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 […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: D-Lab is Hiring Grad Students This Spring

From the announcement: If you feel inspired to help fellow researchers and students learn about and work with data analysis methods and tools, we’re interested in hiring you.  We are the Social Sciences Data Laboratory (D-Lab). We have an open, inclusive culture that values diversity and open exchange. We’ll let you develop leadership in a […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director for Online Strategy at UC Davis

From the announcement: The Director for Online Strategy will act as the senior leader in charge of the Library’s strategy, development, and operations for Web, mobile, and social media platforms, including locally and collaboratively developed, externally acquired, and cloud-based. Coordinate and oversee technology-related operations of the Library in close collaboration with the other members of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: What’s New about New Media? The Technology of Protest Past and Present

From the announcement: From the G8 demonstrations to the Occupy Movements, Idle No More, and revolutions in the Middle East, the last few years have witnessed a phenomenal upswing in the use of social media in popular protest. Social technology has played an important role in mobilizing grassroots opposition and, according to some scholars and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: The CUNY Games Festival 2.0 | A Conference on Game-based Learning in Higher Education

From the announcement: Register to attend the 2015 CUNY Games Festival. Registration opens November 1st, 2014. The deadline for advanced registration is December 31st at midnight (EST). Attendees can register in advance using PayPal or credit cards. Because the conference is likely to sell out, advance registration is recommended. Read more and register: The CUNY Games Festival 2.0 […]