US Scholar Fulbright Opportunities in Digital Humanities and Digital Culture | laurie n. taylor The most recent application solicitation for US Fulbright Scholar grant opportunities includes many wonderful opportunities including ones in digital culture and digital humanities. Applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due by August 1, 2013. The Digital Culture opportunity is in Norway and the Digital…

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The Renaissance Society of America and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) are jointly offering a prize that seeks to recognize and encourage the scholarly use of the vast range and depth of Renaissance materials made available by digitization.  The purpose of the prize is to recognize and reward original research that makes substantial and significant use of digitized archives of…

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The project is an empirical extension of the Code/Space book (Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge) published in Software Studies series by The MIT Press (2011). It focuses on the intersection of smart urbanism, ubiquitous computing and big data from a software studies/critical geography perspective, comparing Dublin and Boston and other locales. http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/student.pdf

2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool | Shreds and Patches. The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to creatively apply information and computing technologies to cultural heritage materials and questions. The CHl Fieldschool is a unique experience in which students come together for 5 weeks to collaboratively…

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European Research Council funded PhD studentship in the Department of History at Lancaster University Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council. The successful applicant will join the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project, a major research team of historians, geographers and others who are working with large data resources – statistical,…

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Guidelines now available for 2014 Fellowships | National Endowment for the Humanities. Guidelines for the Fellowships grant program are now available.  The deadline for applications is May 1, 2013, for projects beginning in or after January 2014.  Applicants will be notified of the decision in December 2013. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of…

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First CENDARI Summer School, 22 – 26 July 2013. The CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) project, in collaboration with the COST Action: IS 1005, ‘Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources’, will host the first of three annual CENDARI Summer Schools, 22 – 26 July 2013 in Florence, Italy. The Summer School, entitled Historical Sources & Transnational…

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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) makes bursary awards to 10 students and young scholars who have submissions accepted for presentation at the annual Digital Humanities international conference. These awards are to encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities and to involve new participants in the application of information technology in humanities…

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Text Encoding Initiative Seminar at Brown « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers may be interested in the following announcement from Julia Flanders about a special NEH-funded “Taking TEI Futher” institute.  Additional information is available at the WWP’s webpage for their Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding.

Visualizing the Classics – Anvil Academic. Anvil Academic and Dickinson College Commentaries announce the availability of a $1,000 prize for the best scholarly visualization of data in the field of classical studies submitted during 2013. Two runners-up will be awarded prizes of $500 each. Submissions must include: one or more visual representations of data that involves some linguistic…

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