University of Victoria – Transgender Archives The University of Victoria has committed itself to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of transgender people. The UVic Archives have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with transgender activism […]
Announcing the Shared Horizons CFP | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Shared Horizons solicits applications to attend this two-day National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Symposium Date: Wednesday, April 10- Friday, April 12, 2012 Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA Applications Due: December 15, 2012 (please note the revised deadline) The Maryland Institute for […]
Software Studies: 250K for two students to do their PhD degrees with Lev Manovich at CUNY. I am looking for two exceptional individuals who want do their PhDs with me at CUNY Graduate Center beginning in Fall 2013 (or Fall 2014). Funding: Each student will receive a 25k/year stipend for 5 years (125K in total); tuition […]
One reason I’m interested in ship logs is that they give some distance to think about problems in reading digital texts. That’s particularly true for machine learning techniques. In my last post, an appendix to the long whaling post, I talked about using K-means clustering and k-nearest neighbor methods to classify whaling voyages. But digital humanists […]
The Archives Leadership Institute at Luther College requests applicants for its 2013 institute. The Institute provides advanced training for a cohort of 25 emerging and innovative leaders, giving them the knowledge and tools to transform the archival profession in practice, theory and attitude. The 2013 ALI@Luther Leadership Intensive will be held June 16-22, 2013. The […]
We’re a visual species, we humans. History is often learned best when its words are accompanied with charts and maps, diagrams and photos. I love looking at these pictures to get different perspectives about the events they document. I’m a software developer rather than an historian, but I think the simulation software I’ve developed can […]
The Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for two tenure-stream appointments at the rank of Assistant Professor. The start date for the positions is July 1, 2013. Assistant Professor, New Media – Global Perspectives on Information and Communication Assistant Professor, New Media – Interactive Virtual […]
This is a guide to good practices for university open-access (OA) policies. It’s based on the type of policy adopted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, U of Kansas, U of Oregon, Trinity, Oberlin, Rollins, Wake Forest, Duke, U of Puerto Rico, Hawaii-Manoa, Columbia, Strathmore U, Emory, Princeton, Jomo Kenyatta, Utah State, Bifrõst, Miami, California-San Francisco, and […]
The University of Washington Tacoma invites applications for a full time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Media Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS) Program. The successful candidate will be an intellectually expansive scholar whose research addresses the interdependencies and interconnections of globalization as developed through one or more of the following areas: development […]
I’m giving a talk today at the POD Network conference in Seattle titled “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences.” Here’s the Prezi for my talk. You can move through the Prezi by clicking the forward button, or you can use your mouse to pan and zoom freely through the Prezi. See Prezi Here
