Crosscurrents: Art and Power in Eastern Africa

Project for the Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa (PASALA)
Ninth Stanley Conference on African Art. March 26 - 28, 1999

For a comprehensive list of conferences on Africa, see Conferences on Africa (Columbia University)

ASIS 1998 Annual Conference

Designing DisciplineOriented Information Systems Two Models: Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) and the Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies (CERAS)
The session provides two different subjectoriented models of webbased collaborative development in designing and building distributed information systems, AgNIC and CERAS.

The University of Iowa Center for Electronic Resources in African studies is a virtual space of scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive format. Presenters will focus on structural, technical, and operational aspects of the Center's development within the context of collaborative crossdisciplinary partnerships. Special projects in various stages of development will be highlighted as well as funding strategies for developing specialized digital centers such as CERAS.

Barbara I. Dewey, University of Iowa
Toby Lyles, University of Iowa.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Iowa
Rijn Templeton, University of Iowa

Reactor: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Nancy L. Eaton, The Pennsylvania State University, Moderator