May 26

Chair,
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Welcome,
Ian Lancashire (U Toronto)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Willard McCarty (King's College London): Knowing Things by What Their Mockeries Be: Modelling in the Humanities

Theorizing Computer Games I: Theorizing Computer Games and Their Study

Organiser and Chair,
Andrew Mactavish (McMaster U)

A Joint Session with ACCUTE

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Patrick Finn (U Victoria), Half-Life, Full Theory: Formalizing Video Game Criticism
• Marshall Soules (Malaspina U-C), Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation

Theorizing Computer Games II: Social and Cultural Frameworks

Organiser and Chair,
Andrew Mactavish (McMaster U)

A Joint Session with ACCUTE

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• James Campbell (U Central Florida), Computer Games as Complicitous Critique of Global Capitalism
• Carolyn Guertin (U Alberta), From Complicity to Interactivity: Theories of Feminist Game Play
• Aimée Morrison (U Alberta), Nerds Heroic and Social: Cinematic Video-gaming and the Domestication of Computing

Chair,
Marshall Soules (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Andreas Kitzmann (U Karlstad), Remembering the Present: The Use of Computer-mediated Communication in Contemporary Memory Practices
• Mark Olsen (U Chicago), Mapping Textuality: Physical and Virtual Geographies
• Johannes Strobel (U Missouri-Columbia), Mindtools -- or, Computers as Thinking Tools for Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences

Keynote on Electronic Scholarly Publication

Chair,
Alan Burk (U New Brunswick)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Clifford Lynch (CNI), Authenticity, Authority and Integrity in a Digital Environment
• Jean-Claude Guédon (U Montréal), Electronic Publishing and Scholarly Initiative

May 27: Mind Technologies

Chair,
Ian Lancashire (U Toronto)

Organisers and Opening Remarks,
David Moorman (SSHRC),
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Michael Best (U Victoria), Forswearing Thin Potations: The Creation of Rich Texts Online

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Maurizio Bevilacqua (Secretary of State, Science, Research and Development)
• Marc Renaud (President, SSHRC)

A Joint Session with SSHRC

Chair,
Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U)

Organisers,
David Moorman (SSHRC),
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Jean-Claude Guédon (U Montréal), Surfaces
• Alan Burk (U New Brunswick), The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick
• Will Straw (McGill U), The Internet and Urban Visuality
• Stephen Davies (Malaspina U-C), War on the Web:  The Canadian Letters and Images Project
• James Chartrand (McMaster U), Bertrand Russell on the Web

• William Barker (Memorial U), What Are We Looking for in an Electronic Text?

• Murray McGillivray (U Calgary), Digitizing Sir Gawain

• Elaine Toms (U Toronto), Food for the Mind: TAPoR as Canada's Digital Library in the Humanities

A Joint Session with SSHRC

Chair,
William Winder (U British Columbia)

Organisers,
David Moorman (SSHRC),
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Martine Cardin (U Laval), RETREAUVQ: A Context-based Approach for Archival Finding Aids

• Charlie Clarke and Rob Good (ISAGN), Schema-Independent Retrieval from Heterogeneous Structured Text

• Daniel Poulin (U Montreal), The LexUM/CanLII Project: Using Computers and the Internet to offer a better access to Law

• Paul Fortier (U Manitoba), Textual Analysis: You Can Get There From Here

• France Martineau (U Ottawa), Bases d'Analyse Verbale pour la Variation Diachronique

• Karen McCloskey (U Toronto), Evolutions Of A Literary Analysis:  From Toposator to SatorBase

A Joint Session with CIDA

Chair,
TBA

Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2135

• Peter Liddell (U Victoria), Computing Technology: What Do We Know About Taking the Learning to the Learner?
• Dianne Dubrule (Carelton U), Teaching Scholastic Courses Requiring Discussion on Line

A Joint Session with SSHRC

Chair,
Michael Best (U Victoria)

Organisers,
David Moorman (SSHRC),
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Roda P. Roberts (U Ottawa), The Bilingual Canadian Dictionary

• Andrew Mactavish and Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U), Multimedia Education in the Arts and Humanities

• Stéfan Sinclair, Terry Butler, Sean Gouglas (U Alberta), The MA in Humanities Computing

• Greg Lessard (Queen's U), Language Acquisition and Use

• John Bonnett (NRC), Changing Hieroglyphics to Cuneiform, and 3D Space to Coherent Space:  The 3D Virtual Buildings Project

• Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C), Canadian Humanities Computing and the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities
  

A Joint Session with SSHRC

Chair,
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Organisers,
David Moorman (SSHRC),
Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Humanities Computing and Research Innovation

• Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U), TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis

• Susan Brown (U Guelph), Between Markup and Delivery; or, Tomorrow's Electronic Text Today

• J. Taylor, J-A Beraldin, G. Godin, L. Cournoyer, F. Blais, M. Rioux, and J. Domey (NRC, Institute for Information Technology), The Role of Heritage in the Development of NRC’s 3D Imaging Technology

Massey College, Common Room

Massey College, Ondaatje Hall
(Dining Room)

• Marc Renaud (President, SSHRC), Welcome

• Peter Munsche (Assistant
  VP, Technology Transfer and the Acting Vice-President, Research & International Relations, U Toronto)

• David Strangway (President, Canada Foundation for  Innovation), The Role of CFI in Supporting Humanities Research

• Keynote Address
  Patricia Clements (U Alberta; President, HSSFC), Creativity, Culture, and Computing

• Special Presentation
  Brad Paley (Digital Image Design Inc.), Illustrative Interfaces: Using Perceptual and Cognitive Cues to Capture and Manipulate Ideas

May 28

Session 12:

Information Aesthetics I:
Practitioners in Theory 

Organiser and Chair,
Carolyn Guertin (U Alberta)

See Overload: Information Aesthetics Online

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 101

• Darren Wershler-Henry (York U) and Bill Kennedy (Rhizomedia), Apostrophe: Working Notes
• Katherine Parrish (OISE), How We Became Automatic Poetry Generators
• Barrett Watten (Wayne State U), Information Theory and the Poetics of Truth: From Text to New Media

Session 13:

The Early Modern English Lexicon

Organiser and Chair, 
Ian Lancashire (U Toronto)

A Joint Session with ACCUTE

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Foreword: A Progress Report on The Lexicon of Early Modern English
• Jennifer Roberts-Smith (U Toronto), Re-Tuning English Renaissance Poetry
• Shannon Robinson (U Toronto), Reading the Dirty Bits: "Dirty Words," Medical Jargon, or Invective? John Florio's World of Words (1598, 1611)

Shakespeare and Information Technology

Organiser and Chair, 
Patrick Finn (U Victoria)

A Joint Session with ACCUTE

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Richard J. Shroyer and Paul Werstine (U Western Ontario), Broken Lines: the Printing of the Shakespeare First Folio and the Digitizing of the New Variorum Shakespeare
• Alan Galey (U Victoria), A Kingdom for a Screen, Pixels to Act: Designing an Electronic Critical Edition
• Sally-Beth MacLean (U Toronto) and Alan Somerset (U Western Ontario), Shakespeare on the Road: Tracking the Tours with the REED Web Project

Open Session

Chair,
Stéfan Sinclair (U Alberta)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 101

• Patrick Juola (DuquesneU), The Case for Humanities Mathematics: When Computing Doesn't Work
• Susy Santos (U Manitoba) and Paul Fortier (U Manitoba), Testing the Appropriateness of a Corpus: A Statistical Approach
• Orion Montoya (U Chicago), with Mark Olsen (U Chicago), Implementing South Asian Dictionaries: Characters, Glyphs and Textual Objects under PhiloLogic
• Dina Ripsman Eylon (U Toronto), The Response of the Monks to the Medium of Print: Academicians and
  E-journals

Boundaries of Technology and the Teaching of History

Organiser and Chair,
Arthur Silver (U Toronto)

A Joint Session with CHA and CSFE
(Note: This session takes place at Sidney Smith Hall 2108, 10:15-11:45)

• Tracy Light (U Waterloo), Crossing the Boundary between Traditional and Technological Approaches to Teaching History: The History Research Project
• Jill Porter (U Waterloo), Stepping outside the Boundaries: The Clarica Scholars' Programme @UW
• Elsa Nystrom (Kennesaw State U), Vintage Merlot for History: Accessing Learning Objects across International Boundaries

Session 17:

Information Aesthetics II:
Intermedialities Online: Codework and Beyond

Organisers, 
Maria Damon (U Minnesota-Twin Cities) and 
Carolyn Guertin (U Alberta)

Chair,
Maria Damon (U Minnesota-Twin Cities)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 101

• Talan Memmott (independent: BeeHive)
  CodeWork://serration in practice
• Rita Raley (U California, Santa Barbara)
  The Object as Code
• Alan Sondheim (Florida International U)
  Codework and Beyond
• Jorge Luiz Antonio (Pontifical Catholic U of Sao Paulo, Brazil), The Use of Design as Digital Poetry 

Open Session

Chair,
Murray McGillivray (U Calgary)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Oriel MacLennan and Vivien Hannon (Dalhousie U), Up There and Out There: Collaboration and Co-operation in Electronic Edition
• Stéfan Sinclair (U Alberta), Humanities Computing Resources: A Unified Gateway and Platform
• William Winder (U British Columbia), Grammar Checking Online: The Wild, Wild Web Programming Environment
• Sharon Scinicariello (Case Western U), Li Chastels de Savance: Designing a Virtual Environment for Learning Language and Culture

Chair,
Ian Lancashire (U Toronto)

Victoria College, U Toronto, Room 212

• Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C), A Humanities Computing Summer Seminar?