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               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 456.
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   [1] From: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268_at_NYU.EDU> (38)
         Subject: cfp: Society for Textual Scholarship at MLA 2007

   [2] From: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268_at_NYU.EDU> (38)
         Subject: Fw: Registration Open for Texas A&M Book History
                 Workshop

   [3] From: Håkan
Carlsson <Hakan.Carlsson_at_LUB.LU.SE> (29)
         Subject: Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication

   [4] From: <kcpr2007_at_info-cyber.org> (41)
         Subject: KCPR 2007: Call for Papers and Invited Sessions
                 Proposals

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         Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:38:04 +0000
         From: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268_at_NYU.EDU>
         Subject: cfp: Society for Textual Scholarship at MLA 2007

----- Original Message -----
From: ROBIN SCHULZE <rgs3_at_psu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:43 pm
SESSION FOR MLA 2007

>
>
>
>
> Dear Members of the STS Community,
>
> Please find posted below the call for papers for the Society for
> Textual Scholarship's Affiliate Session for the 2007 MLA
> convention in Chicago:
>
> Archive Trouble
>
> The archive (broadly conceived, specifically rendered) as a site of
> loss, overspill, forgery, chaos, and anxiety -- in any period
> -- and the consequences for scholarship, editing, cultural
practice, and textual
> theory. Proposals to Andrew Stauffer (astauff_at_bu.edu) by March 6.
>
> Please publicize and submit proposals! Thanks.
>
> Andy
>
> Andrew Stauffer
> Dept. of English
> Boston University
>
>
>
> Robin G. Schulze
> Director, Center for American Literary Studies
> Professor of English
> Penn State University
> 117 Burrowes Building
> University Park, PA 16802-6200

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         Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:38:55 +0000
         From: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268_at_NYU.EDU>
         Subject: Fw: Registration Open for Texas A&M Book History Workshop

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Morrow <CMorrow_at_LIB-GW.TAMU.EDU>
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:57 pm

> Please excuse cross-posting.
>
> Registration Open for Texas A&M Book History Workshop
>
> Space is still available for the sixth annual Book History at A&M
> Workshop, May 20-25, 2007. If you are interested in taking the
> workshop, please register soon as the workshop is filling up very
> quickly. Taking place in the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
> at Texas A&M University, this five-day workshop provides an
> intensive, hands-on introduction to the history of books and
> printing with an emphasis on hand press era printing and its allied
> technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration,
> and ink-making. The combination of labs with seminars will provide
> students with practical experience as well as a broad historical
> survey of the field. Students will have the opportunity to cast
> type in a hand mould, set lines of type, impose formes, make paper,
> produce relief and intaglio illustrations and print on a replica
> common press. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists,
> students, teachers, book collectors and private individuals who
> work in areas related to or who have an interest in book history.
> Past workshops have also included a series of evening lectures by
> scholars active in the field of book history. To register, find
> out more, or see photographs from previous workshops, go to:
> http://cushing.tamu.edu/bookhistory/.
>
> Christopher L. Morrow, Ph.D.
> Curator for Outreach
> Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
> Texas A&M University
> 5000 TAMU
> College Station, Texas 77843-5000
> Phone: (979) 845-1951
> Fax: (979) 845-1441
> c-morrow_at_tamu.edu
>

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         Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:39:36 +0000
         From: Håkan Carlsson <Hakan.Carlsson_at_LUB.LU.SE>
         Subject: Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication

Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008

21-23 April 2008, Lund, Sweden

Following up the success of the previous Nordic
Conferences on Scholarly Communication, Lund
University Libraries are proud to announce the Fourth Nordic Conference.

In order to discuss, present and analyse the
problems and challenges that arise within
scholarly communication Lund University Libraries
invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors,
librarians and other interested parties to the
Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication 21 - 23 April 2008 in Lund, Sweden.
The conference takes place every second year and
aims to be an important contribution to the
discussion and to the development within the
Nordic countries and occurs in alternation with
OAI - CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication.

For more information, please use the conference
webpage:
<https://webmail.cfadm.lu.se/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc>http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc

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Håkan Carlsson
Biblioteksdirektionen / Head Office
Lunds universitet / Lund University Libraries
Box 134
221 00 LUND
Tel. +46 46-222 15 30
Fax + 46 46-222 36 82

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         Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:08:57 +0000
         From: <kcpr2007_at_info-cyber.org>
         Subject: KCPR 2007: Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals

The 2nd Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing (KCPR
2007) will be held in Orlando, Florida on July 12-15, 2007

March 8th, 2007 is the deadline for paper/abstract submissions and
invited session proposals. http://www.info-cyber.org/kcpr2007
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The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be
waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a
package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial
"Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory
of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US
$ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed
at KCPR 2007 web page.

The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 6 of JSCI
Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI). 24 issues (volumes 1, 2,
3 and 4) of the Journal have been sent to approximately 200
universities and research libraries, Promotional, free subscriptions,
for 2 years, are being provided to the organizations of the Journal's authors.

All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least
three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These
three kinds of review will support the selection process of those
that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as
well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.
Details are given in the conference web site.

The three kinds of reviewing will support the acceptance process for
the selection of the papers to be presented at the conference, as
well as the selection of the best 10%-20% of the papers that will be
included in the JSCI journal. All papers accepted for presentation in
the conference will also be included in the conference proceedings.

The papers selected, after their presentation, as the best ones of
their regular or invited session, will also be considered for their
inclusion in the Journal. The authors of the best 30%-40% of these
papers will be invited to modify or extend their papers for its
respective publication in the Journal.

For those who are interested in organizing an invited session,
please, fill the respective form provided in the conference web page,
and we will send you a password (if it is pre-approved) so you can
include and modify papers in your invited session.

If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about
a suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us.

Dr. Nagib Callaos
KCPR 2007 General Chair
Received on Tue Feb 20 2007 - 04:40:12 EST