Just a few announcements from the Digital Humanities community to welcome you back from Spring Break! First, a reminder of our upcoming Future Knowledge Series Lecture Event:
Noah Wardrip Fruin
Meaning What We Play: Games, Fiction, and Expressive Processing
Tuesday, March 15th
4 pm
Lumpkin Auditorium, Moore School of Business
(Reception to Follow with FREE FOOD!)
Participate!
Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion. This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn't require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011
This project is bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don't have to be "important"; you don't have to write in English; and you don't have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count! To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011. Apply now.
Job Opportunities
The Scholars' Lab seeks a Web Applications Specialist, a Humanities Design Architect, and (newly posted) a Head of Outreach and Consulting.
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/web-applications-specialist/
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/humanities-design-ux-architect/
http://scholarslab.org/announcements/head-of-outreach-consulting/
The Scholars' Lab engages in intellectual programming and innovative R&D, sponsors a vibrant program for Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities, administers beautiful public spaces for collaborative scholarship, partners with faculty and librarians on new interfaces to digital collections, and offers classes and builds community in the following areas: geospatial research, textual scholarship, statistical analysis, and Web and software development for the digital humanities. We pride ourselves on fostering meaningful, collaborative partnerships with UVa scholars. In addition, all of our faculty and staff are granted 20% of their time to pursue professional development or self-initiated R&D projects.
Learn more about us here:
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/
http://scholarslab.org/
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
HUMANITIES DIVISION
MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Salary: 29,099 30,870 (As at 1 October 2011) A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career. These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford. Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007. We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/). The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/). For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/index/230311/arrs7423j/. Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.
Conference/Workshop/Training Announcements
The 4th annual Palmetto Open Source Software Conference
(http://posscon.org/) being held March 23 - 25 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The cost is $99 and there are ton of workshops and training opportunities.
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology is now accepting applications for the Summer 2011 REU Program. Please distribute this information to your students as this is a Great Opportunity for them. http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/index.php
This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects. Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $500 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 14 students will be selected.
Qualifications:
- interested in a major that is within the computational science umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.) with at least a 2.75 GPA,
- considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major, and
- a US citizen or permanent resident.
Important Dates:
- December 6, 2010: Application opens.
- March 15, 2011: Application deadline.
- March 31, 2011: Notification of decision.
- May 30, 2011 through July 29, 2011: Program dates.
The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus Areas:
- Core Computing Sciences
- Coast to Cosmos
- Material World
- Cultural Computing
- System Science and Engineering
These are broad, and sometimes overlapping, areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects. Our REU students will learn how to use some of the nation's largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.
For more information and to apply, visit: http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/index.php
Announcing Great Lakes THATCamp 2011
Held on the campus of Michigan State University on April 30th and May 1st, Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities & Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in studying, supporting, teaching, researching, creating or otherwise shaping digital humanities, humanistic social sciences, information sciences, new media, and any other allied fields. You can be an academic, a librarian, a geographer an archivist, a developer, a writer, a student (grad or undergrad), a curator, a designer, an educator, a public historian, an archaeologist, or any combination thereof (as most of us are). You can be an expert or a newbie; as long as you have something to talk about and things you want to learn regarding the intersection of the humanities and technology, this is the place to be. The list of “who should attend” is as broad as the field of “digital humanities” itself.
So, No Suits, No Papers…What Do You do?
Show, tell, collaborate, share, and walk away inspired. Sessions at Great Lakes THATCamp will range from software demos to training sessions to discussions of research findings to halfbaked rants. The only real thing we donʼt want to see is people standing up and reading a full blown paper, this isnʼt your typical academic conference – weʼre not here to read or be read to.
Submitting a Proposal
Submitting a proposal to Great Lakes THATCamp is easy. Just fill out the Application form on the website (http://greatlakesthatcamp.org). No formal (lengthy) proposal is required - just a brief description of what you would like to talk about. Unfortunately, we can only accept a max of 100 people, so weʼre going to have to do some vetting. Deadline for submitting is March 11th, 2010.
How Much Does Great Lakes THATCamp Cost?
THATCamp isnʼt your average academic conference, so you arenʼt going to have to pay an expensive conference registration fee. All we ask is that all attendees pay $25 to cover meals (attendees will be provided breakfast & lunch during the event), as well as a t-shirt to commemorate the event.
For more information on Great Lakes THATCamp, go to http://greatlakesthatcamp.org. Any questions can be sent directly to Ethan Watrall (watrall@msu.edu)
Humanities (Dot) Net
Currents in the Digital Humanities
15 June 2011
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
Organized by centerNet and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
In 2009, centerNet and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) created a partnership to jointly pursue activities in the digital humanities over the next five years. The focus of this initiative will initially be the relation of digital technologies to the humanities disciplines and the formation of new collaborations and publics.
As the first major initiative in this partnership, CHCI and centerNet have organized a meeting to collectively examine currents in the digital humanities and provide networking opportunities for each organization's members: to bring together a broad range of organizations and individuals, and enable specialists in the digital humanities to interact with organizations that are interested in developing projects in this exciting new area of scholarship. The meeting will feature plenary speakers John Unsworth (Illinois) and Brian Cantwell Smith (Toronto), panels on Digital Disciplines and Digital Publics, a roundtable discussion on the role of funders and programs that go beyond the academy, and opportunities for discussion. Schedule information can be found via the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org.
The meeting will take place on 15 June 2011 at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute. All centerNet members are encouraged to attend. A small registration fee of $25US will cover the direct costs of the meeting.
In addition, CHCI invites all centerNet members to join their international membership group for their 2011 Annual Meeting, Cities Humanities Archives, on 13-14 June 2011, at the same location. Registration for the CHCI Annual Meeting is $75US per organization plus a $40US fee for the Meeting dinner on the evening of Monday 13 June. The $25US registration fee for the CHCI/centerNet meeting is waived for anyone attending the CHCI meeting.
Complete information on both programs can be found at the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org, including travel and lodging information, and an online registration form.
For more information write to chci@duke.edu or contact centerNet via their website, at http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/
Digital Humanities 2011: June 19-22, 2011
We want to encourage everyone to begin planning for this year's Digital Humanities 2011 Conference (June 19-22,2011). The theme for this year's conference, held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California is: Big Tent Digital Humanities (https://dh2011.stanford.edu/). Consider attending to hear about cutting edge developments in digital humanities.
As always, feel free to contact us to talk about any aspect of Digital Humanities. We love to hear from you!
We hope to see you tuesday at Noah's lecture. Hope you enjoyed your break. And welcome back!!!
Jennifer
