Job Announcements, News

Job: DH Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is undertaking a long-term initiative to foster digital humanities research among its faculty, staff, and students. As part of this initiative, CMU seeks an experienced Developer to collaborate on cutting edge interdisciplinary projects. The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Approaches and the Ancient World

We invite colleagues all around the world and at all stages of their careers to submit papers on the topic of “Digital Approaches and the Ancient World” to a themed issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. The topic is to be construed as widely as possible, to include not only the […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation

Following the success of our first workshop back in May we’ve been busy developing and planning a next round of events. First up is a day-long workshop on ‘Crowd-Sourcing, Co-Creation and Co-Curation in the Cultural Sector.’ This event will take place on December 1, 2015 at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The workshop’s sister event is a Knowledge […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Tropy Research Photo Organization Tool Survey

From the announcement: The Tropy team is surveying humanities scholars to identify various academic research practices for the collection and management of archival images.  Tropy is a major new RRCHNM initiative led by Sean Takats and  Stephen Robertson. Thanks to the generous support of theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, Tropy will fill a crucial need in the […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Interdisciplinary Studies (Child Studies) Assistant Professor

From the ad: The Child Studies Program in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University invites applications from qualified candidates for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to commence on July 1, 2016. Qualifications include: a Ph.D. at the time of application; demonstrated excellence in teaching; a track record of research […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digitorium 2016

We are delighted to invite proposals for Digitorium 2016, a large-scale, international Digital Humanities conference to be held for the second time at the University of Alabama from 3rd-5th March 2016. Read full CFP here.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2016 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calgary, from May 30th to June 1 (http://congress2016.ca/).  We encourage submissions on all topics […]

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Job: Open Rank Professor / Program Director College Park, MD

From the ad: The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland seeks a dynamic scholar at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor with a proven record of conducting innovative research and teaching at the intersection of African American History & Culture and Digital Humanities to direct a major Andrew […]

News, Resources

Resource: Single-Session Digital History Lesson Plans

As part of the Historical Teaching and Practice program, I [Kalani Craig] presented three easily adaptable digital-history lesson plans that work nicely in single 75-minute sessions. These handouts provide the basic structure of the lesson plans without the images produced by students in previous iterations of those activities. Access resource here.

News, Resources

Resource: A Linked Data Journey, Proof of Concept

This is part two of my Linked Data Series. You can find the first post here. Linked Data is still a very abstract concept to many. My goal in this series is to demystify the notion. To that end I thought “wouldn’t it be cool to put Linked Data to practice, to build a proof-of-concept record”, […]