British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 October 1996
The aim of the symposium is to explore how information technology has
affected research in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in
terms of the topics chosen and the way they are are approached -- in other
words, whether there has been a paradigm shift, and, if so, what its
characteristics are. This question will be examined by reference to
research in individual disciplines, particularly as illustrated by the work
of each speaker.
A timetable follows. Each contribution will be given a slot of 45 minutes,
of which 30 minutes only is intended for the main presentation: the
remaining time will be for comment, questions and discussion.
Because of the size of the conference rooms available, numbers are limited,
and places will be assigned according to the principle 'first come, first
served'. Preference will be given to those who wish to attend both days.
The cost is £30 for the two days, to include tea, coffee, lunch with wine
each day, as well as a reception on Friday evening. A daily rate of £20 is
available. There are, incidentally, a number of places reserved for
graduate students at the reduced charge of £20 for two days (or £15 per day).
Enquiries and applications for places, including cheques made payable to the
British Academy, should be sent to Rosemary Lambeth at the British Academy,
20-21 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 October 1996
DAY ONE: FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
9.30 am Opening remarks: Professor Terry Coppock, FBA, Carnegie Trust
9.40 am Sir Anthony Kenny, FBA (University of Oxford): Information
Technology in the Humanities
10.10 am Professor S Shennan (University of Southampton): Information
Technology in Archaeology: lively but irrelevant?
Commentator: Professor Richard Bradley, FBA (University of Reading)
10.50 am Dr M D Fischer (University of Kent at Canterbury): Computer-aided
visual anthropology in the field
Commentator: Dr M.T. Bravo (University of Manchester)
11.30 am Coffee
11.50 am Professor William Vaughan (Birkbeck College, University of London):
History of Art and the digital image
Commentator: Professor E C Fernie (Courtauld Institute of Art)
12.30 pm Dr Alan Marsden (Queen's University, Belfast): Computers and the
concept of tonality
Commentator: Dr Ian Cross (University of Cambridge)
1.10 pm Lunch
2.15 pm Professor R Susskind (Visiting Fellow, University of Strathclyde):
Information technology and legal research
Commentator: Professor D.N. MacCormick, FBA (University of Edinburgh)
3.00 pm Ms Holly Sutherland (University of Cambridge): Information
technology and the development of economic policy
Commentator: Mr Guy Judge (University of Portsmouth)
3.45 pm Professor S Openshaw (University of Leeds): Supercomputing in
geographical research
Commentator: Dr Andrew D. Cliff, FBA (University of Cambridge)
4.15 pm Tea
5.00 pm Professor Richard Beacham (University of Warwick):'Eke out our
performance with your mind': Reconstructing the theatrical past with the aid
of computer simulation
Commentator: Professor M.A. Twycross (University of Lancaster)
5.45 Dr Seamus Ross (British Academy): Preservation and networking in aid of
research
Commentator: Dr Edward Higgs (University of Exeter)
6.15 pm Drinks
DAY TWO: SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER
9.45 am Professor A G Wilson, FBA (University of Leeds): Information
technology and the Social Sciences
10.15 am Dr R M Smith, FBA (Cambridge Group for the History of Population
and Social Structure): Simulating the Past: CAMSIM and its application in
demographic and family history
Commentator: Professor Richard Blundell (University College London)
11.00 am Coffee
11.30 am Professor G N Gilbert (University of Surrey): The simulation of
social processes
Commentator: Dr Anthony Heath, FBA (Nuffield College, Oxford)
12.15pm Professor R J Morris (University of Edinburgh): Information
technology and social history: case studies of a subtle paradigm shift
Commentator: Dr Steven Smith (Institute of Historical Research)
1.00 pm Lunch
2.15 pm Professor J-P Genet (Sorbonne, Paris): Cultural history with a
computer: measuring dynamics
Commentator: Dr Andrew Prescott (British Library)
3.00 pm Professor Roger Bagnall (Columbia University): Information
Technology and the Renewal of Classical Studies
3.45 Tea
4.15 pm Dr Anne Anderson (University of Glasgow): Information technology and
psychology: from cognitive psychology to cognitive engineering
Commentator: Dr Charles Crook (Loughborough University)
5.00 Dr K I B Sparck Jones, FBA (University of Cambridge): How much has
information technology contributed to linguistics?
Commentator: Dr Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
6.00 Symposium ends
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