The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) at the University of Kansas welcomes applications to participate in the NEH-funded Public Digital Humanities Institute, June 6-11, 2022, to receive training and support in public digital humanities and academic-community collaborations. Applications are due to idrh@ku.edu by Monday, January 31, 2022 at 11:59 PM (US Central Time).
In order to focus on the under-resourced nexus of the digital humanities and public humanities, and in order to provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity for academics and their community partners to receive training together, we are inviting participants to attend in teams of two. We will host 24 participants, representing twelve collaborative digital humanities projects between the community and the academy.
This week-long summer Institute will provide foundational knowledge, skills and resources to successfully advance twelve public humanities projects, increasing their longevity, visibility and impact. This will be followed by a year of further online training, support and discussion, with a final symposium and showcase in June 2023.
Faculty from Seton Hall University and Ramapo College of NJ will be presenting on the ways they have incorporated digital humanities tools and practices into their courses through projects and assignments. The presenters come from a variety of disciplines: Psychology, English, Sociology, Languages, History, and more. Students in their courses acquired skills such as text annotation, data visualization, podcasting, mapping, and data narration. Funding for this work was provided by grants from Bringing Theory to Practice and the Booth Ferris Foundation. We hope you’re able to join us to learn how DH tools, applications, and approaches can enhance teaching and learning.
This event is open to faculty from Seton Hall University, Ramapo College, and member schools of the NJ Digital Humanities Consortium. For more information, contact Mary Balkun (mary.balkun@shu.edu). Please share with others who may be interested.
Creative, Critical, Editing: A Virtual Symposium | 22 – 30 April 2021
Creative critical approaches are having a growing impact on how we do research in the humanities – from practice-based work in art, drama and performance, to creative writing, visible and interventionist modes of translation and annotation, autoethnography and experimental ways of curating archival resources. At the same time, the digital humanities are offering new avenues for disseminating creative critical work – enabling a mixture of textual, audible and visual formats, interactive elements, audience participation and a more international scope. But the rise of the digital has also taught us to appreciate the materiality of the book in new ways even as Zoom reminds us of the joys of personal interactions.
We propose to make connections between these various developments through the concept of ‘editing’ – a practice that can take many forms: an edited collection of essays, a scholarly edition of canonical texts (from the Bible to contemporary poetry), an artistic practice (artist’s books, exhibitions), an advertising gimmick (a special edition of scented candles), a form of censorship (redacting out sensitive material). We are hoping to bring together scholars and critics, archivists and librarians, artists and creative practitioners, textual and digital editors and other thinkers – within and beyond the academy – in a virtual symposium that will explore the work of editing in its various facets.
We will start off with a virtual roundtable on 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:30, featuring:
Ruth Abbott – Caroline Bassett – Deborah Bowman – Susan Greenberg Tim Mathews – Wim van Mierlo – Marta Werner – John Schad
This will be followed by interactive workshops – on Friday 23 April, Thursday 29 April and Friday 30 April – where we can put some of our ideas into practice. We will use Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Mask of Anarchy as a base-text, but you are welcome to bring in your own materials. We hope to create an environment in which you can share your own work, try out editing in new forms, and generate ideas for future projects and collaborations.
If you would like to take part in the workshops, please submit a statement of approx. 150 words outlining your current research/practice and what you hope to gain from participating in the Symposium. We do not expect you to have any prior experience of editing or creative critical practice – all we request is curiosity and a willingness to experiment. If there are more applicants than places, priority will be given to students and early-career scholars and practitioners whose work has the potential to benefit the most from attending a workshop.
Please submit your expression of interest to IESEvents@sas.ac.uk by 14 March 2021; make sure to include the event title in the subject. If you have any questions, please contact Mathelinda Nabugodi on mn539@cam.ac.uk.
Organizers
Christopher Ohge, Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature, Institute of English Studies
Mathelinda Nabugodi, Leverhulme Trust/Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
A short course on Digital Scholarly Editing will be offered virtually by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. It will survey the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, complemented with training on the fundamentals of creating digital editions. It aims to provide an understanding of the history of editorial practice, including the study of manuscripts, the theory of copy text editing, and the decisions relating to textual and contextual apparatus that inform the design of an edition. We will focus on encoding documents in Markdown and in XML using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Students will also learn about HTML, CSS, and publishing options.
Scholarly editing involves various philosophical commitments, arguments, and interpretive strategies for organizing and publishing texts and works. The aim of this short course is to combine the how of editing with the why, as well as the pragmatic functions of editions in the digital space, emphasizing thinking tools, in addition to technological ones.
Courses fees are £175 (standard) and £100 (student). Register here
Friday, October 30, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online synchronous (Instructors: Caterina Agostini, Rutgers Italian, and Danielle Reay, Drew University Library)
This workshop will explore the International Image Interoperability Framework (https://iiif.io/) and the work of the IIIF community to create universal standards for describing and sharing images online. With common viewing platforms, we can obtain interoperable digital image content to display, edit, annotate, and share images on the web, for example artworks, maps, and musical scores.
Programming for Humanists, run at Texas A&M will offer Zoom-based courses this fall. Registration is open now and closes on September 2. For details, and to register, see http://programming4humanists.tamu.edu/overview/
Digital Editions, Start to Finish (8 weeks)
This course is designed for Humanities scholars who wish to create a digital edition of a text that is scholarly quality and can be peer-reviewed for promotion and tenure and/or used in classes for students who need access to rare texts. Students will learn all the basics of what Elena Pierazzo has described as “a new publication form called the ‘digital documentary edition’ which is composed of the source, the outputs and the tools able to produce and display them.” In this class, we will spend three weeks learning TEI encoding, the code used to create scholarly digital editions, as we will explain, and then will learn how to transform them into web pages using oXygen. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Readings and lessons assigned before class meetings will take approximately two hours per week to complete. ($500)
HTML and CSS (6 weeks)
This class is for absolute beginners who know nothing about the code that lies behind the web sites as seen in browsers such as Google Chrome or Safari. There are other sources available for learning HTML and CSS, but in this class, students will actually create HTML and CSS files during class time, along with the instructor; making mistakes is integral to learning the coding system, and so going over mistakes is an essential part of the course curriculum. The class consists of workshops in which everyone follows along, making HTML pages and styling them with CSS (Cascading Stylesheets). When problems arise, students will share their screens with everyone, and we will troubleshoot together. We will be using oXygen to create and edit both HTML and CSS. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Note: Students who do not already have server space for web publishing will need to purchase or activate via your university web-accessible server space (e.g., Reclaim Hosting $30 per year, not covered by the registration fee). Assignments requiring an hour to complete will be given at the end of every class to prepare you for the next one. ($400)
Taking both classes costs only $750 or $2,500 for 5 participants from the same institution.
You
are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research
Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City
University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce
participants to core digital humanities skills, and help you develop
those skills as part of a growing community of leaders at universities,
libraries, archives, museums, and scholarly societies.
Apply here. Applications must be received by March 2, 2020.
What to expect:
8 days of in-person workshops focused on foundational digital research skills like the command line, data and ethics, introduction to python, and mapping,
mentoring to help grow local partnerships and launch your local version of the Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
sharing your experience through a final report and evaluations that will be included in our Guide to Leading Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
a stipend of $3,600.
Who should apply?
We
encourage applications from humanities scholars from a wide range of
institutional types, including but not limited to universities,
community colleges, libraries, archives, museums, historical
associations and who fill an array of professional roles (graduate
students, experienced faculty, librarians, administrators, museum
curators, archivists and more). No previous technical experience is
required—applications will not be evaluated based on familiarity with
existing technologies.
If you have questions about the form, the application process, or the evaluation criteria, see our application page or contact info@dhinstitutes.org.
The
Digital Humanities Research Institute is made possible through generous
funding from the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for
the Humanities and with the support of the Provost’s Office of the CUNY
Graduate Center and GC Digital Initiatives.
Do you want to become a DHRI Community Leader? Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help you develop those skills as part of a growing community of leaders at universities, libraries, archives, museums, and scholarly societies.
8
days of in-person workshops focused on foundational digital research
skills like the command line, data and ethics, introduction to python,
and mapping,
mentoring to help grow local partnerships and launch your local version of the Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
sharing
your experience through a final report and evaluations that will be
included in our Guide to Leading Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
a stipend of $3,600.
Who should apply?
We
encourage applications from humanities scholars from a wide range of
institutional types, including but not limited to universities,
community colleges, libraries, archives, museums, historical
associations and who fill an array of professional roles (graduate
students, experienced faculty, librarians, administrators, museum
curators, archivists and more). No previous technical experience is
required—applications will not be evaluated based on familiarity with
existing technologies.
The
Digital Humanities Research Institute is made possible through generous
funding from the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for
the Humanities and with the support of the Provost’s Office of the CUNY
Graduate Center and GC Digital Initiatives.
Engaging Geography in the Humanities is a three-week Summer Institute to be held at Northeastern University from July 6 – 24, 2020.
The Institute will explore the possibilities and productive tensions at
the intersection of geography and the humanities. By engaging with
readings, lectures, discussions, workshops, and field visits, the
Institute will introduce scholars teaching in the humanities (and
related disciplines) to concepts and methods from geography, as
participants consider how these approaches can enhance their own
research and teaching.
The poet Walt Whitman writes that in the urban environment we see
“the past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable
together.” Inspired by this idea, the Institute will use Boston as our
classroom to explore the layered nature of space and place, as well as
how Boston and the region have served as setting and inspiration for a
range of philosophical and literary works. At the same time, the
geographic perspectives and spatial methods developed here will help
participants engage more deeply with their immediate surrounds, as well
as distant locations.
Through a series of workshops, the Institute will introduce
participants to the emerging field of digital humanities and some of its
possibilities for spatial representation and analysis. Participants
will be exposed to digital projects and receive hands-on training on
tools such as 3D modeling, web mapping, and Geographical Information
System (GIS). In addition to providing practical skills, sessions and
workshops will critically examine the meanings of maps and uses of
digital technology in humanistic inquiries.
Meanwhile, the Institute will build on Northeastern’s commitment to
public humanities and the experiential liberal arts to facilitate more
public facing engagements through popular writing, digital media, and
memorialization and public history projects.
Our goal is to create a diverse cohort of college and university faculty interested in exploring how geographic perspectives and spatial methods can enhance their own teaching and research. The Institute welcomes scholars in the humanities (and related fields) who currently engage themes of space and place in their work, as well as those interested in learning how to do so.
We would like to acknowledge the territory on which Northeastern
University stands, which is that of The Wampanoag and The Massachusett
People. While visiting campus, please honor the continued efforts of the
Native and Indigenous community leaders who work to preserve the
history and culture of the tribes which make up Eastern Massachusetts
and the surrounding region. Today, Boston is still home to many
indigenous peoples, including the Mashpee Wampanoag and Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and many more in our region.
We are inviting proposals from NJ, NY and from around the region for the NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2020 to take place on Friday, April 17, 2020. Please see below the call for proposals or here. Deadline to submit an abstract is March 1.
CFP: NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2020Friday, April 17, 2020, 11:30am-2:00pmDigital Humanities at NJIT (DH@NJIT) invites proposals for the annual DH Showcase. The Showcase brings together researchers, scholars, librarians, and technologists in the humanities from around the region to present current projects and research work, while investigating broader ideas in the digital humanities as a growing field of intellectual inquiry.
The Showcase is interested in proposals for short papers and digital posters/demonstrations. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Big Data in digital humanities
Digital approaches to textual studies
Public digital humanities
Creative coding and electronic literature
Spatial analysis, mapping
Digital art/architectural history
Sound
Digital accessibility
Digital humanities pedagogy
Preserving and sustaining digital humanities projects
Digital gaming, critical play, game design, and gaming culture
Studies on the uses and behaviors of social media sites users
Community-based online media practices
Digital humanities project design/management
Institutional DH partnerships and project-based collaborations
We
hope the Showcase will stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue and cross
traditional professional barriers. We are particularly interested in
international and underserved populations’ perspectives on digital
humanities and computer science.
Interested applicants are invited to submit a title and 200-300 word abstract along with a 2-page CV by March 1, 2020 using the Submission Form (https://forms.gle/e1fPovrf4JHTSo8z8). NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2020 welcomes submissions in the following formats:
