Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/10/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1032. Friday, 9 Feb 1990. Date: Thursday, 8 February 1990 2229-EST From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Societies List update5 LIST OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES REPRESENTED ON HUMANIST (2/08/90) + indicates added since last version (update4) of the list. Information desired: (1) Name of Society/Group, (2) Notice of any computer related activities such as program segments and exhibits, electronic publications, reviews and information about computer related scholarship/research, (3) Electronic contact address, if any. Thank you. Bob Kraft American Academy of Advertising [Bern] American Academy of Religion (some special computer program sections at annual meetings; cooperation with SBL) American Anthropological Association (see ANTHRO-L@UBVM ListServer) [Zubrow] American Association for Artificial Intelligence [Kulas; contact AIMAGAZINE@AAAI.ORG, MEMBERSHIP@AAAI.ORG] American Association for Public Opinion Research [Bern] American Association of University Presses (much computer talk) [Perry] American Conference on Irish Studies [Cahalan; see GAELIC-L and FWAKE-L ListServers] American Dialect Society ("making use of computer technology") [Maynor] American Folklore Society (has computer applications section) [Glazer] American Historical Association ("computers in history" things) [Knox] American Library Association [Jacobs] American Musicological Society (creating database of texts) [Mathiesen (Perry)] +American Oriental Society [Wujastyk] American Philological Association (archive of texts, editorial board for non-print publications, exhibits at annual meetings) American Philosophical Association (has committee on computer use and subcommittee on electronic texts; program sessions) [Owen; see ACH Newsletter 11.2(1989) 13] American Political Science Association [Jassel] American Psychological Association: Consumer Psychology, Media Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology divisions [Bern] American Schools of Oriental Research (computer committee and some attention to program section, displays; cooperation with SBL) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies [Cope ENCOPE@LSUVM, Dill, Wolf, MacNeil] + [note also the new 18th c list = C18-L@PSUVM (Kevin Berland)] American Society of Church History (not much computer involvement) [Zinn] American Society of Papyrologists (close cooperation with APA) [Kraft] +American Theological Library Association (bibliographic databases) [Harbin] Archaeological Institute of America (various computer activities) [Walsh, Kuniholm] Aristotelian Society [Smith] Associated Writing Programs [RKessler] Association canadienne des sociologues et des anthropologues de langue francaise (e-network) [Hamel, Laplante; contact ACSALF@UQUEBEC] Association des demographes du Quebec (e-network) [Hamel; contact ADQ@UQUEBEC] Association for Asian Studies (occasional panel, newsletter column) [Parker] Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures [Warkentin] Association for Computational Linguistics [Kulas; contact WALKER@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM] Association for Computers and the Humanities Association for Computing Machinery [Kulas; contact ACM, 11 West 42nd St, NYC 10036, 212-869-7440] Association for History and Computing [Spaeth] +Association for Institutional Research (e-newsletter) [Flaherty; contact IRMUFFO@VTM1, CHULAK@FSU (membership)] Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Association for Women in Computing Association Internationale Bible et Informatique [AIBI Network, contact IWML@UKC.AC.UK (Lambert)] Association of Public Data Users [Jacobs] Association of Canadian University Teachers of English [Warkentin] +Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute [Wujastyk] Bibliographical Society [Warkentin] Bibliographical Society of Canada [Warkentin] +Canadian Association of Public Data Users [Humphrey, Piovesan, Ruus; see CAPDU-L ListServer ?@SFU ?] +Canadian Information Processing Society [Swenson] Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies [Warkentin] Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric [Warkentin] Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (occasional computer session) [Hurd] Cognitive Science Society [Kulas; contact Alan Lesgold, LRDC, U. Pittsburgh, PA 15260] College Composition and Communication [Cahalan] College Music Society [Perry] COMMUNIK -- reseau de chercheurs en communication (e-network) [Hamel; contact COMMUNIK@UQUEBEC] Computer Society of the IEEE [Kulas; contact 1730 Mass Ave, Washington DC 20036-1903] Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humains EDUC -- reseau de chercheurs en education (e-network) [Hamel; contact EDUC@UQUEBEC] +EDUCOM [Swenson] EURALEX -- European Association for Lexicography [(McCarty)] +European Ayurvedic Society [Wujastyk] +Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas [Wujastyk] International Association for Neo-Latin Studies [Warkentin] International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) [Jacobs, Ruus] International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature [Cahalan] +International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine [Wujastyk] International Congress on Medieval Studies (sessions, workshops) [Zinn] International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (one sponsor of the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies project at the Univ. of Penn and at the Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem) [Kraft] International Society for Contemporary Legend Research [Glazer] International Society for the History of Rhetoric [Warkentin] International Society for Humor Studies [Glazer] International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [Conner, ed ANSAXNET; contact U47C2@WVNVM] Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) [Jacobs] Medieval Academy of America (no indication of computer involvement) [Zacour, Zinn] METHO -- groupe francophone d'echange et de discussion sur les methodes quantitatives utilisees en sciences sociales (e-network) [Hamel; contact METHO@UQUEBEC] Milton Society of America [Flannagan, McCarty] Modern Languages Association (various activities, electronic publications, program segments and exhibits; details of how it is all coordinated organizationally are welcome) Music Library Association (computer applications a "hot topic") [Papakhian] MythoPoeic Society [DeRose] National Council of Teachers of English [Cahalan; see MBU network] North American Nietzsche Society [MBrown] North American Patristics Society (no organized computer activity) [Kraft] Organization of American Historians [Knox (non member)] Philosophy in Britain [Clark = AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK, who also runs PHILOS-L] Regroupement quebecois des sciences sociales (e-network) [Hamel, Laplante; contact RQSS@UQUEBEC] Renaissance English Text Society [Warkentin, Flannagan] Renaissance Society of America [Flannagan] +Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [Wujastyk] +Royal College of Science [Wujastyk] Societe canadienne de science economique (e-network) [Hamel; contact SCSE@UQUEBEC] Societe quebecoise de science politique (e-network) [Hamel; contact SQSP@UQUEBEC] Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy [Smith] +Society for College and University Planning (e-newsletter) [Flaherty; contact BUDLAO@UCCVMA, USERTD8Q@UMICHUM (membership)] Society for Critical Exchange (is setting up an information service for literary theorists to begin in mid-March 1990) [Stonum = gxs11@PO.CWRU.EDU] Society for Music Theory [Perry] Society for Scholarly Publishing [Grycz] Society for the History of Discoveries [Warkentin] Society of American Archaeology ("great interest in computers") [Zubrow] Society of Biblical Literature (electronic archiving project and an active Computer Assisted Research Group that coordinates demonstrations and a program segment each annual meeting) [Kraft; see OFFLINE; contact SBLEXEC@UNIX.CC.EMORY.EDU] South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies [Bode RFB8135@TNTECH (Cope)] Southeastern Conference on Linguistics ("making use of computer tech.") [Maynor] +Southern Humanities Council [Wilson] +Southern Historical Association [Wilson] Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (nothing organized on computers) [Hurd, Kraft] Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium [Warkentin] /end/