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COCH/COSH

Program for the Annual Meeting
COCH/COSH at the 1997 Congress of Learned Societies, May 31 - June 1, 1997
Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
in association with the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Marjorie Stone, President, and the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures / Association des littératures canadienne et québecoise (ACQL/ALCQ) Brenda Carr, President.

[Abstracts]

SATURDAY MAY 31
1.
9:30-10:30 am
Room S4068
Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies:
Computing Cognitive Style
Chair: Ian Lancashire (President, COCH/COSH; English, Toronto)
Linguistic Fingerprint and Literary Fraud
Vina Tirvengadum (French, Manitoba)
Sound Sensing: Cognitive Science and the Response to Poetic Form
Daniel W. Kim (English, Toronto)
2.
10:45-12:15 pm
Room S4068
Canadian Literature On-line
JOINT ACQL-ALCQ Session
Chair: Ian Lancashire (President, COCH/COSH; English, Toronto)
The Small Press in Canada: An Electronic Model
Mark Berge (English, Manitoba)
Novation et canonisation littéraire sur le Net : l'exemple de la revue Surfaces (Innovation and Canonization on the Net: The Example of the Journal Surfaces)
Jean Sebastien (Comparative Literature, Montreal)
A Canadian Poetry Web Site at Toronto
Sophia Kaszuba, Ian Lancashire, Sian Meikle (Toronto)
Hypertext, Hypotaxis, and the Big Yellow Taxi: Pratt on the Web
Zailig Pollock (English, Trent)
3.
2:15-3:15 pm
Room S4068
Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies:
Electronic Editions I
Chair: Raymond Siemens (Editor of Publications, COCH/COSH)
The Lady of May: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Electronic Text
Richard S. Bear (University of Oregon)
Old Words in New Skins: The Scholarly Edition in Hyperspace
David L. Gants (English, Georgia)
4.
3:30-5:00 pm
Room S4068
Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies:
Pedagogy
Chair: William Winder (Secretary, COCH/COSH)
Why the Web: What it can Teach and What it can't
Arnie Keller (English, Victoria)
The Multimedia Network-Based Language Learning Centre
Rod Heimpel (French, Toronto)
Finding Humanity in the Midst of Technology: Strategies for Effective Online Learning
Beth Woof, Fran Periera, Paul Beam (Waterloo)
DAY 2: SUNDAY JUNE 1
5.
9:00-10:30 am
Room S4068
Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies:
The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium
Chair: Michael Best (English, Victoria)
  • Don Foster (English, Vassar College)
  • Ian Lancashire (English, Toronto)
  • Anne Lancashire (English, Toronto)
  • Raymond Siemens (English, British Columbia)
  • Paul Werstine (English, Western Ontario)
6.
10:45-12:30 pm
Room S2109
Humanities Computing
JOINT ACCUTE-COCH/COSH Plenary Session
Chairs: Marjorie Stone and Ian Lancashire
Tag Team: Computing, Collaborators, and the History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
Patricia Clements (English, Alberta) with Susan Brown (Guelph)

Shakespeare or the Unabomber
Don Foster (English, Vassar College)

7.
1:00-2:15 pm
Room S4068
Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies:
Electronic Editions II
JOINT ACCUTE-COCH/COSH Session
Chair: Raymond Siemens (Editor of Publications, COCH/COSH)
Hermeneutic Nominalism: Some Theoretic Principles for Electronic Critical Editions
William Winder (French, UBC)
Dehumanizing the Internet: The Control of Display
Michael Best (English, Victoria)
Versioning Wordsworth: An Electronic Book for Dynamic Collation
Ron Tetreault (English, Dalhousie)
8.
2:30-3:15 pm
Room S4068
Moving Canadian Scholarly Journals On-line
Chair: Ian Lancashire (President, COCH/COSH; English, Toronto)
Of Innocence and Experience: some Difficulties Inherent in the Production of an Electronic Journal
Joanne Woolway (Oriel College, Oxford)
Raymond Siemens (English, British Columbia)
Promoting Electronic Scholarly Publishing in Canada: Initiatives at Industry Canada
Invited Speaker: David L. McCallum (Industry Canada)
9.
3:00-4:30 pm
Room S4068
On-line Computing in the Humanities: An Unqualified Good Thing?
Chair: Ian Lancashire (President, COCH/COSH; English, Toronto)
Re-engineering Humanities?: Public Policy, Distributed Learning and the Future of the University in British Columbia.
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Grove-White (English, Victoria)
Commentary:
  • Paul Beam (Waterloo)


5:15-6:00 pm
Room S4068
COCH/COSH Advisory Board Meeting




5:00-7:00 pm
Main Dining Hall, R. Gushue Hall, Paton College
President's Reception