News, Resources

Resource: University of Victoria – Transgender Archives

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 […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Announcing the Shared Horizons CFP (New Deadline)

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 […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: When you have a MALLET, everything looks like a nail

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 […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Archives Leadership Institute: 2013 Call for Applicants

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 […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Two Tenure Track positions in New Media

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 […]

News, Reports

Report: Blog Archive Good Practices For University Open-Access Policies

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 […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor–Global Media Studies, University of Washington Tacoma

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 […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Social Pedagogies at #POD12 (Prezi)

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