[Read Archiving DH Part 1 here.] Trying to make sense of Digital Humanities projects and how to archive and preserve them is a lot like a jumble of puzzle pieces, and no picture to follow. The remaining posts in this series will look at these pieces and offer some ideas on how to put them […]
From the ad: The University of Virginia seeks a Digital Humanities designer/manager to support the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). IATH is a research unit with a goal to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. IATH also cultivate partnerships and participate in humanities computing initiatives with […]
From the ad: Dartmouth College seeks a Postgraduate Fellow to serve as Project Manager for the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI), a new project that connects oral history and the digital humanities. Launching in July 2019, the DDHI is a multi-year project to develop a suite of digital tools for use with digital collections of oral […]
From the ad: The University of Virginia seeks a Programmer to support the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). IATH is a research unit with a goal to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. IATH provides researchers with consulting, technical support, applications development, and network publishing facilities. […]
From the report: This past Saturday was the second annual Current Research in Digital History conference, organized by Stephen Robertson and Lincoln Mullen (with help from the amazing Thanh Nguyen), and co-sponsored by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, the Colored Conventions Project, and the African American Intellectual History Society… As an inveterate […]
From the ad: The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research center and academic unit affiliated with the Princeton University Library that combines technology, design, innovative methodology and humanistic scholarship. Staff members collaborate with faculty, students and library partners on digital humanities projects, teach undergraduate classes and hands-on workshops, conduct independent research, and […]
From the announcement: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellows in the Digital Humanities at the University of Rochester are excited to announce the upcoming visit of Professor Jessica Marie Johnson (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University) as a Distinguished Digital Humanist during the April 8-10. Detailed schedule of events TBA. Events include: a public lecture (“Constellation Noire: Scrying Diasporic Futures […]
About the conference: The Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries, and the Folger Shakespeare Library will convene a second conference highlighting digital explorations of early modern drama, to be held on 15-18 July 2019 at the Weston Library, Oxford. The inaugural Digitizing the Stage event in summer 2017 gathered scholars, librarians, theatre professionals, and others […]
From the resource: Digital archaeology, as I have conceived it here, is not about computation in the service of finding the answer. It is about deforming, and thinking through, the various networks and distributed agencies that tie us to the past and simultaneously make it strange, that enchant and confound us. There are any number […]
Nan Z Da’s “Computational Case Against Computational Literary Studies” (CLS) in the latest Critical Inquiry has been making the rounds on my social media feed. It’s a thorough and inventive argument and I am impressed by its doggedness, cross-field erudition and commitment to its idea: she re-did studies, chased down data sets, and reconstructed analyses. […]
