The Informer Page 9

November 24, 1988

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

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A miscellany of conferences:

REID

December 15, 1988: Vancouver PC Users’
Society. Representatives of AT&T and Microsoft will
present a panel, “The Ultimate Operating System
Beyond DOS.” The three hour presentation will
include demonstrations of OS/2, WINDOWS and the
new version of UNIX.

January 12, 1989: Vancouver PC Users’ Society.
A presentation by Central Point Software, the
producers of COPYIIPC and PICTOOLS.

February 9, 1989: Vancouver PC Users’ Society.
MICROSOFT will present new releases.

Please note that Tony Vick, a member of the Society,
invites interested faculty to attend these monthly
meetings as his “guest.” * HR MacMillan
Planetarium, Vancouver.

January 5 -7, 1989: Teaching Composition to
Undergraduates. The sixth annual Conference on
College Composition and Communication of NCTE.
Sessions include “Adapting to diversity in the
composition classroom,” “Managing the Writing
Process,” “Understanding text,” “Evaluating writing,”
“Designing topics for essay examinations,” and others.
¢ Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Beach,
Florida.

February 10-12, 1989: Teaching Today’s Adults:
What Do They Need? A conference for adult
educators, administrators, university and college
faculty “to hear international experts, share practical
ideas and develop new... approaches... to
education in a changing society.” Sessions include
“Recent research about lifelong learning and adult
education,” “the changing concept of career,”
“strategies for training and retraining in a changing
labour market,” “adult literacy,”

¢ Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver.

May 30 - June 16, 1989: Conference, Summer
School, Software Fair

The Dynamic Text. (June 5 - 12) This conference
marks the first joint meeting of the ACH (Association
for Computers in the Humanities) and the ALLC
(Association of Literacy and Linguistic Computing.)
“It will explore ways to enhance our understanding
and creation of books, our intellectual heritage, by the
use of computers.”

GILBERT

Tools for Humanities, a “fair of notable software
and hardware,” will be held in conjunction.

Since this is the first time these two
international bodies have met together, the
programme is highly interesting. Keynote speakers
include Jean-Claude Gardin (Centre Nationale de
Recherches Scientifiques), Northrop Frye, Theodore
Brunner (Thesaurus Lingue Braecz) , Manfred
Thaller (Max Planck Institute), Susan Hockey
(Oxford University) and Jacqueline Hamesse
(Louvain-la-Neuve).

Within Canada, ALLC-ICCH89 will be
sponsored by the Consortium for Computing in the
Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en
sciences humaines (COCH/COSH), whose president
is Professor Elaine Nardocchio, McMaster
University.

Participants will come from all fields in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, linguistics, ancient
and modern languages, literature, history,
philosophy, fine art, archeology, music, museum
studies and library science.

Sessions include hypertext, literary analysis,
historical research, metrics, electronic libraries, text
mark-up standards, interactive museum
workstations, and optical scanning.

There is also a summer school parallel to the
conference, jointly offered by University of Toronto
and Oxford University, in the week prior to the
conference, May 30 - June 5 and the week after,
June 12 - 16,1989. This summer school will deliver
the most current information about, and practical
experience with, applications of computing in arts
and humanities teaching and research. The
syllabus of the summer school is varied and highly
exciting and includes items I would expect to
interest faculty outside humanities, social sciences
and library science who are interested in computers
in education.

The corporate sponsor is IBM Canada. The fair,
held with the conference and sponsored by IBM, has

issued a CALL FOR SOFTWARE which might
interest some of our software developers.

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