Posted here because there will be material of interest to medievalists at this conference:

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is “New Directions in Text Analysis.” There will also be a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture.”

Invited speakers on “New Directions in Text Analysis” are
* 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

And on “Digitizing Early Material Culture,”
* Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University
* Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles

The conference program and registration information can be found at the CaSTA 2008 Website:
https://ocs.usask.ca/casta08

-- 
Yin Liu
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK  S7N 5A5
Canada
+1 (306) 966-1835
yin.liu@usask.ca