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If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. ------------------------------------------------------------ Publication Announcements * Essays in Postmodern Culture * The New River * Works and Days * Media Ecology * Pynchon Notes * Gallaudet University Press * The MIT Press * The Denver Quarterly * SUNY Press * James Joyce Quarterly * The Centennial Review * Public Culture Conferences, Calls for Papers, Invitations to Submit * Call for Hypermedia Submissions to PMC * Literature and Ethics * Film: Culture: History * Cultural Violence * Katharine Sharp Review * Virtual Masquerades: Electronic Textuality and On-Line Personae * Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia * IASS-AIS Sixth Congress 1997 * Sociological Studies of Telecommunications, Computerization, and Cyberspace * Calls for Papers in English and American Literature * NEH: Teaching With Technology * The Epiphany Institute * College Literature * JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory Web Sites and Other Announcements * Cultural Cartographies Conference Prize * HSS Web Server * 19th Century American Women Writers Web ------------------------------------------------------------- * Essays in _Postmodern Culture_: An anthology of essays from _Postmodern Culture_ is available in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practical engagements with the postmodern -- from AIDS and the body to postmodern politics. Writing by George Yudice, Allison Fraiberg, David Porush, Stuart Moulthrop, Paul McCarthy, Roberto Dainotto, Audrey Ecstavasia, Elizabeth Wheeler, Bob Perelman, Steven Helmling, Neil Larsen, David Mikics, Barrett Watten. Book design by Richard Eckersley. ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound), 0-19-508753-4 (paper) ------------------------------------------------------------- * The New River: A Hypermedia Archive Sometime later this year, the English Department at Virginia Tech, in connection with _The Blue Penny Quarterly_, will launch _The New River_, a revolving archive of hypertext and hypermedia literature and art. I'll be editing _The New River_, and consequently I'm interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished hypertext and hypermedia. I would like to see lyric and narrative art that exploits the computer as a site for creative work. Since _The New River_ will be a web-based archive, work produced in HTML is preferred. However, stand-alone hypertext/media will also be considered -- to be published, perhaps, as work available for downloading. Information on submission procedures for _The New River_ is available from _The Blue Penny Quarterly_: http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bpq/Guidelines.html Ed Falco English Department Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 Phone: 540.951.4112 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Works and Days Call for Subscriptions to WORKS AND DAYS since 1994 The New Series/The Second Decade/The Next Generation 1994--2004 In its 1994 "The Geography of Cyberspace" issue, WORKS AND DAYS looks into the future of literary and rhetorical studies. Far from abandoning the journal's longstanding concerns for cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, its editorial collective sees the need to address these issues in the light of recent technological developments. This is our commitment for the 90's and beyond. WORKS AND DAYS 23/24 The Geography of Cyberspace Edited by David B. Downing and James J. Sosnoski 1994 Contributors: John Barber, Jay Boersma, Peter Childers, Paul Delany, David B. Downing, Paul Fortier, Gail Hawisher, Norman N. Holland, Michael Joyce, Fred Kemp, Ian Lancashire, James McFadden, Charles Moran, Stuart Moulthrop, Helen Schwartz, Leroy Searle, Cynthia Selfe, James J. Sosnoski, Gary Lee Stonum, Michael Wojcik. WORKS AND DAYS 25/26 CyberSpaces: Pedagogy and Performance on the Electronic Frontier Guest Edited by Charles J. Stivale 1995 Contributors: Lynn Cherny, Ethel Enstrom, Allison Fraiberg, Leslie Harris, Cynthia Haynes, David Hogsette, Michael Joyce, Kim Fedderman, William Millard, Lisa Nakamura, Fridirick Pallez, Charles J. Stivale, Randall Woodland. WORKS AND DAYS 27/28 Cultural Studies and Composition: Conversations in Honor of James Berlin Edited by Keith Dorwick, David B. Downing, and James J. Sosnoski Hypertext Edition Edited by Keith Dorwick 1996 Contributors: Joanne Addiison, Kris Blair, Michael Blitz, Beth Campbell, David B. Downing, Patricia Harkin, Teresa Henning, C. Mark Hurlbert, Lisa Langstraat, Janice Lauer, Libby Miles, Sushil Oswal, Tina Perdue, James J. Sosnoski. WORKS AND DAYS seeks new subscribers. Individual subscription rates are $15/year. You can subscribe by sending a check to: WORKS AND DAYS English Department 110 Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705. Indicate which issue you wish to begin with; multiple subscriptions = no. of years x $15. Institutional rate: $25/year Support the cause! Become a "Friend of WORKS AND DAYS!" If you donate $25 or more, you will be listed on the "Friends of WORKS AND DAYS" page of each issue. Inquiries welcome. email: downing@grove.iup.edu World Wide Web: http://acorn.grove.iup.edu/workdays/WDHome.html ------------------------------------------------------------ * media ecology beginning summer 1996 MEDIA ECOLOGY http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/media_ecology/ _media ecology_ is a journal of intersections. Published here are works that examine techniques and technologies of transmitting messages, the content and meaning of those messages, and cultural interactions with the technologies and the messages. A place is also reserved in the journal for creative works that make use of new technologies. Intersections of theoretical and disciplinary positions are welcomed and encouraged. Submissions may be informed by semiotics, rhetoric, pedagogy, critical theory, and other positions that consider the manner in which culture, communications systems and technologies function together. _media ecology_ is a journal that seeks to make an intersection between traditional refereed scholarship and serious non-academic critique. It will provide a home for important work originating in many different sectors. Departments Understanding New Media - A McLuhanesque review of new technologies. The Lab - A laboratory for creative work utilizing hypertext. The Law - Consideration of the legal ramifications of new technologies. Paradox - Consideration of unrealized potentials, nasty inconsistencies and irresolvable dilemmas. Reviews & Announcements Publication _media ecology_ will have a rotating publication schedule on the World Wide Web. Annually our sister publication, _Readerly/Writerly Texts_, will publish the _Media Ecology Review_, a print collection of the strongest pieces translatable to print. Sponsorship _media ecology_ is sponsored jointly by the Institute for Language, Technology, and Publications Design of the University of Baltimore, and _Readerly/Writerly Texts_, published at Eastern New Mexico University. Call For Submissions Please send submissions electronically (MLA format where applicable) to Stephanie B. Gibson, Editor. 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Author Wrigley plainly states his intention to disrupt "normal" thought about the popularly considered condition of deafness as a physical deficiency. >From his decade of experience working and living in the Deaf community in Thailand, he uses wide-ranging examples to go beyond disputing conventional theorists for their interpretation of deafness as the lack of a sensory function. By calling attention to the different lingual potential created by the instant visual expression of cyberspace, he explodes orthodox conceptualization of the nature of language as serially ordered and dependent on sound. In bold style, this provacative work poses the relationship of the bodies physical and mental of Deaf people as subject to a form of "colonialism" by the dominant Hearing culture. It proceeds to expose and attack presumptions and practices that derive from and descend upon deaf bodies. 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Outside USA, add $5.00 for postage. --------------------------- The University of Chicago Press Journals Division, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637 USA Fax 312/753-0811 ------------------------------------------------------------ * Call for Hypermedia Submissions to _Postmodern Culture_ With the continuing interest in the World Wide Web and other distributed information systems, hypermedia projects have become both more numerous and more sophisticated. _Postmodern Culture_ will continue to publish important offerings in hypertext and hypermedia, presenting works that extend and redefine electronic expression. We especially invite conceptually challenging projects: texts/programs/performances in which multiplicity of discourse serves as more than an auxiliary for traditional language and forms. Scholarly as well as creative projects are welcome: this call goes out to philosophers, historians, ethnographers, and other researchers as well as artists in all media. Guidelines o Projects created for the Web (HTML/HTTP) are preferable, but we will consider other systems and media. o Submissions must not have been featured in other electronic publications and should have had minimal network exposure. Copyright if any must be held by the author(s). To offer your work for consideration, please send letter or e-mail briefly describing your project. Include URL if your text is accessible via the World Wide Web. For further information, contact Stuart Moulthrop, samoulthrop@ubmail.ubalt.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------ * NEH: Teaching With Technology ......................................................... ......................................................... GRANT OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT -- PLEASE REPOST ......................................................... ......................................................... Teaching with Technology ** A National Endowment for the Humanities Special Opportunity ** NEH's Division of Research and Education Programs announces a special, three-year opportunity for support of Teaching with Technology projects designed to strengthen education in the humanities in both schools and colleges by developing and using today's rapidly evolving information technologies: including digital audio, video and imaging, hypertext and hypermedia, video-conferencing, speech processing, the Internet, and World Wide Web sites. The Endowment seeks to increase the number and usefulness of technological resources with rich, high-quality humanities content; to improve the effectiveness of such resources by shaping them around sophisticated, creative, and engaging approaches to teaching and learning; and to increase greatly the number of teachers who can integrate these humanities materials into their daily teaching. Successful projects will be of national significance and will extend the potential benefits of educational technologies to a broad range of those studying history, literature, languages, and the other humanities disciplines in schools, colleges, and universities. Any U.S., nonprofit, tax-exempt organization or institution dedicated to improving humanities education is eligible to apply for support through this program. ** Types of Projects ** At the Teaching with Technology deadlines, the Endowment seeks proposals that address one or more of the following categories: 1. Materials Development: Projects that plan and design interactive educational software with excellent humanities content. 2. Field Testing and Classroom Applications: Projects that design and field-test innovative classroom uses of existing materials or those being developed. 3. Teacher Preparation: Projects that enable school and college teachers to integrate specific technologically innovative humanities materials and approaches into their teaching; these may be national summer institutes or collaborative projects among teachers in the same or neighboring institutions. Applicants are encouraged to be as creative as possible in proposing uses of newer technologies and innovative strategies for using information technology in humanities teaching. ** Deadlines for Receipt of Applications ** + Initial Teaching with Technology deadline: April 5, 1996 + Following the initial deadline, applications for Teaching with Technology may be submitted against the following regular program deadlines: + Humanities Focus Grants: Sep 16, 1996; Jan 15, 1997 + Other Education Development & Demonstration Projects: Oct 1, 1996; Oct 1, 1997 + National Summer Institutes & Seminars: Mar 1, 1997; Mar 1, 1998 Guidelines and applications may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.fed.us (under Guidelines) For further information or to request guidelines and application forms by surface mail: Division of Research and Education, Room 302 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20506 education@neh.fed.us ------------------------------------------------------------ * Katharine Sharp Review Call For Papers Katharine Sharp Review GSLIS, University of Illinois ISSN 1083-5261 (This information can also be found at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review) This is the first call for submissions to the Summer 1996 issue of the _Katharine Sharp Review_, the peer-reviewed e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research within the interdisciplinary scope of library and information science. All submissions should be received by Monday, May 13, 1996. Although it is not required for submission, we would appreciate an abstract (of 150-200 words) or indication of intention to submit. Submitted articles must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For more information, including instructions for authors, please see the KSR webpage at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/ review/call.html or email us at sharp-review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu. Kevin Ward Editor The Katharine Sharp Review sharp-review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review ------------------------------------------------------------ * Virtual Masquerades: Electronic Textuality and On-Line Personae CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Session at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) University of California, Irvine on November 8-10, 1996 Many have commented on the emotional volatility of e-mail, newsgroups, and listserv correspondence, and on the compelling -- if not addictive -- qualities of interactive hypertext and hypermedia. What is going on in this textual exchange? How are these effects achieved by electronic writers; how are these effects received by electronic readers? Who are these mobile, fluid, multiple -- if not mutant -- subjects precipitated by on-line texts? Where are they? And how long do they last? This session invites papers that speculate on the literary formation of on-line ethos; on the rhetorical exchange of electronic texts; on institutional or other resistances to such a creative metamorphosis; on implications of hypertext fiction; on new hybrid hypermedia genres exemplified by "games" like Myst; or on other related issues. Please submit a 1 page abstract (a paper may be included) by APRIL 1, 1996 to: The Electronic Text Collective c/o Ellen Strenski 200 HOB-1 Department of English & Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 Queries or abstracts via e-mail to: Mark Mullen, cclegg@pepperdine.edu. (Dues are $20 regular, $10 student or emeritus.) ------------------------------------------------------------ * Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia CALL FOR PAPERS We invite critical essays for an interdisciplinary anthology on the conceptualization of space in South and Southeast Asian contexts in the 19th and 20th centuries. The emphasis is on a feminist analytics of women's and men's experiences of space in such topics as political, social, and/or psychic cartographies of imperialism, nationhood, urbanization, technological production (cyberspace, etc.), (e)migration, enforced/ chosen exile, and cosmopolitanism. Papers might also consider how narratives (visual, written, spoken, enacted), spatial designs, and sociocultural practices configure race, class, gender (also transgendering), sexuality, religion/spirituality, and the politics of public and private realms inside, between, and outside predetermined boundaries. Countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, India, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines. WE LOOK FORWARD ESPECIALLY TO SUBMISSIONS ON COUNTRIES OTHER THAN INDIA. Send 2-3 page proposals or 25-30 page papers by May 31, 1996 to Esha Niyogi De (UCLA) or Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) at idr2end@mvs.oac.ucla.edu or sarker@macalstr.edu. Or mail to S. Sarker, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105. ------------------------------------------------------------ * IASS-AIS Sixth Congress 1997 First Call for Papers Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture La semiotique: carrefour de la nature et de la culture La semiotica. Interseccion de la naturaleza y de la cultura 6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies --Association Internationale de la Semiotique IASS-AIS Guadalajara, Mexico -- July, 13-18, 1997 This is already the 6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (founded in 1969). The five previous congresses were held in Milano (1974), Vienna (1979), Palermo (1984), Barcelona & Perpignan (1989), and Berkeley (1994). Theme: The development of science during the last decades has shown the need of an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars investigating nature and culture in the different corners of the world. Semiotics has shown that it has an important role to play in this scientific intercourse: It provides a sign-theoretic basis for the coming together of anthropologists, linguists, literary critics, communicologists, mathematicians, biologists, physicists, and others, in an open debate to increase our knowledge about ourselves in our relation with nature and culture. Objective: This is an international academic event open to all scientific communities which will permit to get in touch in a direct manner with recent developments in the field of semiotics and neighboring disciplines. Since it is the Congress of the IASS-AIS participants are invited to join the Association (for membership information see below). Plenary Speakers: * Mieke Bal (The Netherlands) * Jean-Claude Gardin (France) * Junzo Kawada (Japan) * Floyd Merrell (USA) * Michael O'Toole (Australia) Languages: English, French, and Spanish (plenary sessions will have simultaneous translation). Participants should send the title and an abstract of 200 words in any of the three official languages. Screening Committees: * The title and abstracts from Europe, Africa, Australia and Oceania should be sent to the European Screening Committee (Chair): Dinda L. Gorlee, Van Alkemadelaan 806, NL-2597 BC Den Haag, The Netherlands; phone=fax +31-70-3586745, or e-mail to Rene Jorna: r.j.j.m.jorna@bdk.rug.nl * Participants from North America, South America and Asia should send their abstract and title to the Mexican Screening Committee (Chair): Adrian Gimate-Welsh, Pacifico 350 H-103, Los Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico, D.F., Mexico; fax +52-5-5495764, phone +52-5-6895686 (weekdays), fax +52-22-430418 (weekends), e-mail: agw@xanum.uam.mx Registration Give your name, affiliation and mailing address, and indicate the mode of payment. Send it together with a brief description of your line of research and photograph (the organizers plan to prepare a brochure of all participants) to: Adrian Gimate-Welsh, Pacifico 350 H-103, Los Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico D.F.,Mexico. Fees: * Before March 1997 US$ 75.00 * After March 1997 US$ 100.00 This includes registration, congress materials, cocktail reception and a dinner-concert. To pay your fees before March 1997, send a bank money order to the account number 50075176-10 of the Commerce Bank of California (bank code ABA-122233645) through any US bank. The money order should be made out to Marta Regina Jimenez Castilla and/or Adrian Gimate-Welsh and sent to Mexico by mail to: Pacifico 350 H-103, Los Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico D.F., Mexico. You can also make a direct transfer from your bank to the given account number. Honorary Executive Committee: Jose Sarukhan Kermez, Rector - UNAM Julio Rubio Oca, Rector General - UAM Andres Lira, President - El Colegio de Mexico Jose Luis Gazquez Mateos, Rector - UAM-I Edmundo Jacobo Molina, Rector UAM-A Guillermo Smidhuber de la Mora, Secretary of Culture, Jalisco Bureau of the IASS-AIS: Executive Committee of the President/President: Mexican Association of Roland Posner (Germany) Semiotics and Organizing Vice-Presidents/Vice-Presidents: Committee of the 6th John Deely (USA), Congress President: Adrian Gerard Deledalle (France), S. Gimate-Welsh (UAM-I) Solomon Marcus (Romania), Honorary Presidents: Jose Lucia Santaella Braga (Brazil), Pascual Buxo (UNAM) Eero Tarasti (Finland) Vicepresidents: Secretary General/Secretaire Rebeca Barriga Villanueva General: (COLMEX) Jeff Bernard (Austria) Gilberto Gimenez (UNAM) Assistant Secretary General/ Secretary General and Secretaire Generale Adjointe: Treasurer: Gloria Withalm (Austria) Regina Jimenez-Ottalengo (UNAM) Treasurer/Tresoriere: Communication and Culture Magdolna Orosz (Hungary) Coordinators: Assistant Treasurer/Tresorier Ma. Rayo Sankey Garcia (BUAP) Adjoint: Juan Manuel Lopez R. (UAM-A) Richard L. Lanigan (USA) Editor-in-chief of Semiotica/ Scientific Committee: Redacteur en chef de Semiotica: The Bureau of the IASS-AIS and Thomas A. Sebeok (USA) the following scholars: Takashi Fujimoto (Japan), Pierre Pellegrino (Switzerland), Vilmos Voigt (Hungary), Rosa Ma. Ravera (Argentina), Horst Ruthrof (Australia) European Screening Committee: Mexican Screening Committee: Chair: Dinda L. Gorlee (The Chair: Adrian S. Gimate-Welsh Netherlands), (UAM-I), Jesper Hoffmeyer (Denmark), Cesar Gonzalez (UNAM-IIF), Rene Jorna (The Netherlands), Jose Pascual Buxo (UNAM-IIB), Sandra Schillemans (Belgium), Renato Prada Oropeza (UV) Membership Information: The annual fees for individual membership amounts to US$ 25.00; membership benefits include: two issues per year of the _IASS-AIS Bulletin-Newsletter_ (IASS-AIS news, congress calendar, upcoming events) and the _IASS-AIS Bulletin-Annual_ (the yearbook of the IASS-AIS with reports on conferences, recent publications, tables of contents of relevant journals, semiotics on the Web, theses, research projects, etc.). Please send your name, home & office address, phone & fax numbers and e-mail together with a check or money order, payable to the IASS-AIS, to: (all countries except North & South America:) Magdolna Orosz (Treasurer of the IASS) Tiszaors u. 20, H-1171 Budapest, Hungary; fax: +36-1-3435062, e-mail: orosz@osiris.elte.hu (North & South America:) Richard L. 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The edited collection will present original research on the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of cyberspace and telecommunications systems. The materials will be organized around relevant and significant sociological themes and issues, and will examine the emerging social transformations associated with information technology, globalization, and cyberspace. As it is historically understood that new instrumental technologies have significant social consequences in conditioning and limiting human freedoms, this collection of articles will contribute to increasing our understanding of the social changes and new forms of political controls and social relations that accompany the creation of electronic communications in cyberspace. Submissions may focus on social relations, identity, and privacy in cyberspace, political, legal and ethical issues, social inequalities, work place transformations, globalization, property rights, and subcultural manifestations associated with computerization. The unique and necessary quality of this collection is that it would be edited and organized from a sociological perspective and emphasize the theoretical and conceptual issues that have been historically developed by sociological investigators and theorists. Unlike many current publications, the goal is to avoid futuristic hyperbole, positive and negative, and to include empirical studies of social relations and social structure. This volume is intended not as a mixed bag of popular, technical, business, educational, and philosophical writings, but is planned to offer systematic sociological investigations. Articles should not exceed approximately thirty double-spaced pages, including all tables, illustrations, endnotes, and references. Two copies of the article should be sent to Prof. Joseph E. Behar, Department of Sociology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York 11769. Inquiries are welcome. e-mail: jbehar@igc.apc.org Telephone: 516-567-0356. Publisher: Dowling College Press. Series: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Publication Distribution: State University of New York at Binghamton. Early 1997. Deadline for submissions: June 15, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------ * Calls for Papers in English and American Literature For the last two years, the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania has kept a collection of calls for papers, conference announcements, etc., on English and American literature, on Penn's English Web and English Gopher. 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If you have any questions, write to Jack Lynch at: jlynch@english.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * Literature and Ethics *************************************************************** ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* *************************************************************** LITERATURE AND ETHICS An International Conference University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 4-7 July 1996 "[T]he word 'ethics' seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most charged term in the vocabulary of contemporary literary and cultural theory" (Steven Connor, _TLS_, 5 January 1996). Speakers to include: Simon Critchley (U of Essex; _The Ethics of Deconstruction_), Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Tulane U; _The Ascetic Imperative_, _Getting It Right_, "Ethics" in the new ed. of _Critical Terms for Literary Study_), Dan Jacobson (University College London; South African novelist and critic; _Adult Pleasures_), Laurence Lockridge (New York U; _The Ethics of Romanticism_), Ian MacKillop (U of Sheffield; recent biography of F R Leavis), Christopher Norris (U of Cardiff; _What's Wrong with Postmodernism_, _Truth and the Ethics of Criticism_, etc.), Ricardo Miguel Alfonso (U Rovira i Virgili), Anne Cubilie (Georgetown U), Andrew Gibson (U of London, Royal Holloway), Juliet John (U of Liverpool), Willy Maley (Glasgow U), Norman Ravvin (U of Toronto), Valeria Wagner (U de Geneve). Papers are invited from all points-of-view within this currently lively area of debate. You may wish directly to relate literary texts or theories to the discipline or discourses of moral philosophy, or you may wish to examine literary study, itself, in terms of engagement or social value. Sessions may include: Theories of Literature and Ethics; Ethics-Oriented Readings of Specific Texts; Ethics and Post-Structuralism; The State of Humanism; Ethics v. Politics; Ethical Criticism and Queer Theory; Literature, Ethics, and Feminism; Texts as Reflections of Moral Concern or Agents of Moral Change; The Author as Moralist; Criticism and Current Human Crises. Please send abstracts (200-300 words) by 15 March 1996 to the following address (to which any enquiries should also be sent): Dr Dominic Rainsford Department of English University of Wales Penglais ABERYSTWYTH Dyfed SY23 3DY UK Direct Line: (01970) 622213 / +44-1970-622213 Fax: (01970) 622530 / +44-1970-622530 E-mail: dcr@aber.ac.uk Abstracts may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail. Extensive information about Aberystwyth, the University, and the Department of English is available on the World-Wide Web: http://www.aber.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------ * Film/Culture/History CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS FILM/CULTURE/HISTORY 1996 marks both the 100th anniversary of film in Scotland & the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh Film Festival. To commemorate these events, Aberdeen University Cultural History Group are pleased to announce a major international conference from the 26th to 28th August 1996, to be run in association with the Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival (11th-25th August). The major aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore the relations between Film, Culture & History, but it will also extend the theme of this year's Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival - Films that changed the World. Proposed areas of discussion include: film & subversion; film & national identity; gender, race & film culture; non-narrative traditions; questions of European cinema. Further suggestions are welcome. Abstracts for papers, which should be no longer than one page in length, should reach the conference committee at the address below by the 15th March 1996. Further information can be obtained from: Colin Whatford, Conference Director, Film:Culture:History Cultural History Group Old Brewery Aberdeen University Regent Walk Aberdeen AB9 2UB Scotland UK Tel: (Int+44) 01224 272457: Fax: (Int+44) 01224 272369: E-mail C.Whatford@abdn.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ * Cultural Violence Interdisciplinary Conference, 7-8 March, 1997, The George Washington University. Keynote speaker Elizabeth Grosz. Conference organizers welcome both specific and broad interpretations of the conference theme. Innovative and interdisciplinary forms of presentation and collaboration are also welcome. One page anonymous abstracts must be submitted in triplicate, along with separate listing of name, paper title, academic affiliation, address, telephone, and e-mail by November 15, 1996. Inquiries to Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; (202) 547-9437; fax (202) 547-9437; e-mail: jaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu. More information available at our web site: http://www.gwu.edu/~violence ------------------------------------------------------------ * The Epiphany Institute Announcing The Epiphany Institute: Mapping New Rhetorical Spaces and Building Bridges from Current to New Technologies June 9 - 14, 1996 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA ================ INSTITUTE GOAL: To develop a plan with specific strategies for change at the participants' institutions in an atmosphere of collaboration and shared knowledge-building. Guided by national leaders of the computers and learning movement, participants will discover ways new technologies pervade culture and impact teaching and learning. At the end of this participants will have: o Gained an overview of the impact of and theoretical implications of technologies on culture and pedagogies; o Modified and richly annotated a traditional syllabus, brought with them from one of their institution's courses, to create an information technology-rich syllabus. o Drafted a plan for coordinated faculty development and change on a departmental level; and o Acquired a wide array of computer skills and resource information. DAILY SCHEDULE Sunday -- June 9 3:00 - 4:00 Leaders' Meeting for Epiphany Team 4:00 - 6:00 Registration; Special session for "Newbies" 6:00 - 10:00 Whole group: Welcome gathering and dinner; Introductions and orientation; Distribution of materials. Monday -- June 10 8 - 8:30 Registration; Continental breakfast; Newbie help as needed 8:30 - 9:30 Small group formation with facilitators: "Mind-Stretching" 9:30 - 11:00 Whole group: New Writing Environments: The Web; ENFI; Hypertext; MOOs, etc. 11:00 - 12:30 Web; ENFI; Hypertext, continued. 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch. (We'll encourage daily "working lunches" with small groups. Epiphany Team leaders will meet during lunchtime.) 2:00 - 3:00 Groups -- devising a workplan for the week. 3:00 - 4:00 Group work 4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: reports back from small groups 5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time 6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own; readings/assignments. Tuesday -- June 11 8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast 8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: The Making of Knowledge in the Age of Electronic Text; and Stories; Inkshedding. 9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 1 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 11:00 - 12:30 Small group meeting with facilitators 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch. 2:00 - 3:00 Concurrent sessions 2 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 3:00 - 4:00 Concurrent sessions 3 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: Discussion of readings & progress reports 5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time 6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own; readings/assignments. Wednesday -- June 12 8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast 8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: Discussion of readings connected to course redesign 9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 4 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent sessions 5 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch. 2:00 - 3:00 5-Minute presentations on redesign of syllabi (in computer labs) 3:00 - 4:00 00 5-Minute presentations on redesign of syllabi cont. (in computer labs) 4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: Campus and departmental structure and support for technological change 5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time 6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own; readings/assignments. Thursday -- June 13 8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast 8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: 9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 6 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent sessions 7 (Demos, Presentations, Workshops) 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 6:00 Open labs or R & R (Tours of Richmond, or whatever) 6:00 - 10:00 Banquet. Featured speaker: Randy Bass, Georgetown University Friday -- June 14 8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast 8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: Summing Up the Themes and Setting an Agenda for Change 9:30 - 11:30 Preparation time for afternoon presentations 11:30 - 2:00 Lunch. 2:00 - 3:00 Group presenations on syllabus redesign 3:00 - 4:00 Presentations by groups continued 4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: New Directions; Final Thoughts; Evaluation WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Team members could include any or all of the following: Department leaders * Collaborative learning specialists * Composition theorists * Literary studies and writing teachers interested in pedagogical, rhetorical and cultural changes resulting from technologies * Writing-Intensive/Writing Across the Curriculum leaders * Writing center directors and coordinators * Others interested in computers and making changes to infuse classroom practice with new technologies TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE: An overview of literature and resources in field of composition and computers including both theory and practice. Translation of composition theory and practice in an electronic environment including collaboration theory. Synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) Local area networks (LANs) Wide area networks (WANS) Hypertext as writing and presentation medium Email Networked classrooms and groupware The World Wide Web as a site for teaching, research and publication HTML programming MOOs (Multi-User Dimensions, Object-Oriented) and the Composition in Cyberspace program Presentation software Portfolio and Webfolio assessment Strategies for creating a technology-rich curriculum Lo-Tech ways to emulate high tech applications Additionally, we will address specific needs of individual institutions. THE EPIPHANY PROJECT Epiphany is a two-year project, started in summer of 1995, funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, Gallaudet University, and George Mason University, but it is also sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing and affiliated with the American Association for Higher Education, meaning it will continue after the two-year period of the grant. Also participating in the development and implementation of the Epiphany Project are SRI International, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond. The Epiphany Project mission statement: To introduce structures and strategies for pedagogical change in the age of electronic text and to develop a package of methods and materials to support teachers in taking advantage of those changes. Epiphany resources will include: * Workshop designs * Plans for teacher support * Case studies * An electronic syllabus archive and an electronic syllabus builder * A World Wide Web home page * Guidelines for campus coordination * Descriptions of the rhetorical shifts in our culture * A video for workshops and * A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing, the Epiphany Project resource workbook. INSTITUTE LEADERS: Trent Batson, Gallaudet University Elizabeth Cooper, Virginia Commonwealth University Ron Corio, Virginia Commonwealth University Joe Essid, University of Richmond Dona Hickey, University of Richmond Michael Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College Greg Ritter, Virginia Commonwealth University Sydney Sowers, Virginia Commonwealth University Judy Williamson, George Mason University Anne Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University INSTITUTE FEE: The cost to attend the Epiphany Institute is $500. Attendance for the full program is expected. Institutions are encouraged to send teams of individuals. Registration includes: conference materials; computer lab access and training sessions for 5 days; a Welcome Dinner on Sunday evening (June 9); a banquet Thursday evening (June 13) with a speaker, and continental breakfasts Monday through Friday. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH: A workbook of exercises to help in thinking through a plan for departmental change that addresses information technology and faculty development; A copy of the Epiphany guide book, A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing: Ample resource material for organizational and corporate connections; Demo versions of software for classroom use; Copies of readings. INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS NEED TO BRING: A syllabus from a writing class where technology was not used along with copies of the catalog description and related curricular material for the course. ACCOMMODATIONS -- Participants are responsible for making their own lodging arrangements. Lodgings below are within walking distance of VCU facilities. You can choose between a VCU residence hall and hotels. More information is below. Return the dorm reservation form (below) with your registration. (NOTE: Dorm reservation deadline is May 1.) REGISTER NOW. Enrollment limited -- we will try to give priority to teams of individuals who are interested in becoming Epiphany sites, but also anticipate being able to accept others who want training. Registration confirmation: When we confirm your registration, we will send information about parking (for which there will be an additional fee), Institute readings to be done in advance, and other details. We will also send two forms to help us plan to meet your needs -- these need to be mailed upon receipt of your registration confirmation. REGISTRATION FORM Please print this application for the Epiphany Institute and send it by U.S. mail to: Michael Keller, VCU English Dept, P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284-2005. Include a check made out to for $500 for each participant from your institution. Register early -- limited to 40 participants. Registration deadline: 20 May 96. (If you wish to stay in a dorm and have linen service, however, the registration deadline is May 1. See below.) You will receive confirmation of your registration, and other information by U.S. mail. IMPORTANT -- Application packet: This form along with two others will be part of your application packet. Please return, upon receipt, the two forms that will be mailed to you with your registration confirmation -- These are the Mankato Internet Skills Rubric and a survey about your teaching practices and computer experience, and they are essential for planning purposes to help leaders best meet needs of participants. (Please Print) Name_____________________________________________________________ Title _____________________________________________________________ Institution________________________________________________________ Mailing Address __________________________________________________ City ______________________________ State _____________ ZIP________________ Phone _______________________ day _______________________ evening FAX # ________________________________ Email address ____________________________________________ Your URL if you have one ____________________________________________ Is your campus an Epiphany site, or did your campus apply to be an Epiphany site? (Please indicate which.) ___________________________________________ List other members from your campus who will be attending this Institute with you: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ============================================================ ***** RESIDENCE HALL RESERVATION FORM -- DEADLINE MAY 1 **** Name: ___________________________________________ Sex M / F (circle one) Institution: ___________________________________________ Phone: ___________________________________________ E-mail: ___________________________________________ Arrival ___________________________________________ (date/time) Departure ___________________________________________ (date/time) Gladding Residence Center -- All rooms are located in four bedroom suites with a shared bathroom between two bedrooms. One-time delivery of linen is provided by an outside contractor for $5.00 per person (needs to be reserved by May 1) for the length of the stay. (Pillows are not provided.) The Gladding Residence Center is equipped with laundry facilities, pay phones (in the lobby area) and a vending area but does not provide items such as ice, clock/radios, pots and pans, or dishes. $12.50 per night per person (sharing a room). $25.00 per night for a single. Single Room $25.00 x ____________ nights ____________ Shared Double $12.50 x ____________ nights ____________ Roommate's name________________________ One time linen delivery $5.00 Request Blanket Y/N ____ (Reserve by May 1st) Total housing $___________ Make checks to VCU. Mail check and form to Michael Keller, VCU English Dept., P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284-2005. ****** Off Campus Housing Information ******* Participants who are staying off campus are responsible for making their own lodging arrangements. Lodgings below are within walking distance of VCU facilities. You should mention VCU affiliation when registering in order to get special rates. Holiday Inn (Historic District) -- single/double $45 (VCU rate) 301 W. Franklin St., Richmond (804) 644 9871 Linden Row Inn -- single/double $66 (VCU rate) First and Franklin St., Richmond (804) 783-7000 ------------------------------------------------------------ * College Literature _College Literature_ a triannual refereed journal of scholary criticism and pedagogy Kostas Myrsiades, Editor The leading journal for students and teachers of literature Call for contributions on the following topics: Anthologies and the teaching of introductory literatures Inter-American literatures: theories and practice Ethnographies of teaching literatures The interpellation of subjectivity in the literature classroom Teaching popular cultures Electronic/Cyberspace Editorial institutions and the profession of literature Subscriptions Academic $18/year; regular $24/year; Institutional $48/year College Literature, Philips 210-211 West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383 610-436-2901/2275/2276 COLLIT@WCUPA.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------ * JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory POSTCOLONIAL AND COMPOSITION STUDIES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS _JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory_ invites articles for an upcoming special issue devoted to composition theory and postcolonial studies. This special issue will explore the ways in which these two areas of study may most productively inform one another as well as the ways that theories of composition are -- or are not -- responsive to the issues raised most persistently in postcolonial studies. Articles should focus not on critiquing literary texts or on describing particular classroom techniques, but rather on analyses of how concepts articulated within postcolonial studies affect, or can affect, writing and reading processes, theories of composing, theories and practices of literacy, the history and politics of rhetoric and composition, or other related issues. Articles should be 3,500 to 7,500 words in length and use current MLA style format. Please submit two hard copies and one disk copy by January 5, 1997 to Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane, c/o Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. ------------------------------------------------------------ * Cultural Cartographies Conference Prize _Postmodern Culture_ is pleased to present the Cultural Cartographies Award to Tim Watson (Oxford University) for his paper, "Eyre Apparent: Imperial Inheritance After Morant Bay." The paper was delivered at "Cultural Cartographies: Surveying the Postcolonial Body," a graduate student conference held on March 29-31, 1996, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The award carries an honorarium of $100. Presenters at the conference were invited to submit their papers for an essay competition, to be judged by the conference organizers and by the editors of _Jouvert_ and of _Postmodern Culture_. Work presented at the conference was considered overall to be very strong, indeed no one work can be considered to be the best offered for our consideration. We would like therefore to list other papers that were also judged to be very good: * Christopher Breu (U.C. Santa Cruz), "Practicing Disruptive Economics: The Remapping of the Economic Space of the Americas in Maryse Conde's _Moi, Titiuba, Sorciere . . . Noire de Salem_" * William Bossing (NC State U), "The Familiar" * Kathryn Romack (Syracuse U), "From 'Teaching Nonsense' to the Disappropriation of Foe" Tim Watson's essay brings historical conflict and the conflict of ideas together to bear on constructions of inheritance in the British Empire. It connects the literary with the political so that the two do not so much appear in debted to one another as functions of an historical situation. Literary and intellectual conflict in England then appears part of the larger intellectual entaglement of colonialism. The essay is also particularly well written. --Eyal Amiran The conference will be held again in 1997. ------------------------------------------------------------ * HSS Web Server The History of Science Society has recently established a web server. The address is: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hssexec/index.html Bob O'Hara (darwin@iris.uncg.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------ * 19th Century American Women Writers Web The 19th Century American Women Writers Web (19CWWW) is a World Wide Web site devoted to the study and appreciation of 19th Century American culture, especially women writers of the period. The site is located at http://www.clever.net/19cwww/. What's new on the 19CWWW: o The Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert page has been added to the 19CWWW e-text library, a growing archive of digitized versions of women's poetry, fiction and historical material. Lambert, who historians believe was of mixed African-American and caucasian ancestry, edited the St. Matthew's Lyceum Journal. The 19CWWW is pleased to present over 30 poems from Lambert. (Special thanks to Janet Gray of Princeton for her donation and digitization of these materials.) http://www.clever.net/19cwww/vlibe.html. o The multimedia exhibit of 19th Century Art from the Carnegie Museum is in its last week! View highlights of the Museum's collection, listen to real-time audio narration by the collection's curator, and register for the chance to win hundreds of dollars of art-related computer software that we'll be giving away at the end of the month. http://www.clever.net/19cwww/exhibit.html. o Learn details of our upcoming exhibit to commemorate Women's History Month, an original Internet program about 19th century women and the labor movement. Check out our description, a link for which is available under the "what's new" banner on the opening page to the site. ****************** Volunteers Needed! ****************** Feel free to distribute the following information to your colleagues, students and friends. ------------------------------------------------- The 19CWWW is run by a group of volunteers who feel that bringing 19th Century American Women's Studies to the web is a very important project. Even though the site has won awards (including being ranked by independent rating guides in the top 5% of all web sites and in the top 3% of all sites, based on content, graphic design and overall experience), we'd like to make the site even better. If you think such a project is worthwhile, we'd love to have you join us. The amount of time you devote to the 19CWWW can be up to you. We need help in the following areas: o Page editors. There is a huge amount of public-domain material that needs to be put into electronic form. If 19th Century women's literature isn't digitized, it may be left out of the emerging "digital canon." Other digitizing sites like Project Guttenberg and Wiretap aren't digitizing these works. Someone has to. We need folks to be page editors for particular authors or subjects (suffrage, abolition, temperance, labor) and to lead the digitizing of materials. o Links editors. While the 19CWWW appears to be the largest site devoted to this subject, there are other sites on the web with materials to offer. If you like to surf the web, scavenging in virtual corners for information, why not put your talents to work for a good cause? Your mission would be to search out information that you think would be interesting in furthering the site's mission, "the study and appreciation" of women writers of the period. o Grant writers. The 19CWWW is attempting to raise funds for various projects, first among them is an attempt to digitize materials pertaining to 19th Century African American women, something that is severely lacking on the Internet at this time. I have a pile of perspective grant information -- people are needed to query granting agencies and, if they fund projects such as the 19CWWW, to write proposals. Please contact me at editor@clever.net if you need more information on the above or (especially!) if you'd like to help us in our efforts. Tyler M. Steben Editor, 19CWWW --------------END OF NOTICES.596 FOR PMC 6.3---------------- ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------