Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/07/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1014. Tuesday, 6 Feb 1990.
Date: Monday, 5 February 1990 2300-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: HUMANIST's Societies Update3
LIST OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES REPRESENTED ON HUMANIST (2/05/90)
+ indicates added since last version (update3) 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 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]
American Society of Church History (not much computer involvement)
[Zinn]
American Society of Papyrologists (close cooperation with APA)
[Kraft]
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 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]
Bibliographical Society
[Warkentin]
Bibliographical Society of Canada
[Warkentin]
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]
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 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 = PA01@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]
+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 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]
+Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (nothing organized on computers)
[Hurd, Kraft]
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium
[Warkentin]