From the announcement: This week the British Library has launched its latest online learning resource, Discovering Sacred Texts, which invites visitors to explore the world’s major faiths through the Library’s extensive collections. The new website includes over 250 digitised collection items, teachers’ resources, short films and articles. Nine faiths are featured: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism,…

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From the CFP: We are delighted to invite proposals for the inaugural Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut on February 28-29 2020. CT DH endeavors to bring together a network of DH practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the New…

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From the CFP: This gathering seeks to create an inclusive space for difficult, fruitful conversations around technology, however defined, as it affects and is affected by race, gender, sexuality, and ability. We aim to foster conversations that consider “technology” as the expression of material cultures, labor, and embodiment; as well as sites of empowerment or…

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From the ad: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D in History or historically based interdisciplinary degrees (i.e. American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Humanities, etc.) by August 2020 Ability to contribute to the BA and MA courses on Digital History and/or Public History/Applied History Areas of Specialization: Fields covering pre-Colonial Americas through the Civil War Ability to teach…

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From the ad: The University of California, Riverside (UCR) seeks applications for an innovative and dynamic librarian to work collaboratively to support the scholarly and research activities of UCR faculty, researchers, and students. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will be responsible for providing outreach and consultation for digital scholarship projects. The incumbent will work within the…

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From the ad: Georgia Tech’s Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC), with major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks a research scientist for design, development, and project management in the context of our diverse scholarly, pedagogical, expressive, and public-facing digital projects. We are particularly looking for expertise with digital archives encompassing text, audio,…

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From the CFP: This past year an informal group of librarians began meeting to discuss the intricate relationships between digital humanities (DH) and literacies—information literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy, data literacy, and the like—with the intention of fostering a larger conversation around the topic and learn more about what’s actually happening “on the ground.” The…

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About the resource: tl;dr There’s a new website called the Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook, made for people just beginning their journeys into digital humanities, but hopefully still helpful for folks early in their career. It’s a crowdsourced resource that Carnegie Mellon University and the A.W. Mellon Foundation are offering to the world. We hope you…

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From the ad: The College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University invites applications and nominations for several tenured or tenure-track faculty positions (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor) in Digital Humanities with a specialization in literary, rhetorical, cultural, or historical studies. Home departments may include History; English; Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies or…

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