Subject: "Humanities Computing: Formal Methods, Experimental Practice" - Informal Colloquium Report
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:02:55 -0400
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Report: "Humanities Computing: Formal Methods, Experimental Practice"
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0037.html
The Humanist Discussion Group, today (Vol. 14, No. 86), includes
praise for an informal report on an interesting colloquium on
humanities computing, held at Kings College, London earlier this
year. The colloquium asked how best to "conceptualise the application
of computing to the humanities" and where to look for the most
helpful models.
As the commentator notes, the colloquium's course shifted "from the
problem of machines dealing with ambiguity through to the
collaborative mysteries of community via the tension between
formalization and deformation."
Speakers at the May 13, 2000, colloquium were the following:
* Tito Orlandi, (Rome) "Ideas for a Theoretical Foundation of
Humanities Computing"
* Harry Collins,(Cardiff) "Formalising humanities or unformalising science?"
* Hasok Chang, (London) "What philosophy tells us about experimental science"
* Jerome McGann, (Virginia) "Dialogue and Interpretation at the
Interface of Man and Machine. Reflections on Textuality and a
Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading."
* John Unsworth, (Virginia) "Scholarly Primitives: what methods do
humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools
reflect this?"
The short report by John Lavagnino is available at:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0037.html
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:07:01 +0100
>From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>
>(by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>)
>To: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist@lists.Princeton.EDU>
>Subject: 14.0086 belated comments on the KCL Colloquium
>
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 86.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:03:58 +0100
> From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
> Subject: Re: 14.0039 report on Colloquium at King's College London
>
>[The following was unhelpfully misdirected by a filter in Eudora and so has
>been delayed in publication here. My apologies (again, on behalf of
>software) to Francois Lachance and everyone else. --WM]
>
>Willard,
>
>With a big gathering looming (Glasgow) it is not without a certain
>timeliness that I praise John Lavagnino's report on the humanities
>computing colloquium held at King's College London in May.
>
>
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0037.html
>
>
>John's report weaves a lovely narrative. There is a flair for the
>personalities involved. It is not a mere reportage. I do appreciate the
>reshuffling of the presenations in his report. He does not follow the
>order of the scheduled presentation. I do like the narrative line he casts
>from the problem of machines dealing with ambiguity through to the
>collaborative mysteries of community via the tension between formalization
>and deformation.
>
>I wish all who attend the gathering in Glasglow and those of us who will
>follow the proceedings from afar an equally enriching experience.
>
>Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice
> > The colloquium's web page, with links to further resources on the
> > subject, will remain available, at
> > <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>.
>
>
>--
>Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
>Member of the Evelyn Letters Project
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm
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