***************************************************************************** Histnews: The Electronic History Newsletter Monday, February 7, 1994 Vol.2, No.2 Subscriptions: listserv@ukanvm.bitnet or listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Submissions: histnews@ukanvm.bitnet or histnews@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu FTP Archive: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu:/pub/history/internet/hist_news Editor: Bob Pasker (rbp@brown.edu) ***************************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. Institute of Historical Research Computing Courses on KLEIO (41 lines) 2. CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES 1994 Summer Seminar (145 lines) 3. HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND THE COMPUTER-AIDED RECONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITIES (23 lines) 4. New England Historical Association Spring conference (8 lines) 5. National Archives: The Mississippi River and Its People (34 lines) 6. Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective (67 lines) 7. NEH Summer Seminar: Liberty and Democracy in Mill and Tocqueville (7 lines) 8. Computing Techniques and the History of Universities (30 lines) 9. Civil War & Constitution Program at Eastern Ill. U. (42 lines) 10. COURSEWARE IN ACTION: Computers and Teaching in the Humanities (50 lines) 11. Association for History and Computing (UK Branch) (36 lines) /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 1. Institute of Historical Research Computing Courses on KLEIO FFI: Peter Denley, kleio@uk.ac.qmw One of the options in the Institute's MA in Computer Applications for History, this course is also offered to students not registered for the MA. General historical computing experience is advised for those contemplating the course. The course will provide students with a theoretical and practical knowledge of the source-oriented approach to databases. The option makes available for the first time in the UK the German package KLEIO, and associated software developed as part of the "Historical Workstation" project at Goettingen. This will include text handling, hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships, record-matching algorithms, fuzzy and context- sensitive data handling, image retrieval and information exchange routines. The merits of this approach will be compared with those of traditional commercial software as an integral part of the course. The course will cover the following areas: 1. Principles and fundamentals of KLEIO. 2. Establishing a structure, setting up and querying a KLEIO database. 3. Retrieval, formatting and analysing data. 4. Catalogues, codebooks and indexing with KLEIO. 5. Full text analysis. The StanFEP conversion package. 6. Record linkage. 7. Mapping in KLEIO. 8. Image retrieval and handling. The course is taught by Dr Peter Denley; it takes place on Fridays at Queen Mary & Westfield College, 10.00 am to 3.30 pm. The course lasts 12 weeks, starting on Friday 28th January 1994, with a four-week break for the Easter vacation. The cost is L550. A maximum of 15 students will be admitted to the course. Should demand warrant it, arrangements for subsequent short courses will also be considered. Enquiries and applications should be directed to: Dr Peter Denley, Department of History, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS: Tel. 071-775 3148: Fax 081-980-8400: E-mail kleio@uk.ac.qmw. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 2. CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES 1994 Summer Seminar FFI: Annelies Hoogcarspel - ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools The Third Annual Summer Seminar at Princeton University, New Jersey June 19 - July 1, 1994 Organized by The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton and Rutgers with the co-sponsorship of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is again offering an intensive two-week seminar in June 1994. The seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars and librarians in the humanities. Discussions on the capture, markup, retrieval, presentation, transformation, and analysis of electronic text will prepare students for extensive hands-on experience with illustrative software, e.g., TACT, Micro-OCP, Dynatext, SGML tools, and hypertext. Several large textual collections will be demonstrated so that participants may make informed evaluations of their significance in the light of current and future technologies. Approaches to markup, from ad hoc schemes to the systematic design of the Text Encoding Initiative, will be surveyed and considered. The focus of the Seminar will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting participants in their own teaching, research, and advising. It will be concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts, with typical problems and how to solve them, and with the ways in which software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study. Participants will be expected to work on coherent projects, preferably of their own devising, and will be given the opportunity to present them at the end of the seminar. Throughout the Seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available 24 hours per day. A small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials, which include an extensive bibliography. Special lectures will describe current research in the field and address research topics, as well as the role of the library in the use of electronic texts. The Seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for humanities computing support. It assumes basic computing experience but not necessarily with its application to academic research and teaching. The number of participants will be limited to 30. Provisional Schedule Week 1, June 19-24 Sunday, June 19. Registration, reception and introductions Monday, June 20. The electronic text Tuesday, June 21. Concordancing Wednesday, June 22. The interactive concordance Thursday, June 23. Stylistics; SGML Friday, June 24. SGML and TEI Monday, June 27. Scholarly editions Tuesday, June 28. Electronic Dictionaries Wednesday, June 29. Hypertext Thursday, June 30. Evaluation; Projects Friday, July 1. Presentation of participants' projects. Concluding discussion of basic questions. The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in October 1991 to provide a national focus for those who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities. CETH's mission is to advance scholarship in the humanities by the use of high quality electronic texts. CETH's major activities are: (1) cataloguing existing electronic texts within the Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities which is held on RLIN (2) providing access via the Internet to well-defined collections of good quality SGML-encoded humanities electronic texts and using these texts to act as a testbed for research on their "uses and users" (3) the CETH Summer Seminar. CETH publishes a newsletter twice per year and provides other support facilities. CETH is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation and the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities. Instructors The seminar will be taught by Susan Hockey and Willard McCarty, with assistance from C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (SGML and TEI), Peter Robinson (electronic editions), Elli Mylonas and David Durand (hypertext), and staff of Computing and Information Technology, Princeton. Fees The cost of participating in this Summer Seminar will be $995, including tuition, use of computer facilities, and lunch at Princeton for the two weeks, and banquet and reception. Students pay a reduced rate of $845. Student accommodation is available at a cost of approximately $25 per night. CETH will also assist successful applicants in finding hotel accommodations. There will be 24-hour access to networked microcomputers in the student accommodation throughout the seminar. Application Procedure To apply for participation in this Summer Seminar, submit a one-page statement of interest. The statement should indicate (1) how participation in the Seminar would be relevant for your teaching, research, advising or administrative work, and possibly that of your colleagues; (2) what project you would like to undertake during the Seminar, or what area of the humanities you would most like to explore; and (3) the extent of your computing experience. Applications must be attached to a cover sheet specifying your name, current institutional affiliation and position, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers, as available, as well as natural language interest and computing experience. Currently enrolled students must also include a photocopy of a valid student ID. E-mail submissions should have a subject line `Summer Seminar Application'. The statement must be received by the reviewing committee, consisting of members of the Center's Governing Board, by FEBRUARY 9, 1994, at the address below. Those who have been selected to attend will be notified by March 9, 1994. Payment will be requested at this time. Summer Seminar 1994 Center for Electronic phone: (908) 932-1384 Texts in the Humanities fax: (908) 932-1386 169 College Avenue bitnet: ceth@zodiac New Brunswick, NJ 08903 internet: ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu U.S.A. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 3. HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND THE COMPUTER-AIDED RECONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITIES FFI: Pat Hudson, Dept of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX. An ESRC-financed training workshop for post graduates, researchers and established academics to be run in concert with the Tenth Anniversary International Conference of the Liverpool Institute for European Population Studies on "Neighbourhood, Community and Domestic Strategies in Europe: demography, migration and the deployment of family assets in historical perspective". The workshop is designed as a forum for discussion and debate between researchers active in the field of family reconstitution, broader community reconstructions or retrospective ethnography. There will be several short papers dealing with problems of nominal record linkage, primary sources, theoretical and historiographical contexts. Discussants will include computer database specialists as well as historians and a special aim of the workshop will be to encourage contact between current research students working in different institutions throughout Europe. Participants in the workshop will automatically be registered for the Tenth Anniversary Conference and will be able to attend all sessions relevant to their research. Overnight accommodation and considerable financial assistance will be available for participants. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 4. New England Historical Association Spring conference FFI: peter c holloran Call for Papers: The New England Historical Association Spring conference meets at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts on April 23, 1994. The program committee welcomes proposals on any subject from scholars within or without the region. Papers or panels dealing with any topic or period or geographical region will be considered. For further infortmation, contact the NEHA Executive Secretary, Peter Holloran, Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, Mass. USA 02167; (617) 731-7066. The NEHA Fall conference meets at MIT in Cambridge on October 22, 1994. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 5. National Archives: The Mississippi River and Its People FFI: Beverly Watkins, u6w@cu.nih.gov The National Archives regional archives in Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, and Fort Worth are in the process of planning a symposium with the working title "The Mississippi River and Its People," for spring 1995, possibly in Memphis or St. Louis. Because we want to develop a broad-based, interdisciplinary program, we invite anyone with an interest in this area to make comments on topics, dates, and locations. Your suggestions will help us as we develop our plans. Listed below are some specific questions to get you started, but we will welcome all comments. What topics would you like to see included? Would you like some social activities included? What? What days of the week are best? What organizations meet in the spring (so that we can avoid a schedule conflict)? Do you have a strong preference about the place? Are you interested in attending? Might you be interested in proposing a paper or session? If so, on what general topic? Beverly Watkins National Archives-Great Lakes Region 7358 S. Pulaski Road Chicago, IL 60629 phone: (312) 581-7816 fax: (312) 353-1294 email: /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 6. Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective FFI: Anne B. W. Effland, aeffland@ers.bitnet The Fifth Conference on Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective is planned for December 1-4, 1994, at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC. The dates follow immediately the U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual Agricultural Outlook conference to allow those interested in rural and farm women's issues to combine a trip to Washington to attend both conferences. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for shared discussion of the immediate issues facing rural/farm women and policy makers and the historical and social science context of those issues offered by researchers. To facilitate this discussion, the program committee encourages a mix of round-table discussions, workshops, traditional academic presentations, and plenary sessions combining keynote addresses with audience participation. Of particular interest will be sessions on issues of current concern that combine both a contemporary and historical perspective. Such sessions offer an ideal opportunity for including both academic and nonacademic presenters and for encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation. Sessions should also address the diversity of rural and farm life in the United States. Some ideas for proposal topics include: *Rural women in the 18th and 19th centuries *Industrialization and rural women's work in the 19th and 20th centuries *Gender relations among native and frontier people in the West *Farm women and rural reform efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries *Environmental issues/rural women and environmental organizing *The role of women in rural economic development *Globalization of the economy and rural women *Farm women in government/Farm women's impact on farm policy/The treatment of farm women by government agencies *Farm women and organizations: women's organizations; women in mainline farm organizations/commodity groups; models for building effective coalitions and networks *Theoretical issues: class distinctions and rural women; gender theory and rural experience; integration of rural women's history into general historiography of women *Interpretation of rural women's history by museums and historic sites *Projects focusing on material culture, architecture, and visual arts *Archival resources for the study of rural/farm women *Discussions of in-progress research focusing on sources, methodology, theory, and general how-to questions PROPOSALS FOR SINGLE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS AND COMPLETE SESSIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 30 TO: Anne B. W. Effland, ERS/USDA, Rm. 932D, 1301 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20005-4788; FAX (202)219-0391 (202)219-0787/aeffland@ers.bitnet Funding to support travel to the conference may be available. Please indicate whether your participation is dependent upon such assistance. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 7. NEH Summer Seminar: Liberty and Democracy in Mill and Tocqueville FFI: alan ryan Alan Ryan, Department of Politics, Princeton University, is giving an NEH summer seminar for college teachers, July 3-29 1994, on "Liberty and Democracy in Mill and Tocqueville." The seminar is open to college teachers and other scholars in politics, history, philosophy, and other relevant fields. Details and application forms from Alan Ryan; by e-mail to ajryan@pucc.princeton.edu, phone to (609) 258-4752, fax to 258-4772, mail to the above address. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 8. Computing Techniques and the History of Universities FFI: Peter Denley, p.r.denley@qmw.ac.uk An international workshop to be held at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 1-3 July 1994, Humanities Computing Centre, QMW, in collaboration with the Association for History and Computing and the Journal History of Universities A growing number of historians of universities use computing techniques to handle and analyse large quantities of information, mostly prosopographical. The workshop will bring together international scholars working in this area in order to - examine the typology of university sources, with particular regard to computing considerations. - compare methods of handling and analysing large databases of university history which have been or are being created. - explore prospects of, and methods for, the accessing of such databases by other scholars, and the possibilities for collaborative work afforded by technology. Requests for further information and proposals for papers should be sent to Dr Peter Denley, Department of History, Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London), Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom, Tel.: +44 71 775 3148; Fax: +44 81 980 8400; e-mail: p.r.denley@qmw.ac.uk. Proposals for papers should be submitted by 28th February 1994 and should include a brief abstract. The programme will be arranged in March 1994. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 9. Civil War & Constitution Program at Eastern Ill. U. FFI: Chris Waldrep, cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu March 28 and April 4, 1994, Eastern Illinois University These lectures and workshops will provide an opportunity to explore new insights into the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath on the Constitution. Noted constitutional historians Phillip Paludan and Michael Les Benedict will speak as well as lead workshops on teaching the Constitution. Schedule of Events Monday, March 28, 1994 1:00 PM Phillip Paludan will lead a workshop on teaching the impact of the Civil War on the Constitution. 326 Coleman Hall 7:00 PM THE CIVIL WAR AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION Phillip Paludan Coleman Hall Auditorium Monday, April 4, 1994 1:00 PM Michael Les Benedict will lead a workshop on teaching the development of American constitutionalism during Reconstruction. 326 Coleman Hall 7:00 PM BLACK RIGHTS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Michael Les Benedict Coleman Hall Auditorium General Information Who should attend? Anyone teaching American history or the U.S. Constitution is welcome to attend the Monday afternoon workshops. Anyone with an interest in American history should attend the evening lectures. Registration There is no cost for either the workshops or lectures. Anyone wishing to attend the workshops should contact Chris Waldrep (217/581-6359). cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu or H-Law@uicvm.bitnet. Department of History, Charleston, Illinois 61920. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 10. COURSEWARE IN ACTION: Computers and Teaching in the Humanities FFI: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK CATH '94 "COURSEWARE IN ACTION" Computers and Teaching in the Humanities Glasgow University 9 - 12th September, 1994 CATH is the annual forum of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication. It provides an opportunity for those using computers in humanities teaching and research to discuss new developments, achievements, and methods in the field. The theme of this year's conference is "Courseware in Action". Papers are welcomed which concentrate on the practical applications of courseware in the classroom. In particular submissions are invited on the following topics: -courseware development -practical issues pertaining to the implementation of CAL in the classroom -evaluation procedures We would especially welcome papers from those new to the subject of humanities computing. The conference will be made up of a series sessions. Each session will last 90 minutes and will include three papers. Submissions are invited for individual papers (lasting 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions) or for entire sessions. Furthermore, if you would like to organise a workshop presentation, or classroon simulation, then please contact the organisers directly for more information [It is expected that each workshop or simulation will last approximately two hours]. During the conference there will also be a software fair. If you would like to show material at this, then please contact the organisers as soon as possible to discuss hardware and software requirements. All enquiries and submissions should be directed to: CATH 94 Centre for Humanties Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6N UK Telephone: 0865-273221 Fax: 0865-273221 E-Mail: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 11. Association for History and Computing (UK Branch) FFI: S.W.Baskerville, The Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK Branch) will be held at the University of Hull between 12 and 14 April 1994. As well as existing members of the Association, we are anxious to see those of our "mainstream" colleagues who have so far resisted the blandishments of Information Technology, but think they might now want to get involved -- particularly with the impending arrival of courseware products coming out the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The "major" theme of the conference will be to explore what computerate historians have to learn from disciplines cognate with History, or those from which we have traditionally filched elements of our methodology. We hope to have sessions which focus on Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Geography, Sociology and Textual Studies, with reference to time-frames ranging from the medieval to the near-contemporary. The "minor" theme is to be the role of computing in the modern History Curriculum, broadly defined: from what's going on in secondary schools and colleges post-National Curriculum; through the undergraduate programme, with special reference to TLTP products; to the IT component of postgraduate training courses being developed under the 1+3 arrangements favoured by ESRC and the British Academy. We shall, of course, be issuing invitations to a number of keynote speakers, but would be very grateful to receive offers of papers on any of the subjects identified above. Further particulars and booking forms can be obtained from Steve Baskerville, Dean of the School of Arts, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX. Phone: 0482-465684 (Secretary: Louise Danby). E-mail: s.w.baskerville@amstuds.hull.ac.uk Ten years ago, before the celebrated Westfield Conferences that gave life to the AHC, there was a select gathering of people interested in historical computing met at Hull to discuss their common interests. We would like to see as many of you as possible come here again in 1994 to discuss the agendas of the next decade! ------- End of HistNews Vol.2 , No.2 -------