**************************************************************************** Histnews: The Electronic History Newsletter Tuesday, October 5, 1993 Vol.1, No.4 Subscriptions: listserv@ukanvm.bitnet 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. US National Archives electronic directory; FTP access (31 lines) Keywords: FTP, sources 2. STUDIUM. University history discussion list (29 lines) Keywords: education, listserv 3. Rockefeller Awards Announcement (58 lines) Keywords: fellowship,culture,environment 4. Studies in American Political Development (37 lines) Keywords: politics, journal, APSA 5. CHUG Meeting: Mark Rooks on E-texts (48 lines) Keywords: sources, etexts,humanities,computing 6. CFP:The 8th Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference (91 lines) Keywords: Ireland,CFP 7. Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities: New Directions (51 lines) Keywords: computing,humanities,seminar 8. Fellowships: American Research Institute, Turkey (35 lines) Keywords: fellowships, turkey, humanities /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 1. US National Archives electronic directory; FTP access Keywords: FTP, sources FFI: THEODORE J. HULL, TIF@CU.NIH.GOV This message revises information last posted on July 6, 1993. The Center for Electronic Records of the U.S. National Archives has updated the FTP-able file containing the Center's "Title List: A Preliminary and Partial Listing of the Data Files in the National Archives and Records Administration" (TITLE.LIST.SEP2893). The FTP directory can be accessed by FTPing to FTP.CU.NIH.GOV (128.231.64.7). Log on as an anonymous user; press enter (or enter your user name or 'guest') at password prompt. The directory in which this information is stored is NARA_ELECTRONIC (CD NARA_ELECTRONIC); it contains six files. Use the FTP GET command to retrieve copies of the files, as in GET TITLE.LIST.SEP2893. The Title List now has 11,707, 80 character lines. Since last updated in July, new entries for the following major series have been included: the Institutional Investor Study, 1969-1971 (Securities and Exchange Commission), Bureau of Justice Statistics data files, National Medical Care Expenditure Surveys (Agency for Health Care Policy Research), and the Defense Wage Fixing data files, 1974-1991 (Office of the Secretary of Defense). I hope this information is useful. If you have any questions, please contact me at the Center for Electronic Records (NSX), ATTN: Reference Staff, National Archives, Washington, DC 20408. The telephone number is (202) 501-5579. I can also be reached via Internet at tif@cu.nih.gov or BITNET at TIF@NIHCU. THEODORE J. HULL Archives Specialist, Archival Services Branch Center for Electronic Records (202) 501-5579 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 2. STUDIUM. University history discussion list Keywords: education, listserv FFI: Marc Nelissen, FFAAI01@BLEKUL11.BITNET STUDIUM intends to be a forum for scholars involved with university history and the history of higher education. An interdisciplinary approach will be appreciated. No chronological or geographical limits are imposed. The list is moderated : list-owners control the flow of messages and try to shield members from superfluous messages. STUDIUM is maintained at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Subscribers to the list are invited to post communications and questions (the language of communication is English). Possible topics are announcements of colloquia and all kinds of meetings, questions on current research, bibliographical information, short book reviews, job announcements, the sharing of information on access to other electronic information and so on. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail message to the list-owner (Marc Nelissen): ffaai01@blekul11 (or) ffaai01@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be holding your first and last name, making clear your interest in joining the list in a few lines (e.g. topic of research, affiliation with research center) You will receive a message confirming your subscription and explaining the use of the list. This message also contains further information on how to unsubscribe and where to find information on a more advantaged use of the list. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 3. Rockefeller Awards Announcement Keywords: fellowship,culture,environment FFI: Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, 908-932-8426 COUNTRY/STATE: NEW JERSEY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE: Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Rutgers University POSITION TITLE: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships 1994 - 1995 REVIEW SCHEDULE: Requests for applications should be received no later than January 1, 1994. Applications are due January 15, 1994. SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS: CONTACT PERSON/OFFICE: Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Rutgers University 8 Bishop Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: 908-932-8426 Fax: 908-932-8683 POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Rutgers University interdisciplinary Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture announces a competition in Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships on the topic, "Environments in the Public Sphere." The awards for the 1993-1994 Rockefeller Fellowships are for $32,000. The Center has received a three-year Rockefeller Foundation grant for its project, "Cultures and Environments in the Public Sphere," the first year of which will concentrate on "Environments in the Public Sphere," a title intended to encourage research and discussion by international scholars and practitioners interested in three related themes. Those themes are: 1) the politics of the environment; 2) The complex entanglement of questions of culture and identity in environmental policies; 3) the political theory of the "public sphere". That term is offered as a means of describing environments themselves (considered as shifting units and scales of interaction, communication, reflection, decision making); the sites and processes where cultural identities form, develop, collide, ally with others; and the increasingly transnational sites and processes where environmental politics are contested. CCACC invites applications from all different disciplinary perspectives proposing studies of all kinds - empirical, analytical, literary, historical, theoretical, etc. Emphasis will be given to projects related to transnational aspects of the subject. CCACC also awards two Rutgers University fellowships. Rutgers fellows will be expected to participate and present their work in Center seminars, which meet weekly throughout the academic year. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 4. Studies in American Political Development Keywords: politics, journal, APSA FFI: Karen Orren, Political Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, a social science journal published twice a year, presents research on American political change and institutional development from a historical perspective. Articles focus on government institutions and their social, economic and cultural environment. In order to encourage the movement between disciplines and subfields required to analyze change and continuity in political institutions, STUDIES offers greater flexibility in manuscript length than do most other political science journals. This flexibility permits the fuller elaboration, where appropriate to address associated issues, approaches, and findings than the shorthand reference typical of articles dedicated to more fragmentary interests. Considered the "flagship" journal of the new historically-oriented political science (SOCIAL RESEARCH, Winter 1992), STUDIES attracts serious interest from political scientists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists. STUDIES is edited by Karen Orren, Political Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, and Stephen Skowronek, Political Science Department, Yale University and published by Cambridge University Press. SUBSCRIPTIONS from indivdiuals belonging to the American Political Science Association are $24.00 per year; from other individuals, $30.00 per year; and from institutions, $58.00 per year. To begin your subscription, send a check or inquiry to Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211 or FAX an order to: 914-937-4712. To SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS, send three copies (doubled spaced) to: Editorial Office, STUDIES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Manuscripts up to 75 pages in length, excluding footnotes, will be considered. There is a "Notes" section for shorter presentation of research perspectives and findings. Also welcomed are review essays on bibliographic sources of unusual interest, and comments on previously published articles. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 5. CHUG Meeting: Mark Rooks on E-texts Keywords: sources, etexts,humanities,computing FFI: Allen Renear The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group Presents Commercial Full-Text Electronic Publishing in the Humanities Mark Rooks InteLex Corporation 8:00 pm Thursday, October 7, 1993 Room 241 CIT What do scholars, librarians, teachers and students want from commercial full-text databases in the humanities? -- Maximum access -- Comprehensive databases -- Critical or (at least) standard editions -- New translations -- Low price -- Either texts ready to plug-in to an existing network of texts, or texts provided with powerful yet easy-to-use software How will commercial publishers reconcile these competing demands from groups in competition for scarce academic resources? Rooks will discuss the interplay of technology, the market, and print publishing concerns. Mark Rooks is President of InteLex Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1987; his dissertation was titled "A Subversive Account of Linguistic Meta-theory." He subsequently spent two years in the computer science department at UNC, developing an expert system (written in OPS 83) which attempted to model the cognitive processes occurring in the mind of a writer creating a document in a graphical writing environment. In 1989 Rooks founded InteLex Corporation, which has since amassed the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy in the world, used in over 500 colleges and universities in 13 countries. Rooks lives and works on a lake in the North Georgia mountains with his spouse Ruth Ann Blake. CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future projects, research ideas, and computing techniques. We meet every other Wednesday, as announced on BRUNO. Within CHUG special interest groups form periodically and meet at other times. At present there are four such groups: the Hypertext Working Group (contact David Durand, DGD@CS.BU.EDU), the Interactive Fiction and Criticism Working Group (contact Stuart Moulthrop, SM51@PRISM.GATECH.EDU), the Manuscript Criticism Working Group, and the Literary Tagging Working Group (contact Elaine Brennan, ELAINE@BROWNVM). We always have refreshments. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 6. CFP:The 8th Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference Keywords: Ireland,CFP FFI: Bret Benjamin, bret@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu The 8th Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference University of Texas Austin, Texas March 25, 26, 27, 1994 Remapping The Borders: Irish Cultural Studies in the 1990s Keynote Speakers: Elizabeth Butler-Cullingford, Barbara Harlow, Rita Ann Higgins, David Lloyd, and Bill Rolston. Austin-Belfast Community Sponsered Mural Project. Proposed Panels and Areas of Interest: Nationalisms, Ethnicities and Class Affiliations * Ireland, Hunger and Famine * The Irish Language and Sociolinguistics * Ireland in Postcolonial Studies * National and Sexual Identities * Film and Cinematic Representations * Parades, Pageants and Holidays * Censorship and Human Rights * Irish Music and Folklore * Ireland in the First, Third and Fourth Worlds * Colonialism, Union and Partition * Irish Drama and the Politics of Representation * Literatures and Histories of the North and South * Ireland in the Middle Ages * Environmental Concerns * Conflict Studies * Women's Studies * Industrialism and Economics * The Politics of Religion Submit a one page abstract by Nov. 1, 1993 to Kathleen Kane and Rachel Jennings, Parlin 108, Department of English, Austin, Tx. 78712 or electronically to bret@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Bret Benjamin Computer Writing and Research Lab Division of Rhetoric and Composition University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 bret@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 7. Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities: New Directions Keywords: computing,humanities,seminar FFI: Heyward Ehrlich An Invitation from NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities [Please distribute this announcement but forgive any cross-listings] Where is humanities computing heading? NEACH invites you to a special panel on NEW DIRECTIONS IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING on Wednesday, October 20, 1993 at 1:30 p.m. room 25B, the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, in New York City. The event, the first of 1993-1994, marks the start of NEACH's tenth anniversary season. The pace of change is increasing in such areas as text analysis, networking, the human-computer interface, artistic creativity, new operating capabilities, and multimedia. The members of the panel will select for discussion significant changes and unexpected challenges as well as opportunities that will face us in the mid-1990s. The panel members for New Directions in Humanities Computing will present overviews, explore special topics, and share discussions in their areas of expertise: Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Joseph Raben, SCHOLAR listserv, CUNY Kurt DeBelder, Bobst Library, New York University Louie Crew, Academic Foundations, Rutgers University Put the NEACH meeting schedule for 1993-1994 on your calendar: Wed. Oct. 20 New Directions in Humanities Computing Panel: Hockey, Raben, DeBelder, Crew Tues. Nov. 9 The Alliance for Writing with Computers Trent Batson (Gallaudet & George Mason) Wed. Dec. 8 To be announced All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH usually meets on the second Tuesday or the second Wednesday of the month from October to May. NEACH is an affiliate of the ACH, the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Joint ACH/NEACH membership is available. All visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass at the entry desk on the ground floor: ask for "NEACH" or the "Humanities." For membership information, please contact Nan Hahn, NEACH sec'y-treas., 322 Second St., Dunellen, NJ 08812. Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 8. Fellowships: American Research Institute, Turkey Keywords: fellowships, turkey, humanities FFI: leinwand@vax.museum.upenn.edu AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY ANNOUNCEMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED FOR 1994-1995 - American Research Institute in Turkey Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 1994-1995 ARIT Fellowships offered in 1994-1995 cover all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Fellowships are given for up to 12 months, but shorter term awards are favored. Applications must be submitted to ARIT before November 15, 1993. The committee will notify applicants by late January, 1994. - American Research Institute in Turkey / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 1994-1995. ARIT/NEH Fellowships offered for 1994-1995 cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships are held for a full or half year term. Stipends range from $15,000 to $30,000. Applications must be submitted to ARIT before November 15, 1993. The committee will notify applicants by late January, 1994. For further information and application forms contact: American Research Institute in Turkey University Museum 33rd and Spruce Streets Philadelphia PA 19104-6324 telephone (215) 898-3474 fax (215) 898-0657 e-mail leinwand@vax.museum.upenn.edu ------- End of HistNews Vol.1 , No.4 ------- -- -- bob pasker -- rbp@brown.edu -- brown u, dept. of history --