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ninch-announce: MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks

MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:52:39 -0500 

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:52:39 -0500
To: ninch-announce@cni.org
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: MLA Convention: Computer-related Talks


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
November 24, 1997


                THE ACH GUIDE TO HUMANITIES-COMPUTING TALKS
                         AT THE 1997 MLA CONVENTION
                              December 27-30


Among several conferences recently added to the NINCH CONFERENCE
CALENDAR <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html> is an
extremely useful compilation by the Association for Computers in the
Humanities of computing-related sessions and talks at the upcoming 1997
conference of the Modern Language Association (in Toronto, Ontario, from
December 27 through 30). 

For this invaluable guide go to <http://www.ach.org/mla97/guide.html>. 
Some of these talks do not require conference registration.  However for
information on the MLA Convention see <http://www.mla.org/set_con.htm>
[Dec 5 is deadline for pre-registration and guaranteed housing]

Below are some of the 30 sessions included in the ACH listing (not all
of these sessions are themselves exclusively computer-related)


 58: Electronic Culture I: CyberStyle
 60: Ethnic Science Fiction
 94: The Muse Collaborates: Writing Communities for Learning Literature and
     Composition
 97: Revolution or Evolution? Electronic Resources in the Humanities
119: Multimedia Literature: Hypertext and Beyond
129: Exploring the Relation between Instructional Design and Technical
     Communication
174: Talking the Digital Talk
175: What's New with William Morris
207: Computers and Theory
288: Beyond "Community": New Perspectives on the Making of Knowledge
308: Electronic Texts in the Humanities
343: The Refereed Electronic Journal
347: New Compositions, New Configurations I
352: Technology in the Classroom
355: Electronic Culture II: A Theory Performance
362: Drama as Public Fantasy II: Barely Touching
393: Pedagogy in the Ruins of the University
428: Problems in the Romance Epic I
456: Wrestling the Word: Teaching Poetry in the Contemporary Classroom
485A: The Role of Statistics in Computer Studies in Language and 
      Literature
534: Electronic Culture III: Cyborgs, Performance, and the Political
600: Technologies of Inscription and Reproduction
604: Romantic Media III: Composite Forms and Transmediations
614: Cyborg for Hire: Postindustrial Work in Contemporary American Culture
624: Literary Theory and Children's Literature: Reflections on the Past 
     and Predictions for the Future
640: Computer Conferencing in Literature and Language Classes
655: Spatial and Geometric Metaphors for Text


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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
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Washington DC 20036
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