In June 2019 and June 2020 The Digital Orientalist held Twitter Conferences in where scholars, students, educators, librarians and curators came together to present their work in short papers on Twitter. Following the successes of these conferences, this year Editor-in-Chief, James Morris, and Contributor for Sinology, Maddalena Poli, are organizing a small workshop-based conference which will […]
Voyant Tools is a popular website that offers a series of text analysis tools for examining word frequencies, patterns, and trends of a document. Although Voyant Tools supports analyzed documents in multiple languages, current tutorials and articles mainly focus on the application of Voyant Tools to English (Rockwell and Sinclair 2017). In this project, I […]
The University of Michigan received a major grant in humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-institutional digital futures collaborative led by a professor whose research involves digital inequality. Read the full post here.
I’ve taken the ill-advised approach of using the Coronavirus as a topic to frame the exercises in my computer programming class this semester. I say “ill-advised” because given the impact that COVID has been having on students I’ve been thinking they probably need a way to escape news of the virus by way of writing code, rather […]
The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies is hosting an online peer-reviewed journal, known as the SHPRS Digital Humanities Journal, started by undergraduate students. It was developed to serve as an opportunity to showcase undergraduate research from Arizona State University in the fields of history, philosophy and religious studies. Read full post here.
Applications are invited for appointment as Tenure-Track Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Arts, to commence on August 1, 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and with consideration for tenure before the expiry of a second three-year fixed-term contract. Exceptional […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its two 2021 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of €500 (Euros). Each year, Communications Fellows work with ADHO’s Communications Officer to manage ADHO’s public communications activities. The fellowship is well suited for graduate students, young scholars, and academic professionals who wish […]
The Fifth Annual GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around the concept of “datafication,” that is, the production of and the shift toward digital representations of historical sources as a prerequisite for storage, access, and analysis, not to mention their transmission and publication online. Read full post here.
The Zampolli Prize is a triennial award that recognizes a single output in the field of Digital Humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage of their career(s). As such, it offers a unique opportunity to reward individual projects that either have been formative or had a decisive impact on the field as a […]
.entry-header Digital history, and especially computational history, is a dynamically developing field with great potential for new and innovative research approaches and projects. Its focus is on working with complex and heterogeneous data, which presents new technological and methodological challenges and thus stimulates new experimental solutions. Read full post here.
