CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

From the CFP: The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2019 in Florence, July 29th – August 2nd, 2019… Characterizing the time-varying nature of language will have broad implications and applications in multiple fields including linguistics, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, computational cognitive and social sciences. In this workshop, we will bring together the world’s pioneers and experts […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: “What is a Feminist Lab?” Symposium

From the announcement: The “What Is a Feminist Lab?” Symposium will take place at the University of Colorado Boulder in Norlin Library N410 on April 17-18, 2019. Co-organized by Maya Livio, Lori Emerson, and Thea Lindquist, the event will examine the recent proliferation of labs, surveying the lab landscape and exploring ways in which intersectional […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Assistant, Center for Digital Cultural Heritage Research, Berlin/La Habana

From the ad: For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Academy invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Humanities (Digital Scholarly Editions and Research Software Development) 100% full-time position for an initial duration until December 31, 2021. The position should ideally begin […]

News, Resources

Resource: Possibilities for Digital Humanities at Community Colleges

About the Resource: I was pleased to present today at Houston Community College’s Spring 2019 English & Humanities Colloquium on “The Digital Classroom: Humanities, Literature & Composition.” Thanks to Dr. Helen Graham for the invitation. Here are my slides. Much of the presentation is built on Dr. Anne McGrail’s work on DH and community colleges. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Generous Methodologies and Digital Scholarship

On Monday, March 25th, I spoke on a “Student Panel” at the CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop (hosted by Northeastern University). While I’m not currently a student (unless this has all been a dream and I still am! Oh no!), I worked at the Northeastern University Library Digital Scholarship Group as a graduate student, in […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: from the grass roots

[This is a cleaned-up version of the text from which I spoke at the 2019 conference of Research Libraries UK, held at the Wellcome Collection in London last week. I’d like to thank my wonderful hosts for an opportunity to reflect on my time at DLF. As I said to the crowd, I hope the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Curator – Collections on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, Georgetown

From the ad: The Curator – Collections on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation handles the arrangement and description of the special collections materials, surveying records and collections currently housed in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections and the Woodstock Theological Library. S/he identifies materials to be digitized and made available through DigitalGeorgetown and other platforms […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Communications Manager, UC Humanities Research Institute

From the ad: The UC Humanities Research Institute—the systemwide organization for all 10 campuses in the UC system—seeks a talented and motivated individual with experience in academic and research communications, as well as program administration. This position will coordinate all of UCHRI’s research and programming communications, and will work in close collaboration with the Director, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Personal Digital Archiving 2019

About the conference: The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to host the Personal Digital Archiving conference, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA from May 2-4, 2019. Personal Digital Archiving is an annual conference dedicated to the exploration of issues related to individual and community records in all digital forms. It is interdisciplinary and inclusive in […]