From the ad: To accelerate the adoption of new and emerging forms of digital scholarship, teaching, and learning, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University invite applications for a joint tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning August 28, 2018. The Digital Humanities Specialist—a faculty member of the Department of […]
From the ad: The Oklahoma State University Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in digital history with a specialization in the indigenous peoples of North America to begin in August 2018. The successful candidate will have a completed PhD, teaching experience, and a strong record of research productivity. The position […]
About the opportunity: Are you interested in learning fundamental technical skills and growing a community of digital humanities practitioners locally? Join the GC Digital Initiatives from June 11 – 21, 2018 to learn how to work from the command line, git/GitHub, Python, databases, mapping, APIs, and more. Then learn how to take our curriculum back […]
From the CFP: El’Manuscript-2018 is the seventh in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in studying and publishing our textual heritage. Along with the lectures, a summer school will be part of the conference, which […]
Electronic health records, quantified health, and diagnostic tools are all ‘digital technologies’ that co-create meaning and knowledge throughout the medical industrial complex. The initial connection between digital humanities (DH) and medicine is an easy association to make: DH works with data, with structures of data, with big data, with various forms of tech. Medicine and […]
From the post: Have you ever come across a resource that you didn’t know existed, but once you find it you wonder how you ever got along without it? I had this feeling earlier this week when I came across the New York Times API. That’s right, the paper of record allows you–with a little […]
The weather prevents me from being there physically, but this is a transcript of my remarks for “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” MLA, Jan 5, 2018. Using numbers to understand cultural history is often called “cultural analytics”—or sometimes, if we’re talking about literary history in particular, “distant reading.” The practice is older than either name: sociologists, […]
From the post: The speaker and workshop series on Digital Humanities & Social Justice at the University of Houston will explore the ethical concerns involved when creating digital projects and minority archives and how digital scholarship can be a site of social justice and activism. This series brings in leading scholars in the field of DH […]
From the call: The Association for Computers and the Humanities, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, and the University of Pittsburgh issues a call for nominations and self-nominations to serve as a member of the 2019 Program Committee for its first-ever Digital Humanities conference. Held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in Summer 2019, the conference is convened […]
From the post: Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an annual one-day conference that publishes online, peer-reviewed proceedings. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. A format of short presentations provides an opportunity […]
