CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: “Crossing Borders,” Eastern Sociological Society

The “Crossing Borders” theme invites discussion of the social construction and social impacts of borders dividing individuals, groups, and nations.  It challenges us to explore how borders are created, how they can change, and the complex processes shaping whether, and how, they can be crossed – and with what consequences. View CFP Here.

Job Announcements, News

Postdoc: Edition Open Sources , U. Oklahoma and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2)

Two post-doctoral fellowships in the history of science and technology are offered by OU and MPIWG, one fellow will be appointed for each institution. Fellowships offer an opportunity to acquire skills in the digital humanities because, unlike other publication workflows, EOS requires authors to assume responsibility of preparing the work for press. This entails use of […]

Job Announcements, News

Postdoc: “English Literary Heritage: Curation, Innovation and Interpretation,” Institute of English Studies, U. London

The main objective of the project is therefore to investigate how the digital medium can assist non-specialists as well as advanced readers with unlocking the stories and contexts that lie behind them. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight on Sunday, 17 August 2014. View ad here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Dwarf NORAD: A Glimpse of Counterfactual Computing History

When most people think about the kind of super-high-performance games people build custom PCs for, they probably imagine some first-person shooter with fast action, huge explosions, and millions of polygons being rendered to the screen at real time.  Few people would think of Dwarf Fortress, a game that is rendered with simple ASCII characters and […]