CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: “Historical documents, digital approaches” seminar-workshop at Ghent University, 5-7 september 2013

Three-day seminar-workshop on the use of Humanities computing methods in Historical Studies organized by the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities, the Departments of History and of Languages and Cultures, and the Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies, in cooperation with the Flemish Medieval Studies Workgroup and the Henri Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies.

News, Reports

Report: SHARP 2013 Digital Projects and Tools Showcase

In mid-July the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) met for its twenty-first annual conference, “Geographies of the Book,” in Philadelphia. Hosted by University of Pennsylvania, the conference included a three-hour, stand-alone digital showcase on Saturday, July 20th. Before I turn to the sixteen projects featured in the showcase, a few […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: NYU, Digital Scholarship Specialist

The job posting below came out on several email lists and is available on NYU’s site. To me, this job description is a nice model for enhancing the traditional Institutional Repository Coordinator/Librarian type position to reflect the range of needs, especially as related to digital publishing. Job Work Location: US Position Title: Digital Scholarship Specialist Posting Date: 07-29-2013 Posting […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFPs for ASECS 2014

There are some exciting panels being proposed at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2014 (Williamsburg, VA). I’ve reproduced the CFPs here. First, there a number of panels on libraries (including one by your own blogger): “The Private Library” Stephen H. Gregg, Dept. of English and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa U., Bath, BA2 […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013

We invite applicants for “New Media in American Literary History,” a symposium aimed at bringing together “digital” and “analog” scholars interested in the history of American print media to discuss common questions, challenges, and identify potential collaborations. sharp-l – [SHARP-L] Call for Participants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013 – […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc Position in Innovating Scholarly Communication at University of California, Davis

A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication of Scholarship” is hiring a 3-year postdoctoral fellow, starting September 1, 2013. This is a cross-disciplinary project to study the future of academic publishing, involving faculty from the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, the Library, the Genome Center, and the School of Law (with additional […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Specialist, The Getty Trust

Overview: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, technology-grounded person with a background in art history and/or computer science to conceptualize, advise, and coordinate digital humanities projects and collection digitization projects.  Reporting to the GRI Deputy Director, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including resident scholars, curators, research staff, librarians, […]