The Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College is currently offering a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship. Thanks to the continued generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Occidental’s CDLR will be hiring two fellows for terms beginning with the 2014-15 academic year. Read the full posting here.
The Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#dhpoco) engages postcolonial studies to address global issues relating to race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability within cultures of technology while bringing the activist praxis of the digital humanities to the work of postcolonial studies. Co-founders Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of #dhpoco and outline the […]
American History Now, a PressForward project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, announces the launch of and invites participation in a special issue on the history of vinyl records. A collaborative project that will culminate in a curated volume, American History Now will publish the work of scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts […]
The College of Southern Nevada Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian. Read full post here.
CHI seeks to prioritise transformative and experimental approaches in the Humanities: the creation of drafts that might be elaborated and consummated by other researchers; or hypotheses that may or may not be proven or implemented. The emphasis is not on the finished product of research, but on the open process of search and experimentation. Read […]
The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet is meeting to debate the scope of fair use. Read full post here.
This two-week institute supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will focus on the Civil War’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, and photography—to assess how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ understanding […]
Marla Jaksch and Angel David Nieves are Guest-Editing a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The Special Issue theme is “Intersections: Heritage, Development, Digital Technologies, and Pedagogy in Africa and the African Diaspora.” JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, and research. Read full […]
On January 22, 2014, George A. Smathers Libraries and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will release the first round in a series of oral history interviews with civil rights veterans of the Mississippi freedom movement for UF’s week of celebration surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The collection, “The Mississippi Freedom Project,” will be […]
Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of the New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Experience leads the experimentation, incubation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. The roles purpose is to build and deliver a set of inspiring service offerings to every single user whether they act alone or in a collaboration […]
