Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: DHSI 2019 Tuition Fellowships

About the funding: Want to learn more about digital humanities skills, methods, and inquiry? The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria has a tradition of transformative training. The University of Virginia, as a sponsoring institution of DHSI, provides 5 tuition-free fellowships to attend a Digital Humanities Summer Institute course or workshop […]

News, Reports

Report: A Conceptual Guide to Digital Academic Identity

From the report: …One could argue that the Internet provides a similarly serendipitous space. Not only has the web changed the ways in which we, as researchers and as teachers, interact with each other and with the general public, but it also reshaped the concept of academic presence altogether. Through social media, academic social networking […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Right2Left at DHSI 2019

From the CFP: #Right2Left at #DHSI2019 is interested in exploring challenges, opportunities, and implications that are distinctive to digital work in languages written from right to left such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac. We are soliciting proposals for a half-day workshop to take place on 8 June 2019, between the first and second week […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries 2019

From the CFP: The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) is excited to announce that its 49th Conference to be held from June 2-9, 2019, on the happy island of Aruba, will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) which are the framework of the UN 2030 agenda. Our conference theme is: Access […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Senior Research Scientist, MIT

From the ad: Develop tools for unlocking faculty research in the humanities at MIT. Program frameworks in Python and JavaScript for immediate use and/or that can be reused in future Digital Humanities projects. Aided by Postdoctoral Associates, manages the work of undergraduate researchers in building out aspects of faculty research and teaching. Stay abreast of […]

News, Resources

Resource: Database tracks rise of canonic techniques in music

About the resource: A comprehensive database tracking more than 2,000 of the earliest surviving music compositions using ‘canonic’ techniques has been developed by a team of Australian university researchers. Music teachers, students, performers, composers and music lovers can browse the online database to find these earliest examples of multipart music using techniques of pervasive melodic […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent Symposium

From the CFP: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a symposium interrogating the intersections of consent and the design of interactive media and technologies. The symposium is hosted at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and the HASTAC Scholars fellowship program on April 6, […]

News, Reports

Report: A “Digital Research in Early America” Recap

From the report: In October 2018, I participated in the WMQ-UCI Digital Research in Early America workshop hosted by Sharon Block and Josh Piker at University of California-Irvine. This post aims to give those who weren’t able to attend an idea of the conversations and common themes of the new scholarship presented. Most broadly, the […]