"Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies"
A joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa (May 28-30, 1998).
Reflecting larger societal trends, the past several years have seen a rise
in the importance of computing technology to our work; they have also seen
an increased recognition of the body of scholarly approaches and tools,
influenced by the electronic medium, that aid in one's teaching, study, and
research. The New Humanism, Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Renaissance:
nominal allusions abound that suggestively ally this late twentieth-century
movement with the print-oriented technological revolution in the period of
our study; urging that such comparison may not be not ill-founded are a
large number of valuable computing tools and resources available today to
Renaissance academics (and, of course, far beyond this group).
This session seeks to explore ways in which computing technology has added
and can add to the field of Renaissance studies. Paper proposals assisting
in this exploration -- critical and scholarly work, discussions and
presentations of resources, and so forth -- may be sent (before November 15)
for consideration in this joint session to
Raymond Siemens
Department of English
University of Alberta
3-5 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E5
Electronic Mail: [log in to unmask]
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R.G. Siemens
Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5.
Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html
wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142
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