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[1] From: Manfred Thaller <manfred.thaller@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference? (91)
[2] From: Michael Sinatra <meberlesinatra@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference? (14)
[3] From: John Bradley <john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference? (13)
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Date: 2024-01-02 09:50:33+00:00
From: Manfred Thaller <manfred.thaller@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference?
Dear Alan,
Willard would be best positioned to answer your question.
As far as I know, no online material. The quotations in the
text below might help:
<quote>
Let's look at the first explicitly joined conference of ALLC/ACH in 1989
and the first ACH/ALLC conference of 1990. Both had mottoes which
indicated an interest in the new technologies: Siegen 1989 quite
explicitly - “The new medium” -, Toronto 1990 at least indirectly “The
dynamic text” reflecting on the changing meaning of text when it has
been moved into the unfolding digital world. Both conferences also had
their proceedings in a short lived series of conference volumes
dedicated to the now joint conferences of the two associations, which
make for interesting comparisons between what happened at the
conferences and what was published afterwards.
If we look at the volume of /abstracts/from 1989 [Toronto 1989], we
notice quite a bit of fresh air: Among the 43 sessions we find four
regular and one plenary session dedicated to “computer assisted
learning”, enjoying its first heyday based on the early PC technology;
six on databases and text bases; three on archaeology, one of them
dedicated to archaeological AI; approximately four on hot topics of the
day, as HyperCard or OCR technology. All together at least a third of
the papers have been dedicated to topics which are not connected to
traditional ones. When we look at the official conference
/proceedings/[Lancashire 1991], however, one, possibly two, papers
remain, which are not connected to the literary and linguistic hard
core. Though one has to add one of the two keynotes [Gardin 1991]
belonging to archaeology. Both keynotes, Gardin's and [Frye 1991], are
repeatedly quoted in Lancashire's introduction to the conference volume,
out of which an interesting viewpoint emerges. Computer applications
within the Humanities are not so much connected to any theoretical
school in the Humanities; they could have the potential, however to
becoming the base for a theoretical approach, which might allow the
reconciliation of the various literary theories of the day (and by
implication the rest of the Humanities as well). And an important step
towards that development would be a closer co-operation between
Humanities Computing and Computer Linguistics.
</quote>
[Lancashire 1991] Ian Lancashire and Willard McCarty: /The Humanities
Computing Yearbook 1989-90,/Clarendon 1991.
[Gardin 1991] and [Frye 1991] are contained in the volume.
//
One small note: I'm probably not the only one, who has a collection of
older abstract collections and similar unpublished materials. (The
conference proceedings most of the time give a very different picture
than the abstracts of the conferences.) Has anybody ever thought to set
up an archive of such material relevant for the history of this sort of
interdisciplinary study? Personally I think setting it up under the
various political structures of the disciplines, as DH, would not really
be safe for the longterm, but one of the larger libraries, might
contemplate setting up such a repository?
Best regards,
Manfred
Am 02.01.24 um 10:23 schrieb Humanist:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 361.
> Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
> Hosted by DH-Cologne
> www.dhhumanist.org
> Submit to:humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
> Date: 2023-12-30 22:06:24+00:00
> From: Alan Liu<ayliu@english.ucsb.edu>
> Subject: Name of the first ACH-ALLC conference?
>
> Does anyone know the official title of the first ALLC-ACH (now ADHO) DH
> annual conference, which I believe was held at U. Toronto in 1989? Was it
> then already formally called the conference of the "ACH & the Association
> for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)"? And are there records now
> online anywhere of the schedule or other materials from that event?
--
Prof.em.Dr. Manfred Thaller
formerly University at Cologne /
zuletzt Universität zu Köln
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Date: 2024-01-02 15:59:16+00:00
From: Michael Sinatra <meberlesinatra@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference?
Dear Alan,
The ADHO conference page (https://adho.org/conference/) points to an
email sent by Willard himself in February 1989 in which he refers to the event
as “The Toronto Fair and Conference”
(http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v02/0115.html). Maybe
@Geoffrey Rockwell will have more information about the event.
Best wishes for the new year,
Michael
Michael E. Sinatra | Professeur titulaire et directeur
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques
(CRIHN)
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Date: 2024-01-02 09:45:32+00:00
From: John Bradley <john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.361: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference?
... as it turns out... I still have the programme for the conference. The front
page of calls it "The Dynamic Text", and below that it says
9th Internation Conference on Computer and the Humanities(ICCH)
and 16th Internation Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
Conference
Regards... John B
John Bradley
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
King's Digital Lab and Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
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