From the post: The Bolshoi Theatre Museum has completed a major project to digitise a range of historical documents, with the aim of making the information publicly accessible and searchable via its website. Four thousand volunteers helped scan 8,000 historic posters, 120,000 programmes and 100,000 rare photographs from the 192-year-old Russian theatre’s museum archives, in order […]
From the ad: The Applied Innovation Lab at UNO is hiring two research positions (PostDoc and PhD) aimed at applying deep learning to problems in influence and radicalization on online platforms. The position is ideally suited for recent graduates who are interested in applying their technical skills to challenging and important problems in deep learning. […]
A few months ago, Celeste Sharpe, then a graduate student at George Mason University (GMU), defended what is purportedly the first born-digital dissertation in the discipline of history. Sharpe describes her project, They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945–1980, as an examination of “the history of the national poster child—an official […]
From the CFP: In 2018, the conference seeks to extend the scope of digital humanities research covered, both into new areas, as well as beyond the Nordic and Baltic countries. In pursuit of this, in addition to the abstracts familiar from humanities traditions, we also adopt a call for publication ready texts as is the […]
From the ad: We seek an experienced software developer to work on the next generation system of arXiv.org – the premier open access platform serving scientists in physics, math, computer science, and other disciplines. As a member of the arXiv “next generation” team (arXiv-NG), this person will design and develop a new integrated, modular system […]
From the ad: Manages the Scott Nygren Scholars Studio (Library West 212), maintaining the space and technology. Schedules and holds lab hours in the Studio for 10 hours each week. Collaborates with librarians interested in digital humanities and closely with the Instruction & Outreach Coordinator. Demonstrates understanding and works toward proficiency in core digital humanities […]
From the ad: Probationary tenure-track faculty Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with a specialization in Digital Literacies in the English Department beginning August 27, 2018… The successful candidate will demonstrate evidence of (1) specialization in digital literacies and/or multimodal composition; (2) a record of excellence in teaching writing at the college level; and (3) strong scholarship or scholarly […]
About the resource: The Middle Ages produced a staggering wealth of literary works, spanning dozens of languages and nearly 1,000 years. The question today is how to bring these texts to a modern audience who may not have specialized knowledge of medieval languages and contexts. The Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) answers that question. Curated by […]
From the CFP: PMLA invites essays that will help assess the past of DH, outline its current state, and point to its future directions among diverse participants, allies, and critics. The special issue welcomes well-informed critical essays that articulate varieties of digital experience with DH as it is commonly understood and as it is practiced […]
From the resource: The use of spatial applications in this context is unsurprising when you consider that location is inherently a strong part of Australia’s First Nations culture. Songlines have been used for thousands of years in Australia to help understand and navigate across the land. In combining song, cosmology and nature, songlines form an […]
