The Society for History in the Federal Government and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region announce a joint conference.The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, “Public History in the Digital Age.” Topics might include the historiography of oral history practice and theory; the impact of technology on the practice and sharing […]
On December 6, 2012, the Digital Public Library of America will have two concurrent and interwoven events at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The Audience and Participation workstream will be holding a meeting that will be livestreamed, and next door those interested in fleshing out what might be done with the DPLA […]
Since CLIR accepts new proposals to host fellows from interested institutions throughout the year, the list below will change frequently. Not all 2013 position descriptions will be available by the December 31, 2012 application deadline. All interested applicants with expertise in any discipline are encouraged to apply, regardless of whether a suitable position description is […]
The Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research organization focusing on the invention of new media technologies that radically improve the ways people live, learn, work, and play. Candidates should have a record of original thinking, a willingness to take risks, a desire to look beyond traditional disciplines, and a commitment to making a difference in […]
The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor working on the interface and interpenetration of different media, communication and cultural technologies, and media circulation studies. We are particularly interested in candidates who might affiliate with the University’s new initiative in Asian languages and cultures.
A friend of mine, Lindsay Bontoft, recently started working at the Museum of Inuit Art (MIA). It is a very small museum in Toronto, Canada with three full-time and one part-time staff as well as an Executive Director. Yet they have managed what many larger museums have not – a wide array of both online and onsite […]
Turning everything into data, and using algorithms to process is analyze it has a number of major consequences for what it means to know something. It creates new strategies which together make up software epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which asks questions such as what is knowledge, how it can acquired, and to what […]
NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines | National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH seeks comments to help the agency assess how well these guidelines for a new funding opportunity accomplish the following goals: encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces; foster the development of […]
We are looking for new and existing pieces on methods and standards for evaluating digital humanities scholarship to include in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. Our goal is to bring together resources from a variety of sources to help the producers and evaluators of digital humanities scholarship better frame, discuss, and […]
Computer Scientist: “You can’t do that with Topic Modeling.” Humanist: “No, I can because I’m not a scientist. We have this thing called Hermeneutics.” Computer Scientist: “…” Humanist: “No really, we get to do what we want, we read texts against each other, and then there is this hermeneutic circle grounded in intersubjectivity.” Computer Scientist: “Ok, but you still […]
