Civil War historian Edward Ayers will be giving a talk at Washington and Lee University talk on September 22 called “Civil War History and Digital Humanities.” The talk is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Committee and funded through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read full announcement here.
Kellen Funk and I have just published an article titled “A Servile Copy: Text Reuse and Medium Data in American Civil Procedure” (PDF). The article is a brief invited contribution to a forum in Rechtsgeschichte [Legal History] on legal history and digital history. Kellen and I give an overview of our project to discover how nineteenth-century codes of…
The George Mason University Department of History and Art History invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of U.S. Art History. From the ad: Areas of specialization in the art and material culture of the United States from any time period from the colonial era to the present will be considered. Special preference will be…
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia’s recent article, “The LA Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” argues that digital humanities “most significant contribution to academic politics may lie in its (perhaps unintentional) facilitation of the neoliberal takeover of the university.” Below is a 2nd round-up of responses. The 1st round-up…
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia’s recent article, “The LA Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” argues that digital humanities “most significant contribution to academic politics may lie in its (perhaps unintentional) facilitation of the neoliberal takeover of the university.” Below is a round-up of responses. In Defense of DH…
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Lehigh University seeks applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Scholar in digital humanities and community engagement beginning August 2016. Read full post here.
Data management underpins current and future research, funder mandates, open access initiatives, researchers’ reputations, and institutional ranking. While it is widely recognized that it’s necessary to provide data management support, recognition that it requires sustainable funding is slower in coming. Read full report here.
This talk by Amanda Visconti “Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape” explores a uniquely shaped humanities dissertation, which included the design, code, and user-testing of an experimental social reading interface. Watch video here.
The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange is imagining a collaborative, multi-institutional approach to supporting digital scholarship efforts. Their hope is that you would take a few moments to review what we’ve posted there. You can vote up and comment on the ideas that you like the best. Read full CFP here.