Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 513.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "Fay Sudweeks" <sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au> (40)
Subject: CFP: CATaC'02
[2] From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk> (37)
Subject: Philosophy, Science and Exegesis
[3] From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com> (20)
Subject: Colloquium on visualisation 8 March
[4] From: "Bobley, Brett" <BBobley@neh.gov> (38)
Subject: NEH Lecture w/Will Thomas & Ed Ayers
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:30:40 +0000
From: "Fay Sudweeks" <sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: CFP: CATaC'02
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on
CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02)
12-15 July 2002
University of Montral, Quebec, Canada
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
Conference theme: The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and
Technology
The powers of the Nets can be construed in many ways - political,
economic, and social. Power can also be construed in terms of
Foucault's "positive power" and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural
capital" - decentered forms of power that encourage "voluntary"
submission, such as English as a _lingua franca_ on the Net.
Similarly, Hofstede's category of "power distance" points to the role
of status in encouraging technology diffusion, as low-status persons
seek to emulate high-status persons. Through these diverse forms of
power, the language(s) and media of the Net may reshape the cultural
assumptions of its globally-distributed users - thus raising the
dangers of "computer-mediated colonisation" ("Disneyfication" - a la
Cees Hamelink).
This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum
for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how
diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of
information and communication technologies (ICT). "Cultural
attitudes" here includes cultural values and communicative preferences
that may be embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus
threatening to make ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global
village and more an agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism.
The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe
who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific
culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and
in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the
conference theme.
The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998
(http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of
the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. The second
conference in the series was held in Perth in 2000
(http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/).
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:33:12 +0000
From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Philosophy, Science and Exegesis
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
"Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries"
An International Conference in Honour of R.R.K. Sorabji FBA, CBE
Senate House, Malet Street, London
June 27-29 2002
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/frames/Research
(SEE under Ancient Commentators Project)
Sponsored by (to date): The Mind Association, British Academy Conference
Grants, Henry Brown Trust, Institute of Classical Studies, The Wellcome
Trust (History of Medicine Programme), King's College Philosophy
Department, King's College Theology Department, the Ancient Commentators
Project, School of Advanced Studies (Philosophy Programme).
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** THE EVENT **
On June 27-29, 2002, London will host the first of what we hope will be a
series of conferences on Philosophical Commentaries: Ancient and Medieval.
The Conference is a further development of the Ancient Commentators on
Aristotle Project (KCL Philosophy/ Gen. Editor R. Sorabji). We now are
extending the Project to include English translations of Arabic and Latin
commentaries, moving into the Medieval period.
This Conference will have three important objectives: 1. capitalising on
the work of the commentary tradition done so far, and 2. expanding the
brief of the Project into later periods of history. 3. In addition, we hope
to create an exciting interdisciplinary gathering with specialists who work
in classics, philosophy, medieval studies, Arabic studies, literature, and
the history of science and medicine.
We hope that this unprecedented gathering of specialists (30 invited
speakers) in the study of commentaries will lead to a deeper appreciation
of a genre which has often been ignored or misunderstood. From the late
ancient period, through the classical era of Arabic thought, until the
scholastic period in medieval Europe, the commentary was the dominant
vehicle for the development and transmission of ideas in philosophy,
science, and even theology. The result is an enormous corpus of late
ancient and medieval commentaries, most often on Aristotle but also on
Plato, Galen, and other authoritative Greek figures. On the whole we hope
to represent the full range of topics from the beginnings of exegesis until
the medieval and Renaissance reception of the genre.
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:29:17 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: Colloquium on visualisation 8 March
Seminar in Humanities Computing
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
VISUALIZATION IN THE HUMANITIES
Friday, 8 March 2002, 9 am to 5.30 pm
King's College London
Council Room, Main Building, Strand Campus
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/01-02/seminar_visualisation.html>
Peter Robinson, "As we may read: Presenting texts in many versions"
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Humanistic Visualization: (In)visible Ideologies
and Algorithmic Images"
Michael Barlow, "Visualizing Texts"
Richard Beacham, with Hugh Denard, "Mind the Gap. The Psychology of VR
Depictions or, 'I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls'"
This is a public event. Individuals wishing to attend the colloquium should
register by contacting Ms Helen Skundric via e-mail at cch@kcl.ac.uk.
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:30:04 +0000
From: "Bobley, Brett" <BBobley@neh.gov>
Subject: NEH Lecture w/Will Thomas & Ed Ayers
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The National Endowment for the Humanities
Presents
eHumanities Lecture Series
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Please register for the next NEH eHumanities lecture here in Washington, DC.
It will feature Will Thomas and Ed Ayers from the University of Virginia.
These lectures bring together leading scholars from the world of technology
and the humanities. Our last lecture on February 13, featuring Jim
O'Donnell from the University of Pennsylvania, was a huge success and we had
a packed house! So register soon.
DATE: Wednesday, February 27
TIME: 12 Noon - 1:15pm
LOCATION: NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, RM M-09
TITLE: The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form
SPEAKERS: WILL THOMAS and ED AYERS
Registration is free, just see: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html
DESCRIPTION: The use of online resources has exploded in recent years.
Students and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents,
reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a new
form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital
environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a journal
article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the web while
addressing some of the limitations of that context.
BIO: Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History
and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the author of Lawyering
for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU, 1999). He
also served as the co-author and assistant producer of The Ground Beneath
Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series
on the history of Virginia for public television.
BIO: Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the
University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern history
and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: Rethinking American
Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. He is
the founder of the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of
Virginia. Ayers has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a
Fulbright. Ayers received a bachelor's degree from the University of
Tennessee, and his master's and doctorate from Yale University.
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