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 […]
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 – […]
Last fall I attended Rails Girls DC, a one day workshop that introduces women to programming using Ruby on Rails. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. But I also left inspired to bring this sort of event to the Digital Humanities! We too have a gender gap and need to support women interested […]
Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered University of Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 – Saturday 25 October 2014 FIRST CALL for PROPOSALS Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become […]
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part […]
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – DUE AUG 31st! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event September 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I Hotel and Conference Center HTRC The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital […]
International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Digital Scholarship Digital scholarship, or “cyberscholarship” – that based on data and computation – is radically reshaping knowledge discovery, creation, analysis, presentation and dissemination in many topical areas. Scientists are using vast amounts of data to explore galaxies, measure stresses on earth systems, create genetic profiles of […]
Upcoming Call for Papers: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014] In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might […]
March 27-29, 2014 With keynote speakers: David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library) Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As […]
To all historians of the 16th century using digital methods: Colin Wilder, the host of a panel at the Sixteenth Century Conference in San Juan/Puerto Rico (24-27th October 2013), is searching for a substitution of my paper (I had to cancel this talk because of problems with funding).
