Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 208.
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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (147)
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Call for Contributions to Sarai Reader 03: "Shaping
Technologies"
[2] From: David Bearman <mw2003@archimuse.com> (20)
Subject: Call for Participation, Museums and the Web 2003
[3] From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@LORIA.FR> (29)
Subject: CFP -- EACL'03, Budapest
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:58:49 -0700
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Call for Contributions to Sarai Reader 03: "Shaping
Technologies"
From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha@sarai.net>
Reply-To: shuddha@sarai.net
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:56:48 +0530
Call for Contributions to Sarai Reader 03 : "Shaping Technologies"
Sarai, (www.sarai.net) an interdisciplinary research and practice
programme on the city and the media, at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies and Waag Society (www.waag.org), a center for culture
and technology based in Amsterdam, invites contributions to Sarai Reader
03 : Shaping Technologies,
We also invite proposals to initiate and moderate discussions on the
themes of the Sarai Reader 03 on the Reader List
(http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list) with a view to the
moderator(s) editing the transcripts of these discussions for publication
in the Sarai Reader 03.
The Sarai Reader is an annual publication produced jointly by Sarai/CSDS
(Delhi) and the Waag Society (Amsterdam).Previous Readers have included :
'The Public Domain' : Sarai Reader 01,
2001(http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.html) and 'The Cities of
Everyday Life' : Sarai Reader 02, 2002,
(http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader2.html ).
The Sarai Reader series aims at bringing together original, thoughtful,
critical, reflective, well researched and provocative texts and essays by
theorists, practitioners and activists, grouped under a core theme that
expresses the interests of the Sarai in issues that relate media,
information and society in the contemporary world. The Sarai Readers have
a wide international readership.
Editorial Collective for Sarai Reader 03 : Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram,
Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai) and Geert
Lovink & Marleen Strikker (The Waag Society)
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The Concept - Shaping Technologies
Today, technology is second nature to us. If the landscape of earlier
times could be ideally represented by images of naturally occurring
objects, the landscape of the contemporary is one that can only be
imagined as being peopled by machines. The 'nature' of our times is
technological - we are embodied, articulated, located and governed by the
machines we make to extend our lives, bodies and faculties. We shape the
technologies that surround us and the technologies that surround us shape
the contour of our lives. This is what we mean by the term 'Shaping
Technologies', which as a term with two senses suggests both a subjective,
social appropriation of technological creativity, as well as the impact of
technologies on society and life in general.
One may even say that the technological ubiquity has gone so far as to
make it nearly impossible for us to reflect upon technology as a phenomena
separate from the general conditions of global urban life. We are what we
work, play and think with, and today we work, play and think with our
machines. We are users, inventors, practitioners, artists, hackers and
artisans who work with technologies; we are technology's consumers and
users, we are hobbyists, enthusiasts and addicts just as we are critics,
prophets, and analysts. We are masters, slaves, victims and rebels of
technology. No one remains untouched by the 'machine'.
Yet, we do not have an adequate language with which to understand and
articulate the presence of technology in culture, society and in politics.
We are accustomed to construct utopian and dystopic technological
imaginaries, even as we neglect the task of a sober and considered
reflection of the ethical and cognitive dilemmas that the presence of
technologies in everyday life confront us with. And even as technology
becomes increasingly ubiquitous, even as it touches wider populations,
even as an immersion in technoculture becomes the condition of the
contemporary moment, it becomes simultaneously the discursive monopoly of
experts and specialists, or of geeks and hobbyists, far removed from the
concerns that animate scholars, public intellectuals, and the average
curious person. Technology is the underpinning and the shadow of the
public domain. Technology is ubiquitous, yet discursively invisible.
Sarai Reader 03 seeks to contribute to the termination of this discursive
vacuum by asking what other imaginary space there may be, besides the
imperative to consume, the irrepressible desire to shop for the next
gadget that comes our way, and the whine of the perennial victim of the
machine, with which we can envision technology's presence in our lives ?
In this third volume in the Sarai Reader series we will also look into
alternative approaches towards technology, strategies to revitalize
forgotten concepts (and their authors), re-readings of past debates and
anticipations of future ones. We will weigh the utopian visions against
the dystopic nightmares, perhaps to arrive at assessments that suggest
sobriety and a 'cool' consideration of the cold touch of the machine, as
well as of the heat of the fuel that animates it.
If you feel these issues and questions are of interest to you. If your
practice, thought, curiosities, research or creative activity has impelled
you to think about some of these issues, we invite you to contribute texts
to Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies.
The Reader will have the following broad areas of interest:
I. Technologies of Urbanism : Making the City
II. The Everyday Experience of Technology
III. Philosophies of Technology - Being the Machine
IV. Technologies in History
IV. Imagining Technologies - The Machine in Art, Literature and Cinema
V. Technologies of the Body
VI. Gender and Technology
VII. Tactical Tech : Technologies of Power and Resistance
VIII. D.I.Y (Do it Yourself)
IX. Social Software
X. Technology and the Environment
XI. Networks and Transmissions
There will also be three additional special sections:
i. Selections from the Reader List on the violence in Gujarat in
February/March 2002,
ii. Design, Technology and the Urban Info Sphere : Case Studies from Amsterdam
iii. The book (like Readers 1 and 2) will end with the Alt/Option section,
which offers manifestos and alternative perspectives
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GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS
Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words
1.Submissions may be scholarly, journalistic, or literary - or a mix of
these, in the form of essays, papers, interviews, online discussions or
diary entries. All submission, unless specifically solicited, must be in
English only.
2.Submissions must be sent by email in rich text format (rtf) or
star-office documents. Articles may be accompanied by black and white
photographs or drawings submitted in the tif format.
3.We urge all writers, to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, (CMS) in
terms of footnotes, annotations and references. For more details about the
CMS, please see the Florida State University web page on CMS style
documentation at : http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/chicago.html
4.All contributions should be accompanied by a three/four line text
introducing the author.
5.All submissions will be read by the editorial collective of the Sarai
Reader 02 before the final selection is made. The editorial collective
reserves the right not to publish any material sent to it for publication
in the Sarai Reader on stylistic or editorial grounds. All contributors
will be informed of the decisions of the editorial collective vis a vis
their contribution after December 1, 2002.
6.Copyright for all accepted contributions will remain with the authors,
but Sarai and the Waag Society reserve indefinitely the right to place any
of the material accepted for publication on the public domain in print or
electronic forms, and on the internet.
7.Accepted submissions will not be paid for, but authors are guaranteed a
wide international readership. The Reader will be published in print,
distributed in India and internationally, and will also be uploaded in a
pdf form on to the Sarai website. All contributors whose work has been
accepted for publication will receive two copies of the Reader.
Last date for submission - December 1st 2002.
(but please write as soon as possible to the editorial collective with a
brief outline/abstract, not more than one page, of what you want to write
about - this helps in designing the content of the reader)
We expect to have the reader published by mid February 2003.
________________________________________
Please send in your outlines and abstracts
1. (for articles) to
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Co Ordinator, Sarai Reader 03 Editorial Collective
(shuddha@sarai.net)
2. (for proposals to moderate online discussions on the Reader List) to
Monica Narula, List Administrator, the Reader List
(monica@sarai.net)
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----[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:41:53 -0700 From: David Bearman <mw2003@archimuse.com> Subject: Call for Participation, Museums and the Web 2003
Museums and the Web 2003, the largest international conference devoted to cultural heritage institutions and new media technologies, invites your participation, March 19-22, 2003, in Charlotte North Carolina, USA.
Proposals for papers, pre-conference workshops, in-conference mini-workshops and other formats of presentations are being received at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/ until September 30, 2002. Proposals for Demonstrations will be accepted until December 15, 2002. All proposals will be peer reviewed by the program committee.
We sincerely hope that you will propose to take part in this important information sharing event. Proceedings of all prior Museums and the Web Conferences are available at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html and individual papers are available on-line at each annual conference web site.
Sincerely yours, David Bearman, co-chair, Program Committee
Please note our new mailing address and phones: Archives & Museum Informatics 158 Lee Ave. Toronto On M4E 2P3 Canada ph. +1-416-691-2516 fax: +1-416-352-6025
--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:42:48 -0700 From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@LORIA.FR> Subject: CFP -- EACL'03, Budapest
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EACL 2003 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
April 12-17, 2003 Budapest, Hungary
EACL03 invites submissions as follows:
Main conference papers Registration deadline: 10 November Submission deadline: 15 November Research notes and Demos Registration deadline: 01 December Submission deadline: 06 December Student workshop Deadline: 15 November Tutorials Deadline: 15 November Workshops Deadline: 01 October
*** FURTHER INFORMATION ****
EACL03: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ EACL: http://www.eacl.org EACL03 Student Workshop http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/eacl03-student/
*** ORGANISATION ****
Programme Co-Chairs Ann Copestake (United Kingdom) Jan Hajic (Czech Republic) Research notes and Demos Chair Alberto Lavelli (Italy) Tutorial Chair Dan Cristea (Romania) Publication Chair Patrick Paroubek (France) Workshop Chair Steven Krauwer (The Netherlands) Student workshop Chair EACL Student Board (M. Gabsdil, J. Hockenmaier, J. Herring)
Local Organisation Chair: Ferenc Kiefer (Hungary)
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