The Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities has established a forum for the discussion of digital methods applied to all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including Classics, Philosophy, History, Literature, Law, Languages, Archaeology and more. The initiative is organized by the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH). We invite submissions of abstracts describing research which…
In this paper we compare two academic networking platforms, HASTAC and Hypotheses, to show the distinct ways in which they serve specific communities in the Digital Humanities (DH) in different national and disciplinary contexts. After providing background information on both platforms, we apply co-word analysis and topic modeling to show thematic similarities and differences between…
Thomas Padilla recently interviewed Sebastian Chan, the Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Previously Chan held positions as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His work spans consideration of digital and physical spaces and has been recognized…
From the ad: The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to help us transform the way that we engage with our audiences digitally. We are looking for someone who shares the UCM’s commitment to developing and diversifying our audiences, and who will work with the UCM team and…
AskHistorians is an all-volunteer, multi-platform new media forum with over 350,000 subscribers, making it the largest historical space of its kind on the internet. Unlike most outreach, the forum is structured like highly public “town hall meeting” on a global scale—a question-and-answer session in which knowledgeable experts publicly interact with individual questioners while an audience…
The FMSH (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homie) is pleased to publish the third call of its grant program in digital humanities. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FMSH will co-finance transatlantic collaborative projects in the field of the digital humanities. Read full CFP here.
Princeton University is seeking a lead developer. From the ad: Do you want to build the future of Digital Humanities at Princeton? The Center for Digital Humanities is hiring a Lead Developer to create a new world class DH R&D Team to develop the next generation of Digital Humanities projects and tools in collaboration with…
From the ad: Davidson College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Art and Digital Studies, with a specialization in interactive installation, transmedia art, robotics, data art, physical computing, or a similar creative field. Artists must demonstrate a distinguished record of creative work and a commitment to undergraduate education. Preference will be given to…
The Department of History & Art History at George Mason University is offering two Digital History Fellowships to support students undertaking a Ph.D. Fellows enrolling in Fall 2016 will receive stipends of $20,000 for two years, during which time they will take a practicum course each semester here at RRCHNM, and then a further three years of support from…
This is the first of a series of blog posts that will address some important updates to the DHNow editorial process. Next semester we will roll out a new system that will streamline our registration process for editors-at-large and allow existing editors to add volunteer dates, create user bios, and update profile information through the…