COCH/COSH
Brief Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, June 3-4, 1999 University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
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  [Full Conference Program (incl. abstracts)]
THURSDAY,
JUNE 3
JEUDI 3 JUIN 
Session 1.
9:00-10:30 am 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-349
Nations and Networks: 
Cultures in Contact Through Technology 
(A joint Session by COCH/COSH and the Comparative Literature  Society organized by Jean Sebastien) 
Réseaux et Nations: La rencontre des cultures  par la voie de la technologie. (Une séance co-parrainée par COCH/COSH et  l’Association de littérature comparée)  Chair: Jean Sebasien (U de Montréal) 
  • Cynthia Alexander (Acadia): "The WWW and the Extension of the Mi'kmaq Community"
  • Alice van der Klei (U de Montréal): "Une appartenance partielle et pluri-communautaire" 
  • Liss Jeffrey (McLuhan Centre, U of Toronto): "Imagining Virtual Communities: Experiments in networks as nations"
Session 2.
10:45 am -12:15 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-245 
Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: 
Considering the Implicit 
(A joint ACCUTE-COCH/COSH panel organized by 
Ray Siemens and Andrew Mactavish) 
  • Ray Siemens (U Alberta): Introduction 
  • Michael Best (U of Victoria) : "The Text of Performance and the Performance of Text in the Electronic Edition"
  • Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U):  "Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games"
  • Marshall Soules (Malaspina U-C): "Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance"
Session 3: plenary.
1:30-3:00 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-345
Electronic Publishing 
Chair: Michael Best (U of Victoria) 
  • Jean-Claude Guédon (U de Montréal), editor of Surfaces 
  • Jonathan Hart (U of Alberta), editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
Meeting
3:30-4:00 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-345 
Information session with the HSSFC
Louise Forsyth and Cynthia Alexander 
Reception
5:00-7:00 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke
Rector's Reception
FRIDAY
JUNE 4
VENDREDI
4 JUIN 
Session 4.
9:00-10:30 am 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-334
Open session 1 
Chair : Andrew MacTavish (McMaster U) 
  • Penelope Gurney (U of Ottawa): "Authorship Attribution:  a computer-based approach to the question"
  • Katharine Patterson: "Who's Afraid of the Familiar Letter?: Hypertext, Epistolary Texts, and Virginia Woolf"
  • Paul Dyck (Associate Editor Interactive EMLS, U of Alberta) and Mathew Martin (Assistant Editor Interactive EMLS, U of Alberta): Talking it Up at EMLS: Problems and Projects with Scholarly Exchange on the Internet"
Session 5.
10:45- 12:15 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-334 
Open session 2
Chair: Ray Siemens (U of Alberta) 
  • Bill Winder (U of British Columbia): "French Neo-Structuralism and Computational Criticism"
  • Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U): "Eye-ConTact; Reflections on the Visualization of Text"
  • Paul Beam (U of Waterloo): "Lateral Learning: Emerging Evidence of Benefits in Web-based Instruction"
Session 6.
1:30-3:00  pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-334
Teaching Humanities Computing: 
Programmes, Resources, and Course Designs 
Chair: Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U) 
  • Aimée Morrison with Susan Hockey (U of Alberta): "Teaching Humanities Computing:  A Graduate Student Perspective"
  • Andrew Mactavish (McMaster U): "Placing Multimedia in the Humanities"
  • Christian Vandendorpe (U of Ottawa): "Creating an environment for a computer-assisted  course"
3:15 - 4:30 pm 
Location: Sherbrooke A8-334
COCH/COSH General Meeting
Chair: Ian Lancashire (U of Toronto)