With apologies -- my first attempt to send this out was incomplete, so I 
am resending the whole CFP -- please disregard the previous message!

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CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 -- New Directions 
in Text Analysis (Revised cfp)

A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University 
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

CaSTA 2008–“New Directions in Text Analysis”– will be held at the 
University of Saskatchewan in
Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008, featuring guest speakers:

David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University (keynote)
Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia
Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and 
Multimedia at University
of Alberta
Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria

CaSTA 2008 will also feature a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing 
Early Material Culture,” with
guest speakers:

Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University, and 
Executive Editor of
Medieval English Theatre (new speaker, replacing Melissa Terras)
Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, 
University of California
Los Angeles

Call for submissions for “New Directions in Text Analysis”

The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 also invites proposals from 
Canadian and international
scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual 
studies addressing the conference
theme, “New Directions in Text Analysis.” This will be the sixth annual 
CaSTA conference, held in
association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the 
conference (17-18 October)
will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters 
on a wide range of topics
related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might 
address such topics as
• changing notions of what constitutes a text
• the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to 
the ideal text (the text as an
abstraction of words in a particular combination)
• editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership
• new media and digital textual scholarship
• new tools and methodologies for text analysis
• digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream
• working with graduate students and research teams

Abstracts of 500-700 words should propose presentations in one of three 
forms:
• Single papers (max of 3,000 words)
• Panels (three to five papers on a common theme)
• Posters (max of 750 words), either hard copy (approximately two square 
metres of board space) or
digital with terminal access provided. Posters will remain on display 
throughout the conference
and there will be a designated session time for presenters to discuss 
their work.

Abstract proposals should include the following information: title of 
paper, author's name(s); complete
mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, 
if any, of the author; statement of
need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly 
indicate the paper's thesis,
methodology and conclusion.

CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate 
students, whose work is even
now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will 
begin to explore. Cara Leitch
(PhD candidate, University of Victoria) will conduct sessions of 
particular interest to graduate students
and to projects that involve significant student training and 
participation. Travel grants will be
available to students who travel to attend the conference.

All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference 
proceedings, which will be
available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Abstracts will 
also be published on the
conference Web-site prior to the conference. Selected papers from the 
conference will be included in a
special issue of the peer reviewed journal, Text Technology.


Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, 
WordPerfect, or pdf file to:
Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, [log in to unmask]

In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal 
submissions is now 15 June 2008

Call for submissions for “Digitizing Early Material Culture: from 
Antiquity toModernity”

The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) 
from Canadian and
international scholars and practitioners working on the application of 
digital technology to the study of
material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, 
anthropology, geography, history,
literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early 
Material Culture: from Antiquity to
Modernity.” Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in 
length and may address digital
projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory 
related to the digitization of
material culture to the end of the seventeenth century. Complete papers 
will be circulated in advance
of the conference and participants (presenters and non-presenters) will 
sign up for and participate in
two to three sessions on Thursday, 16 October, having read the complete 
papers (2-3 per session) in
advance. Each session will comprise short introductory summaries by 
presenters (5-10 minutes)
followed by extensive discussion of the circulated texts. Participants 
can expect to receive concrete
and expert advice from other participants as they pool expertise 
(together with our invited speakers) to
consider how the project, tool, or theory can be further developed 
toward publication or
implementation.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, 
which will be available
subsequently through the conference Web-site. Complete papers will be 
published on the conference
Web-site prior to the conference. Contributors to the seminar will also 
be invited to submit papers for
a collection on “Digitizing Early Material Culture, from Antiquity to 
1700,” to be edited by Brent
Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University 
College London) for the New
Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series at MRTS (series 
editors Ray Siemens and
William Bowen).

Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, 
WordPerfect, or pdf file to:
Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, [log in to unmask] In 
consideration of our change in
speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008, and 
complete papers will be due
15 September 2008

Please see the conference website for further developments: 
http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08

-- 
Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask]
List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html>
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