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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 19:05:51 -0400
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From: Andrew Russ
Subject: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
Does anyone out there know of any good World Wide Web sites out there
on science and literature or science studies? Preferably ones that
either
have a lot of expalantory material or perhaps something analagous to a
preprint site. Also, is there an official SLS site?
Send responses to me personally at endwar@phys.psu.edu
Thanks,
andrew russ
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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 18:32:15 -0500
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From: Frank Durham
Subject: Lit/sci, SLS, and WWW
Comments: To: endwar@phys.psu.edu
Dear Andrew,
I have only been a subscriber to Joe Amato's list litsci-l list for a
month
or so. Because I am working on general protocols for planning SLS
meetings,
at the request of the SLS Executive Board, I needed to put out a request
for
suggestions. No doubt you saw that notice. I have received only one
direct
response to that notice--which is okay, I just wanted everyone to be
reminded of the initiative.
During this time I have been impressed with the near-quiet level of
posting
in Joe's space. I know of no active lit/sci home page (gopher or WWW),
even
though there should be several or many of them. Now that I think of it
I
will check the Georgia Tech home page; Carol Colatrella takes care of
SLS
business from her position at Tech, and has a part-time SLS assistant
there.
Her address is cc60@acme.gatech.edu (That should be current, but you
can
check the Tech directory). I will talk to her about an official SLS
Web
site. My memory is not perfect, which is putting it mildly.
Do you want to start one up--a Web home page, I mean? I haven't done
that
but they tell me it's not hard. I thought that maybe Bob Franke would
want
to carry on his discussion about scientists in SLS on the Web somehow.
But
I haven't talked to him in a good while.
One idea that I have heard mentioned--maybe by me--is something like a
quasi-journal, a medium for less-than-formal exchanges that do not
amount to
articles but are more than just question and answer chat. Perhaps that
is
what you mean by "preprints". I am sure that Joe intends that
listsci-l
would serve such a function. Maybe he could say why that doesn't seem
to
happen. Maybe it's just seasonal, something that mostly happens in fall
and
winter but not spring.
Maybe we should be talking about this on litsci-l. In fact, I am going
to
copy this to the list also. What the hell.
Best regards,
Frank Durham
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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 22:02:46 -0400
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From: Andrew Russ
Subject: Re: Lit/sci, SLS, and WWW
Apparently it's extremely easy to start a Web page, though it requires
some
thought, perhaps, to make a useful one. I'll let you know after i
finish mine in a week or so.
By preprint site i was thinking sort of in analogy to physics
preprint sites, which are set up for spreading papers around before
they get into journals. There's a lot of info out there if you have
the
time to sort through it.
Often i'll come across an interesting site that i don't have
time to read, so i write down the URL (address) for future reference.
I did get your message (call for conference suggestions), but
i can't think of anything right away. Obviously the best place to
find out what to change is at the end of a conference when everyone
has their personal fiascos and pet peeves in mind.
It might be interesting to find out about people who want to
come to the conference but don't make it or decide against it -- what
prevents them and is there anything SLS can do. Some of it has to do
with
travel funds & departmental politics or personal emergencies that
SLS
could never address, but for instance last year there was some schedule
conflict with some other conferences, as i recall.
andrew
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 14:32:36 -0500
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From: Dwight S Atkinson
Subject: Re: Lit/sci, SLS, and WWW
In-Reply-To: <199506042340.SAA28224@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>
NC State maintains a WWW homepage for science and technology studies. I
have two URLs for them, only one of which has worked for me (don't
remember which):
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAP/WWWVL-HSTM.htm1
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/users/p/pwhmds/index.htm1
(note: the last element in this address--the "1" may actually
be an "l"
(i.e., lower case "L").
I too find the low level of activity on LITSCI puzzling. Not that I've
done anything about it. My interests are more on the SCI and less on
the
LIT side of things but would certainly monitor--and sometimes
contribute
to--active discussion.
Dwight Atkinson
English Department
Auburn University
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:16:20 -0700
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From: Deanna Dunn
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
A few months ago an interesting (free) newletter previewed a couple of
samples on the SLS. It is called INTERNET-ON-A-DISK. You can join by
contacting samizdat@tiac.net and simply asking to be added to the list.
It
focuses mostly on opening up access to the internet for small schools
and
has more of a literature flavor. In the process, however, it gives a
good
synopses of new & interesting addresses, some of which have
electronic
books on line.
As for the lack of discussion on this "cyber discussion" list,
maybe if
someone could explain exactly what the SLS is it would help. I know
what
the acronym stands for, but what does the society do? Where do they do
it?
And who is involved?
I am a scientist who has an avid interest in combining the passion and
discriptive power of literature with the fascination and discoveries of
science. I haven't seen much of anyone else out there with that same
interest on this list.
Comments?
Deanna Dunn
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:09:28 -0400
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From: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
In-Reply-To: <199506042305.TAA06432@hbar.phys.psu.edu>
Hello, a great WWW site for both science and literature is the
Beaconway
Press Home Page @, "http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/home.html"
Also, a great monthly e-journal for cool literature is The Jolly Roger.
You can subscribe to it by sending the message, "subscribe
drakeraft your
name," to listserv@unc.edu. Have fun!
--Elliot
On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Andrew Russ wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of any good World Wide Web sites
out there
> on science and literature or science studies? Preferably ones that
either
> have a lot of expalantory material or perhaps something analagous
to a
> preprint site. Also, is there an official SLS site?
>
> Send responses to me personally at endwar@phys.psu.edu
>
> Thanks,
>
> andrew russ
>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:57:00 EDT
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From: rconrad@SEMINOLE.IAG.NET
Subject: NEW Environmental Web Site
Comments: cc: wemhoff@gate.net
I just found a new environmental web site with a large glossary and
free
conects to the CFR's. Dial http://www.gate.net/solutions.
Let me know what you think
rc
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 10:23:23 -0400
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From: Molly M Munro
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
In-Reply-To: Deanna Dunn "Re: Web sites for science and
literature, science studies, etc?" (Jun 5, 5:16pm)
I second Deanna's request for some basic background info about SLS.
I come at the subject from the direction opposite of Deanna's: I'm a
modern literature specialist with an avid interest in science,
espeically physics. I'm currently exploring the poetry of Thomas
Hardy, especially his interest in Einstein's theories.
Molly Munro
munro@unity.ncsu.edu
On Jun 5, 5:16pm, Deanna Dunn wrote:
> As for the lack of discussion on this "cyber
discussion" list,
maybe if
> someone could explain exactly what the SLS is it would help. I
know what
> the acronym stands for, but what does the society do? Where do
they do it?
> And who is involved?
>
> I am a scientist who has an avid interest in combining the
passion and
> discriptive power of literature with the fascination and
discoveries of
> science. I haven't seen much of anyone else out there with that
same
> interest on this list.
>
> Comments?
>
> Deanna Dunn
>-- End of excerpt from Deanna Dunn
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:21:23 -0400
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From: Barry Saunders
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
In-Reply-To: <9506061023.ZM8402@unity.ncsu.edu>
I'll leave SLS explications to other more official voices--but anyone
who
wants a start should check out the Hopkins journal Configurations.
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:44:56 -0800
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From: jal@PORTIA.CALTECH.EDU
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
I infer from the recent messages from Deanna Dunn and Molly Munro that
there are a number (well, two at least) of subscribers to litsci-l who
are
not SLS members. If you've been on the list for more than a couple of
months you should have gotten messages about the upcoming SLS meeting
in
Los Angeles this November, which would tell you at least something of
what
the society's about. If you would like more info on the meeting, let
me
know (I'm the program chairman) and I'll make sure you're on the
mailing
list for the meeting program, which should be ready for distribution in
a
few weeks. (Send requests directly to me at jal@portia.caltech.edu)
Also
you can get in touch with the society offices at sls@lcc.gatech.edu to
request some materials about the society in general.
For Deanna in particular: I think there are many in the society who want
to
combine the "passion and descriptive power of literature with the
fascination and discoveries of science" even if that hasn't shown
up so
much on the litsci-l discussions; not enough of them are scientists, and
I
hope you'll get involved. Let me also recommend my personal favorite
among
books that achieve that combination, if you're not already familiar
with
it: Richard Powers' _The Gold Bug Variations_ (1991).
Jay Labinger
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:44:17 -0400
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From: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
In-Reply-To: <9506061023.ZM8402@unity.ncsu.edu>
Hello guys! We at Beaconway Press are a group of scientists who love
literature. We're dismayed with how those with "linear minds"
are told
from the time that they are born that science is the most noble
pursuit.
Indeed it is a noble pursuit, and it offers descriptions that lead to
new
insights about physical reality which allow humans to mold nature to
serve enhance their existence. But there are certain orders-- orders
in
the soul, which are every bit as precise and highly ordered as the
mathematical equations which describe physical law, but the thing
is, these orders cannot be captured in a mathematical equation. Only
words will do, for there are no equations for laughter or tears.
Check out the WWW site of Beaconway Press @
"http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/home.html"
Or sign aboard the e-journal launched each month, by sending the
message, "subscribe drakeraft your name," to
listserv@unc.edu.
All the best,
Elliot
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:44:17 -0400
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From: Elliot McGucken
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
In-Reply-To: <9506061023.ZM8402@unity.ncsu.edu>
Hello guys! We at Beaconway Press are a group of scientists who love
literature. We're dismayed with how those with "linear minds"
are told
from the time that they are born that science is the most noble
pursuit.
Indeed it is a noble pursuit, and it offers descriptions that lead to
new
insights about physical reality which allow humans to mold nature to
serve enhance their existence. But there are certain orders-- orders
in
the soul, which are every bit as precise and highly ordered as the
mathematical equations which describe physical law, but the thing
is, these orders cannot be captured in a mathematical equation. Only
words will do, for there are no equations for laughter or tears.
Check out the WWW site of Beaconway Press @
"http://sunsite.unc.edu/owl/home.html"
Or sign aboard the e-journal launched each month, by sending the
message, "subscribe drakeraft your name," to
listserv@unc.edu.
All the best,
Elliot
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 15:53:54 -0500
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From: JSHEPHER@LOYALISTC.ON.CA
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science
studies,
etc? -Reply
Hi,
You might be interested in this web site:
http://www.webscope.com/project_mind/project_mind.html
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 19:12:36 -0400
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From: Jean Gallagher
Subject: lit and technology syllabi
Greetings to list members:
Would any of you know of sources, electronic or otherwise, that provide
sample syllabi for courses in literature, culture, science, and
or/technology? I would so appreciate any word on this.
Many thanks,
Jean Gallagher
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:13:12 -0500
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From: HUMAMATO@MINNA.ACC.IIT.EDU
Subject: test, please ignore...
this is a test, this is only a test etc...
joe amato
listowner
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:30:00 -0500
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From: Joe Amato
Subject: test 2, please ignore...
apologies for the interrupt, just debugging...
joe
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:04:00 EDT
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From: rconrad@SEMINOLE.IAG.NET
Subject: Re: lit and technology syllabi
Comments: To: p@seminole.iag.net
Try http://www.gate.net/solutions for chemical and regulatory info
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 10:03:00 EDT
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From: rconrad@SEMINOLE.IAG.NET
Subject: web site
For chemical and regulatory infomation
try---http://www.gate.net/solutions
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 10:57:39 -0500
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From: vipin adhlakha
Subject: Re: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
To Anyone who can assist me,
I am currently a biology student at Indiana University
and plan on going pre-med and eventually become a reconstructive or
plastic surgeon. I was wondering if there is anyone on this mailing
list
that could direct me or give me some advice on the path or path I
should
pursue to fulfill my goal.
Thanks,
Vini
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:07:08 -0500
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From: Frank Durham
Subject: Response to "lit/tech syllabi?"
Jean Gallagher and others who are interested in information about
courses in
science/technology "and" literature/culture/society may want
to contact
Lance Schachterle at Worcester Tech. Lance compiled a collection of
syllabuses/syllabi in 1989 (for SLS, the Society for Literature and
Science,
which society Lance helped to found). I have no doubt that he has
valuable
information for the years since then also.
I don't have his e-mail address; probably it is the Worcester Polytech.
Inst. (Worcester MA) phone book. Just tell him, "Frank said to
call."
Frank Durham
Another list that is helpful for technostudies is that of SSSS (Society
for
Social Studies of Science). To subscribe to their list, send the
listserv
command (to listserv, not to litsci-l) "sub sci-tech-studies"
(without quotes).
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:22:25 PST
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From: Wayne Miller
Subject: Re: lit and technology syllabi
> Would any of you know of sources, electronic or otherwise, that
>provide sample syllabi for courses in literature, culture,
>science, and or/technology? I would so appreciate any word on
>this.
Hi,
I would be willing to set up a WEB clearinghouse for syllabi on
courses that explicitly thematize (literature and/or culture) and
(science and/or technology).
There's lots of ways to go on organizing something like this, so
perhaps it would make sense to discuss what minimum requirements
(formats of the documents, categories for indexing, and/or search
capabilities) people have.
I would welcome email or responses to the list.
Wayne
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 12:08:47 +0000
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From: Carol Colatrella
Subject: Re: what is SLS?
As the executive director of SLS, I'm posting the following information
as
requested in a recent message. Please contact me or any other member
of
the Executive Board if you have any questions.
Carol Colatrella
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
404-894-1241
SLS Executive Board:
President: James Bono, SUNY Buffalo
First Vice-President: Stuart Peterfreund, Northeastern University
Second Vice-President: Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University
Members-at-large: Linda Bergmann, Illinois Institute of Technology;
Frank Durham, Tulane University
Past Presidents: Katherine Hayles, UCLA; Mark Greenberg, Drexel
University,
Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stephen J.
Weininger,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
The Society for Literature and Science fosters the multi-disciplinary
study
of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science,
medicine, and technology. SLS was inaugurated at the 17th
International
Congress of the History of Science, Berkeley, CA, in August 1985.
Since
then membership has grown rapidly. Each year the annual SLS convention
[this year's will be in Los Angeles, November 2-5; contact Jay Labinger
for
more information at jal@portia.caltech.edu] attracts hundreds of
participants from many different disciplines, including the history,
sociology, anthropology, rhetoric, and philosophy of science,
technology,
and medicine; literary history and criticism; art history and media
studies; the cognitive sciences; and all areas of science, technology,
engineering, and medicine. SLS sponsors a journal, Configurations ,
published by The John Hopkins University Press, and a book series,
published by the University of Michigan; awards annual prizes for
scholarship by a graduate student member and an untenured faculty
member;
maintains an active Speakers' Bureau; publishes a newsletter, Decodings
,
and distributes a membership directory, which lists members' interests.
The Society also produces an annual bibliography of scholarship,
published
in Configurations .
Membership Benefits. All members receive Configurations , which
regularly
publishes scholarly articles, book reviews, an annual bibliography of
scholarship, and special issues devoted to significant and timely
topics.
Poetry and news of meetings, grants, academic programs, members'
publications and activities appear in Decodings . SLS distributes a
membership directory to foster discussion and collaboration among
colleagues. Members may participate in the annual meeting, vote on
important matters of governance, run for office in the Society, and
serve
on committees. Members receive announcements, the call-for-papers, and
program and registration materials for the annual meeting.
How Do I Join? To become a member receiving CONFIGURATIONS and all
other
membership publications, please contact the Journals Division, The
Johns
Hopkins University Press, at 800-548-1784. Dues categories for 1994-95
membership and journal subscription include the following: $38 for
individuals, $23 for students (enclose copy of ID), $27 for income or
pension under $20,000. Joint members should add $5 to applicable
category; joint members vote individually and share publications. An
individual who wishes to donate to the society and to receive
membership
and the journal may choose to become a sponsor ($50-99 per year),
benefactor ($100-149 per year), or a patron ($150 or more per year).
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 15:22:00 EDT
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From: rconrad@SEMINOLE.IAG.NET
Subject: Web Site
A good web site for gov't and regulatory info is:
http://www.gate.net.solutions
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 21:25:27 -0400
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From: Stephen J Weininger
Subject: Re: lit and technology syllabi
In-Reply-To: <199506062308.TAA16773@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
This message supplements and also supersedes Frank Durham's message
(sorry, Frank, nothing personal).
As Frank noted, Lance Schachterle, former president of SLS, collected a
bunch of just such syllabi for the Society several years ago. They were
photocopied and bound, and he may well have some copies left. You can
contact him at:
lschachterle@jake.wpi.edu or lschachterle@wpi.edu
His snail mail address is: Project Center, WPI, Worcester, MA
01609-2280.
My colleague Dave Samson and I (he's an art historian, I'm a chemist)
have developed and taught an upper level seminar called "Light,
Vision
and Understanding," that deals with both the literal and
metaphorical
import of each of those terms. The course material is drawn from
physics,
biology, philosophy, art history, computer science and psychology. It
was
designed for students with a good technical background but can probably
be adapted for other students with different strengths. Anyone wanting
a
copy of the syllabus can email me at: stevejw@wpi.edu.
Steve Weininger
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:38:20 -0400
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From: KEVIN LAGRANDEUR
Subject: Re: lit and technology syllabi
I'm trying to develop a syllabus on a class about the literature of
aritificial
life. Anyone ever done anything like that?
Kevin LaGrandeur
engkzl@vaxc.hofstra.edu
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 11:04:16 -0500
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From: Frank Durham
Subject: SSSS list "sci-tech-studies"
Dear litsci-l folk,
If you saw my recommendation of the Society for Social Studies of
Science
list and tried to subscribe to this listserver
(listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu),
you would have been rejected. That list is on listserv@ucsd.edu. So
send
the command
sub sci-tech-studies
to the address listserv@ucsd.edu.
Sorry for the noise. I expected that this medium would be inefficient,
by I
didn't realize that my presence would be an important contributor to
the
inefficiency.
Frank Durham
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 11:14:08 -0500
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From: Frank Durham
Subject: Artificial life course info
Kevin LaGrandeur asked about a syllabus for course(s) on artificial
life
(and literature, maybe). The subject is much discussed in SLS; we had
numerous papers in New Orleans (Nov. 1994) on AL. Two possible contacts
are
Kate Hayles, English, UCLA; and Nicholas Gessler, Anthropology, UCLA.
I have a few copies of the 1994 SLS abstract book left, at $20 USA (to
"SLS") including domestic mailing. My address is Department
of Physics,
Tulane University, New Orleans LA 70118.
Frank Durham (addiction-prone personality, apparently)
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:11:19 -0400
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From: KEVIN LAGRANDEUR
Subject: Re: Artificial life course info
Thanks, Frank. I have that 1994 book of abstracts you mentioned, and
I'm in
touch with Kate Hayles, but I appreciate your suggestions.
--Kevin
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From: Wayne Miller
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Hi,
A couple of days ago, I wrote to say that I would be willing to
set up a website for collecting and disseminating Lit-Sci syllabi.
My interpretation of email that I've received and of postings to
this list is that such a website 1) does not currently exist and
2) would be beneficial. I also understand that an older list of
syllabi exists. I have learned that SLS is looking into having a
web presence, and that other resources, such as a database of
Lit-Sci programs & courses, as well as a database of personal
topical bibliographies, are needed, too.
For my part, I am going to operate on the assumption that a
web-based database of syllabi is a good place to start. I intend
to stay in touch with those who've contacted me, and I welcome
input from others. I anticipate having a prototype for comment in
a couple weeks.
Wayne
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From: KEVIN LAGRANDEUR
Subject: AI: EMERGENCE - a short bibliography
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Kevin,
Katherine Hayles forwarded you request to me. Below is attached a
short
bibliography which represents a "core" of first-hand materials
which should
be distinguished by the many popularizations which I have not bothered
to
list. I hope it is useful. Please feel free to contact me if you have
more
questions, and perhaps you could post this to the litsci-list, since I
am not
set up on that server.
Nick
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Here follow some better-known references on COMPUTATIONAL EMERGENCE. A
longer list is also available from me. I have not had the time to chart
the
historical trajectory of the referents of "emergence" or their
relations to
epistemology, teleology, reductionism, vitalism. However, it does seem
that
COMPUTATIONAL EMERGENCE is establishing its own paradigm with its own
philosophers of science. Nevertheless, we now have a computational
method
for dealing with some problems which were intractable not very long ago,
and
the results to date have been surprisingly encouraging to this writer.
I
would also suggest requesting a publications list on Artificial
Intelligence
from MIT Press which is the best single publisher on the emerging
field.
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CELLULAR AUTOMATA:
Gutowitz, Howard, editor 1991. CELLULAR AUTOMATA - THEORY AND
EXPERIMENT.
Special Issues of Phyusica D. Cambridge: MIT Press, A Bradford Book
(Elsevier Science).
Forrest, Stephanie, editor 1991. EMERGENT COMPUTATION -
SELF-ORGANIZING,
COLLECTIVE, AND COOPERATIVE PHENOMENA IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
COMPUTING
NETWORKS. Special Issues of Physica D. Cambridge: MIT Press, A
Bradford
Book, (Elsevier Science).
AMERICAN ARTIFICIAL LIFE:
Langton, Christopher G., editor 1989. ARTIFICIAL LIFE (I) - PROCEEDINGS
OF
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON THE SYNTHESIS AND SIMULATION OF LIVING
SYSTEMS, HELD SEPTEMBER 1987 IN LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO. Santa Fe
Institute,
Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Volume VI. Redwood City:
Addison-Wesley.
Langton, Christopher G., Charles Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, and Steen
Rasmussen, editors 1991. ARTIFICIAL LIFE II - PROCEEDINGS OF THE
WORKSHOP ON
ARTIFICIAL LIFE HELD FEBRUARY 1990 IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. Santa Fe
Institute, Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume X.
Redwood City: Addison-Wesley.
Langton, Christopher, G., editor 1994. ARTIFICIAL LIFE III -
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE HELD JUNE, 1992 IN SANTA FE, NEW
MEXICO.
Santa Fe Institute, Stucies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings
Volume
XVII. Reading: Addison-Wesley.
Brooks, Rodney and Pattie Maes, editors 1994. ARTIFICIAL LIFE IV -
PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE HELD JULY, 1994 IN
CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS. Cambridge: MIT Press, A Bradford Book.
EUROPEAN ARTIFICIAL LIFE:
Varela, Francisco J. and Paul Bourgine, editors 1992. TOWARD A PRACTICE
OF
AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON
ARTIFICIAL LIFE. Cambridge: MIT Press, A Bradford Book.
Meyer, Jean-Arcady and Stewart W. Wilson, editors 1991. FROM ANIMALS TO
ANIMATS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SIMULATION OF
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR. Cambridge: MIT Press, A Bradford Book.
Meyer, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Stewart W. Wilson,
editors
1993. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 2 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR. Cambridge: MIT Press,
A
Bradford Book.
Cliff, Dave, Philip Husbands, Jean-Arcady Meyer, and Stewart W. Wilson,
editors 1994. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 3 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR. Cambridge:
MIT
Press, A Bradford Book (1994).
JOURNALS:
ARTIFICIAL LIFE, edited by Christopher G. Langton. Cambridge: MIT
Press
Journals.
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR, edited by Jean-Arcady Meyer. Cambridge: MIT Press
Journals.
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING, edited by Kenneth De Jong. Cambridge: MIT
Press
Journals.
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NOTE: Rodney Brooks has written a series of entertaining articles on
the
appearance of intelligence in robotic systems composed entirely of
stupid
components: "Elephants Don't Play Chess," "Intelligence
Without Reason,"
and "Intelligence Without Representation." It has been
suggested that
human intelligence and consciousness are similar phenomena.
==========
Nick Gessler
gessler@anthro.sscnet.ucla.edu
gessler@alife.santafe.edu
"Artificial Life is 'rich.'"
Ernst Mayr, Stephen Gould, Anatol Rapoport.
(Ostentatious appeal to authority.)
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From: Soeren Pold
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Subject: CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS/ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS/ABSTRACTS
In connection with the forthcomming 20.th issue of PASSAGE (see below)
we're
still searching for manuscripts on the relationships between science
and
literature especially in connection with the French 19.'th century
realists
(Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Flaubert etc.), whom we would like to cover.
Maybe some
of the members on Litsci-l has something in the drawer which we could
use? If
so then please mail me an abstract. The deadline is approaching and will
be the
15 september.
In connection with the other subjects mentioned in the general
introduction we
have already got several great articles for the issue, but feel free to
respond if
you have something that might interest us.
INTRODUCTION TO THE THEMATIC ISSUE
PASSAGE will in its 20. issue, which is planned to appear in the fall of
'95,
navigate in the passage between science and literature. The issue's
basis is the
current meeting between the two cultures, which takes place in the
computer
with its tangle of aesthetic, linguistic and scientific discourses. The
computer is a
new expanding field for aesthetic and literature. It can take part in
giving old
aesthetic ideas new strength and at the same time it creates new demands
to the
aesthetic and literary way of thinking.
Parallel to the computer a number of new subjects have seen the light of
day
within the parameters of e.g. information science and semiotics. A
number of
subjects that breaks down the classical distinctions between arts and
science.
With this issue PASSAGE wishes to take part in introducing and
developing this
new way of thought in Denmark. This should partly give the opportunity
for
some current views of this development, but we also wish to place the
development in a tradition and draw some historic lines from the 18. and
19.
century, before the epistemological break took place and the
specialization of the
two cultures took off.
In the 18. and 19. century a number of writers, as for instance Goethe,
Balzac and
Jules Verne, tried to harmonize science and literature and extrapolate a
kind of
literary science.
This attractive holistic thought might be an idealistic aim. The
starting point for
this theme issue is in and from the aesthetic and literary field and we
remain a
periodical for literature and critique.
Even though the two cultures has started to communicate, it is not
certain that
they communicate in the same manner. The thematic issue is therefore
open to
reflections on whether literature and literary critique just uses
scientific
discourses as a metaphor, at the same time as science only uses
literature and
aesthetic for rhetorical, entertainment reasons.
INTRODUCTION TO PASSAGE
PASSAGE is a Danish periodical for literature and critique, issued in
Danish,
which was started in 1986 at the Department of Comparative Literature,
Aarhus
University. Since its start almost ten years ago PASSAGE has placed
itself as one
of the most important periodicals for academic literary critique in
Scandinavia.
The issues are in the size of a book, between 120 and 200 pages, often
with a
common theme. The last themes has been autobiography, lyrical formes,
irony,
humour & parody, and America.
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From: Felice Aull
Subject: syllabi, discussion group, related resources
For your possible interest, the on-line resources in Literature and
Medicine/Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine will soon include
course syllabi that have been contributed. We are currently developing
a
WWW directory for these courses and formating the syllabi. They should
be
on-line by early July. Topics at present range (alphabetically) from
Aging
and AIDS to Women and Medicine. If anyone wishes to submit in
electronic
form courses in literature and science, we will try to add them as we
continue to develop this aspect of the project.
The Web address for our resources is:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
Access with gopher client software is at:
gopher.med.nyu.edu
Select the Literature & Medicine (Medical Humanities) choice from
the menu.
You might be interested in the electronic discussion group we
administer,
which is
archived on the gopher/Web. To join, send a message to subscribe to:
lit-med -request@popmail.med.nyu.edu
To post messages for discussion, send to:
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Any questions about these resources should be sent to me directly at:
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From: Carol Colatrella
Subject: Re: CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS/ABSTRACTS
>CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS/ABSTRACTS
>
>In connection with the forthcomming 20.th issue of PASSAGE (see
below) we're
>still searching for manuscripts on the relationships between science
and
>literature especially in connection with the French 19.'th century
realists
>(Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Flaubert etc.), whom we would like to
cover. Maybe
>some
>of the members on Litsci-l has something in the drawer which we
could use? If
>so then please mail me an abstract. The deadline is approaching and
will be the
>15 september.
>
>In connection with the other subjects mentioned in the general
introduction we
>have already got several great articles for the issue, but feel free
to respond
>if
>you have something that might interest us.
>
Dear Professor Pohl,
I am interested in submitting an essay for your upcoming issue. I've
worked a good deal on Zola and Balzac and have two essays that might be
appropriate. One compares the representation of the female criminal in
Zola's La Curee and Balzac's Cousine Bette by drawing on contemporary
scientific and somewhat pseudo-scientific theories of human behavior
and
sociological views of gendre and crime to set a context for the
fictions.
The other piece focuses more narrowly on Zola's ideas about encouraging
women to bear and raise healthy children and how he hoped to effect
political and social change by writing a novel about motherhood
(Fecondite).
I've authored one book on evolutionary theory and novels written in
series by Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner, and I'm currently working on a
book
about Herman Melville and criminal justice.
Please let me know if I should send abstracts for both essays outlined
above or if I'm totally off the mark.
Thanks.
Carol Colatrella
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sorry for cluttering the list with my response to the call for papers;
I'm
typing with a 5-month-old on my lap.
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Subject: ACH/ALLC '95 program
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ACH/ALLC '95, July 11-15, 1995
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Tentative Program (subject to change)
Sunday, July 9
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1 pm onward dormitory check-in Anacapa Hall
Monday, July 10
---------------
1 pm onward dormitory check-in Anacapa Hall
8 to 10 am registration for TEI workshop Anacapa Hall
9 am to 4 pm TEI Workshop Microcomputer Lab
Tuesday, July 11
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9 am onward dormitory check-in Anacapa Hall
8 to 10 am ALLC Committee Anacapa Hall
10 am to 12 noon ACH Executive Council Anacapa Hall
1 to 4 pm tour of Santa Barbara [departing from]
2 to 7 pm registration Anacapa Hall
5:30 pm opening session [location]
Welcome:
Nancy Ide, President, ACH; Susan Hockey, Chairman, ALLC
Opening address:
Walter E. Massey, Provost and Senior Vice President,
Academic Affairs, University of California
"Surfing the Net: What New Technologies Mean for Education"
7:00 pm reception Lagoon Patio
8:00 pm banquet Corwin Room
Wednesday, July 12
------------------
8 am to 3 pm registration Corwin Lobby
9 to 10:30 am Plenary Session Corwin West
Keynote address:
Stanley Katz, President, The American Council of
Learned Societies
"Constructing the Humanities Community for the Digital Age"
10:30 to 11 am coffee break [location]
11 am to 5:30 pm software demonstrations, Corwin East
posters, book and
vendor displays
11 am to 12:30 pm Sessions 1-A and 1-B
Session 1-A, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Computational lexicons, corpora
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Mining COMLEX for Syntactic Data: An On-line Dictionary as a
Resource for Research in Syntax for Linguists at Large
Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, and Ralph Grishman,
New York University
Constructing A Knowledge Base for Describing the
General Semantics of Verbs
Sophie Daubeze, IRIT-CNRS, URACOM Parc Technologique du canal;
Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT-CNRS; Palmira Marrafa
The Corpus and the Citation Archive--Peaceful Coexistence Between
the Best and the Good?
Christian-Emil Ore, University of Oslo
Session 1-B, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Stylistics
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Mapping the "Other Harmony" of Prose: A Computer Analysis of
John
Dryden's Prose Style
Mary Mallery, The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Neural Network Applications in Stylometry: The Federalist Papers
F. J. Tweedie, S. Singh, and D.I. Holmes, University of the
West of England, Bristol
Language and Style in Golding's _The Inheritors_: An Eclectic,
Computer-Assisted Approach
David L. Hoover, New York University
12:30 to 2 pm lunch
2 to 3:30 pm Sessions 2-A and 2-B
Session 2-A, 2 to 3:30 pm [location]
Panel
Chair: Nancy Ide, Vassar College
The Information Superhighway and the Humanities:
Will Our Needs Be Met?
Charles Henry, Vassar College; Nancy Ide, Vassar College;
Stanley Katz, The American Council of Learned Societies;
Elli Mylonas, Brown University
Session 2-B, 2 to 3:30 pm [location]
Linguistics (software)
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Behind the Scenes: Building a Tool for
Verb Classification in French
Rachel Panckhurst, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier III
From Linguistic Resources to Applications With the ZStation:
A New Approach to Linguistic Engineering in Research and Teaching
Henri C. Zingle, LILLA, University of Nice
The Linguistic Postprocessor of SCRIPT: A System for the
Recognition of Handwritten Input Using Linguistic and
Statistical Filter Mechanisms as well as a Crossword Lexicon
Bettina Harriehausen-Muhlbauer, IBM Germany, Science Center
3:30 to 4 pm coffee break [location]
4 to 5:30 pm Sessions 3-A, 3-B, and 3-C
Session 3-A, 4 to 5:30 pm [location]
Panel
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Collaboration Between Humanities Scholars and
Computer Professionals
John Unsworth (moderator), John Dobbins, Susan Gants, Jerome
McGann, and Thornton Staples, Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities(IATH), University of Virginia
Session 3-B, 4 to 5:30 pm [location]
Encoding issues
Chair: [name and affiliation]
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Deep Encoding of
Manuscripts and the Limits of Retrieval
Michael Neuman, Georgetown University
Using the TEI to Encode Textual Variations:
Some Practical Considerations
Gregory Murphy, The Center for Electronic Texts in the
Humanities
Implementing the TEI's Feature-Structure Markup by
Direct Mapping to the Objects and Attributes of an
Object-Oriented Database System
Gary F. Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Session 3-C, 4 to 5:30 pm
UCSB Demonstrations [to be announced]
6 pm ACH open meeting [location]
8 pm Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) [location]
open session
Thursday, July 13
-----------------
9 am to 5:30 pm software demonstrations, Corwin East
posters, book and
vendor displays
9 to 10:30 am Sessions 4-A and 4-B
Session 4-A, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Panel
Chair: [name and affiliation]
The Information Superhighway and the Humanities:
An International Perspective
Jane Rosenberg, NEH; [other panelists and affiliations]
Session 4-B, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Computer Assisted Instruction
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Architext: A Hypertext Application for
Architectural History Instruction
Mark R. Petersen, Clarkson University
Teaching Critical Thinking with Interactive Courseware:
An Experiment in Evaluation
Jill LeBlanc and Geoffrey M. Rockwell, McMaster University
Watching Scepticism: Computer Assisted Visualization and
Hume's _Dialogues_
Geoffrey M. Rockwell, McMaster University; John Bradley,
University of Toronto
10:30 to 11 am coffee break [location]
11 am to 12:30 pm Sessions 5-A and 5-B
Session 5-A, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Internet, World Wide Web, Hypertext
Chair: [name and affiliation]
TACT & WWW: Argument and Evidence on the Internet
John D. Bradley, University of Toronto; Geoffrey M. Rockwell,
McMaster University
Art History and the Internet
Michael Greenhalgh, Australian National University
The Labyrinth, the World Wide Web, and the Development of
Disciplinary Servers in the Humanities
Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
Session 5-B, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Annotation
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Man-Machine Cooperation in Syntactic Annotation
Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen
Man vs. Machine--Which is the Most Reliable Annotator?
Gunnel Kallgren, Stockholm University
Standards in Morphosyntax: Towards a Ready-to-Use Package
Nicoletta Calzolari and Monica Monachini, Istituto di
Linguistica Computazionale (CNR), Pisa
12:30 to 2 pm lunch
2 pm to 3:30 pm, Sessions 6-A and 6-B
Session 6-A, 2 pm to 3:30 pm [location]
Project session
Chair: [name and affiliation]
ACCORD: a New Approach to Digital Resource Development
Using the Testbed Method
Mary Keeler, University of Washington; Christian Kloesel,
Indiana University
Yearning to be Hypertext: The Cornell Wordsworth and
the Limits of the Codex
Bruce Graver, Providence College
The Shakespeare Multimedia Project:
An Exploration in Constructivist Pedagogy
Leslie D. Harris, Susquehanna University
Session 6-B, 2 pm to 3:30 pm [location]
Text Databases
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Problems of Multidatabase Construction for
Linguistic and Literary Research
Richard Giordano and Carole Goble, University of Manchester;
Gunnel Kallgren, Stockholm University
A Data Architecture for Multi-lingual Linguistic Corpora
Nancy Ide, Vassar College; Jean Veronis, Laboratoire Parole et
Langage, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence; David Durand, Boston University
On the Text Based Database Systems for Public Service
Shoichiro Hara and Hisashi Yasunaga, National Institute of
Japanese Literature
3:30 to 4 pm coffee break [location]
4 to 5:30 pm, Sessions 7-A, 7-B, and 7-C
Session 7-A, 4 to 5:30 pm [location]
Panel
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Model Editions Partnership Panel
David R. Chesnutt, University of South Carolina; Ann D. Gordon,
Rutgers University; C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Session 7-B, 4 to 5:30 pm [location]
Translation, computational lexicography
Chair: [name and affiliation]
The Terminology of Bioenergy: A Project in Progress
Lisa Lena Opas, University of Joensuu
LOCOLEX: The Translation Rolls Off Your Tongue
Daniel Bauer, Fridirique Segond, and Annie Zaenen, RANK XEROX
Research Centre
Parallel Corpora, Translation Equivalence and
Contrastive Linguistics
Raphael Salkie, University of Brighton
Session 7-C, 4 to 5:30 pm
UCSB Demonstrations [to be announced]
6 pm ALLC open meeting [location]
Friday, July 14
---------------
9 am to 5:30 pm software demonstrations, [location]
posters, book and
vendor displays
9 to 10:30 am, Sessions 8-A and 8-B
Session 8-A, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Special session: Humanities Computing Support
Chair: Espen Ore, University of Bergen
World Bank Support for the Development of Foreign Language
Education at Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University
Application of Computers in Language Training in the
Post-Soviet Ukraine
Peter I. Serdiukov, Kiev State Linguistic University
Creating a Multi-Lingual Hypertext:
A CSCW Project in the Humanities
Catherine Scott, University of North London
Session 8-B, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Word studies, statistics
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Experiments in Word Creation
Michael Levison and Greg Lessard, Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario
A Multivariate Test for the Attribution of Authorship
F.J. Tweedie, University of the West of England, Bristol;
C. A. Donnelly, University of Edinburgh
The Randomness Assumption in Word Frequency Statistics
R. Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10:30 to 11 am coffee break [location]
11 am to 12:30 pm, Sessions 9-A and 9-B
Session 9-A, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Panel
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Electronic Resources for Literary Studies
Kathryn Sutherland, Nottingham University; Lou Burnard and Alan
Morrison, Oxford University Computing Services
Session 9-B, 11 am to 12:30 pm [location]
Corpus Linguistics
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Perception Nouns in the Italian Reference Corpus:
Argument Structure and Collocational Uses
Adriana Roventini and Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale (CNR), Pisa
Investigating Verbal Transitions with P.R.O.U.S.T.
Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan
A Corpus-Based Study of Nonfinite and
Verbless Adverbial Clauses in English
Magnus Ljung, Stockholm University
12:30 to 2 pm lunch
2 to 3:30 pm, Sessions 10-A and 10-B
Session 10-A, 2 to 3:30 pm [location]
Authorship attribution
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Word-Type at "Sentence" Beginning and End: A Reliable
Discriminator of Authorship of Latin Prose Texts?
Bernard Frischer, University of California, Los Angeles
Wordprinting Francis Bacon
Noel B. Reynolds and John L. Hilton, Brigham Young University
The "Federalist" Revisited: New Directions in
Authorship Attribution
David Holmes, University of the West of England, Bristol
Session 10-B, 2 to 3:30 pm [location]
Literature, Literary Theory
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Categories, Theory, and Literary Texts
Paul A. Fortier, University of Manitoba
Tracing the Narrator: Parenthesis and Point-of-View in
Joseph Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_.
Thomas Rommel, University of Tuebingen
The Perception of Biblical Texts in Modern Literature, Illustrated
by the Lyric Poetry of Christine Busta
Susanne Bucher-Gillmayr, University of Innsbruck, Austria
3:30 to 4 pm coffee break
4 to 5 pm Discussion Groups 1 and 2
Discussion Group 1, 4 to 5 pm [location]
The Future of HUMANIST
Willard McCarty, University of Toronto
(discussion leader)
Discussion Group 2, 4 to 5 pm [location]
Perspectives on the Need for Behavioral Change in
the Humanities: Response to the Information Age
Mary Keeler, University of Washington
(discussion leader)
6 pm beach barbecue Goleta Beach
Saturday, July 15
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9 to 10:30 am Sessions 11-A and 11-B
Session 11-A, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Hypertext, Text Editing
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Screen and Page: Some Questions of Design in Electronic Editions
Michael Best, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Translation Project for Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum Naturale_
Carol Everest, King's University College, Edmonton, Alberta;
Caroline Falkner, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario;
Kevin Roddy, University of California, Davis
Text, Hypertext or Cybertext--A Typology of Textual Modes
Using Correspondence Analysis
Espen Aarseth, University of Bergen
Session 11-B, 9 to 10:30 am [location]
Linguistics, corpora
Chair: [name and affiliation]
Maestro2: An Object-Oriented Approach to
Structured Linguistic Data
Greg Lessard, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario;
Colin Gajraj, Bell Northern Research, Ottawa;
Ian Macleod, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
A Program for Aligning English and Norwegian Sentences
Knut Hofland, The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
Contractions in ARCHER: Register and Diachronic Change
Joe Allen, University of Southern California
10:30 to 11 am coffee break [location]
11 to 11:30am closing session [location]
Remarks:
Nancy Ide, President, ACH; Susan Hockey, Chairman, ALLC;
Espen Ore, ALLC, Local Organizer, ALLC/ACH '96,
University of Bergen
12 noon to 1 pm lunch
1 to 5:30 pm winery tour [departing from]
Demonstrations
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(See separate schedule)
Cinema Studies and Interactivity: A Multimedia Computer Model
Robert Kolker, University of Maryland
CoALA-An Intelligent System for Language Acquisition Combining
Various Modern NLPTtechnologies
Bettina Harriehausen-Muhlbauer, IBM Germany, Science Center
SHAXICON--Mapping Shakespeare's "Rare Words" Across the Canon
Don Foster, Vassar College
Computerizing the Buddhist Scriptures
Supachai Tangwongsan, Mahidol University Computing Center,
Thailand
ADMYTE, A Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts
Charles Faulhaber, University of California, Berkeley
SYNTPARSE, For Parsing English Texts
SYNTCHECK, For Orthographical and Grammatical Spell-Checking of
English Texts
SOFTHESAURUS, An English Electronic Thesaurus
LINGUATERM, A Multilingual (English, German, French, Spanish)
Electronic Thesaurus of Linguistic Terminology
GEOATLAS, A Multilingual (English, German, French, Italian)
Electronic Thesaurus of Related Place Names
Hristo Georgiev-Good, Good Language Software, Switzerland
TUSTEP: A Scholarly Tool for Literary and Linguistic Analysis
Winfried Bader, University of Tuebingen
From Linguistic Resources to Applications with the ZStation:
A New Approach to Linguistic Engineering in Research and Teaching
Henri C. Zingle, LILLA, University of Nice
OrigENov: Integration of Multimedia into the Teaching of
Comparative Literature at Luton University
Clementine Burnley, Barbara Heins, and Carlota Larrea,
University of Luton
Posters
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(See separate schedule)
Bringing SGML and TACT Together: sgml2tdb
John Bradley, University of Toronto
NEACH Guide to World Wide Web
Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers University
The Provenance of Christian Doctrine, attributed to John Milton:
An Evaluation of Alternative Statistical Methods
F.J. Tweedie, University of the West of England, Bristol;
T. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor; J. Hale, University of
Otago; G. Campbell, University of Leicester; D.I. Holmes,
University of the West of England, Bristol
Developing an Electronic _Thesaurus Linguae Latinae_
Ann F. DeVito, University of Saskatchewan, Consortium for
Latin Lexicography
A PROLOG Approach to Montesquieu
Pauline Kra, Yeshiva University
From Text to Test--Automatically: A Computer System for Deriving
an English Language Test from a Text
David Coniam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
An Integrated Multimedia Network for Scholarly Discovery,
Pedagogical Authoring, and Professional Presentation in the
Field of Music
Peter G. Otto, University of California, San Diego;
Nancy B. Nuzzo and Michael Long, State University of
New York at Buffalo
APL-Simulation for I Ching Hexagrams' Order Explanation
Pavel Luksha, Russia
A Minimalist View on Binding and Language Acquisition
Lily Grozeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/Groningen
University
OrigENov: Integration of Multimedia into the Teaching of
Comparative Literature at Luton University
Clementine Burnley, Barbara Heins, and Carlota Larrea,
University of Luton
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:28:59 -0800
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: jal@PORTIA.CALTECH.EDU
Subject: SLS costs
I had a request to post information on registration/hotel costs for the
November SLS meeting, for those who need to arrange budgets before the
program brochure comes out. The registration fee (if paid before 9/15)
will be $95 ($45 for graduate students), and room rates start at $74-85
for
a standard room (single or double) depending on which hotel. Full
details
will appear in the brochure, which (we hope) will be sent out within
the
next 2-3 weeks.
I can also post the whole tentative program on the list, if there is
sufficient interest (it's a long document, obviously): if I hear from a
few
respondents that you would like to see it here, I'll do so.
Jay Labinger
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 10:16:23 -0800
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: jal@PORTIA.CALTECH.EDU
Subject: SLS Meeting Tentative Program
I've had a number of requests to post this on the list, so here it is.
(One person suggested I put it on WWW instead, obviously mistaking me
for a
computer-literate who would have the slightest idea how to do that.)
If
you spot any mistakes in your listings, please let me know right away
as
there may be time to correct them before the mailing goes out.
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
1995 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
NOVEMBER 2-5, 1995
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Sharon Traweek, Associate Professor in the History Department and
Director
of the Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine
at
UCLA, studies variations in the international high energy physics
community's craft knowledge, research styles, learning and pedagogic
practices, disputing processes, social structures, and political
economy;
she also explores their strategic uses of national, regional, class,
and
gender differences. Her work is situated at the intersection of
cultural,
feminist, and rhetorical studies. Her first book is Beamtimes and
Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (Harvard Univesity
Press,
1988, paperback 1992).
Steven Pinker, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT,
conducts
research on visual cognition and on the acquisition and structure of
language. He has won several scientific prizes, and his book The
Language
Instinct was named one of the 10 best books of 1994 by The New York
Times.
Currently he is on sabbatical at UC Santa Barbara, writing a new book
called How the Mind Works.
Thursday, November 2, 4:00-8:00 PM
Registration (through Sunday)
Thursday, November 2, 6:00-7:00 PM
Plenary Session (Followed by Reception)
Sharon Traweek: "Crafting Cultural Studies of Science"
Friday, November 3, 8:30-10:00 AM
A. Metaphor and Science I
Amir Alexander: "The Imperialist Space of Elizabethan
Mathematics"
Paul V. Anderson: "Thomas De Quincey, Immanuel Kant, and Lord
Rosse's
Telescope: Optics as Metaphor and Metaphor as Optics"
Marianthe Karanakis: "On Metaphor and Measurement"
Julie A. Reahard: "A Particularly Pleasing Model: Mathematics as
Shaper
of Scientific Metaphor"
B. The Technological Invasion of the Living Space
Charles Bazerman, organizer
Charles Bazerman: "The Turned-On Home: Incandescent Lighting and
Changing
Domestic Imagery in the Early Edison Years"
Laura Holliday Butcher: "Techno-Culture in the Kitchen"
Patrick B. Sharp: "Post-Atomic Home/Lands: Representations of the
Bomb in
North American Minority Literatures"
C. Autobiographies and Biographies of Scientists
Carolyn A. Barros, organizer
Diana B. Alteger: "The Scientist as Text: The Sense of Self in the
Writings of Robert Boyle"
Johanna M. Smith: "Discourses of Exploration and Colonization in
Francis
Galton's Memories of My Life"
Carolyn A. Barros: "Chain Reactions: Science as Politics and the
Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner"
Livia Polanyi: "Constructing the Scientist as Figure: Constructing
All
Others as Ground"
D. Science and 19th Century Literature
Lawrence Frank: "'Mr. Vestiges': Bleak House and a Crisis in
Narrative"
Donald M. Hassler: "Anthony Trollope and Philosophic Radicalism: A
Case
for Newness"
Martin Kevorkian: "Nineteenth-Century Particle Metaphysics:
Hawthorne's
Puritan Lucretius"
Goldie Morgentaler: "Preformation and Other Theories of Heredity in
the
Novels of Charles Dickens"
E. Visions of the Feminine Body
Nancy Cervetti: "Rewriting the Rest Cure: Medical Discourse,
Female
Bodies, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Response"
Ellen Esrock: "Is the Mental Gaze of the Reader Male? Francis
Galton vs.
Luce Irigaray"
Rebecca Merrens: "Bodies of Evidence: Theater, the Feminine, and
the
Production of Anatomical Knowledge in Jacobean Culture"
Teresa Winterhalter: "Le corps lesbien and the Politics of Love
under a
Microscope"
F. The Human Genome Project I: Re-Thinking the Genetic Paradigm
Alan Wasserstein, organizer
Alan Wasserstein: "Molecular Biology and the Notion of Self"
Richard Strohman: "Limits of a Genetic Paradigm in Biology and
Medicine"
John Wells: "Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology"
Friday, November 3, 10:30-12:00 Noon
A. Reproduction and Gender
Kristina Busse: "Mothering Medusa: Desiring the Other in Octavia
Butler's
Xenogenesis"
Leonard R. Koos: "For Medical Use Only? The Rhetoric of Abortion
in
Turn-of-the-Century France"
Lili Porten: "A Dream of Parthenogenesis, An Equation of Two
Unknowns:
The Metaphor of Artistic Parenthood in the Nineteenth Century"
Susan Squier: "Reproductive Technologies and the New Fetal/Maternal
Relation"
B. Science and the Romantic Sensorium
Carl Stahmer, organizer
Katharine M. Hawks: "The Separation of the Senses: Visual
Technologies
and Romantic Poetry"
Carl Stahmer: "Scientific Humanism: Cognitive Modeling and the
Romantic
Conception of Human Subjectivity"
Vince Willoughby: "Romantic Writers and Poetic Automation"
C. Charles Lyell
Lee Sterrenburg, organizer
Lee Sterrenburg: "Processing Information: Darwin's Galapagos
Archipelago
Revisited"
Anka Ryall: "Agents of Change: Charles Lyell, Harriet Martineau and
the
Niagara Falls"
Elizabeth Green: "Visualizing the Interior in Pre-Darwinian
Scientific
Narratives"
D. Diagrams and Discourse: Reading Maps of Knowledge
Paul A. Harris, organizer
Paul A. Harris: "Diagrams, Houses and Cities: Between Arche-Text
and
Architecture"
Sydney Levy: "Pictorial Knowledge"
Philip Kuberski: "Hieroglyphics and Cinematics: Before the
Beginning and
After the End of the Letter"
Brian Rotman: "Grams, Graphics and Other Thinking Machines"
E. The New Pedagogy
Robert Chianese: "Ecological Seeing and the Interdisciplinary Field
Trip"
Laurel Brodsley: "Student Poetry-Video as Tool for Social and
Scientific
Consciousness"
Michelle Kendrick: "Playing with Fire!!: Hypertext and the Harlem
Renaissance"
F. Chaos and Complexity I
Emily Zants, organizer; Thomas Weissert, moderator
Randy Fertel: "Strange Relation: The Rhetoric of Literary
Improvisation/The Rhetoric of Chaos Science"
Julie C. Hayes: "Chaotic Enlightenment: Automata, Weather Systems,
and
the Europe-Machine in L. Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary"
James Leigh: "Four Figures for a Future Reading of Perec's Life, a
User's
Manual"
Emily Zants: "Proust, Poincare, Chaos, and Complexity"
Friday, November 3, 1:00-2:30 PM
A. Theory
W. John Coletta: "The Food Chain of Signification: Postmodern
Evolutionary Ecology and the Question of Disciplinarity"
Helen Denham: "The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory: Exploring
Themes
of Science, Nature, Domination, and Emancipation"
Samantha Fenno: "Changing the Object: (Post)Structuralism,
Scientism and
Disciplinary Validation"
Van Piercy: "Raymond Williams on Culture, Nature and the
'Transcendental
Social'"
B. The Cultures of Thermodynamics
Bruce Clarke, organizer
Bruce Clarke: "The Selected Poetic Works of James Clerk
Maxwell"
John G. Hatch: "Images of the Evolution of the Universe:
Thermodynamics
in the Art of Kazimir Malevich"
Stephen J. Weininger: "Thinking Big, Thinking Small: The
Introduction of
Entropy into Chemistry"
Martin Rosenberg: "Complicity and the Counter-Culture of
Thermodynamics:
Ostwald, Spengler, and Pynchon"
C. AIDS in Nonfiction and Film
Carol Colatrella, "The Other as Savior: Race and AIDS in Lorenzo's
Oil"
James W. Jones: "Brother, Lover, Patient, Friend: Gay Men with AIDS
in
Non-Fiction by Care Givers"
Deborah Lovely: "The Novel is the Most Subversive Form: Leprosy as
AIDS
in Time to Kill"
Carol Reeves: "French vs. American: Contrastive Rhetorics of
Science in
the AIDS Virus Hunt"
D. Singing in the Brain and the Body Electric
Paul Harris, organizer
Richard Doyle, "Cryonics, Comas and the Promised Body"
Alan E. Rapp: "Forgoing Friction: Digital Words and the New
Entropy"
Vivian Sobchak: "Beating the Meat: Baudrillard's Body"
E. Science & Faith
Thomas L. Cooksey: "A Voyage to the World of Cartesius: Descartes,
Science, and Censorship"
Stuart Peterfreund: "Bacon's Puritan Epistemology, the Crisis of
Representation, and the Way of Natural Theology
Dale J. Pratt: "Science, Faith and Reference: Cajal's Cuentos de
vacaciones and Palacio Valdes's La fe"
Friday, November 3, 2:45-4:15 PM
A. Science Fiction and Ethical Speculation
David E. Armstrong, organizer
Marilyn Gottschall: "Ethics without Gender"
David E. Armstrong: "Brave New Waves: The Ethical Rhetoric of
Constructivist Postmodernism and Science Fiction"
Aditi Gowri: "'Not Doing' as Ethical Social Policy: Null-A and
Alexander
Technique in Science Fiction"
Sara L. Miskevich: "Where None Have Gone Before: Ethics and
Science
Fiction in Popular Culture"
B. Visual Images I: Photography and Painting
Anne Frances Collins: "Digital Photography and Visual Paradigms: A
New Look"
Hugh Culik: "A Womb of His Own: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and the
Collaborative Body Shop"
Stephen Hartnett: "'The Truth Itself': How Whitman, Hawthorne and
Agassiz
Employed the Daguerrotype as Scientific Proof"
Karl F. Volkmar: "The Crystal, Character, and Culture:
Essentialist
Structures as Informational Structures and the Representation of Gender
and
Class in the Impressionist Paintings of Camille Pissaro"
C. Responses to Darwin
Greg Foster: "The Ape-Man in the Mirror: T. S. Eliot's Sweeney
Poems as a
Satire of Human Evolution"
Cyndy Hendershot: "Masculinity and the Darwinian Feminine"
Alan Rauch: "'See How the Fates, Their Gifts Allot': The Emergence
of
Darwinian Sensibility in Gilbert and Sullivan"
Gary Willingham-McLain: "Darwinian Space"
D. Medicine and Illness I: The Body and the Mind
Kerry M. Brooks: "Free to Be You and Me?: The Prozac Debate"
Leslie Dupont: "Oliver Sacks as Rhetorician: Metaphors for
Neurological
Disorders"
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre: "What's Borne in the Body: William,
Henry and
Alice James and the Mystery of Psychosomatic Illness"
Christine Skolnik: "Gender, Neuropsychology, and Aesthetics"
E. Technology, Pathology and the Cultural Politics of the Emotions
Kathleen Woodward, organizer
Kathleen Woodward: "Prosthetic Emotion"
David Crane: "Plotting the Paranoid Text: Conspiracy and
Communication in
Sorry, Wrong Number"
Amelie Hastie: "Revolution on the Border Bewteen Emotion and
Cognition:
Freud's 'Rat Man' and The X-Files"
Angela Wall: "'First, You Cry': Coming Out Stories and the
Emotional
Politics of Breast Cancer"
F. The Art of Reflective Science
Sidney Perkowitz & Jeffrey Sturges, organizers
Peter Brown (guest speaker): "Writing about Science for
Non-Scientists:
An Overview"
K. C. Cole: "Science Writing and Complementarity"
Jeffrey Sturges: "Reflective Science Writing"
Sidney Perkowitz: "Changing Quantum Physics into an Essay: Can It
Be Done?"
Friday, November 3, 4:45-6:15 PM
A. The Normative Discourse of Health
Andrew McMurry, organizer
David Cassuto: "Healing the Land: Mary Austin and the Logic of
Reclamation"
Andrew McMurry: "'The Health of Human Culture': Wendell Berry's
Agro-poetic Revision of Robert Frost"
William Major: "Challenging the Discourse of Biomedicine: Anatole
Broyard and Audre Lorde"
Roddey Reid: "Healthy Families, Healthy Bodies: The Politics of
Speech
and Expertise in the California Anti-Second Hand Smoke Campaign"
B. Technology and Narrative
Joe Tabbi, organizer
Joe Tabbi & Michael Wutz: "Technology and 20th-Century
Narrative"
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: "Mann's Magic Media: A Case Study in
Literature
and Media Change"
Linda Brigham: "Our Bodies, Our Selves: Activating the Percept in
Virilio
and Robbe-Grillet"
John Johnston: "Mediality in Vineland and Neuromancer"
C. Internet Communities
Paolo A. Gardinali, organizer; Bob Nideffer, commentator
Paolo A. Gardinali: "Discipline and Punish in the Cyberspace:
Usenet
Sanctioning and Social Control"
Joann Eisberg: "High Energy and Hypertext: or If Electronic
Publication
Brings Democracy to Physics, What Else Comes Too?"
Wayne Miller: "Professional Exchange in the Age of Chaos"
D. The Birds and the Bees
Stephen Germic: "Early Ornithology and Racial Mobility: Anxieties
of
Becoming Ethnic in 19th Century Science and Literature"
Yvonne Noble: "Rex, the Microscope, and the Construction of the
Female
Body: Honeybees in the 17th and 18th Centuries"
Susan Sterne: "Anthropomorphism in a Feminist Collection of
Entomologists"
E. S-F and Fantasy
Subhash C. Kak: "Strange Echoes: Parallel Imaginations in Old
Indian
Literature and Modern Physics"
Donald J. McGraw: "Where Men and Microbes Met: Tale the First:
'Plot'" (a
short story)
Frances D. Louis: "Acknowledging the Tiger: Savaging Science and
Society
in Gulliver's Travels, The Stars My Destination and Roderick"
Elmar Schenkel: "Anti-Gravity: Matter and the Imagination at the
End of
the 19th Century"
F. The Future of Literature and Science--A Presidential Forum
Lance Schachterle, moderator
Lance Schachterle: "How We Got to Ten Years (Plus) at SLS"
Stephen J. Weininger: "Where Do Scientists Fit Into SLS"
Mark Greenberg: "Reorienting the Practice of Literature and
Science"
James J. Bono: "History of Science and the Future of Literature and
Science"
N. Katherine Hayles: "Cultural Studies and the Future of Literature
and
Science"
Friday, November 3, 7:30-8:30 PM
Plenary Session (Followed by Reception)
Steven Pinker: "The Language Instinct"
Saturday, November 4, 8:30-10:00 AM
A. Narratives of Non-Human Others I: Narratives of Great Apes
Nicholas Gessler, organizer
Francine Patterson (guest speaker): "The Evolving Narratives of
Koko and
Michael: Generative Language Use in an 'Emergent Literature'"
Joanne E. Tanner: "Responding to Necessity: Invented Narratives of
the
Great Apes"
Patricia Greenfield: "Language, Tools and Brain: The Ontogeny and
Phylogeny of Hierarchically Organized Sequential Activity"
B. Science and Society I: Fictional and Real Dystopias
Luke Carson: "Veblen's Idle Cause"
Barbara Hyams: "Entropy, Dystopia and Nostalgia: Zamyatin's We,
Musil's
The Man Without Qualities, and the Spirit of Mephistopheles in Modern
Fiction"
Alvin C. Kibel: "The Machine Stops: Forster's Virtual
Reality"
Richard S. Wallach: "Captain Ahab, Judge Holden, and the
Iconography of
Science in 19th Century American Nation Building"
C. Cyberplaces: Engendering Space for a Place/Time Continuum
Nancy A. Barta-Smith, organizer
Nancy A. Barta-Smith & Sarah Stein: "Cyberspace/Cyberplace:
Making Sense
of Information Technology"
Jaishree Kak Odin, "Hypertextuality and Postmodern
Subjectivity"
D. Medicine and Illness II
Susan Connell, "The Champion Athlete: When Rare Personal
Achievement and
Modern Science Collide"
Laura Otis: "Bleeding for Health: Gide and Freud"
Downing A. Thomas: "Corps Sonores: Music and Medicine in
Eighteenth-Century France"
Kate Nickel: "The Company We Keep"
E. Chaos and Complexity II
Emily Zants, organizer; Thomas Weissert, moderator
Yves Abrioux: "Foucault, Chaos, Complexity"
F. Paul Cilliers: "Complexity and Postmodern Knowledge"
Richard D. Davis: "Model Metaphors: Mimicking Chaos Theory in the
Humanities"
Torin Monahan: "The Labyrinth of Jealousy: The Chaotics of
Robbe-Grillet's Postmodern Novel"
F. Delivering the Male: Biological Determinism and the Institution of
Masculinity
Geoffrey Sharpless: "Making Bodies, Making History"
Stuart Glennon: "Why Johnny Likes Guns: Assessing Recent Work on
the
Biological Determinants of Masculine Behavior"
Hilene Flanzbaum: "The Incredible Shrinking Man: Sexual Dysfunction
in
Modern Literature"
Ross Shideler: "Darwinism and Displacing the Father in
Scandinavian
Literature"
Blake Allmendinger: "Mother Lode: Technology, Male Midwifery, and
Gold-Mining Literature"
Saturday, November 4, 10:30-12:00 Noon
A. Medicine, Gender and Virtual Technologies
Robert Markley, organizer; Laura Sullivan, chair
Anne Balsamo: "Monsters and Heroes, Mothers and Fathers, Children
and the
State"
Timothy R. Manning: "Computer Mediated Understanding of Health
Threats"
Molly Rothenberg: "Virtual Body, Virtual Mind"
Robert Markley: "The Patient's Two Bodies: Medicine, Simulation,
and
Productivity"
B. Knowledge and Power
Cynthia Appl: "Heinrich Schirmbeck: Literature and the Ethical Use
of
Scientific Knowledge"
David Brande: "General Equivalents and Contingent Knowledge:
Ideology and
the Desire for Sense in Literature and Science"
Gene Fendt: "The Purposes of Literature in the Culture of
Science"
Terrance King: "Writing and Knowledge as Historical
Correlates"
C. Sustainability: Postmodern Neo-Ecology
(Panel Discussion)
Robert Chianese, organizer
Robert Chianese, W. John Coletta, Laura Dassow Walls, Carl Maida and
Christine Skolnik, panelists
D. Metaphor and Science II
Stephen Ogden: "Outflanking Gross and Levitt on the Right: How a
Robust
Approach to Radical Metaphor by the Literary Culture Can Debunk the
Scientists' Own Higher Superstitions"
Teri Reynolds: "Just Metaphors: Why We Shouldn't Ask for a Literal
Use of
Science in Interdisciplinary Studies"
Elliot Visconsi: "A Prophecy Of Escape: Science and Metaphor in
Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow"
Andrew Russ, "Killing, Dying, and Surviving in the Mathematical
Jungle of
Physics: Some Examples of Metaphorical Terms in the Culture of a
Science"
E. Embodied Discourse: The Role of Narratives and Visual Images in
Scientific Talk and Theories I
N. Katherine Hayles, organizer; Brian Rotman, respondent
Timothy Lenoir: "Machines to Think By: Visualization, Theory, and
the
Second Computer Revolution"
Stefan Helmreich: "Artificial Life on the Edge of
Inevitability"
N. Katherine Hayles: "Gender and Game Theory"
F. Technology and Utopia
Crystal Bartolovich, organizer
Crystal Bartolovich: "Cartopia"
Paula Geyh: "Women on the Edge of Technology"
Camilla Griggers: "Women and the War Machine"
Saturday, November 4, 2:00-3:30 PM
A. Visual Images II: Rhetoric in Visual Format
Julian Bleecker: "Morphs, Matrices, Mixings: Visual Analytics and
the
Computer Graphics Special Effect"
Raymond Harris: "Archimedes' Mirror: Cinema as Sensual
Assault"
Miranda Paton: "Seeing How to Listen: Constructing a Form of
Listening in
Early Phonography"
B. Entropy, Information, Misinformation and Noise
James R. Saucerman: "Entropy as a Source of Terror in the Tales of
Edgar
Allan Poe"
Lance Schachterle: "Low Entropy and Worse Communications in
Pynchon's
Vineland"
Eric White: "Signifying Noise: The Crop Circle Phenomenon"
Jay A. Labinger, "The Reader at Absolute Zero: Entropy as Time's
(Double-Headed) Arrow in Stoppard's Arcadia"
C. The Human Genome Project II
Karyn Valerius: "Genetic Consciousness? Sequencing the Genome and
Reconstructing Ourselves"
Paula Haines: "Popular Science: Controlling the Truth in the Human
Genome
Project"
Val Dusek: "DNA as Language: Essence vs. Deconstruction"
D. Narratives of Non-Human Others II: Narratives of Artificial
Intellects
and Cultures
Nicholas Gessler, organizer
Michael Dyer: "Computer Understanding and Invention of Textual
Narratives"
Marc Damashek: "Implications of Ignorance Based Processing: A
Language-Independent Means of Gauging Topical Similarity in
Unrestricted
Text"
Ken Karakotsios: "Making New Friends: The Impending
Exocommunication
Conundrum"
Nicholas Gessler: "Generating Automatic Narratives in Artificial
Cultures"
E. A Guest Session with Octavia Butler
Frances Louis, organizer and respondent
Octavia Butler (guest speaker): "Furor Scribendi"
F. Symmetries: Teaching, Writing, Literature, Science
Robert Franke, organizer
Robert Franke: "Changed Outcomes in Science-Based Courses when
Using
Literature and Writing"
Larry Coleman: "Writing in Science Courses"
Mary Ellen Pitts: "Writing Process and the Teaching of Science:
Two
Theoretical Points of Convergence"
Clive Sutton: "Awareness of the Figurative in Science"
Saturday, November 4, 3:45-5:15 PM
A. "Make It New": Modernist Artistic and Literary Responses to
Early 20th
Century Science
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, organizer
Barbara J. Reeves: "Scientific Modernism--Modernist Science
Linda Dalrymple Henderson: "Representing the Invisible: The
'Playful
Physics' of Marcel Duchamp's 'Large Glass'"
K. Porter Aichele: "Jean Perrin and Paul Klee's 'Atomistic'
Cubism"
Allen Thiher: "Proust and Poincare"
B. Languages of Early Modern Science: Children and Childbirth
Richard Nash, organizer
Eve Keller: "Representing Reproduction in Seventeenth-Century
England"
Debra Silverman: "Mary Toft's Hoax: Narrative Desire, Medical
Genius and
Female Imagination"
Richard Nash: "Feral Children and 18th Century Language Instruction
for
the Deaf"
C. Popularizing Science
Jennifer Swift Kramer: "Infotainment a la Gobineau: Notes on A
Gentleman
in the Outports"
Mark Schlenz: "The Greening of 'Gray Literature': Instrumental
Rationality and Communicative Action in Writing for Environmental
Studies"
Laura Dassow Walls: "'Where There is Light, There Will Be Eyes':
The
Theater of Popular Science"
Jeffrey V. Yule: "Critiquing Science and Its Transmission:
Information as
Noise in Don de Lillo's White Noise"
D. AI and Cybernetics
Ronald Schleifer, "Norbert Wiener, Information, and
Postmodernism"
Phoebe Sengers, "The Implicit Subjects of Artificial
Intelligence"
Elizabeth Wilson: "'Loving the Computer': Cognition, Embodiment and
the
Influencing Machine"
E. Embodied Discourse: The Role of Narratives and Visual Images in
Scientific Talk and Theories II
N. Katherine Hayles, organizer; Brian Rotman, respondent
Kenneth Knoespel: "Diagrammatics in Mathematical Discourse"
Sally Jacoby: "Co-Constructing Visual Narratives in Scientific
Practice"
Barbara M. Stafford: "The New Imagist: Visual Expertise in a
Transdisciplinary Multimedia Society"
F. Theory, History and Narrative
Patrick W. O'Kelley: "Gilman and the Creation of a New
Empiricism"
Lucia Palmer: "What is New in the New Historicism of Comtemporary
Literature, Philosophy and Science?"
F. Irving Elichirigoity: "Historical Narrative in the Age of
Machinic
Vision and Computer Simulation: The Emergence of Planet Management as a
Case Study"
Scott M. Sprenger: "Balzac, Archaeologist of Consciousness: The
Case of
Louis Lambert"
Saturday, November 4, 5:30-7:00 PM
A. Language, Epistemology, and the Cognitive Sciences I
F. Elizabeth Hart, organizer
F. Elizabeth Hart: "The Chaos of Language: Orderly Disorder in the
System
of Language and Its Implications for Literary Analysis"
Phillips Salman: "Cognition, Poetics, and the Nous Poetikos"
David Porush: "TELEPATHIES: The Advent of the Alphabet as a Model
for
the Transformation of Communication Promised by VR"
B. The Old New Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
Henry McDonald: "Narrative Uncertainty: Wittgenstein, Heisenberg,
and
Narrative Theory"
Timothy S. Murphy: "Beneath Relativity: Bergson and Bohm on
Absolute Time"
Stephen Potts: "The Muse of Uncertainty: Empirical Psychology and
Scientific Modernism"
David L. Rozema: "Representation in Science and Literature"
C. The Ontology of Science and the Arts
Koen DePryck, organizer
Koen DePryck: "Art as Interdisciplinary Discipline"
Karel Boullart: "Ontology, Triviality and Metaphorization"
Ilse Wambacq: "The Arts and Sciences in Education: Bridging
Partial
Ontologies"
D. Machine Visions, Body Slices and Video Memory
Ramunas Kondratas, organizer
Ramunas Kondratas: "Imaging the Human Body: The Case of CT
Scanning"
Joseph Dumit: "Functional Brain Imaging, Personhood and the Many
Literatures of Neuroscience"
Barry Saunders: "Rituals of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive
Cutting"
E. Feminist Theories of Biology in Fact and Fiction
(Panel Discussion)
Susan A. Hagedorn, organizer
Roger Persell, Shoshana Milgram and Susan Hagedorn, panelists
F. Nature, Landscapes, and Voyages
Vranna Hinck: "Chaos and Christo"
Janet Bell Garber, "For Fear of Increasing the Confusion: Early
19th
Century Attempts to Make Sense of the Natural World"
Alice Jenkins: "Landscapes of Ignorance: Metaphors, Narrativity and
the
Organization of Knowledge"
Philip K. Wilson: "Mechanistic and Vitalistic Perspectives of the
Body in
Enlightment Voyages to New Worlds"
Sunday, November 5, 8:30-10:00 AM
A. Cybernetics in Literature: Subjects and Subjectivities
Kevin LaGrandeur, organizer
Kevin LaGrandeur: "Who Sounds the Thunder?: Prospero's 'Machine'
and the
Anxiety of Agency"
Vivianne Casimir: "Pascal and Frankenstein: A New
Subjectivity"
Sarah Higley: "Scientists and their Androids in Science Fiction:
Edison,
Dennet and Hawking"
B. The Role of Anecdote in Science
(Panel Discussion)
Frank Durham, organizer and moderator
Marcella Greening, Thomas J. High, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter and Linda
Layne, panelists
C. The Female Body in Medical Discourse and Literature
Carol Colatrella, organizer and respondent
Tanya Augsburg, "Resisting Diagnosis: Staging the Female Medical
Subject
in Contemporary Women's Performance"
Johanna X. K. Garvey: "'And She Had Made Herself!': (Re)generation
of
'Woman' in Acker, Weldon, and Carter"
Roger Persell: "Human Eating Disorders: The Drama of Clinical and
Literary Discourse"
Linda Saladin: "The Rhetoric of Surgery: Narratives for Patient
Well-Being"
D. Bruno Latour: Pre-Modern, Modern and Non-Modern
T. Hugh Crawford: "Mapping Migration: Some Thoughts on Moby-Dick,
Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Bruno Latour"
Philip Lewin: "Latour and the Image of the Human"
Ned Muhovich: "Bringing Pym Home: Structure in Poe's The Narrative
of
Arthur Gordon Pym"
E. Science and Society II: Ethics, Conscience, Ideals
Thomas Martin, "Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor's Vision of Science
as the
Necessary Source of Miracle and Mystery for the Subjection of Man"
John Bragin, "Scientific Witness and Moral Visionary: Primo Levi
and the
Culture of the Nazi Holocaust"
Raphael Sassower: "Post World War II Technoscience"
Yvan Silva: "Mahatma Gandhi: The Armamentarium of
Non-Violence"
Sunday, November 5, 10:15-11:45 AM
A. Poetry and Science
Beth Browning: "'There is Neither Up nor Down to It':
Anti-Organicism in
the Poetry of Marianne Moore"
William Crisman: "Humphry Davy and John Keats: Romantic
Redefinitions of
Matter and Mind"
Cynthia Guidici: "'Hand in Hand with Science': The Frame of
Tennyson's
The Princess"
Donna McBride: "Incantory Magic: Female Images of Alchemy and the
Sacramental in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Jane Kenyon"
B. Language, Epistemology, and the Cognitive Sciences II
Jefferson Faye, "The Birth and Growth of the Cognitive Novel:
Joseph
McElroy's Plus"
Maria L. Assad: "Poetic Obscurity and Dynamical Discourse Theory:
The
Case of Mallarme"
Joseph Carroll: "An Evolutionary Theory of Literary
Figuration"
C. Constructing and Deconstructing the Body
Jacqueline M. Foertsch: Illness as Metaphor Metaphor as Illness: A
Critique of Susan Sontag's Influential Theory"
Barbara A. Heifferon: "Deconstructing Colonial America's First
Medical
Compendium: A Surprising Heteroglossia"
Jamil M. Mustafa, "Constructing Degeneration: Dracula, Henry
Maudsley,
and the Lunatic Asylum"
D. 17th Century Science
Sylvia Bowerbank: "Science and the Self-Technologies of Early
Modern Women"
Tom Kealy: "The Poetics of Life: Natural History and Literary
Traditions
in the Seventeenth Century"
Robert E. Stillman: "Metaphors, Monsters, and Natural Philosophy in
17th
Century England"
Douglas L. Hollinger, "The New Enfeoffees: Staking Claims to Nature
in
Early Modern English Science"
E. "Worth A Thousand Words": Documentary Photography and the
Problem of
Proof Positive
Stanley Orr, organizer
Stanley Orr: "Documentation and Detection in Antonioni's Blow
Up"
Beth Rayfield: "Documentation and Desire: Popular Anthropology and
the
Stereographic Representation of the Sexualized Racial Other"
James Goodwin: "Documentation in Black and White: The American
South and
the Depression"
Michael L. Merrill: "Jacob Riis vs. Eugenicists: A Visual Rhetoric
of
Biological Reductionism"
F. "You Just Don't Understand": Talking Across the Boundary at
SLS
(Panel Discussion)
Thomas P. Weissert, organizer
Thomas P. Weissert, David Porush, Artie Rodgers and Jay A. Labinger,
panelists
Sunday, November 5, 12:00-1:30 PM
SLS Wrap-up Session: The Future of SLS
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:43:36 -0400
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: Stephen J Weininger
Subject: Scientists and SLS
I'm schduled to talk about the future of scientists in SLS. Being both
a
scientist and a long-time SLS member I have my own take on that topic;
at the same time I'd like to get beyond my own opinion when I give my
talk. I'd appreciate hearing from any SLS members, and especially
scientists, who have views on the matter. Replies can be sent to the
list or to me directly: stevejw@wpi.edu.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:15:01 PST
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: Wayne Miller
Subject: Re: SLS Meeting Tentative Program
Hi,
The tentative program posted a few days ago by Jay A. Labinger is
now available on the World-Wide Web under the following URL:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/sls/program.html
It's currently not listed from any of the other pages on our web
server, so you will need to type in, or copy-and-paste this URL,
into your Web browser's "Location:", "Open Location"
or "Open URL"
window.
Wayne
/-------------------------------------------------------/
Wayne Miller
Germanic Languages 2326 Murphy Hall, UCLA
Humanities Computing Facility 343 Kinsey Hall, UCLA
(310) 206-2004 FAX: (310) 825-7428
/-------------------------------------------------------/
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:05:10 +0200
Reply-To: petitcol@cc.ec-lyon.fr
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: PETITCOLAS fabien promo96
Subject: Web sites for science and literature, science studies,
etc?
Soon : http://www.ec-lyon.fr/
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:11:00 EDT
Reply-To: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
Sender: "Society for Literature and Science - philos.,
tech.,
cyber discussion"
From: rconrad@IAG.NET
Subject: Science Web Site
try http://www.gate.net/solutions
