Along with the less-than-romantic scenes of butchery and betrayal, murder and mayhem (see our previous post Sex and Death in the Roman de la Rose), there are of course many miniatures in Harley MS 4425 which depict an idealised courtly world and its inhabitants. As well as serving as a narrative accompaniment to the text, these […]
The Digging into Data/Global Currents team at McGill University is offering a 2-year master’s fellowship based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The deadline for applications is Jan 30, 2014, for studies commencing in the Fall 2014 semester. Read full announcement here.
We now invite applications for the Spring Academy in Digital Humanities offered by the University of Antwerp. Our intensive, full-week program takes place from 31 March to 4 April 2014. The target audience consists of (early-stage) researchers in the Humanities, who wish to apply digital methods in their own research practice but who, so far, have […]
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2014 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, processing, description, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or analysis of these resources is welcome to participate. […]
For months now I’ve been stewing about how much I hate @HistoryInPics and their ilk (@HistoryInPix, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics, etc.)—twitter streams that do nothing more than post “old” pictures and little tidbits of captions for them.1 And when I say “nothing more” that’s precisely what I mean. What they don’t post includes attribution to the photographer […]
The Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage announces several fellowships for early stage researchers. See full announcement here.
HASTAC seeks volunteers to help organize and promote the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop. See volunteer opportunity here.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies welcomes proposals for a conference on African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture. Read the full call for papers here.
NINES announces a new series of blog posts that will focus on uses of Juxta Commons. See the call for blog posts here.
A list of recent digital humanities syllabi can be found here.
