INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
 
September 25-28, 1998  
 

BERGEN, NORWAY 1998 

 
 Final program with abstracts  
 
  Main program: 

Workshops, Monday, September 28 

Exhibit, September 25-27 

Webcasting of the talks 

Program committee

 Updated: Sep. 21, 1998 (click Reload for latest version) 

Friday, September 25, 1998

11:00-12:30
Auditorium 1 Opening ceremony
11:00-11:20 Opening address
Per Nyborg, secretary general of the Norwegian council of universities
11:20-11:30 Grav-IT-y: Musical performance by Bergmund Skaslien
11:30-12:25 Invited speech
Diane Harley: The Humanities and Technology Project at the University of California at Berkeley
12:25-12:30 Opening of artwork installation The Globe Village by Gisle Frøysland
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:25
Auditorium 1 Keynote speech
Christian-Emil Ore: Advanced computing in the humanities: Why should one bother?
14:30-17:20
Auditorium 1 Reshaping humanities education in a digital age
14:30-15:00 Paul Mc Kevitt: SuperinformationhighwayS and IntelliMedia 2000+: bringing together humanities, science, and engineering
15:05-15:35 Espen Aarseth: From humanities computing to humanistic informatics: Creating a field of our own
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Pat Byrne & Sharon Flynn: Designing an IT course for humanities students
16:35-17:05 Kolbjørn Slethei: Can education bridge the gap between the cultures?
17:05-17:20 Discussion
Auditorium 2 Sharing content across institutions
14:30-15:00 Britt Kroepelien: Art on the Internet: A modern approach that brings exhibits to life
15:05-15:35 Joan Campas & César Carreras: Digital resources and network learning: a course on art history in the UOC
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Jan Oldervoll: Digital archives - A way of integrating history teaching in Europe
16:35-17:05 Bendik Rugaas: Challenges for libraries as humanities resources
17:05-17:20 Discussion
18:25 Departure at hotels for guided tour to Håkonshallen
19:00 Reception in Håkonshallen, hosted by the City of Bergen. Music by Jørgen Knudsen

Saturday, September 26, 1998

9:00-9:40
Auditorium 1 Keynote speech 
Lou Burnard: Computing for, in, and of the Humanities: an Oxford perspective
9:45-12:30
Auditorium 1 Constructing digital sites
9:45-10:50 PANEL, Cressida Chappell, Oscar Struijvé, Arne Solli: From on-line to on-target: issues in the development and uptake of usable resources on the web
10:50-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 PANEL, Harold Short (chair): Digital resources and agencies for the humanities
Auditorium 2 Curriculum innovation - impact on disciplines
9:45-10:15 Mark Lawrence Kornbluh: Building international communities of scholars and teachers: H-Net, the Internet,and the university of the 21st century
10:20-10:50 Michael F. McTear & Georgios Kouroupetroglou: Emerging multidisciplinary educational issues in the area of spoken dialogue communication
10:50-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Frank Austermühl: Between Babel and bytes - The discipline of translation in the information age
11:50-12:20 Belinda Maia: LETRAC: Language engineering for translation curricula
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-16:30
Auditorium 1 Course development on the Internet
13:30-14:00 Paul J.E. Dekker: Teaching 'live' on the Internet
14:05-14:35 Mark Huckvale, Chris Bowerman, Anders Eriksson, Mike Rosner, Maria Wolters: Catalysing web-based teaching with tutorial components
14:40-15:10 Frode Ulvund: Internet and teaching: Lost in cyberspace or a dynamic junction?
15:15-15:45 Authors: M. T. Blasco, J. L. Barrio, Y. A. Dimitriadis,C.A. Osuna, O. M. González, M.J. Verdú & D. Terán: From co-operative learning towards the virtual class: An experience in composition techniques
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:25 Break
Auditorium 2 Using digital text resources
13:30-14:00 Luis Guerra Salas: Research in language and literature: Old problems, new solutions?
14:05-14:35 Anthony McEnery & J. Baker: Integrating the Intranet into the Teaching of Linguistics
14:40-15:10 G. Philokyprou, Anastasia Christopoulou, Antonis Tsakmakis & Martin Albrecht: The PRODICOS project
15:15-15:45 Joseph N. Bell: The Orientalist Journal as multilingual corpus and pedagogical tool
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:25 Break
16:25-17:20
Auditorium 1 Keynote speech (by videoconference) 
Janet Murray: The God in the machine: Four design principles for creating educational resources in the humanities
18:55 Departure from hotels to Fløibanen.
19:10, 19:20, 19:30  departures of funicular.
20:00 Banquet at Fløyen. Music by Mannskoret Arme Riddere.

Sunday, September 27, 1998

9:15-9:55
Auditorium 1 Keynote speech 
Daniel Apollon: Reincarnation or extinction of humanities in the digital age?
10:00-12:30
Auditorium 1 Cross-border curricula
10:00-10:30 Andy Way: Towards the standardisation of curricula in computational linguistics in Europe
10:35-11:05 Valerie Hazan & Wim van Dommelen: International strategies in phonetics education
11:05-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 PANEL, Harold Short (chair): Computing in Masters-level courses in the Humanities
Auditorium 2 Transnational networking
10:00-10:30 Jørgen Bang: Developing a model for academic collaboration using ICT
10:35-11:05 Gerrit Bloothooft: Beyond European co-operation in speech communication sciences
11:05-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 PANEL, Daniel Apollon (chair): Teaching literature in the information age; 
Domingo Sánchez-Mesa Martínez: Communication and cultural diversity in ODL: from a wired learner to a transnational citizen;
José Lambert; Claudio Dondi; Annemie Boonen
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:25
Auditorium 1 Keynote speech 
Koenraad De Smedt: Beyond courseware as giftpaper: Computers as exploratory learning tools for the humanities
14:30-17:20
Auditorium 1 Scenarios for the digital classroom
14:30-15:00 Carsten Jopp & Espen Aarseth: CALLMOO: An Internet platform for language learning
15:05-15:35 Signe Marie Sanne: Pedagogical programs - from testing to presentation of curriculum
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Belinda Maia: Information technology in the translation classroom
16:35-17:05 R. De Keyser, K. Rogiers & Frederik Truyen: The Maerlant-project on computer-assisted learning of historical skills: Can hypertext supersede programmed instruction?
17:05-17:15 Discussion
Auditorium 2 Co-operation tools for humanities
14:30-15:00 Serge A. Yablonsky: Development of a Russian CALL system on the WWW
15:05-15:35 Vladimir A. Fomichov & Olga S. Fomichova: A new, informational-cybernetic paradigm for the preparation of future teachers in languages, literature, and art
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Bente Opheim: Building a virtual university: The importance of the humanities
16:35-17:05 Herbert Hrachovec: FAQ: Computers and philosophy
17:05-17:15 Discussion
17:15-17:20 Auditorium 1: Closing

Papers accepted but not presented

Jim Everett: Teaching history in an emerging digital learning environment - A British perspective

Tatyana Yudina: The Russian inter-university information and research center

Milena Slavcheva & Boyanka Zaharieva: Standardization and automation in the production and management of electronic text resources

Monday, September 28, 1998

Workshops 9 - 17h. There is separate registration (but no separate fee) for the workshops.

Exhibit

The exhibit is accessible from the conference start to the end of the sessions on Sunday. See the preliminary program of demonstrations.

Webcasting

The conference aims to webcast the presentations. The talks will be broadcast live as well as recorded. Anyone using a web browser with a media player plug-in will be able to "attend" the conference, either in real time, or after the end of the conference and select the papers one wish to hear. If any of the speakers wish not to be broadcasted or recorded, this will of course be respected.