In June CDH was formally recognized by the USC Board of Trustees. As the formal announcement from Dean Fitzpatrick of the College of Arts and Sciences remarked, “This recognition by the Board of Trustees speaks to the tremendous intellectual advancements being undertaken by humanities, arts, and computational faculty at the University of South Carolina in their research and teaching. The University of South Carolina is a uniquely collaborative institution and CDH will be at the core of our continued growth and leadership." CDH would like to echo Dean Fitzpatrick's remarks: each of you deserve a full measure of thanks for your efforts over the past two years.
In July CDH welcomed its new Associate Director, Jennifer Guiliano, to our staff. Jennifer comes to us from the University of Illinois and has hit the ground running. From meetings all across campus to heading up our relaunch, Jennifer's schedule thus far has confirmed that Digital Humanities is a fast-paced, exciting area and that USC faculty are passionate about their research.
August has been a whirlwind of new projects and redesigns. In a few short weeks, CDH will be completing its summer-long website revision, to be launched at the first of our exciting September events.
CDH Open House
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
4:30-6:30 pm
Russell House Grand Ballroom A
We begin with our first-ever Open House, where you can enjoy refreshments and explore the work being done in Digital Humanities by faculty and students from across campus. We'd like to invite each of you and your friends and colleagues to join us in the celebration. Attached is a digital flyer for distribution to your departmental listservs, friends, and colleagues.
We continue the Center's launch the following day as we welcome the first speaker in our 2010-2011 Future Knowledge Speaker Series, sponsored by the Office of Information Technology.
Alan Liu, "From Reading to Social Computing"
Thursday, September 9, 2010
4-5:30 pm
Lumpkin Auditorium (8th floor), Moore School of Business
Alan Liu's talk will explore how literary study can incorporate the new social networking and other socially-oriented technologies to recover, and extend, the collective dimension of experiencing literature. Please join us for the talk and reception to follow.
On September 30th, CDH will continue its series with a talk by Meredith McGill and Andrew Parker that asks "How do new media change the kinds of questions we can ask of literary texts?" Please join us for this exciting duo.
Meredith McGill and Andrew Parker
Thursday, September 30, 2010
4-5:30 pm
Lumpkin Auditorium (8th Floor), Moore School of Business.
Please see the attached flyer for additional information on both talks as well as our spring guests, Colin Allen (Feb. 9th) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (March 15). Hard-copies of this flyer are available for posting in your offices, departments, and organizations by contacting jenguiliano@gmail.com
CDH Staff and Friends are also invited to support these exciting campus events:
Four Motives for Cultural Institutions: Grounded Trust in Libraries and Museums Series: The Hold of Knowledge
Conversations with David Carr
Sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science
Friday, September 17, 2010
2-4:00pm
Davis College, Room 112
On four occasions during Fall 2010, the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina in Columbia will offer a series titled “Conversations with David Carr,” devoted to the foundations of public cultural institutions, their value in contemporary American culture, learning in adult life, and possible futures for services and experiences in libraries and museums for the early years of the Twenty-first Century. September's conversation will explore: Generative Collections and Constructive Acts; Critical Thinking and Critical Use; Kinds of Knowledge, Kinds of Ignorance; Human Relationships with the Unknown.
“The National Digital Newspaper Program”
Presentation by Deborah Thomas, Library of Congress
Thursday, September 23, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library (Enter through the Thomas Cooper Library)
University of South Carolina
1322 Greene St.
The University Libraries invites you to a special presentation by Deborah Thomas, Program Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) at the Library of Congress. The NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is responsible for Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov), a freely searchable database of U.S. newspapers published between 1860 and 1922. Ms. Thomas will speak about the goals of this important program and its impact on preserving our nation's cultural memory.
In 2009, the University Libraries' Digital Collections department was awarded a $350,000 grant from NEH to establish the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program (http://sc.edu/library/digital/newspaper/index.html). The goal of the project is to scan, enhance, and deliver an estimated 100,000 pages from select South Carolina newspapers to the Library of Congress by 2011. The first digitized newspaper, the Columbia Phoenix (1865-78), will be available on the Chronicling America Web site in September, 2010. Eighteen newspapers were selected for this grant cycle, including the Reconstruction-era African American papers the Free Press and Georgetown Planet. The event is free and open to the public. A Q&A session on the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program will follow Thomas’ presentation. Directions and parking information: http://www.sc.edu/library/tcllocate.html
We encourage you to also consider these job and fellowship opportunities in Digital Humanities:
Director of Public History/Senior Professor, University of Central Floria (ongoing)
Arts and Humanities Department Director, University of Minnesota Libraries (ongoing)
Director, Humanities & History Library Division, Columbia University Libraries (September 6th deadline)
Institute for Historical Research, University of London (Sept. 7th deadline)
Humanities Research Associate at UNC-Chapel Hill (September 31 deadline)
Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (October 1 deadline)
Junior Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows at American Academy of Arts & Sciences (October 15 deadline)
Open-Rank Tenure Track Faculty Professor New Media and Documentary Investigation at Georgia State University (November 15 deadline)
Assistant Professor in Design and Social Media at Indiana University (December 1 deadline)
Be on the lookout for the next installment of our Announcements post, which will include details about a new campus-wide opportunity in digital humanities, and we hope to see you September 8th at our Open House to celebrate us Digital Humanities on campus.
