Data is fraught with peril. I want to do two things today. The first is to talk about how archives enact epistemic violence on some of the subjects they preserve. The second is to talk about how DH methods, combined with insights from scholars who study marginalized people, can be used to undermine the inhumanity […]
From the ad: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries invite applications and nominations for the position of Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Services. This 12-month tenure-track position reports to the Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies and provides leadership for digital scholarship and data service activities in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, including open […]
From the ad: Leiden University is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in Buddhist Studies/Digital Humanities to join the ERC-funded Open Philology project The Open Philology project is described in detail in a document which can be found at http://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk. Read the full ad here.
From the CFP: The CUNY Games Network of the City University of New York is excited to announce The CUNY Games Conference 4.0: The Interactive Course to be held on January 22 and 23, 2018 at the Graduate Center and the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City. The CUNY Games Conference is a two-day event […]
From the CFP: The Cologne Centre for eHumanities (CCeH) is organising a three-day symposium, 8-10 November, at the University of Cologne. The event aims at exploring intersectional approaches on textual scholarship and Digital Humanities theories, practices, and tools. A session will be dedicated to Italian and German women writers during the Renaissance. This specific case […]
The traditional role of the database in scholarship has been as a repository – a place to store information for later retrieval. Over the past couple of years, however, I’ve found myself becoming more interested in the methodological use of the database not simply to store information, but to clarify points of tension between the […]
While I am deeply awed by people who are able to choose to be stay-at-home parents, I never imagined myself to be one of them. Simply put, I never thought in that way about my contribution to the world. I always endeavored to seek my own path, to put my heart and soul into making […]
From the ad: This position serves as the Senior Digital Collections Specialist and is located within the Technology Policy Directorate in Library Services. The position reports to the Head, Digital Content Management Section of the Digital Collections Management and Services Division. The Digital Content Management Section is responsible for providing digital acquisitions support to Library […]
From the ad: Reporting to the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, the Digital Humanities Academic Administrator is part of the core faculty of the Digital Humanities program and is responsible for developing new courses and teaching in the Digital Humanities program, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and overseeing a variety of student development initiatives. […]
From the CFP: Following this line, we invite proposals for contributions to a collection of essays entitled Global Debates in the Digital Humanities: a collection on the issues and challenges of practicing Digital Humanities (DH) in diverse geographical contexts, countries, and cultures – especially from, but not limited to, the Global South. The aim of […]
