E-humanities: #70, 26th-30th JANUARY 2004

Fri Jan 23 17:17:32 EST 2004

  AUSTRALIAN e-HUMANITIES NEWS BULLETIN #70, 26th - 30th JANUARY  2004

1. Special Announcement: Call for Submissions
2. Events Diary
3. Calls for papers
4. Other Announcements
5. General Information

1. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This is a second call to please put e-humanities projects on the 
Australian e-Humanities Research Network  (AEHRN) Database. Please 
distribute the rallying cry that follows as widely as possible among 
your colleagues, post on e-mail discussion lists and bulletin boards.

Australian e-Humanities Research Network

Attention all humanities researchers!

In December 2003, the Australian Research Council announced the results 
of applications for seed funding for Research Networks under its Special 
Research Initiatives Scheme. The Australian e-Humanities Research 
Network proposal was awarded $20,000. This group, so far consisting of 
27 researchers from 11 Australian universities and other institutions 
and organisations, is now preparing a web-based report (to be completed 
by 9 February 2004) which will include a stocktake of current 
e-humanities research in Australia.

We aim to identify both current projects in the humanities that use 
digital technologies, and those still in the development stage. We are 
now building a database of such work that is as comprehensive as 
possible: please let us know of your work or that of colleagues. To 
include your project, go to the AEHRN Database at 
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/aehrn/

Enquiries to Kate Griffiths (Research Development Officer, Research 
Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney): 
kate.griffiths at rihss.usyd.edu.au

or to the Initiative Co-ordinator, Professor Margaret Harris 
(Director,Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 
University of Sydney): Margaret.harris at arts.usyd.edu.au

2. EVENT DIARY

MONDAY 26TH JANUARY

Deadline for short papers: Fourth International Conference on Cultural 
Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'04)
27th June - 1st July 2004, Karlstad University, Sweden
Conference theme: "Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and 
cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization"
Further details at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/
Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac at it.murdoch.edu.au as an 
attachment (Word, HTML, PDF).
Notification of acceptance: end February 2004
Final formatted papers: 29 March 2004
Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, 
cmess at drury.edu; Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, 
catac at it.murdoch.edu.au
Conference Vice-Chair: Malin Sveningsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, 
malin.sveningsson at kau.se

WEDNESDAY 28TH JANUARY

28th January-1st February: 'Powering Up/Powering Down': A 
festival/colloquium/opera of radical arts technologies organized by 
TEKNIKA RADICA
2004, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University 
of California, San Diego
Futher information at: http://teknikaradica.org/
Enquiries: Juliana Snapper, juliana at teknikaradica.org

FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY

Deadline for submissions (paper and panel proposals): 2004 International 
Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '04): 'Globalizing 
Technological Education'
17th-19th June, 2004 Worcester, Massachusetts
Abstracts are now being accepted for papers and works-in-progress on a 
wide range of topics around the area of 'Globalizing Technological 
Education' (see website for specific topics). All contributions will be 
peer reviewed and conference proceedings are planned.
For more information: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Conf/ISTAS/
Enquiries: Lance Schachterle, WPI, General Chair, les at wpi.edu Rick Vaz, 
WPI, Program Chair, vaz at wpi.edu

Deadline for submissions: BEAP2004 SameDifference Conferences, September 
- November 2004, Perth
An invitation to researchers working across the humanities, arts and 
sciences to present papers at a series of conferences running 
concurrently with the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2004 exhibition 
program. BEAP2004 Conferences are run in collaboration with 
FibreCulture, John Curtin Gallery, SoundCulture, SymbioticA and Tura New 
Music.
Further informationn at: http://www.beap.org/

SATURDAY 31ST JANUARY

Deadline for installation submissions: switch media_ art festival 2004, 
Pathiharn Electron [Supernatural]
6th-30th April 2004, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Thailand
This event will celebrate & inspire new ways of thinking about our 
changing technological world. The festival will consist of exhibitions, 
installations & screenings of new media art; special events like 
experimental sound works & happenings in public space; workshops, 
lectures & an international conference (23rd-25th April 2004).
Deadline for other submissions: 15th February 2004.
Deadline for conference papers: 15th February 2004.
For general information, email: switchmedia at inter.net
Website: http://switchmedia.culturebase.org

Deadline for submissions: ELPUB 2004: The International Conference on 
Electronic Publishing - 'Building Digital Bridges: linking cultures, 
commerce and science'
23rd-26th June 2004, Department of Information Science, University of 
Brasilia (West-central Brazil)
Presented by the International Council for Computer Communication (ICCC)
Proposals for papers, tutorial themes, posters and demonstrations are 
invited for the 8th ELPUB conference, which aims to bring together 
researchers, developers, users and all those interested on issues 
regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts.
Conference website: http://www.elpub.net
Enquiries: elpub2004 at portal.cid.unb.br
Pdf file of CFP: 
http://www.docarch.be/engelen/Call_2_for_papers_Elpub2004.pdf

SUNDAY 1ST FEBRUARY

Deadline for submissions: Fourth International Conference on Cultural 
Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'04)
27th June - 1st July 2004, Karlstad University, Sweden
Conference theme: "Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and 
cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization"
Special panels on 'The Multilingual Intenet' and 'Utopian Dreams vs 
Real-World Conditions'
Notification of acceptance Early March 2004
Final formatted papers 29 March 2004
Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, 
cmess at drury.edu; Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, 
catac at it.murdoch.edu.au
Conference Vice-Chair: Malin Sveningsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, 
malin.sveningsson at kau.se
Further details at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/
Enquiries catac at it.murdoch.edu.au

3. CALLS FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association Annual Convention: Digital Preservation and 
Electronic Scholarly Editions
27th-30th December 2004, Philadelphia.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites papers for the 
2004 Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia.
The promise of electronic scholarly editing brings with it the 
responsibility of long-term digital preservation. While librarians and 
archivists have struggled with this problem for a number of years, 
bibliographers and editors have been slower to take up the challenge. 
Other than a brief mention of the "preservation form" in section 1.E of 
the MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Edition and scattered 
references to the Text Encoding Initiative on project Web sites, little 
work has been done within the editing community to develop procedures 
for ensuring their efforts will survive changes in digital technologies.
In particular we seek proposals from individual editors, project teams 
and electronic publishers currently grappling with the complex issues of 
long-term preservation. How are you negotiating the synchronic demands 
of delivery deadlines and software restrictions with the diachronic 
pitfalls of maintaining access over many decades? If multiple-archives 
increase survivability, how are you dealing with data integrity? Are you 
also archiving the interim working documents, correspondence and 
editorial manuals generated as part of your project, and if so, how are 
they integrated with the finished edition? What preservation needs come 
into play when the goal is to publish in multiple formats (print and 
digital)?
Submission deadline (one-page abstracts): 1st March 2004
Send to: David L. Gants, dgants at unb.ca
Information about previous ACH sessions at the MLA: 
http://www.ach.org/mla03/index.html

M/C - Media and Culture Online Journal - 'open'
For the upcoming 'open' issue of M/C Journal, theoretical investigations 
and empirical studies (1000-2000wds) are invited which take a critical 
look at this concept of the "open". Is it a temporary buzzword, an 
alternative social concept, or just yet another step in making 
capitalism ever more flexible? What is it that makes something "open" 
and are some projects more "open" than others? Is "open" always better 
than closed?
Article deadline: 19th March 2004
Issue release date: 21st April 2004
M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a 
blind- and peer-reviewed journal. The M/C website contains all issues to 
date plus submission guidelines: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
Guest Editors: McKenzie Wark, mw35 at nyu.edu, Felix Stalder, 
felix at openflows.org
Enquiries: open at journal.media-culture.org.au

The trAce New Media Article Writing Competition
Managed by Writers for the Future, a project for NESTA at the trAce 
Online Writing Centre, The Nottingham Trent University.
Writers for the Future (http://www.writersforthefuture.com) explores 
innovative ways of writing using the internet, and provides criteria for 
best practice in the emerging genre of new media writing. The 
competition is intended to provoke discussion and raise awareness of new 
media writing. Prize-winners will be published on the trAce website 
(http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/), which gets over 30,000 hits a day and is 
visited by writers, educators, journalists and researchers from over a 
hundred countries.
Four prizes:
£100 GBP for Best Original Unpublished Work for the Review category
£100 GBP for Best Original Unpublished Work for the Opinion category
£100 GBP for Best Original Unpublished Work for the Process category
£200 GBP Editor's Choice Award will be chosen from any one of the three 
categories.
Competition Deadline: 30th April, 2004.
Further details on submission guidelines, possible topics and the 
judging process at the trAce website: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
Enquiries: trace at ntu.ac.uk

4. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Coombsweb Turns 10
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/
Coombsweb is the world's oldest and most prominent Asian Studies online 
research facility in the world, coming into existence on the 25th Jan 
1994, under the auspices of the Research School of Pacific and Asian 
Studies (RSPAS) of the The Australian National University (ANU) & the 
Asian-Pacific studies research community in Australia and world-wide. At 
the time of its launch, The Coombsweb site was the 2nd WWW site at the 
ANU, the 5th site in Australia and the 850th site in the world. In 
January 2004 the Internet comprised over 45 million Web servers. It's 
principal manager since 1994 has been Dr T. Matthew Ciolek (Head, 
Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU), tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au
The Coombsweb comprises many newsletters and online journals, including 
the Asian Studies WWW Monitor: E-Journal (over 3,570 subscribers - 
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html), the Pacific Studies WWW 
Monitor: E-Journal (over 800 subscribers - 
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html) and the RSPAS Print 
News: E-Journal (over 1,510 subscribers - 
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/rspas-print-news.htm).
It also features many online research tools, including the Asian Studies 
WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html), 
the Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library 
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html), the Indonesia WWW 
Virtual Library 
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/WWWVL-Indonesia.html) 
and the Papua New Guinea WWW Virtual Library 
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/PNG/Index.htm).
It's mailing lists includes Pacific-Islands-L 
(pacific-islands-L at coombs.anu.edu.au) and Tibetan-Studies-L 
(tibetan-studies-L at coombs.anu.edu.au).

5. GENERAL INFORMATION

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the Australian Academy of the Humanities designed as a reference point 
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