Conferences – DH @ Ramapo College of New Jersey

PCCC-Ramapo Experiential Learning and Digital Humanities Conference

Passaic County Community College and Ramapo College will hold an Experiential Learning and Digital Humanities Conference, January 26, 2024, from 10am-5pm @Pavillion 1, Ramapo College

Professors from Passaic County Community College and Ramapo College presented class projects they carried out in the Fall 2023 semester in a one day conference.

These professors worked over two semesters as members of Experiential Learning Community of Practice and/or Digital Humanities Community of Practice sponsored by PROSPER Grant to develop and implement hands-on engagement aspects in their class projects. These Communities of Practice also encouraged collaboration among their members, creating multi- disciplinary, multi-campus, and multi-layered class projects, which have been a great success in engaging students and local communities. Professors will present details of their class projects, some with their students, and further discuss their future projects that can be open for new collaboration. For questions, contact Neriko Doerr (ndoerr@ramapo.edu).

Presentation Schedule

10:00am-10:30am: Opening Remarks, Neriko Doerr—Ramapo College
10:30am-11am: The Many Faces of “My”crobes! Role of Bacteria in Health and Disease (Kokila Kota—Ramapo College)
11am-11:30am: Finding Ramapo Places (Roark Atkinson—Ramapo College)
11:30am-12pm: World Sustainability Projects and Reflections (Karin LaGreca—Ramapo College)
12pm-12:30pm: Group Work CAN be Enjoyable: Collaborative Experiential Learning in Organizational Analysis (Rikki Abzug—Ramapo College)
12:30pm-1pm: Crafting Your Path with The Comprehensive Business Plan (Khloud Kourani—PCCC)
1pm-1:30pm: Working with Indigenous Peoples: Civic Engagement through Experiential Learning in an Anthropology Class (Neriko Doerr—Ramapo College)
1:30pm-3pm Lunch
3pm-3:30pm: Educating Community Organizers: Service-Learning and Scholar-Activist Pedagogy (Lena Delgado de Torres—PCCC)
3:30pm-4pm: Best Practices and Pedagogy in Digital Sociology (Lena Delgado de Torres—PCCC)
4pm-4:30pm: Using Omeka Classic with Digital Humanities Assignments, (Cathy Moran Hajo—Ramapo College)
4:30pm-5pm: Creating Digital Exhibits in Omeka using the American History Textbook Project (Christina Connor—Ramapo College)

Building Digital Humanities Symposium

‘Building Digital’ Humanities’ is a free online symposium produced by Western Sydney University in conjunction with Gale, part of Cenage Group, and the Pondicherry University.

It will explore the conditions in which Digital Humanities (DH) can flourish at institutional, inter-institutional, national and supra-national level, considering issues such as building networks, infrastructures, research and industry collaborations, public engagement and citizen scholarship, and career paths for individual researchers.

DH has presented a set of novel issues and dilemmas for both Humanities scholars and their collaborators, partners and facilitators in venues as diverse as the classroom, the library, industry, IT, government agencies and university research offices.

As DH practices have increasingly challenged the lone scholar model of humanities research and embedded computational technologies at the heart of much cutting-edge scholarship, new challenges have arisen around infrastructures, collaborative models, approaches to scholarly attribution and accreditation, data-sharing, data-preservation, access to data, and appropriate training and career structures.

The choices policy makers, administrators and individual researchers take in response to these challenges have real world consequences, shaping, facilitating, or impeding individual careers, research agendas, or institutional or national initiatives.

The purpose of this symposium – the first globally to address these themes directly – is to explore how infrastructures, funding models, reward systems, collaborative partnerships, institutional arrangements and public engagement interact organically to shape the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities as a lived, everyday scholarly and personal experience, and how that impacts on the final research, societal and personal outcomes.

The symposium will take place across a series of thirty sessions spread over a three week period (6/7 November-25 November), with sessions lasting for ninety minutes to two hours timed for morning and evening in Australia, in order to cater for presenters and audiences around the globe. It can be viewed asynchronously.

For more information, and to register, see the Building Digital Humanities website.

Apply to Attend the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (June 2022)

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.

Incorporating Digital Humanities into the Curriculum Wrap up

Feb. 19, 10:00am – 12:00pm

In Zoom

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.

Call for Participants: Creative, Critical, Editing: A Virtual Symposium

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

Every Victorian Novel: Dispatches from Data-Intensive Book History

Allen Riddell (Assistant Professor of Information Science, Indiana University)

February 15, 2021, 4:00–5:15pm

An online webinar. Registration is required for attendance.

This talk reviews three recent contributions to the history of fiction publishing in the British Isles and Ireland during the 19th century. The three papers share an investment in an inclusive history of the novel and of novel-writing as a profession. They depend on, to varying degrees, the availability of machine-readable bibliographies and of digital surrogates of volumes held by legal deposit libraries (e.g., Oxford’s Bodleian, British Library).

The first article, “Reassembling the English Novel, 1789—1919,” forthcoming in Cultural Analytics, estimates annual rates of novel publication for each year between 1789 and 1919. This period—which witnessed the publication of between 40,000 and 63,000 previously-unpublished novels—merits attention because it was during this period that institutions, organizational practices, and technologies associated with the contemporary text industry emerged.

The second article, “The Class of 1838: A Social History of the First Victorian Novelists,” revisits a research question introduced by Raymond Williams in The Long Revolution (1961) (Chapter 5, “The Social History of English Writers”). This article, published last year, examines the social origins of the 81 novelists who published a novel in 1838. Replicating Williams’s research is essential because Williams’s original study was, by his own admission, preliminary and depended on a small, non-probability sample of writers.

The talk concludes with an assessment of four major digital libraries’ coverage of published Victorian novels. (The digital libraries studied are the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, Google Books, and the British Library.) While evidence suggests that a majority of Victorian novels have been digitized, multivolume novels and novels by male authors are overrepresented relative to their share of the population of published novels. This third paper also provides an occasion to reflect on the past decade of data-intensive literary history, a research field whose prospects have been linked to mass digitization of research and national libraries.

Allen Riddell is Assistant Professor of Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. His research explores applications of modern statistical methods in literary history and text-based media studies. He is the co-author with Folgert Karsdorp and Mike Kestemont of Humanities Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2021) (open-access edition in 2022). Prior to coming to Indiana, Riddell was a Neukom Fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.

If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057.

Digitorium 2020

The University of Alabama University Libraries is proud to announce the annual Digital Humanities Conference, Digitorium, will be held October 1-3, 2020. The conference, hosted by the University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, will be entirely virtual for the first time this year. In an unprecedented time when digital literacies are critically important, Digitorium represents a timely opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students to learn what’s possible with Digital Humanities (DH) methods and pedagogy. This year, we will offer several workshops that can help build DH skills, with tools such as Nvivo, Orange, 360 videos in VR, and Twine.

While we are disappointed that we won’t be able to meet in person, we’re looking forward to providing an opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students worldwide to engage with discussions on Digital Humanities, hear from innovative scholars in the field, and to learn new skills through virtual workshops.

Registration is $25.00 and opens August 16^th, 2020.

For more information regarding our schedule, plenaries, and registration, please visit the Digitorium site.

Applications open for Second Digital Humanities Research Institute – New York City

Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI): Further Expanding Communities of Digital Humanities Practice

by Kalle Westerling

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.

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.

Call for Papers: Digitorium 2020

Digitorium 2020 CFP

by Anne Ladyem McDivitt

We’re very excited to invite proposals for Digitorium 2020, a multi-disciplinary Digital Humanities conference held at the University of Alabama from October 1-3, 2020. We seek proposals from a range of people including those who are brand new in the field of digital humanities, experienced scholars, practitioners, students, and anybody in-between to create an inclusive environment where everybody can learn something from each other. Proposals should demonstrate how we as digital humanists can engage with communities and our scholarship in new and innovative ways using digital methods.

This year, we will be celebrating the 6th year of Digitorium, as well as the 10th anniversary of the Alabama Digital Humanities Center. To celebrate those milestones, our theme this year will be “Progress.” This could be progress that the field has made in a particular area, how we continue to progress, or where we could improve digital humanities to further progress the field. We welcome creativity in your proposals! If you have any questions about whether your proposal might fit, please contact us at adhc@lib.ua.edu.

Participants can submit proposals that engage with one of the following:

Digital Methods: presentations that use digital methods to further scholarship in established fields or highlight new and exciting areas in their research subjects.
Public Scholarship: presentations on utilizing digital methods to engage the public through institutions such as universities, libraries, and museums.
Digital Pedagogy: presentations on using digital methods for innovative approaches to teaching at any level.

Presentations include a variety of formats for the conference, but they are not limited to those listed below. For example, presentations could be:

-20 minute papers
-Workshops where the presenter teaches a digital method or tool (let us know what the specifications are for the workshop)-Posters
-Completed or in-progress project demonstrations
-Panel discussions

Deadline for submitting abstracts is March 15, 2020.

All proposals should be made via the Submissions page on the conference website.

Please visit our website for more information as it becomes available regarding the plenary speakers, the venue, and the departments generously offering their support for Digitorium 2020.

Contact Email: adhc@lib.ua.edu
URL: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/digitorium/?page_id=36

DH Workshops at Guelph

The DH@Guelph team is excited to announce that registration is now live for our DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2020. Please save the dates of May 4-7th 2020 and join us for what promises to be an exciting week.
Our keynote address will be delivered by the wonderful Angel David Nieves, and we’re thrilled to welcome the fab folks from Feral Feminisms for a panel on open, feminist publishing!

Our Courses:

1. Materializing the Collection (Milena Radzikowska, Dr. Shana MacDonald)

2. Computational Digital Humanities: Command Line Fundamentals (David J. Birnbaum, Emma Schwarz)

3. Reading the Humanities from a Distance: A Survey of Text Analysis Tools (Jennifer Marvin)

4. Semantic Text Analysis with Word Embeddings (Lisa Baer)

5. Equity in Digital Publishing (Ela Przybylo, Amy Verhaeghe, Sharifa Patel, Krista Benson, Jae Basiliere)

6. Spatial Humanities: Exploring GIS in the Humanities (Quin Shirk-Luckett, Teresa Lewitsky)

7. Machine Learning and Digital Humanities (Dr. Rachel Starry, Paul Barrett, Nathan Taback)

8. Linked Data and Ontologies for the Humanities (Susan Brown, Kim Martin, Deb Stacey)

9. Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An Introduction to CWRC (Mihaela Illovan, Susan Brown) You can register at this link, and don’t hesitate to email dhguelph[@]uoguelph.ca with any questions or concerns.
Warmly,
Kim Martin (Associate Director)Susan Brown (Director)DH@Guelph