Call for Papers
I. The ACH/ALLC Conference
The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. The theme for the 2003 conference is "Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web," and it will include plenary addresses by leading scholars, including Marie-Laure Ryan, author of "Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media" and "Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory."
Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a corresponding growth in the use of IT resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What new and distinct methodologies is IT now bringing to the humanities? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the near future as a result of the impact of IT? How are IT-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? Now that we have reached the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Web, what are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages, communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? The time is ripe to survey and assess developments to date in humanities computing, and its likely future directions.