Reminders:
CDH Open House
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
4:30-6:30 pm
Russell House Grand Ballroom A
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.
And coming up 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.
Announcements:
Funding Opportunities:
CLIR: Mellon Dissertation Fellowships (Open Now)
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2011 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.
The purposes of this fellowship program are to:
- help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources;
- enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;
- encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and
- provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.
The program will be offering about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships for 2011. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for 9–12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.
Fellowship stipends will support research beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2011, and ending within 12 months of commencing. Fellowships will not be renewed or extended. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their dissertation research without holding teaching or research assistantships or undertaking other paid work. Applicants may apply simultaneously for other fellowships, including Mellon awards, but fellows may not hold other fellowships simultaneously with CLIR's. Fellows may use stipends to meet living expenses, travel costs, and other expenses that enable dissertation research to be carried out, but not to defray tuition.
Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the United States.
For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR’s website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.
National Endowment for the Humanities Deadlines
September
Enduring Questions Course Grants (up to $25,000): September 15th deadline
Documenting Endangered Languages grants (a joint partnership between NSF and the NEH Preservation Division): September 15th deadline
Summer Stipends (up to $6,000): September 30th deadline (campus deadline announced this friday)
Teaching Development Fellowships (up to $21,000): September 30th deadline
October
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects (up to $75,000): October 7th deadline
Collaborative Research (up to $300,000): October 28th deadline
Bridging Cultures: Humanities Scholarship in Mexico and the United States through the Collaborative Research program: October 28th deadline
November
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (up to $400,000): November 16th deadline
For more information on these opportunities, please visit: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html
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Conference Announcement:
"Modeling Advanced Materials and Systems Biology: Building Capabilities and Collaborations for Cyber-Enabled Discovery"
September 20-22, 2010
Madren Conference Center, Clemson University
Who is organizing this conference? This conference is an activity of the South Carolina and Tennessee NSF EPSCoR jurisdictions who have jointly been awarded an EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure RII for "A Desktop to TeraGrid Ecosystem" (NSF EPS-0919440 and EPS-0919436). The Structural Biology and Advanced Materials focus areas were selected by the Vice Presidents for Research at Clemson, USC and MUSC due to their strategic importance for South Carolina's research, education and economic development.
What is the purpose of this conference? The "Desktop to TeraGrid" award is providing the following new resources and capabilities for research faculty and students in South Carolina and Tennessee:
- 6 PhD level computational scientists to help utilize complex software and computational systems
- improved network connections to make the University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Kraken" and Clemson University "Palmetto" supercomputers accessible from remote locations
- special compute nodes on "Palmetto" and a special TeraGrid allocation on "Kraken" providing accounts (ie permission to access) for South Carolina university scientists
The purpose of this conference is to publicize that these people and resources are available, bring scientists (computationally oriented, or interested in computation potential) to discuss research interests and to stimulate collaboration. You will meet scientists who have taken on new problems or begun new areas of investigation by using cyberinfrastructure. Bring posters describing your work and discover ways that you might benefit from newly available resources and expertise. Discover internship opportunities at a national laboratory.
What will happen at this conference?
- Amazingly interesting speakers
- Peter T. Cummings (John R. Hall Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University and in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Amy Apon, Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Arkansas High Performance Computing Center
- Vernon Burton, Professor of History, (The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Bhanu Rekepalli, Computational Scientist (Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- and many more....
- Poster session -- bring your students, start new collaborations
- pre-conference hands-on high performance computing training opportunity
Is this conference just for biology and materials scientists? Not at all -- we have recruited many speakers on the topics of Structural Biology and Advanced Materials --- however, we also have speakers on Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. If your research program could benefit from collaboration with a computational scientist, please bring a poster and participate in the conference.
Is this conference for people who are already "cyber-savvy"? Not necessarily. If you have an interest in new approaches to discover in biology, nanomaterials, chemistry, or how modeling is used in scientific investigations; if you are interested in how history, social sciences, and art are making use of Cyberinfrastructure; if you are looking for people with similar interests who are interested in collaboration, this conference is for you.
Who is welcome to attend this conference? Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Students are especially welcome.
What does it cost? There is no fee to attend this workshop; however, advance registration is required.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER: http://www.scepscoridea.org/EPSCoR/Track2Workshop/
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Call for Student Participation:
Dear Colleagues,
In an effort to encourage student participation in Internet2 Member Meetings we are emphasizing the inclusion of student poster sessions. If you engage undergraduate or graduate students in your organization, we would like you to encourage them to submit a poster to the 2010 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting in November.
In addition to the criteria listed in the call for posters (see below), we include "Innovation"; thus topics we're interested in include unconventional or otherwise innovative solutions to datacenter or network problems, clever hacks, engineering studies, traffic/data analysis to improve service, or anything else you think warrants recognition.
Select Internet2 Industry members are offering travel assistance of up to $500 per student to encourage participation.
If there is an enthusiastic response to this call, we will construct an impartial review panel and award prize(s) to the winning poster(s).
Student poster proposals should follow standard submission process noting student status when listing organizational affiliation. The call for posters and submission form is at http://events.internet2.edu/2010/fall-mm/calls.cfm
Please note that for student posters, the submission deadline has been extended to September 24th.
Please help us bring creative young people to the 2010 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting; they are the future of Internet2 and of our profession.
Sincerely,
H. David Lambert
President and CEO
Internet2
PS: If you have colleagues in any departments who you think may have students interested in this opportunity, please forward this email to them.
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Call for Papers: CFP: The Poetics of Metadata (October 10th deadline)
The Society for Textual Scholarship
Sixteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 16-18, 2011
Penn State University
This panel at the Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship seeks to expand recent directions in media studies by focusing on metadata—data about data—as a category of aesthetic, theoretical, and cultural inquiry.
Recent critical trends in media studies have emphasized various aspects of and approaches to the materiality of technology and media information, with methodologies including digital forensics, platform studies, and critical code studies offering both a deep interest in the close reading of technology and a jumping-off point towards multiple larger literary, cultural, and philosophical questions. This panel aims to extend these approaches through a close focus on metadata. How does metadata relate to data in discursive, informational, and ontological terms? How and to what extent does metadata inform the materiality of technology? What kinds of aesthetic, economic, geopolitical, philosophical, and historical questions emerge when we focus our attention on texts such as caches, server logs, search histories, and other instances of the metadata of the digital? How might contemporary metatdata resemble, remediate, or break from the metadata of earlier periods? How might we write metadata into media history, and how does its presence coincide with or complicate existing narratives of media change?
Papers welcome on all aspects of metadata across all periods and media. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a short c.v. via email by October 10, 2010 to Paul Benzon, Temple University (pbenzon@temple.edu); initial queries also welcome at this address.
All participants in the STS 2011 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at mroland@marylhurst.edu
Paul Benzon
Department of English
1127 Anderson Hall
Temple University
1801 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
pbenzon@temple.edu
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Digital Humanities 2011
Hosted by Stanford University
19-22 June 2011
http://dh2011.stanford.edu
Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2011, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1
Presentations include:
Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)
Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words)
Call for Papers Announcement
I. General Information
The international Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2011 conference, which is Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities. With the Big Tent theme in mind, we especially invite submissions from Latin American scholars, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is in development at http://dh2011.stanford.edu will be developing over the next few weeks. The program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors for presentation at the conference.
Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:
research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium;
computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages;
the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and related areas;
the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;
the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;
The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press.
The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2010. Since the deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on February 15, 2011. The electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010. See below for full details on submitting proposals.
A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the Program Committee next week. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer, Glen Worthey, as soon as possible. His email address is gworthey@stanford.edu. All other proposals should be submitted to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission form on the conference web site.
For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site.
II. Types of Proposals
Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). This year, the committee is approaching submissions in a different way. The type of submission preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee may accept the application in another category based on the number of proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are therefore equal in importance.
Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.
1) Poster presentations
Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with board space to display their work, computer connections may be available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card, or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at various times during the conference, and a separate conference session will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in the digital humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a prize for best poster.
2) Short papers
This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10) minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper. Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper presentation.
3) Long Papers
Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions.
Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Papers than concentrate on a particular application or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature.
4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either:
- Three long papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session;
- A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.
Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference theme.
III. Format of the Proposals
All proposal must be submitted electronically using the online submission form, found at the conference web site at http://dh2011.stanford.edu beginning October 1, 2010. Anyone who has previously used the confTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact dh2011@digitalhumanities.org. As noted above, the electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010.
IV. Information about the conference venue
Situated on the peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, Stanford University is in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from magnificent redwood forests and the vineyards of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Stanford has a special culture and history to offer the Digital Humanities, sharing both rich traditions in the humanities, arts, and sciences, and a deep kinship with the world of computing, beginning well before the late 1930s founding of Hewlett-Packard by two recent Stanford graduates in a Stanford professor's now-legendary garage, and continuing through the founding of Google by two other Stanford graduate students in the late 1990s. We welcome new pioneers of DH2011 to Stanford.
V. Bursaries for young scholars
A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this fall (roughly November 1st). More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks.
VI. International Program Committee
Arianna Ciula (ALLC)
Dominic Forest (SDI-SEMI)
Cara Leitch (SDI-SEMI)
John Nerbonne (ALLC)
Bethany Nowviskie (ACH)
Daniel O'Donnell (SDI-SEMI)
Dot Porter (ACH)
Jan Rybicki (ALLC)
John Walsh (ACH)
Katherine Walter (ACH: Chair)
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Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area (December 15th deadline)
SW/TX PCA/ACA & PCA/ACA Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development.
Possible areas include (but are not limited to):
Alternative reality games
Archiving and artifactual preservation
Competitive/clan gaming
Design and development
Economic and industrial histories and studies
Educational games and their pedagogies
Foreign language games and culture
Advertising (both in-game and out)
Game art/game-based art
Haptics and interface studies
Localization
Machinima
MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
Performance
Pornographic games
Religion and games
Representations of race and gender
Representations of space and place
The rhetoric of games and game systems
Serious games
Strategy games
Table-top games and gaming
Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
Theories of play
Wireless and mobile gaming
For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract embedded in the body of an email. Include contact information (e.g., postal and preferred email address, phone and fax numbers, etc.) and a biographical note about your connection to the topic.
For panel and other proposals: Feel free to query first. Panel and other proposals should include all of the information requested for individual paper proposals, as well as a 100-word statement of the panel’s raison d’etre and any noteworthy organizational features.
As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, archivists, and so forth). Also, unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged.
The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area is international in scope and emphasizes diversity, an openness to innovative approaches and presentations, and the energetic practice of post-conference
collaboration and publication.
Please submit proposals to Judd Ruggill (jruggill@asu.edu) by 12/15/2010. Information on the SW/TX PCA/ACA and its conference can befound at: http://swtxpca.org.
Judd Ruggill, Area Chair
Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice
jruggill@asu.edu
http://www.swtxpca.org
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