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Event 1: The Future Perfect of the Book - 25 November 2011
Event 2: CFP - International Workshop on Computational Models of
Narrative (deadline: February 24, 2012, conf: May 20-22, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey)
See below for more details on both...
Event 1
THE FUTURE PERFECT OF THE BOOK
Book History Research Network: a one-day colloquium
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London
25 November 2011
At a moment when the rise of e-Readers foretells the end of the
printed book, the founder of the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle
launches an initiative for the preservation of the book. He is
creating a storehouse for physical books in specially-adapted
containers on the West Coast of the United States in order to preserve
them as “backup copies” for posterity. His idea came about as a
reaction against the notion that books can be put beyond use (or
thrown away) as soon as they are digitized.
While the future of the book is certainly an important topic for
consideration, an initiative such as Kahle's also begs the question
how did past the past envision the future of the book – or of the
predominant medium of the time. Victor Hugo's phrase, ' ceci tuera
cela', spelt a new paradigm of mistrust when the printed book suddenly
disrupted the foundation of manuscript culture and the transmission of
the written. Although the digital revolution is possibly the most
radical change in the history of writing, one can wonder how other
similar transitions fared: from the scroll to the codex, from
manuscript to printed book, from printing on the handpress to machine
and offset printing, from writing by hand to writing on the typewriter
and the wordprocessor? More fundamentally, do the concerns of
fifteenth-century critics of print like those of Abbot Johannes
Trithemius of Sponheim have anything in common with twenty-first-
century anxieties about the triumph of digital technology? Is access
to knowledge and preservation, which champions of the digital
revolution invoke, really a new concern? How much of the (old) culture
of the book is retained in the new digital media?
This colloquium, therefore, wants to consider not just what “will be”,
but also “what would have been” – the future perfect of the book. We
invite proposals (no more than 250 words) for 20-minutes papers on any
topic in book history relating to the future of the book considered at
any moment in history. Deadline: 15 October 2011. Please email papers
to the organisers: Cynthia Johnston (Research Student, Institute of
English Studies):
cynthia....@postgrad.sas.ac.uk<mailto:cynthia....@postgrad.sas.ac.uk>;
Dr Wim Van Mierlo (Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English
Literature, Institute of English Studies): wim.van-
mie...@sas.ac.uk<mailto:wim.van...@sas.ac.uk>
Topics may include:
* competing technologies: scroll v. codex/paper v. screen/writing v.
typing
* manuscript culture in the age of print
* the Gutenberg revolution as devolution
* the library of the future in the past
* old books and new media
* mass digitization or digital archive
* book collecting in the digital era
* mise-en-page and digital design
* hypertext and other outmoded technologies
* readers and e-readers
Dr Wim Van Mierlo
Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature
Institute of English Studies
University of London
Senate House, Rm 237
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://ies.sas.ac.uk
Event 2:
International Workshop on
=================================
Computational Models of Narrative
=================================
May 20-22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
-----------------------------------------------
Submissions Due: *Friday, February 24, 2012*
-----------------------------------------------
http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12
Workshop Aims
-------------
Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. It is clear
that, to fully understand and explain human intelligence,
beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why
narrative is universal and explain the function it serves.
The aim of this workshop series is to address key, fundamental
questions about narrative, using computational techniques, so
to advance our understanding of cognition, culture, and
society.
Special Focus: Shared Resources
-------------------------------
The computational study narrative does not yet have carefully
constructed shared resources and corpora that can catalyze the
way forward. This meeting will not only be an appropriate
venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions
regarding narrative, but also those papers which focus on the
identification, collection, and construction of *shared
resources and corpora* that facilitate the computational
modeling of narrative.
Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational
modeling and scientific understanding, or issues related to
building shared resources to advance the field. A
technological application or motivation is not required.
Illustrative Topics and Questions
---------------------------------
* What kinds of shared resources are required for the
computational study of narrative?
* What content and modalities should be put in a "Story Bank"
at formal representations should be used?
* What shared resources are available, or how can
already-extant resources be adapted to common needs?
* What makes narrative different from a list of events or
facts? What is special that makes something a narrative?
* What are the details of the relationship between narrative
and common sense?
* How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a
"universal" scheme for encoding episodes?
* What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a
narrative have on its form and content?
* What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there
such a set? How many possible story lines are there?
* Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of
narratives from different cultures?
* What are appropriate representations for narrative? What
representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas?
* How should we evaluate computational models of narrative?
Additional Information
----------------------
We will likely have funding available to award travel grants
to authors who have papers at the workshop, but would
otherwise be unable to attend because of financial
constraints.
Also in preparation is an arrangement with a noted
international journal for a special issue featuring expanded
versions of the best papers from the workshop.
Organizing Committee
--------------------
Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA
Pablo Gervas, UCM, Spain
Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey
Floris Bex, Dundee, UK
Questions should be directed to:
narrati...@csail.mit.edu
=================
Mark A. Finlayson
Doctoral Candidate, MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar St. Room 32-258, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
+1.617.253.0287 (office); +1.617.515.0708 (mobile); mar...@mit.edu
==================================================================
Event 2: CFP - International Workshop on Computational Models of
Narrative (deadline: February 24, 2012, conf: May 20-22, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey)
See below for more details on both...
Event 1
THE FUTURE PERFECT OF THE BOOK
Book History Research Network: a one-day colloquium
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London
25 November 2011
At a moment when the rise of e-Readers foretells the end of the
printed book, the founder of the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle
launches an initiative for the preservation of the book. He is
creating a storehouse for physical books in specially-adapted
containers on the West Coast of the United States in order to preserve
them as “backup copies” for posterity. His idea came about as a
reaction against the notion that books can be put beyond use (or
thrown away) as soon as they are digitized.
While the future of the book is certainly an important topic for
consideration, an initiative such as Kahle's also begs the question
how did past the past envision the future of the book – or of the
predominant medium of the time. Victor Hugo's phrase, ' ceci tuera
cela', spelt a new paradigm of mistrust when the printed book suddenly
disrupted the foundation of manuscript culture and the transmission of
the written. Although the digital revolution is possibly the most
radical change in the history of writing, one can wonder how other
similar transitions fared: from the scroll to the codex, from
manuscript to printed book, from printing on the handpress to machine
and offset printing, from writing by hand to writing on the typewriter
and the wordprocessor? More fundamentally, do the concerns of
fifteenth-century critics of print like those of Abbot Johannes
Trithemius of Sponheim have anything in common with twenty-first-
century anxieties about the triumph of digital technology? Is access
to knowledge and preservation, which champions of the digital
revolution invoke, really a new concern? How much of the (old) culture
of the book is retained in the new digital media?
This colloquium, therefore, wants to consider not just what “will be”,
but also “what would have been” – the future perfect of the book. We
invite proposals (no more than 250 words) for 20-minutes papers on any
topic in book history relating to the future of the book considered at
any moment in history. Deadline: 15 October 2011. Please email papers
to the organisers: Cynthia Johnston (Research Student, Institute of
English Studies):
cynthia....@postgrad.sas.ac.uk<mailto:cynthia....@postgrad.sas.ac.uk>;
Dr Wim Van Mierlo (Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English
Literature, Institute of English Studies): wim.van-
mie...@sas.ac.uk<mailto:wim.van...@sas.ac.uk>
Topics may include:
* competing technologies: scroll v. codex/paper v. screen/writing v.
typing
* manuscript culture in the age of print
* the Gutenberg revolution as devolution
* the library of the future in the past
* old books and new media
* mass digitization or digital archive
* book collecting in the digital era
* mise-en-page and digital design
* hypertext and other outmoded technologies
* readers and e-readers
Dr Wim Van Mierlo
Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature
Institute of English Studies
University of London
Senate House, Rm 237
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://ies.sas.ac.uk
Event 2:
International Workshop on
=================================
Computational Models of Narrative
=================================
May 20-22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
-----------------------------------------------
Submissions Due: *Friday, February 24, 2012*
-----------------------------------------------
http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12
Workshop Aims
-------------
Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. It is clear
that, to fully understand and explain human intelligence,
beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why
narrative is universal and explain the function it serves.
The aim of this workshop series is to address key, fundamental
questions about narrative, using computational techniques, so
to advance our understanding of cognition, culture, and
society.
Special Focus: Shared Resources
-------------------------------
The computational study narrative does not yet have carefully
constructed shared resources and corpora that can catalyze the
way forward. This meeting will not only be an appropriate
venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions
regarding narrative, but also those papers which focus on the
identification, collection, and construction of *shared
resources and corpora* that facilitate the computational
modeling of narrative.
Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational
modeling and scientific understanding, or issues related to
building shared resources to advance the field. A
technological application or motivation is not required.
Illustrative Topics and Questions
---------------------------------
* What kinds of shared resources are required for the
computational study of narrative?
* What content and modalities should be put in a "Story Bank"
at formal representations should be used?
* What shared resources are available, or how can
already-extant resources be adapted to common needs?
* What makes narrative different from a list of events or
facts? What is special that makes something a narrative?
* What are the details of the relationship between narrative
and common sense?
* How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a
"universal" scheme for encoding episodes?
* What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a
narrative have on its form and content?
* What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there
such a set? How many possible story lines are there?
* Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of
narratives from different cultures?
* What are appropriate representations for narrative? What
representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas?
* How should we evaluate computational models of narrative?
Additional Information
----------------------
We will likely have funding available to award travel grants
to authors who have papers at the workshop, but would
otherwise be unable to attend because of financial
constraints.
Also in preparation is an arrangement with a noted
international journal for a special issue featuring expanded
versions of the best papers from the workshop.
Organizing Committee
--------------------
Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA
Pablo Gervas, UCM, Spain
Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey
Floris Bex, Dundee, UK
Questions should be directed to:
narrati...@csail.mit.edu
=================
Mark A. Finlayson
Doctoral Candidate, MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar St. Room 32-258, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
+1.617.253.0287 (office); +1.617.515.0708 (mobile); mar...@mit.edu
==================================================================
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