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Subject:      Innovative Research Trends Conference - PART ONE

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INNOVATIVE RESEARCH TRENDS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES
University of Alberta
Nov. 27-28 T92

ISSUES:
  - BUILDING TEAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS
  - RETHINKING THE RESEARCH AGENDA
  - SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIPS
 - INNOVATIVE USES OF COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
(INCLUDING THEIR DEMONSTRATION)
  - FACILITATING ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH MODELS

AGENDA


N.B.:Unless otherwise specified, all presentations are no more
than twenty (20) minutes in length followed by a ten-minute
discussion period.

All sessions will be in Corbett Hall Lecture Theatre 2-
39.

Friday, November 27, 1992

OPENING SESSION   (8:30 - 10:00 a.m.)
Chair:Prof. C. R. James
  Vice-President (Research), University of Alberta

Topic:  The Growth of Collaborative Research in the Human
Sciences
Speaker:Dr. Louise Dandurand, Secretary General, SSHRC

Topic: New Research Emergent from Technology: Reconfiguring
the Disciplines
Speaker: Prof. Ian Lancashire
Department of English, New College
Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities
University of Toronto

                                Prof. Elaine Nardocchio
President, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities &
Chair, Department of French
McMaster University

Topic: Opportunities and Challenges Inherent in Recent
Collaborative Trends
Speaker:Prof. R. L. Busch
Associate Vice-President (Research), University of Alberta


REFRESHMENT BREAK

BUILDING TEAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS - SESSION I     (10:30 -
12:30 pm)
Chair:Dr. Cliff Hickey
Director, Canadian Circumpolar Institute

Topic:"Conditions for Successful Team Research InitiativesS
Speaker:Prof. Harold Coward
Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society,
University of Victoria

Topic:"Cross-disciplinary Collaboration: Coming of Age and
Growing Pains"
Speaker:Prof. Allan Dobbs
Director, Centre for Gerontology, University of Alberta &
Member of the Canadian Aging Research Network (CARNET)

Topic: Not a Christmas Tree: Multidisciplinary Research
Efforts and their Problems
Speaker:Prof. Rosemary Ommer
Research Director,
Institute of Social and Economic Research,
Memorial University

Topic:"Crossing Old Borders with New Ideas: Models for East-
West Academic Cooperation -Results of a Canadian-Russian
Joint Venture in Multimedia Program Development"
Speaker:Prof. Samuel D. Cioran
Director, Humanities Computing Centre
McMaster University

Lunch:  12:30 - 2:00pm
Location:       Conference site

RETHINKING THE RESEARCH AGENDA - SESSION  II  (2:00 -
3:30pm)
Chair:Prof. Baha Abu-Laban
Professor of Sociology & Associate Dean (Research),
Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Topic:"The Case for Research Collaboration Across Council
Boundaries"
Speaker:Prof. Kenneth D. Craig
Killam Research Fellow, Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia


Topic:"The University of Alberta-Based Government Interchange
Program"
Speakers:Ms. Phyllis Woolley-Fisher
Director, Government Interchange Program,
Faculty of Business, University of Alberta

Mr. David Hudson
Deputy Minister, Alberta Consumer & Corporate Affairs

Topic:"Alternatives to the Scholarly Book and Article"
Speakers:Ms. Sandra Woolfrey
   Director, Wilfred Laurier University Press

                Prof. David Marples
                Department of History, University of Alberta

REFRESHMENT BREAK

SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIPS(4:00 - 5:30pm)
Chair:Mr. Steve Karp
        PhD Candidtate, Department of History, President,
                                        Graduate Students Association,
University of Alberta

Topic:"Organizational and Disciplinary Constraints Affecting
the Supervisory Relationship"
Speaker:Prof. Louis Maheu
        Vice-Dean, Professeur Titulaire, D partement de
        Sociologie, Facult  d'Etudes Sup rieures,
        Universit  de Montr al

Topic:"Optimizing the Dissertation Experience"
Speakers:Prof. T. Elrod
        Associate Professor, Department of Marketing & Economics
        Analysis,Faculty of Business, University of Alberta

                                        Ms. Joan White
        PhD Candidate, Faculty of Business,University of Alberta

Topic:"Collaborative and apprenticing arrangements at the
Centre for the Editing of Early Canadian Texts"
Speaker:Prof. Mary J.Edwards, Director,
                                        CEECT,Carleton University


Time:Cocktails (6:30pm)
Dinner:7:00pm
Location:Stollery Centre, Faculty of Business
Keynote Speech:"Jumping the Wall"
Speaker:   Dr. Matthew Spence
President,
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1992

INNOVATIVE USES OF RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
I(8:30 - 10:00am)
Chair:Prof. Mohan Matthen
Department of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Humanities
and Fine Arts),  University of Alberta

Topic:"ICONCLASS in Pictorial Information Systems"
Speaker:Prof. Peter van Huisstede
Researcher, Department of Computers and Humanities,
University of Utrecht


Michael Strangelove
Department of Religious Studies
University of Ottawa

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