT
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: computers in teaching?


I would like to make contact with anyone who regularly assists members
of faculty develop their own software for application to teaching, e.g.
with HyperCard or other high-level programming and authoring languages.
Please write to me directly, and I will later summarize the respondes
for my fellow Humanists.

Thanks very much.

Yours, Willard McCarty
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 13:39 EST
From: TRACY LOGAN <LOGANT@lafayett.BITNET>
Subject: database of Gregorian chants?

A user here needs to scan a large number of Gregorian chants to
see if certain motets are based on such chants. (Approximately:
this is what seemed to me to be involved.) Are there databases
that might supply information about the chants?
-- tracy loganT @ lafayett
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 09:36:41 EDT
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Word for Word

I am wondering now what experience my colleagues here have had with
the format-translation utility, Word for Word. I have used it to
translate files from WordPerfect to Nota Bene, both from versions
4.2 and 5.0, with imperfect results. In one case an index of a book
in translation from WP5.0 lost the first two or three characters
of each line, which alas for me I could not guess at.

Is there anything better?


Yours, Willard McCarty
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:57 GMT
From: David Zeitlyn <ZEITLYN@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: message for humanist

Preliminary enquiry:

I'm working on a research proposal to do with the use of pronouns, names
and kinterms. In order to take a wider perspective than my usual
Mambila-centric one I would like to be able to analyse some natural
language corpora for languages other than Mambila. However, I need to
know something about the speakers eg relationships, kinship, (possibly
even relative ages?) or other possible power relations which obtain
between the speakers. Lou B says that such information is not available
for the texts here in Oxford.

Does anyone out there know of any corpora which may be of use?

The ideal would be corpora of families + friends engaged in mundane
conversation eg table talk. For languages other than common european
ones I would need translations into some meta-language!
Many thanks for any help.

David Zeitlyn
junior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology
Wofson College
Oxford OX4 6UD
UK
zeitlyn@uk.ac.vax
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:28 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Query: SCAN Symposium

The Small Computers in the Arts Network 1990 symposium is at U Penn this
year, right in my backyard (sorry, any Penn'ers out there - no crack
intended) and I'm thinking about going...

does anybody have any comments about this conference and/or evaluations
of its usefulness and relevance to higher education? Are there any past
attendees willing to give advice...?

thanks in advance...reply to me or the list as you think fit.

- Matt

Matthew Wall Internet: wall@campus.swarthmore.edu
Humanities Computing Coordinator Bitnet : wall@swarthmr
Swarthmore College Tri-College DECNET: SWAT::WALL