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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1032. Friday, 9 Feb 1990.

Date:     Thursday, 8 February 1990 2229-EST
From:     KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject:  Societies List update5

LIST OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES REPRESENTED ON HUMANIST (2/08/90)
+ indicates added since last version (update4) of the list.

  Information desired: (1) Name of Society/Group, (2) Notice of
  any computer related activities such as program segments and
  exhibits, electronic publications, reviews and information about
  computer related scholarship/research, (3) Electronic contact
  address, if any. Thank you. Bob Kraft

American Academy of Advertising
  [Bern]
American Academy of Religion (some special computer program
  sections at annual meetings; cooperation with SBL)
American Anthropological Association (see ANTHRO-L@UBVM ListServer)
  [Zubrow]
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
  [Kulas; contact AIMAGAZINE@AAAI.ORG, MEMBERSHIP@AAAI.ORG]
American Association for Public Opinion Research
  [Bern]
American Association of University Presses (much computer talk)
  [Perry]
American Conference on Irish Studies
  [Cahalan; see GAELIC-L and FWAKE-L ListServers]
American Dialect Society ("making use of computer technology")
  [Maynor]
American Folklore Society (has computer applications section)
  [Glazer]
American Historical Association ("computers in history" things)
  [Knox]
American Library Association
  [Jacobs]
American Musicological Society (creating database of texts)
  [Mathiesen (Perry)]
+American Oriental Society
  [Wujastyk]
American Philological Association (archive of texts, editorial
  board for non-print publications, exhibits at annual meetings)
American Philosophical Association (has committee on computer use
  and subcommittee on electronic texts; program sessions)
  [Owen; see ACH Newsletter 11.2(1989) 13]
American Political Science Association
  [Jassel]
American Psychological Association: Consumer Psychology,
  Media Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology
  divisions
  [Bern]
American Schools of Oriental Research (computer committee and
  some attention to program section, displays; cooperation with SBL)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  [Cope ENCOPE@LSUVM, Dill, Wolf, MacNeil]
+ [note also the new 18th c list = C18-L@PSUVM (Kevin Berland)]
American Society of Church History (not much computer involvement)
  [Zinn]
American Society of Papyrologists (close cooperation with APA)
  [Kraft]
+American Theological Library Association (bibliographic databases)
  [Harbin]
Archaeological Institute of America (various computer activities)
  [Walsh, Kuniholm]
Aristotelian Society
  [Smith]
Associated Writing Programs
  [RKessler]
Association canadienne des sociologues et des anthropologues de
  langue francaise (e-network)
  [Hamel, Laplante; contact ACSALF@UQUEBEC]
Association des demographes du Quebec (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact ADQ@UQUEBEC]
Association for Asian Studies (occasional panel, newsletter column)
  [Parker]
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures
  [Warkentin]
Association for Computational Linguistics
  [Kulas; contact WALKER@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM]
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Association for Computing Machinery
  [Kulas; contact ACM, 11 West 42nd St, NYC 10036, 212-869-7440]
Association for History and Computing
  [Spaeth]
+Association for Institutional Research (e-newsletter)
  [Flaherty; contact IRMUFFO@VTM1, CHULAK@FSU (membership)]
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Association for Women in Computing
Association Internationale Bible et Informatique
  [AIBI Network, contact IWML@UKC.AC.UK (Lambert)]
Association of Public Data Users
  [Jacobs]
Association of Canadian University Teachers of English
  [Warkentin]
+Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
  [Wujastyk]
Bibliographical Society
  [Warkentin]
Bibliographical Society of Canada
  [Warkentin]
+Canadian Association of Public Data Users
  [Humphrey, Piovesan, Ruus; see CAPDU-L ListServer ?@SFU ?]
+Canadian Information Processing Society
  [Swenson]
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
  [Warkentin]
Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric
  [Warkentin]
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (occasional computer session)
  [Hurd]
Cognitive Science Society
  [Kulas; contact Alan Lesgold, LRDC, U. Pittsburgh, PA 15260]
College Composition and Communication
  [Cahalan]
College Music Society
  [Perry]
COMMUNIK -- reseau de chercheurs en communication (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact COMMUNIK@UQUEBEC]
Computer Society of the IEEE
  [Kulas; contact 1730 Mass Ave, Washington DC 20036-1903]
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour
  ordinateurs en sciences humains
EDUC -- reseau de chercheurs en education (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact EDUC@UQUEBEC]
+EDUCOM
  [Swenson]
EURALEX -- European Association for Lexicography
  [(McCarty)]
+European Ayurvedic Society
  [Wujastyk]
+Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
  [Wujastyk]
International Association for Neo-Latin Studies
  [Warkentin]
International Association for Social Science Information Service
  and Technology (IASSIST)
  [Jacobs, Ruus]
International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature
  [Cahalan]
+International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
  [Wujastyk]
International Congress on Medieval Studies (sessions, workshops)
  [Zinn]
International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (one
  sponsor of the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies
  project at the Univ. of Penn and at the Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem)
  [Kraft]
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
  [Glazer]
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
  [Warkentin]
International Society for Humor Studies
  [Glazer]
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
  [Conner, ed ANSAXNET; contact U47C2@WVNVM]
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  [Jacobs]
Medieval Academy of America (no indication of computer involvement)
  [Zacour, Zinn]
METHO -- groupe francophone d'echange et de discussion sur les
  methodes quantitatives utilisees en sciences sociales (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact METHO@UQUEBEC]
Milton Society of America
  [Flannagan, McCarty]
Modern Languages Association (various activities, electronic
  publications, program segments and exhibits; details of how
  it is all coordinated organizationally are welcome)
Music Library Association (computer applications a "hot topic")
  [Papakhian]
MythoPoeic Society
  [DeRose]
National Council of Teachers of English
  [Cahalan; see MBU network]
North American Nietzsche Society
  [MBrown]
North American Patristics Society (no organized computer activity)
  [Kraft]
Organization of American Historians
  [Knox (non member)]
Philosophy in Britain
  [Clark = AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK, who also runs PHILOS-L]
Regroupement quebecois des sciences sociales (e-network)
  [Hamel, Laplante; contact RQSS@UQUEBEC]
Renaissance English Text Society
  [Warkentin, Flannagan]
Renaissance Society of America
  [Flannagan]
+Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
  [Wujastyk]
+Royal College of Science
  [Wujastyk]
Societe canadienne de science economique (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact SCSE@UQUEBEC]
Societe quebecoise de science politique (e-network)
  [Hamel; contact SQSP@UQUEBEC]
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
  [Smith]
+Society for College and University Planning (e-newsletter)
  [Flaherty; contact BUDLAO@UCCVMA, USERTD8Q@UMICHUM (membership)]
Society for Critical Exchange (is setting up an information service
  for literary theorists to begin in mid-March 1990)
  [Stonum = gxs11@PO.CWRU.EDU]
Society for Music Theory
  [Perry]
Society for Scholarly Publishing
  [Grycz]
Society for the History of Discoveries
  [Warkentin]
Society of American Archaeology ("great interest in computers")
  [Zubrow]
Society of Biblical Literature (electronic archiving project and
  an active Computer Assisted Research Group that coordinates
  demonstrations and a program segment each annual meeting)
  [Kraft; see OFFLINE; contact SBLEXEC@UNIX.CC.EMORY.EDU]
South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  [Bode RFB8135@TNTECH (Cope)]
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics ("making use of computer tech.")
  [Maynor]
+Southern Humanities Council
  [Wilson]
+Southern Historical Association
  [Wilson]
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (nothing organized on computers)
  [Hurd, Kraft]
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium
  [Warkentin]

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