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          BOLLETTINO '900 - Notizie / B, maggio 1998             Successivo

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SOMMARIO:

* International Seminar: "Literature, Philology and Computers",
University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian, 7-9 September 1998;
* Ciclo di conversazioni: "La questione della tecnica, oggi",
Bologna, aprile-maggio 1998;
* Convegno internazionale: "Ipertesti creativi, modifiche della
scrittura e nuove tecnologie", Bologna, 15 maggio 1998;

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University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian

In association with:
The Computer & Writing Association, University of Aberdeen, the CTI Textual Studies, University of Oxford, the CRILet, Center for Literary Computing, University of Rome, Bollettino '900, Dept. of Italian, University of Bologna.

"LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS"
An international seminar
7-9 September 1998

The seminar, conducted in English, aims to bring together a heterogeneous but significant group of scholars in order to promote lively and informal discussion on the future of philology, writing and literary analysis in the digital support era. The conference will be interdisciplinary and contributions are welcome from the fields of literature, philology, writing and composition, psychology, etc.

1. Themes of the seminar and keynote speakers
2. Call for papers
3. List of contributors (provisional)
4. Registration Form

1. THEMES

*Encoding of linear and non-linear document sources*: Theory and practice. Text encoding has been the central problem of humanities computing for years. However, today the question is not only how to achieve a standard for representing texts, but also how to structure (concept mapping) and encode different sources of information (images, sounds, etc.). What happens to structured information once it has left its paper medium and become electronic? What does this process imply for transmission of information? In this session, apart from theoretical papers, there will be discussions on present conventions (such as SGML, HTML, etc.) and future developments.

*Computers and Philology*: digital realisation of critical editions and the possibilities of the WWWeb. New definitions of the concept of the editio critica or abandonment of the concept of authorship? The epistemology of text and the problems of text transmission will be at the heart of this session, which will evaluate current projects and examine the prospects opened up by the Internet.

*Text analysis and virtual data-banks*: new definitions of textual criticism in the light of literary computing. How information technology modifies the concept of source and interpretation, challenging traditional historical disciplines. Presentation of projects and applications in progress.

*Hype or Hypertext?* Critical evaluation of the theoretical underpinning of the North American school (George Landow, Michael Joyce, Ted Nelson, etc.), and assessment of the place of hypertext theory in the history of books and writing. Review of the more promising products available on line, and investigation of the educational possibilities of hypertext in the study of languages and literature.

*Keynote speakers* include: Lou Burnard (Oxford University); Willard McCarty (King's College, London); Francisco Marcos Marin (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid); David Robey (University of Reading); Mirko Tavoni (Universita' di Pisa); Antonio Zampolli (CNR, Pisa).

2. CALL FOR PAPERS

*IMPORTANT NOTICE*: due to time constraints, and to preserve the creative dynamics of the seminar, the number of presentations will be limited to 15.

*Contributions* should be 20 minutes in length and proposals in the form of a 500 word abstract (preferably written in HTML) should be submitted via e-mail by June 30th to: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk or mc9809@mclink.it. All proposals will be reviewed, and authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15th. Abstracts of papers will be published on the seminar web site.

For more information contact:
*Computers, Literature and Philology*
Department of Italian
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower, George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Tel: 0131 650 3646
Fax: 0131 650 6536

Check the conference web site regularly for updated information on the seminar programme, venue and timetable, or send enquiries by email to: Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk or the e-mail addresses mentioned above
*Conference fees*: £30 per person (academic) / £15 (post-graduate).
This includes a buffet lunch on 8 September.

*Venue* (provisional): Edinburgh University, Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square.

*Accommodation*: A limited number of single rooms are available at Pollock Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh, for 7, 8 September at £20.35 per night. Early booking advisable: contact Dr Anna Middleton at Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk

3. CONTRIBUTORS (provisional)

Lou Burnard is a leading figure in the Computers and Humanities field, and among the founders of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), the most important project for the development of guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts. He is currently Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services.

Giuseppe Gigliozzi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Linguistic & Literary Sciences. Founding director of CRILet, a research centre for literary computing at University of Rome. Dr Giuseppe Gigliozzi's scholarship centres on narrativity, text analysis and encoding, and literary theory. He has published a number of book-length contributions in the field of computers and the humanities.

Francisco Marcos Marin, full professor of Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Lingüística General, has been working in the field of Computers and the Humanities since 1971. He is the editor of Admyter, a series of advanced Cd-Roms of digitalised manuscripts and incunabula of medieval Spanish literature (1992, 1993, 1998).

Willard McCarty, Senior lecturer at the King's College Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), editor of Humanist, and Vice-President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is among the pioneers of literary computing. Among his various digital projects there is the Analytical Onomasticon, "a printed and electronic reference work to all devices of language by which persons are named in the Metamorphoses of Ovid."

Federico Pellizzi, University of Bologna, Dept. of Italian. General editor of Bollettino '900, one of the main electronic journals dealing with Italian contemporary culture and literature, which has editorial input from across Europe. Federico Pellizzi has recently organised an international computers and literature conference at the Universita' di Bologna (November 1996).

Mario Ricciardi, University of Turin, full professor of Italian Literature, Dept. of Communication Studies. Director of the programme on Communication within the Arts Faculty of Turin University and comissioning editor for the main imprints which publish academic books on computing and literature (Bollati-Boringhieri, Franco Angeli, etc), Mario Ricciardi is an influential theorist on computer literacy and computer-assisted literary analysis.

Massimo Riva, Brown University, Dept. of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies of the Italian Studies Department and editor of the Decameron Web works closely with the George Landow's Hypertext Group at Brown University. He is also among the first organisers of a Web-based Italian literature course.

David Robey, Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading.
Professor Robey is an expert on literary theory and has produced a number of valuable tools for the electronic scanning of metrics in Italian poetry. He was one of the founding figures of the Oxford Text Archive.

Mirko Tavoni, University of Pisa, is associate professor of History of Italian Language and national coordinator of the CIBIT Italian universities consortium, the first on-line searchable archive of modern and classical Italian literary texts that would be available on the Internet by December 1997.

Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, full professor of Computational Linguistics, director of the Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa. Antonio Zampolli has been working in the field of Computational Linguistics since 1967 and is responsible for a number of European projects related to Humanities and Computing.

4. REGISTRATION FORM

"Literature, Philology and Computers: An International Seminar"

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 7-9 SEPTEMBER 1998

I should like to attend the above seminar on September 7-9 1998 at the University of Edinburgh.

Name....................................................

Work address.........................................

Address for
Correspondence...................................................

Tel. No. (Work)

Tel No. (Home)

Registration £30/ Associated Institutions £20 / Student £15

..... I enclose a cheque/money order for £30

...... Associated Institutions (£20)

...... Student (£15)

(Please tick as appropriate)

Please send by August 30 1998 completed form and cheque/money order made out to the Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh to: Anna Middleton, Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh, DHT, George Square EH8 9JX

"LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS
Domenico Fiormonte -- Conference Organiser Seminar Web Page:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm

University of Edinburgh
Dept. of Italian
DHT, George Square
EH8 9XJ
United Kingdom
Tel. 44+131-6503646
Fax: 44+131-6506536
E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk

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Comune di Bologna - Settore Cultura
Universita' segli studi di Bologna
Associazione Culturale "In forma di parole"

Conversazioni del martedi':
"LA QUESTIONE DELLA TECNICA, OGGI"

Martedi' 21 aprile, ore 18
Sergio Givone, Tecnica e arte

Martedi' 28 aprile, ore 18
Sergio Moravia, Natura e artificio. Il "virtuale"

Martedi' 5 maggio, ore 18
Aldo Carotenuto, La psiche e la magia della tecnica

Martedi' 26 maggio, ore 17,30
Massimo Cacciari e Gianni Scalia, La Tecnica in questione

Il ciclo delle conversazioni si terra' presso l'Aula "G. Prodi" del complesso monumentale di San Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Bologna

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IPERTESTI CREATIVI:
MODIFICHE DELLA SCRITTURA E NUOVE TECNOLOGIE

Convegno internazionale di studi (II giornata)

PROGRAMMA

15 maggio 1998

Ore 9,30 - Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Italianistica, Via Zamboni 32, Bologna

Presentazione del Direttore del Dipartimento di Italianistica, Emilio Pasquini

I
Presiede Corrado Donati (Universita' di Trento)
Alberto Abruzzese (Universita' di Roma - "La Sapienza")
Ipertesti e nostalgia letteraria
Michel Bernard (Universita' di Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Lectures hypertextuelles de textes litte'raires traditionnels: transitions
Jean Clement (Universita' di Paris VIII - St. Denis)
Elements de poetique hypertextuelle
Discussione

Ore 15 - Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Italianistica, Via Zamboni 32, Bologna

II
Domenico Fiormonte (Universita' di Edimburgo)
Ipertesto: profeti ed antenati
Gius Gargiulo (Universita' di Paris X - Nanterre)
Traduzioni automatiche online per inferenze creative

III
Lorenzo Miglioli (Autore),
Offline: ancora alla ricerca del nuovo lettore modello
Gian Paolo Renello (Universita' di Lovanio),
Dove va l'ipertesto: creativita' versus informazione
Discussione
SOMMARIO:

* International Seminar: "Literature, Philology and Computers", University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian, 7-9 September 1998;
* Ciclo di conversazioni: "La questione della tecnica, oggi", Bologna, aprile-maggio 1998;
* Convegno internazionale: "Ipertesti creativi, modifiche della scrittura e nuove tecnologie", Bologna, 15 maggio 1998;

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University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian

In association with:
The Computer & Writing Association, University of Aberdeen, the CTI Textual Studies, University of Oxford, the CRILet, Center for Literary Computing, University of Rome, Bollettino '900, Dept. of Italian, University of Bologna.

"LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS"
An international seminar
7-9 September 1998

The seminar, conducted in English, aims to bring together a heterogeneous but significant group of scholars in order to promote lively and informal discussion on the future of philology, writing and literary analysis in the digital support era. The conference will be interdisciplinary and contributions are welcome from the fields of literature, philology, writing and composition, psychology, etc.

1. Themes of the seminar and keynote speakers
2. Call for papers
3. List of contributors (provisional)
4. Registration Form

1. THEMES

*Encoding of linear and non-linear document sources*: Theory and practice. Text encoding has been the central problem of humanities computing for years. However, today the question is not only how to achieve a standard for representing texts, but also how to structure (concept mapping) and encode different sources of information (images, sounds, etc.). What happens to structured information once it has left its paper medium and become electronic? What does this process imply for transmission of information? In this session, apart from theoretical papers, there will be discussions on present conventions (such as SGML, HTML, etc.) and future developments.

*Computers and Philology*: digital realisation of critical editions and the possibilities of the WWWeb. New definitions of the concept of the editio critica or abandonment of the concept of authorship? The epistemology of text and the problems of text transmission will be at the heart of this session, which will evaluate current projects and examine the prospects opened up by the Internet.

*Text analysis and virtual data-banks*: new definitions of textual criticism in the light of literary computing. How information technology modifies the concept of source and interpretation, challenging traditional historical disciplines. Presentation of projects and applications in progress.

*Hype or Hypertext?* Critical evaluation of the theoretical underpinning of the North American school (George Landow, Michael Joyce, Ted Nelson, etc.), and assessment of the place of hypertext theory in the history of books and writing. Review of the more promising products available on line, and investigation of the educational possibilities of hypertext in the study of languages and literature.

*Keynote speakers* include: Lou Burnard (Oxford University); Willard McCarty (King's College, London); Francisco Marcos Marin (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid); David Robey (University of Reading); Mirko Tavoni (Universita' di Pisa); Antonio Zampolli (CNR, Pisa).

2. CALL FOR PAPERS

*IMPORTANT NOTICE*: due to time constraints, and to preserve the creative dynamics of the seminar, the number of presentations will be limited to 15.

*Contributions* should be 20 minutes in length and proposals in the form of a 500 word abstract (preferably written in HTML) should be submitted via e-mail by June 30th to: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk or mc9809@mclink.it. All proposals will be reviewed, and authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15th. Abstracts of papers will be published on the seminar web site.

For more information contact:
*Computers, Literature and Philology*
Department of Italian
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower, George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Tel: 0131 650 3646
Fax: 0131 650 6536

Check the conference web site regularly for updated information on the seminar programme, venue and timetable, or send enquiries by email to: Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk or the e-mail addresses mentioned above
*Conference fees*: £30 per person (academic) / £15 (post-graduate).
This includes a buffet lunch on 8 September.

*Venue* (provisional): Edinburgh University, Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square.

*Accommodation*: A limited number of single rooms are available at Pollock Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh, for 7, 8 September at £20.35 per night. Early booking advisable: contact Dr Anna Middleton at Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk

3. CONTRIBUTORS (provisional)

Lou Burnard is a leading figure in the Computers and Humanities field, and among the founders of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), the most important project for the development of guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts. He is currently Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services.

Giuseppe Gigliozzi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Department of Linguistic & Literary Sciences. Founding director of CRILet, a research centre for literary computing at University of Rome. Dr Giuseppe Gigliozzi's scholarship centres on narrativity, text analysis and encoding, and literary theory. He has published a number of book-length contributions in the field of computers and the humanities.

Francisco Marcos Marin, full professor of Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Lingüística General, has been working in the field of Computers and the Humanities since 1971. He is the editor of Admyter, a series of advanced Cd-Roms of digitalised manuscripts and incunabula of medieval Spanish literature (1992, 1993, 1998).

Willard McCarty, Senior lecturer at the King's College Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), editor of Humanist, and Vice-President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is among the pioneers of literary computing. Among his various digital projects there is the Analytical Onomasticon, "a printed and electronic reference work to all devices of language by which persons are named in the Metamorphoses of Ovid."

Federico Pellizzi, University of Bologna, Dept. of Italian. General editor of Bollettino '900, one of the main electronic journals dealing with Italian contemporary culture and literature, which has editorial input from across Europe. Federico Pellizzi has recently organised an international computers and literature conference at the Universita' di Bologna (November 1996).

Mario Ricciardi, University of Turin, full professor of Italian Literature, Dept. of Communication Studies. Director of the programme on Communication within the Arts Faculty of Turin University and comissioning editor for the main imprints which publish academic books on computing and literature (Bollati-Boringhieri, Franco Angeli, etc), Mario Ricciardi is an influential theorist on computer literacy and computer-assisted literary analysis.

Massimo Riva, Brown University, Dept. of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies of the Italian Studies Department and editor of the Decameron Web works closely with the George Landow's Hypertext Group at Brown University. He is also among the first organisers of a Web-based Italian literature course.

David Robey, Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading.
Professor Robey is an expert on literary theory and has produced a number of valuable tools for the electronic scanning of metrics in Italian poetry. He was one of the founding figures of the Oxford Text Archive.

Mirko Tavoni, University of Pisa, is associate professor of History of Italian Language and national coordinator of the CIBIT Italian universities consortium, the first on-line searchable archive of modern and classical Italian literary texts that would be available on the Internet by December 1997.

Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, full professor of Computational Linguistics, director of the Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa. Antonio Zampolli has been working in the field of Computational Linguistics since 1967 and is responsible for a number of European projects related to Humanities and Computing.

4. REGISTRATION FORM

"Literature, Philology and Computers: An International Seminar"

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 7-9 SEPTEMBER 1998

I should like to attend the above seminar on September 7-9 1998
at the University of Edinburgh.

Name....................................................

Work address.........................................

Address for
Correspondence...................................................

Tel. No. (Work)

Tel No. (Home)

Registration £30/ Associated Institutions £20 / Student £15

..... I enclose a cheque/money order for £30

...... Associated Institutions (£20)

...... Student (£15)

(Please tick as appropriate)

Please send by August 30 1998 completed form and cheque/money order made out to the Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh to: Anna Middleton, Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh, DHT, George Square EH8 9JX

"LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS
Domenico Fiormonte -- Conference Organiser
Seminar Web Page:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm

University of Edinburgh
Dept. of Italian
DHT, George Square
EH8 9XJ
United Kingdom
Tel. 44+131-6503646
Fax: 44+131-6506536
E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk

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Comune di Bologna - Settore Cultura
Universita' segli studi di Bologna
Associazione Culturale "In forma di parole"

Conversazioni del martedi':
"LA QUESTIONE DELLA TECNICA, OGGI"

Martedi' 21 aprile, ore 18
Sergio Givone, Tecnica e arte

Martedi' 28 aprile, ore 18
Sergio Moravia, Natura e artificio. Il "virtuale"

Martedi' 5 maggio, ore 18
Aldo Carotenuto, La psiche e la magia della tecnica

Martedi' 26 maggio, ore 17,30
Massimo Cacciari e Gianni Scalia, La Tecnica in questione

Il ciclo delle conversazioni si terra' presso l'Aula "G. Prodi"
del complesso monumentale di San Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Bologna

-------------------------------------------

IPERTESTI CREATIVI:
MODIFICHE DELLA SCRITTURA E NUOVE TECNOLOGIE

Convegno internazionale di studi (II giornata)

PROGRAMMA

15 maggio 1998

Ore 9,30 - Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Italianistica,
Via Zamboni 32, Bologna

Presentazione del Direttore del Dipartimento di Italianistica,
Emilio Pasquini

I
Presiede Corrado Donati (Universita' di Trento)
Alberto Abruzzese (Universita' di Roma - "La Sapienza")
Ipertesti e nostalgia letteraria
Michel Bernard (Universita' di Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Lectures hypertextuelles de textes litte'raires traditionnels:
transitions
Jean Clement (Universita' di Paris VIII - St. Denis)
Elements de poetique hypertextuelle
Discussione

Ore 15 - Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Italianistica,
Via Zamboni 32, Bologna

II
Domenico Fiormonte (Universita' di Edimburgo)
Ipertesto: profeti ed antenati
Gius Gargiulo (Universita' di Paris X - Nanterre)
Traduzioni automatiche online per inferenze creative

III
Lorenzo Miglioli (Autore),
Offline: ancora alla ricerca del nuovo lettore modello
Gian Paolo Renello (Universita' di Lovanio),
Dove va l'ipertesto: creativita' versus informazione
Discussione

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