AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JANUARY 3-6, 2002
San Francisco
H-NET: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE
Affiliated Sessions
Visit H-Net in Booth 424 in the Hilton's Continental Ballroom. Hours:
Thursday,
January 3, 3:00-7:00 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, January 4 and 5, 9:00
a.m.-6:00-
p.m.; and Sunday, January 6, 9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, 3 January 2002
9 am-5 pm: St. Francis, Ascot Room. H-Net Council Meeting
Friday, 4 January 2002
9:30-11:30 a.m. St. Francis, California East. Session 1.
Combating the
Digital Content Divide: The Internet and Global Histories
Chair and Comment: John Eadie, Michigan State University
"Extending Technological Resources to Indigenous Peoples Around
the World:
NativeWeb"
Marc Becker, Truman State University
"Building a Multi-Lingual Multi-Media Digital Library of West
African
Sources"
David Robinson, Michigan State University,
Cheikh Babou, Michigan State University
Bartek Plichta, Michigan State University
"Making Many Pasts Public: The Voices of Ordinary People on the
Internet"
Kelly Schrum, George Mason University
Comment: Patrick Manning, Northeastern University
12:30-2:00 p.m. St. Francis, Colonial Room. H-Net Editors
Lunch
2:30-4:30 p.m. St. Francis, California East. Session 2.
Recovering Hidden
Primary Resources: Harnessing the Power of New Technologies for a New
Generation
of History Scholarship
Chair and Comment: Janice Reiff, University of California at Los
Angeles
"'Happenings': Opening the
Doors of Historical Perception for
Contemporary
American History"
Rick Dodgson, Ohio University
"Getting to the People: Oral History Research and Techniques in
1930s
Rural Georgia"
Kenneth J. Bindas, Kent State University
"Mixing History and Math in Late Medieval Lübeck"
Judith Potter, New York University
"
Recovering Hidden Primary Resources:
Harnessing the power of new technologies for a new
generation of History scholarship
"
Anne Rothfeld, National Archives and Records Administration
Comment: The Audience
Saturday, 5 January 2002
9:30-11:30 a.m. St. Francis, California East. Session 3.
Historical
Scholarship in the Information Age: Balancing Quality and Access
Chair and Commentator: Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
"Alternatives to Pay-For-View: The Case for Open Access to
Scholarship
to Historical Research and Scholarship"
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, Michigan State University
Melanie Shell-Weiss, Michigan State University
Paul Turnbull, Australian National University and James Cook
University
Commentators:
Paul Rich, Stanford University
Michael Jensen, National Academy Press and technical partner, History
Cooperative
Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Renfrew Christie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
2:30-4:30 p.m., St. Francis, California East. Session 4.
Historical Research
on the Internet: The Challenge and Promise of Developing Online Material
and
Collaborative Scholarship
Chair: Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
"The Internet as the Basis
for Collaborative Research"
Vicky H. Speck, ABC-CLIO
"The Historical
Process in the Digital Age: Promises and
Pitfalls"
Wendy Duff, University of Toronto
"Who
Will Lead the Revolution? Life History and E-Scholarship:
Content,
Theory, and Possibilities"
Marilyn Levine, Lewis-Clark State College
"Ensuring E-Quality for E-Scholarship: The Charles Babbage
Institute's
Software History Project"
Philip L. Frana, University of Minnesota
Comment: The Audience
8:00-11:00 p.m. Location TBA. H-Net Reception - all are
invited.
Sunday, 6 January 2002
8:30-10:30 a.m. St. Francis, California East. Session 5. The
Bill Cecil-Fronsman
Memorial Panel on Teaching Innovation: Using Information Technologies to
Pioneer
New Materials for Teaching and Learning"
Chair and Comment: Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
"Map
Power: Using Computers to Make and Teach with Maps"
Sara Tucker, Washburn University
"Reflections on Teaching U.S. Political History in the Electronic
Class
Room"
Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
"Using Multimedia to Do, Teach and Think About History"
Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University
Comment: Paula Petrik, George Mason University
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