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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: “Born-Digital: Reformatting Humanities in the 21st Century,” March 20-21, 2015, University of Miami, Miami, FL

From the announcement: In Born-Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (2008), John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore how the proliferation of new technologies informs the perceived realities of “digital natives” (those born in the digital age) and the “digital immigrants” who have experienced the movement toward digitization during their lifetime.  Differences among members […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Cultural Analytics — Computational Approaches to the Study of Culture

From the posting: On May 22-23, 2015, the Global Literary Networks group will host a major conference at the University of Chicago called “Cultural Analytics: Computational Approaches to the Study of Culture.” The event will bring together faculty and graduate students working at the intersection of literary history and applied computational analysis. This field has […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities Creighton University

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Initiative at Creighton University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities to begin August 2015. We are seeking a scholar with a stellar academic background who will be able to contribute to both new and ongoing digital humanities initiatives across the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Programs Associate at Cornell University

From the post: Under the direction of the Digital Scholarship Librarian, the Digital Programs Associate will work with a large network of stakeholders across the Cornell University community to successfully manage and execute time-sensitive deliverables for a wide range of exciting digital programs. The successful candidate will be self-directed, enjoy working as a member of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: New Journal & Call for Editors: Digital Literary Studies

From the announcement: The Pennsylvania State University has established a new international peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication with a focus on those aspects of Digital Humanities primarily concerned with literary studies. The journal will be a digital open access publication, and is called *Digital Literary Studies*. See http://digitalliterarystudies.org for more (site currently under development). *Digital Literary Studies *will look to publish scholarly […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Literary Studies

From the post: ‘Digital Literary Studies’ is an international conference exploring methods, tools, objects and digital practices in the field of literary studies. The digitization of artifacts and literary practices, the adoption of computational methods for aggregating, editing and analyzing texts as well as the development of collaborative forms of research and teaching through networking […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships 2015

From the announcement: The CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships are intended to support and stimulate historical research in the two pilot areas of medieval European culture and the First World War, by facilitating access to key archives, specialist knowledge and collections in CENDARI host institutions. The CENDARI Transnational Access programme is financed by the European Union. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Round-up — The Future of Digital History

Speculative Computing and the Centers to Come by Bethany Nowviskie But the founding and sustaining and continual renewal of a DH center is itself an active form of hope for the future. And some of this future-orientation is not, itself, new. It stems from a long interest in History and other disciplines in counter-factualism, alternate imaginings, in […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Institute for Community College Digital Humanists: Beyond Pockets of Innovation, Toward a Community of Practice

From the posting: A one-week institute for community college faculty to engage with new digital methods, tools and practices for humanities teaching and scholarship. Participants will work with experts to translate current theory and practice in DH for the unique learning needs of community college students in open-access institutional contexts. Ultimately, this institute, which includes […]