From the announcement: Here are some of the key features updated with Classic 2.6: We’ve upgraded the WYSIWYG and HTML editor tinyMCE. Not only does it have a cleaner look, but improved functionality. Thanks to contributor luku, Browse Tags has additional functionality: Default display of tags for both items and exhibits, with the ability to…

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From the announcement: This symposium will explore the ways that promotion and tenure criteria are evolving in the 21st century to incorporate accomplishments in digital scholarship, interdisciplinary research, and alternative impact metrics.  Featured speakers and panels will analyze and make recommendations concerning different aspects of this evolution. Read more here .

About the resource: Part of the mission of the SSRC Digital Culture program, and of Parameters as a platform, is to bring together disparate trainings and resources for scholars hoping to increase their digital literacy and familiarity with digital tools and methodologies used in social science. To that end, we compiled a list of current…

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From the CFP: Over the last decade as digital humanities research has flourished, the MLA convention—as well as other venues—has witnessed increasingly vigorous discussions about teaching digital humanities. We now find ourselves in a discipline that is not so new (acknowledging, of course, that DH is as old as the computer itself) and simultaneously at…

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From the announcement: DH Awards 2017 is open for voting at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/voting/ until the end of 25 February 2018. Versions of this announcement in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish are available from the website. Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity….

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From the call: The Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing and Social Justice Community Conference will take place at Lehigh University and in the adjacent Southside of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania April 20-22, 2018.  The conference is also referred to as ODH2018. This innovative community conference will locate the budding field of digital humanities at the intersection of…

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Language is a source of power that makes things happen in the world, and that is an important and challenging lesson to teach in college writing courses. Once students recognize the profound implications of our work with language, many of the skills instructors value — argumentation, organization, revision, editing, proofreading — become much easier to teach….

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