From the announcement: I am pleased to announce that “Moving People, Linking Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” will take place March 20-21, 2015 at the University of Virginia. Presentations and workshops will open dialogue across different fields, periods, and methods, from textual interpretation to digital research. Invited participants include specialists on narrative theory and life writing, […]
From the announcement: WASHINGTON (January 15, 2015) — A new joint grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into freely accessible e-books. Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books | National […]
From the announcement: The Digital Archivist is dedicated to the preservation and access of digital and hybrid collections held within Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University. The Digital Archivist’s primary focus will be to participate in the continued development and evolution of a digital preservation program within DCA. This work will include developing, implementing, […]
From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of the Institutional Repository (IR), the Data Curation Librarian is responsible for maintaining and managing LSU’s IR for both research data and scholarly works. The Data Curation librarian will be responsible for setting up “virtual research environments,” or the equivalent, as needed by externally funded research projects using […]
From the ad: The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asia, and African Studies at Columbia University is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Digital Humanities with a focus on Sanskrit for a one-year appointment beginning July 1, 2015. Candidates should have received a PhD in Indian Studies or related field in the last […]
From the CFP: What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once entwined with literary scholarship, archival research on historical audiences continues unabated; […]
From the posting: The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Department of American Studies, Brown University, seek a postdoctoral fellow in the Digital Public Humanities. Digital humanities often results in projects open to the public, and public humanities work increasingly takes advantage of digital tools to reach and interact […]
From the CFP: Date: Monday 18th – Tuesday 19th May 2015 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for “On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts”. This two-day conference will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of Hebrew manuscripts, present developments in the field and share methodologies. Of course, for […]
From the post: Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written several posts over the years about accessibility, about WordPress, and about WordPress and accessibility. For a variety of reasons, it’s important to make digital resources usable by the widest range of people you can, and ensuring accessibility is an key part of that process. (As many of […]
From the ad: As a member of the Library Technology department, reporting to the Director of Library Technology, the Digital Initiatives Librarian provides quality service and support to library faculty, staff and patrons. They collaborate in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of digital projects to enhance user experience and improve workflows within the library. This […]
