CaSTA 2008 (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon from 16-18 October 2008 and will feature two main components: a pre-conference workshop on “Digitizing Material Culture” and the conference proper on the theme of “New Directions in Text Analysis.” This combination of interests is intended to foster connections between scholars working in textual analysis and those working in other areas of humanities computing.

CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. We are including sessions that would be of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation, and will offer grants to students who travel to attend the conference.

The series of CaSTA conferences grew out of TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research, a major CFI initiative) for the purpose of networking and communicating innovative research among scholars working in the field of digital text analysis

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