***************************************************************************** Histnews: The Electronic History Newsletter Tuesday, November 2, 1993 Vol.1, No.11 Subscriptions: listserv@ukanvm.bitnet or listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Submissions/Corrections: histnews@ukanvm.bitnet FTP Archive: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu:/pub/history/internet/hist_news Editor: Bob Pasker (rbp@brown.edu) ***************************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. H-Net Job Guide for 10/26/93 (65 lines) 2. Women's Association of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (52 lines) 3. REPORTERS ONLINE (12 lines) 4. Book available for review. (40 lines) 5. Academic DataManager (68 lines) 6. Focus Fall 1993 (47 lines) 7. Harvard Source Now Available (11 lines) 8. Publications of the IHR (108 lines) 9. Women in the ANE: Bibliography (4 lines) 10. World Factbook in Etext (16 lines) 11. Re: New WWW Server (3 lines) 12. 1993 Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (67 lines) 13. Scholia Reviews by FTP (3 lines) 14. Position Announcement: Medieval History (11 lines) /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 1. H-Net Job Guide for 10/26/93 FFI: h-net@uicvm.uic.edu ASIAN HISTORY 1) Chinese History--Georgetown University 2) East Asian History--Southern Methodist University CANADIAN HISTORY 1) Two Positions (Canadian History/World History)--SUNY College at Plattsburgh EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN HISTORY 1) Modern European History--Wesleyan College 2) History of Ancient Greece, Rome--Southern Methodist University 3) Medieval History--Catholic University of America 4) Modern Eastern European History--Michigan State University 5) Church History--Episcopal Theological Seminary of the SW GENERAL, OPEN FIELD OR MISCELLANEOUS 1) History of Science/Liberal Studies--U of Notre Dame 2) Western Civilization--Ocean County College LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 1) Latin American History--Michigan State University 2) Modern Latin American History--Florida Atlantic University 3) Colonial Latin American History--U of Connecticut at Storrs MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY 1) Middle Eastern History--Ohio University Main Campus STUDIES PROGRAMS 1) African American Studies--Purdue University 2) Afro-American and African Studies--SUNY at Binghamton 3) African American Studies--Xavier University of Louisiana 4) Ethnic Studies--California Polytechnic State U. 5) Film Studies--U of Oregon 6) Religious Studies--Iowa State University 7) Japanese Studies--University of Hawaii 8) Arabic/Islamic Studies--Yale University 9) Cuban Studies--Florida International University UNITED STATES HISTORY 1) Modern U.S. History--The U of Alabama 2) 19th Century U.S.--Keene State College 3) 20th Century U.S.--Yale University 4) American History--U of Central Florida 5) American History--Memphis State University 6) Colonial & Early U.S. History--U of Pittsburgh 7) 20th Century U.S.--Michigan State University 8) African-American History--Binghamton University 9) U.S. International Relations--Arizona State University WORLD HISTORY 1) Two Positions (Canadian History/World History)--SUNY College at Plattsburgh LIBRARY POSITIONS 1) Humanities & Social Sciences Electronic Services Coordinator--U of Florida 2) Reference Service Coordinator--Santa Clara University FELLOWSHIPS 1) Visiting Humanities Fellowships--U of Windsor MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL OPENINGS 1) Editor--Mercer University 2) Scholar-In-Residence--U.S. Information Agency LISTSERV: listserv@uicvm.uic.edu:get h-net jobs1026 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 2. Women's Association of Ancient Near Eastern Studies FFI: J.M. Asher-Greve, wanes@ics.ch WANES: Women's Association of Ancient Near Eastern Studies In a meeting on July 8, 1993 at the 40e RIA in Leiden attended by over 70 women and a few men the majority decided to form the Women's Association of ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (WANES); a network of support and information exchange. Following the suggestion of Martha Roth we decided to hold a breakfast meeting at the 41e RAI in Berlin from July 4-8, 1994 to discuss the structure & projects of WANES. We suggest a representative board consisting of one female member from each country active in our field. Julia Asher-Greve volunteered to serve as "general secretary". We asked each country to elect (if not possible to appoint) a woman representative for the Berlin Rencontre in 1994. Please let us know by the end of April 1994, who your country's representative is, so we may contact her. In Berlin we intend to organize a BABY SITTING SERVICE. Those who would like to use it (women and men), please contact Ms. Nicola Crusemann, Martin-Opitz-Str.1 D-13357 Berlin, Germany. Ms. Crusemann volunteered to organize this service, but she has to know the number of children to be expected. Members (e.g. women & supportive men on our mailing list ) will receive an information letter before the next Rencontre. Suggestions & information are welcomed. Dr. Asher-Greve would like to establish a study-group on women and gender in Mesopotamia, if possible with a first session in 1994 in Berlin. Scholars (women & men) who would like to participate, please announce your participation to J. Asher-Greve by December 31, 1993 so we can reserve time & location in Berlin. If anybody in our field (philologist or archaeologist) is familiar with modern feminist methodology we would appreciate if she or he would attend. Brigitte Groneberg Julia M. Asher-Greve Those who want to Become members should write, fax or E-mail (please give your full name, title, position & field) to: WANES J.M. Asher-Greve Pilgerstrasse 45 CH-4055 Basel/Switzerland Fax +41-61-261 88 54 E-mail: wanes@ics.ch /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 3. REPORTERS ONLINE FFI: L.A.W. BBS, a bulletin board system sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association, has a number of full-text databases, including Washington Reports 2d (1977-1991) and Washington Appellate Reports (1977-1991). There are several phone numbers for dial-up access: (206) 727-8312 728-2884 728-2885 728-2886 728-2887 927-1030 The first several are Seattle numbers; the last is Tacoma. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 4. Book available for review. FFI: Bob Pasker (rbp@brown.edu) If anyone is interested in reviewing the following monograph for HistNews, please contact me. --Ed. ------------------------------------------------------ Version 2 (History and Archaeology) of Essentials of Statistical Methods by Dr. T. P. Hutchinson. There are many excellent introductory textbooks of statistics available. But so many of them are 500, 700, even 1000 pages long. This has real disadvantages. They are heavy. They are expensive. And they are wordy. But here is a volume light enough to be carried around, and cheap enough for every student to afford. A typical introductory statistics course gets as far as some techniques of inference --- the testing of hypotheses and the construction of confidence intervals. That is the subject of Part III of this book. In preparation for this, the student needs to know about data description and about probability. These are covered in Parts I and II. In this Version, many of the examples are taken from history and archaeology. For instance: in Part I, the percentages of lead in Bronze Age sickles, and the price of rice in 18th-century China; in Part II, the probability of throwing ``Venus'' with four astragali, and the occurrence of wars viewed as a Poisson process; in Part III, the sizes of shells in a possible Aboriginal midden, and drought causing the fall of Tiwanaku. Published September 1993. A5 format. Paperback. xii + 152 pages. Index of 800 entries. Price: $17 (Australian currency), $12 (U.S. currency), 7 pounds sterling, $15 (Canadian currency), or Y1300 (Yen). A price reduction of 35% is offered on orders for 8 or more copies. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 5. Academic DataManager V2.0 FFI: Kalmarx@aol.com KalMarx Software is pleased to announce the release of Academic DataManager version 2.0. Academic DataManager is a bibliographic database and note management program for the Macintosh. Academic DataManager requires System 6.05 or later, or System 7, 1 MB of RAM, and works best from a hard drive. Academic DataManager is simple to use--just enter the appropriate information in the data fields (such as book title, author name, publisher, etc.). Once the information has been entered, there are a number of things you can do with it: you can create a fully formatted bibliography in one of three common styles (Modern Language Association, American Psychological Association, and Turabian (University of Chicago); Name & Year format is also supported); you can format footnotes (in the same styles) for cutting and pasting into your papers and other documents; you can export or import data from other databases; and you can review your material with the Index feature. If you enter footnotes from ADM, you can have ADM scan a paper and automatically create a list of works cited, saving you the trouble of going back through a paper to figure out which citations were used. This feature is especially valuable for work on theses, dissertations, books, and articles. Academic DataManager accommodates 19 different reference types (such as books, journal articles, film, music, television programs, archive material, lectures, etc.). You can also create your own reference types to help you organize research and other material. It is an ideal program for tracking research and book notes. If you enter your note information (up to 30,000 characters per note field) in ADM, you can then search and select your research notes in a variety of sophisticated ways, helping to keep your project well organized and your notes easily accessible. ADM supports Boolean and/or/no searches, and lets you build on previous searches, so that you can organize and select references from your database in a variety of ways. Once you have selected references, you can save the selection for future use. This is useful if you are working on more than one project at a time--you can, for example, select a group of references for a dissertation, save that selection, then select a different group of references for creating an article bibliography, then go back to your dissertation selection by a simple menu command. Academic DataManager has Authority Lists for easy entry of commonly used data. With an Authority List, you enter a journal title, book name, publisher listing, or keyword once. Then, the next time you need to enter that information, you select the word from the pop-up Authority List. This speeds up data entry and prevents spelling errors. It is especially useful for keywords: you can enter a large number of keywords for each reference (up to 30,000 characters worth!), then use the Authority List to place each keyword in the Keyword data field. You never have to worry about misspelling your keywords and thus creating a faulty bibliography. ADM lets you easily create an electronic Card Catalog that works just like a library's. Keep track of all your library materials, music, videotapes, lecture notes, book notes, and research notes. ADM has extensive on line help for ease of use, and comes with a complete manual explaining all the features in detail. It works with all word processors and comes with free technical support. It is essential software for all teachers, students, and researchers. You will wonder how you did without it. Academic DataManager is available from KalMarx Software for only $39.50 + $3 postage (DC residents add $2.37 sales tax). Tom Marx KalMarx Software 4716 Fessenden St., NW Washington, DC 20016 1-800-296-6279 (ordering information: 9-6 EST) 1-202-686-0409 e-mail: Kalmarx@aol.com /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 6. Focus Fall 1993 FFI: Contact Anthony Star, ABA, 541 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, Illinois 6061 1-3314 Focus on Law Studies 9 (Fall 1993) is out. This is published by the Commission on College and University Legal Studies of the ABA. Articles: John Paul Ryan, "Law and Literature: New Combinations in Teaching" John Paul Ryan, "ABA Awards 8 Mini-Grants for 1993-94." Note that the next deadline in March 15, 1994. Janet Eldred, "Teaching Law and American Literature." Susan N. Herman, "Teaching Law with Sacco, Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs." Ann M. Algeo, "Teaching True Crime Literature." Nola Allen, "The Value of Fiction in the Classroom." Bruce L. Rockwood, "Telling Stories in School: Law and Literature as an Approach to the Business Law Curriculum." The "Campus Reports" section includes: Christopher Waldrep, "Teaching the Constitution with Crime." Joan Thureson, "A Matter of Life and Death: Who Decides? Symposia on Legal and Ethical Issues for the 1990s." Book reviews: Karen Joe's review of Coramae Richey Mann, *Unequal Justice: A Question of Color.* Unsigned reviews: Kitty Calavita, *Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration and the INS.* Martha Minnow, ed., *Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and the Law.* Note that articles include bibliographies. Note also that the ABA Commission on College and University Legal Studies has a Syllabus Clearinghouse. comprised of more than 200 undergraduate course syllabi having a law-related focus. Contact Anthony Star, ABA, 541 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, Illinois 60611-3314 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 7. Harvard Source Now Available FFI: Gary King, gk@isr.harvard.edu I write to alert you to a new electronic service with which you can access information about Harvard Government Department Ph.D. students on the market this year. You can read a descriptive paragraph about each via gopher from Haavelmo.Harvard.Edu. This service will also include a growing body of other information, such as dissertation chapter drafts, curriculum vitae, and copies of convention papers or published articles. We also plan frequent updates. If you have any questions about the candidates, you should feel free to contact the students, their advisors, or me. Phone numbers, addresses, and email information are also available on the gopher. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 8. Publications of the IHR FFI: Glen Segell The complete listing of all publications of the Institute of Historical Research are now available on IHR-INFO. (under the menu Bulletin Board of the Institute). We hope up upload all but the most rest of publications within the near future. The most recent of publications will take a while longer IHR-INFO can be accessed by telnet clus1.ulcc.ac.uk or telnet 192.12.72.60 or pad call ulcc.egate and then clus1 username: ihr-uk password: ihr-uk IHR-INFO is also available on the NISS gateway and the OXFORD RSL gopher +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Glen Segell gs@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk | | glen@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk | | Institute of Historical Research g.segell@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 9. Women in the ANE: Bibliography FFI: To get an online copy of the "Women in the Ancient Near East" bibliography, send the command: LISTSERV: Listserv@umd.umd.edu: GET ANCIENT NEAREAST /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 10. World Factbook in Etext FFI: Michael S. Hart This is the Short Edition of the Oct, 1993 Project Gutenberg Announcement Project Gutenberg announces [preliminary] releases of the following: The official release is midnight of the last day of the month [CDT]. Our volunteers will be correcting and editing right up until then!!! Mon Year Title/Author [filename.ext] ## Oct 1993 The World Factbook, US CIA, 1993 Edition (world93x.xxx) 87 Oct 1993 A Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain, Wiretap [yanke10x.xxx] 86 Oct 1993 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs [Tarzan #3][tarz310x.xxx] 85 Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10x.xxx] 84 Oct 1993 Frankenstein/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [frank10a.xxx] 84a ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu: etext/etext93 e-mail: almanac@oes.orst.edu: send gutenberg catalog /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 11. Re: New WWW Server FFI: Sebastian Heath, sfsh@umich.edu. Announcing a World Wide Web server that collects together all the links to internet resources useful to classics and Mediterranean archaeology. It is a superset of the gopher server with similar ambitions. The URL of the WWW server is "http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/". /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 12. 1993 Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory FFI: Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory 1993 Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin December 6-7, 1993 Kingship and the organization of power in Greek society. The aim of this conference is to investigate aspects of the organization and control of power within Greek society from the Mycenaean period into the Hellenistic period. It is being organized around the visit to PASP of Pierre Carlier of the Universite de Nancy, one of the leading authorities on the historical development of Greek kingship. His major work in this area is La Royaute en Grece avant Alexandre (Strasbourg 1984). He is also the author of a general study on the life and career of Demosthenes (1990). We hope especially to deal with the origin and ideological basis of the institution of kingship in the Mycenaean period and to trace how the institution developed and was transformed through time. Session 1: Proto-History Monday December 6 Pierre Carlier, Universite de Nancy: "Second thoughts on Mycenaean kingship" (resp. R. Palmer) Sara Kimball, University of Texas at Austin: "Hittite kings and queens" (resp. Stieglitz) Robert Stieglitz, Rutgers University: "The Ideology of Divine Kingship at Ugarit" (resp. Kimball) Tom Palaima, UT Austin: "The Origin and Ideology of Mycenaean Kingship" (resp. Haskell) Kevin Cauley, UT Austin: "The royal symbolism of the scepter: Mycenaean, Hittite, Hebraic" (resp. Reilly) Carol Thomas, University of Washington: "Monarchy in ruins" (resp. Perlman) Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, UT Austin: Closing Commentary Session 2: History Tuesday December 7 Paula Perlman, UT Austin: "Public Authority and Social Organization in Early Gortyn and Knossos" (resp. Lenz) Pierre Carlier, Universite de Nancy: "The regal law of succession in Sparta." (resp. Thomas) John Lenz, Texas A&M: "'It Is Not Bad to Be a King' (Od. 2.392): Kings and Councils of Kings in Homer and the Early Polis" (resp. Sealey) Raphael Sealey, Berkeley: "IG I3, 104 lines 11-12 dikazen de tos basileas in the Athenian law of homicide" (resp. Gagarin) Greta Ham, UT Austin: "Ethnology and Kingship in Aristotle" (resp. Green) Peter Green, UT Austin: "Delivering the Go(o)ds: Euhemerism and the Hellenistic Divine Kingship" (resp. Ham) Jackie Long, UT Austin, and Carin Green, University of Iowa: Closing Comments All participants have written articles or books dealing with rulers and/or political and economic systems in ancient societies: Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., professor emeritus University of Wisconsin and adjunct professor of Classics UT Austin: Minoan and Mycenaean scripts. Michael Gagarin, professor and chair of Classics at UT Austin: Greek law. Carin Green, assistant professor of Classics at University of Iowa: Roman intellectual history and Roman ruler ideology. Halford Haskell, associate professor of Classics at Southwestern University: Bronze Age trade, stirrup jars and their implications for Mycenaean political and economic organization. Jackie Long, assistant professor of Classics at UT Austin: Ruler ideology in imperial Rome. Ruth Palmer, visiting scholar at PASP UT Austin: Greek Bronze Age economy, Linear B. Kent Reilly, assistant professor of anthropology at Southwest Texas State University: Development of political ideology and its symbolic images in Middle Formative Mesoamerica (900-500 B.C.). Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, associate professor of Classics at UT Austin: Bronze Age archaeology, Mycenaean Studies. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 13. Scholia Reviews by FTP FFI: John Hilton, hilton@classics.und.ac.za Scholia reviews are now available by FTP. FTP: ftp.und.ac.za:/pub/und/classics/reviews /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 14. Position Announcement: Medieval History FFI: Larry Poos, POOS@CUA.EDU MEDIEVAL HISTORY:- The Catholic University of America invites applications from historians of any area of Medieval Europe (excluding the British Isles) for an appointment as a tenure- track Assistant Professor. Successful applicant must have Ph.D. in hand and should have publications and teaching experience. Search committee intends to conduct interviews at AHA convention. Send letter of application, _curriculum vitae_, and three letters of recommendation, preferably by 15 December, to Professor L.R. Poos, Chair of Medieval Search Committee, Department of History, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064. AA/EOE. ------- End of HistNews Vol.1 , No.11 -------