[This is a talk I gave at Loyola University Chicago on November 8th, 2012.] In January of this year, Stanley Fish published a series of online essays for The New York Times on digital humanities (this, then this, then this). To summarize: He doesn’t like it so much. And for those of us who like […]
And now, why will you ask us to deny the humanity of the slave? And estimate him only as the equal of the hog? Why ask us to do what you will not do yourselves? Why ask us to do for nothing, what two hundred million of dollars could not induce you to do? This […]
We Need More Signposts!, A Call for Abstracts and Papers on Alt-Ac Careers « Brian Croxall. In May of this year, a second Getting There cluster was announced. Like the first, this collection will provide a venue for discussing the pathways one may take to an alt-ac track and provide these signposts for those who are curious […]
SHARP 2013 – Call for Papers We invite submissions for the 21st annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Philadelphia from July 18-21, 2013. The program will take place primarily on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sponsors include the University of Pennsylvania […]
Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection. The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin College Archives and Library present this online digital collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and research collection contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial […]
CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships – Call for 2013 Fellows. CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Programme for 2013. The fellowships are being funded through the CENDARI project by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. Visiting Research Fellowships are available in the following CENDARI partner institutions Trinity […]
Wednesday November 28: “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” » CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative. Wednesday November 28: “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Co-Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and The Center for the Humanities Christina DePaolo (Balboa Park Online Collaborative), Michael Edson (Smithsonian), William Noel (University of Pennsylvania), Neal Stimler (Metropolitan Museum of […]
Scholars’ Lab. Even though a lot of open source projects encourage folks to look at the code and modify it, they don’t just let anyone add anything back to the original project. Projects usually have one or several people with direct commit access, who don’t need permission to do commits. This doesn’t mean you can’t […]
Employment and Internships-Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger Shakespeare Library invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of Digital Access. Founded in 1932, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related materials and the finest collection of early Continental and British printed works outside England. It offers an expansive range of […]
In “Notes towards a Deformed Humanities,” Mark Sample writes, “I want to propose a theory and practice of a Deformed Humanities. A humanities born of broken, twisted things. And what is broken and twisted is also beautiful, and a bearer of knowledge. The Deformed Humanities is an origami crane—a piece of paper contorted into an […]
