From the Announcement: Some of the digital art history summer institutes from last year are returning for 2015! At the moment, there are two announced institutes, both being funded by the Getty Foundation: July 13 — July 24: Building a Digital Portfolio at George Mason University: “Participants will learn from experienced RRCHNM and GMU faculty…
From the announcement: More than 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public as part of a collaborative initiative led by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the University of Michigan Library. Source: Bodleian Libraries | Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian…
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: MITH is excited to announce the lineup of speakers for our Spring 2015 Digital Dialogues season! Our six speakers come from a wide variety of research specialties ranging from ranging from Digital Musicology to Literature/Digital Editions to Urban Media Art and Interaction Design. See the list of speakers and sign up: Mark your calendars … MITH’s Spring 2015…
From the announcement: We’re excited to invite you to join us at DPLAfest 2015, taking place on April 17-18, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our hosts include the Indianapolis Public Library (Central), the Indiana State Library, the IUPUI University Library, and the Indiana Historical Society. About DPLAfest brings together the full range of the cultural heritage sector…
From the announcement: In the three years since Debates in the Digital Humanities was first published by the University of Minnesota Press, debates in and around the digital humanities (DH) have continued to grow. Scholars now anchor major research projects in digital methods; institutions have reorganized, both structurally and financially, to make room for DH…
From the announcement: The annual open DH Awards 2014 is now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource in any language that you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. Nominations will be open until 2015-01-18. Voting will take place shortly after. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2014 visit…
From the announcement: Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help transform the development, publication, and preservation of digital-born scholarly communication. (Stanford, CA)–Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from…
From the announcement: Have you ever wanted to livetweet a book? I often want to. Yet there doesn’t seem to be a standard way of doing that. You could tweet, for instance, “Oh Captain Wentworth! When will you propose? #JaneAustenPersuasion” but the hashtag isn’t standardized, so some people might be tweeting under #Persuasion and others…