This past week, I had the opportunity to give a talk as part of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage’s new US Latina/o Digital Humanities (#usLdh) Incubator series. If you missed it, you can access our group notes on Google Drive or Storify. I’ve also started a Zotero Group with a growing bibliography related to…
Every aspect of our social and economic lives. New data systems have tremendous potential to empower communities of color. Tools like statistical modeling, data visualization, and crowd-sourcing, in the right hands, are powerful instruments for fighting bias, building progressive movements, and promoting civic engagement. But history tells a different story — one in which data…
As a first time attendee of MCN last week, I didn’t know entirely what to expect, other than all things digital plus museums. The program was really quite diverse, and ranged from relatively technical discussions (sometimes dry; sometimes hilarious) to more meta-professional sessions that really did function as a kind of group therapy. The latter sessions were…
From the post: Now that the leaves are turning colors and autumn is here, it’s time to think about pulling together the components for an application to the January 2018 deadline of the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. The updated and revised guidelines should be posted on the NEH website soon, but we wanted to…
From the post: The Modern Language Association (MLA) is seeking a full-stack PHP developer to extend and maintain several open-source software products, including the WordPress-based MLA Commons, Humanities Commons , and Humanities CORE, which allow humanities scholars to create profiles, seek feedback from peers on their work, establish and join groups to discuss common interests, and collaborate through new…
From the post: Registration is now open for Digital Frontiers 2017 at the University of North Texas. This year’s conference is September 21-23 at the University of North Texas, featuring Keynote Speakers Jacqueline Wernimont and Stacie Williams. The theme for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference is Exploring the Edges, Pushing the Boundaries. 43 presenters from throughout the U.S. will share…
In a previous post in this series I criticized the vague spatial metaphors literary critics use to understand the text and nature of critical inquiry. Think of those vague spatial metaphors as the founding “myth” of post-war literary criticism, one that allowed the explication of “meaning” to take center stage. In advocating a mode of…
Illinois Institute of Technology is recruiting a Chair of the Department of Humanities in Illinois Tech’s Lewis College of Human Sciences. From the ad: As the home of humanities research and teaching in a technological university, the department holds a special role in the education of all of Illinois Tech’s students. In addition to a wide…
From the post: The Bolshoi Theatre Museum has completed a major project to digitise a range of historical documents, with the aim of making the information publicly accessible and searchable via its website. Four thousand volunteers helped scan 8,000 historic posters, 120,000 programmes and 100,000 rare photographs from the 192-year-old Russian theatre’s museum archives, in order…
From the ad: The Applied Innovation Lab at UNO is hiring two research positions (PostDoc and PhD) aimed at applying deep learning to problems in influence and radicalization on online platforms. The position is ideally suited for recent graduates who are interested in applying their technical skills to challenging and important problems in deep learning….