Job Announcements, News

Job: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology

From the ad: MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) (two-year fellowship), to collaborate with MIT faculty and invited guests on the production of an international symposium and a publication issuing from the event. Additional duties will include developing and teaching cross-disciplinary courses or workshops and possibly supervising students engaged in undergraduate research […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab 2019

From the announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab will once again host our annual event at the University of Mary Washington from August 5-9, 2019. Joining us will be a cohort of faculty and keynotes from the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Europe. And for the first time, we’re offering a weekend intensive leading up to the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Conversation as Gameplay

[Yesterday I gave a talk at the Oxford/London IF Meetup. The session was about conversation as gameplay, and also featured Flo Minuzzi of Tea-Powered Games, speaking about their released game Dialogue and their upcoming Elemental Flow. There’s a nice livetweeted thread version of my talk available on Twitter thanks to Florence Smith Nicholls, but I […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: OED Researchers survey

From the CFParticipation: The OED and research The information provided in this survey will be used to help us adapt our existing resources (such as the OED and API), and to help us develop new resources specifically beneficial for researchers and their relevant academic fields. We are also interested in considering any potential research collaborations […]

News, Resources

Resource: The March

About the resource: The March is a documentary by filmmaker James Blue (1930-1980) about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963. Blue filmed participants as they prepared for the March on Washington in their home cities, followed them as they traveled to Washington, and recorded their reactions as they listened […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Chapters for Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes

From the CFParticipation: Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes (edited book) Edited by Christina Lee and Erik Champion (Curtin University) We are soliciting contributions for an edited book that will explore the affective landscapes – both real and imaginary – in screen tourism… The book will explore how affective landscapes in screen tourism are sights/sites of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Quantitative Analysis and the Digital Turn in Historical Studies

From the announcement: Happy to announce that Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa) and myself are organizing a workshop to be held between February 27th and March 1st 2019 at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences. While scholars (and a few scientists) have been developing new methodological approaches for working with historical data, there have been few […]

News, Reports

Report: #MLA19 Presentation – Exploit, Code-Switch, Glitch

From the report: Exploit, Code-Switch, Glitch I’d like to open with two quotes to situate my paper within a DH, perhaps para-DH discourse, that is primarily speculative in its intervention. First, a quote from [SLIDE] “Critical Unmaking: Toward a Queer Computation,” by Jacob Gaboury, we must “acknowledge how futurity has been colonized by the cultural […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: 2019–2021 Postdoctoral Scholar, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

About the funding: The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa welcomes applications for a full-time, twelve-month Postdoctoral Scholar. The two-year residency will begin on August 12, 2019 and is a twelve-month appointment each of the two years. The position is funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director, Lab for Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR)

From the ad: The Department of History and Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University seek applications for the position of Specialist- Curriculum Development, also knowns as Director of the Lab for Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR). LEADR (leadr.msu.edu) is an interdisciplinary space for undergraduate and graduate students to learn, experiment, and build […]