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Author: Joan Fragaszy Troyano

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Whose History is it Anyway? Public History in Perspective Conference – September 2013 – University of Central Lancashire

This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, […]

Funding & Opportunities, Job Announcements, News

Funding: 2 PhD Positions in Digital Heritage – Universiteit van Amsterdam

Starting in February 2013, the Allard Pierson Museum and the department of Media Studies of the Faculty of Humanities participate for four years in the EU-FP7 funded project on “Material EncounterS with Cultural Heritage” (meSch) as part of an international consortium. 2 PhD Positions in the Area of Digital Heritage – Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Funding & Opportunities, Job Announcements, News

Funding: PhD fellowships in digital culture; also extremist discourse online; U. of Bergen

The University of Bergen has seven open fellowships for the whole department (so any topic within digital culture, Nordic, linguistics, comparative literature, classics and theatre studies) and one earmarked stipend for a project examining extremist discourse online. As I’ve mentioned before, Norwegian PhD fellowships are really very good, as they are treated as regular jobs with benefits and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Public Humanities

Here’s the talk I gave as the keynote for the New England American Studies Association. Or, rather, here are four versions of it, a cubist interpretation. There’s the notes I used, the slides I showed, the twitter stream that resulted, and, in the background, the collection of syllabi I used for evidence. View Post with […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What can topic models of PMLA teach us about the history of literary scholarship?

Of all our literary-historical narratives it is the history of criticism itself that seems most wedded to a stodgy history-of-ideas approach—narrating change through a succession of stars or contending schools. While scholars like John Guillory and Gerald Graff have produced subtler models of disciplinary history, we could still do more to complicate the narratives that […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Digital Humanities Symposium 2013 at George Washington University Program

 Friday January 25 – Saturday January 26, 2013 The event is free and open to the public. The presentations are designed a broad audience in mind and address multiple disciplines that range from computer science and media studies to gender and race studies, digital pedagogy, and literary studies. Digital Humanities Symposium 2013 || George Washington University.

Announcements, News

Announcement: New membership rate for 2013 from Association for Computers and the Humanities

Great news for students, early-career professionals, and unwaged or low-waged independent scholars! You can now join ACH as a joint ADHO member at the extremely low cost of $25. This annual fee entitles you to all the regular benefits of ACH (and joint ADHO) membership, including reduced registration fees at events like Digital Humanities 2013, the ability to vote in […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Submissions Wanted for the Open Book from Open Knowledge Foundation

The Open Book (publish date 2013, details here) is a crowd-sourced publication which will contextualise the international open knowledge movement in the words of those who are helping build it today. To get involved, send us 1 to 5 key events, inventions or decisions that in your opinion have contributed the most to the evolution of open knowledge, […]