The History Department at Boston College invites applications for a post-doctoral teaching fellowship to teach in the History Core program. Core courses cover the period from approximately 1500 to the present, introducing all undergraduates to a foundational knowledge of modern history and key historiographical debates. All specializations except American history are welcome to submit applications, […]
Public Knowledge Project announces the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press | Public Knowledge Project. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is very pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press (OMP). OMP is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions through internal […]
New guide means citing films and audio in your content couldn’t be easier : JISC. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc report, Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education: A Progress Report with Ten Strategic Recommendations. The report found that despite the exponential increase in the use of […]
Job opp: Asst. Prof Professor of Digital Media Design and Humanities at SUNYIT | HASTAC. The Department of Communication & Humanities at the SUNY Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department supports three programs: Communication & Information Design, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Information Design & […]
Call for Provocations: Pro-vocare, A New Collection of Sonically-Inspiring Projects | HASTAC. Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2013 Toward that end, the Soundbox project solicits proposals for “provocations.” These can take a variety of forms, including but not limited to: events or experiments, staged at any location, both online and off ongoing installations produced collaboratively […]
Workshops – Prosop: a social networking tool for the past Call for participants Database development workshop Historians and other scholars with large databases of historical person data are invited to workshops to test and populate Prosop, a project funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first of these […]
Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information (with image, tweets) · lubar · Storify. Spent a most fascinating day in Boston at Tufte’s course on “Presenting data and information.” More about the course @edwardtufte’s website: www.tufte.com
The aim of the inaugural Digital Classics Association (DCA) conference is to provide a survey of current approaches to digital methods of research, teaching, and outreach across classical sub-disciplines, with the goals of further opening inter-disciplinary perspectives and establishing common objectives for digital research and education. Fragmentary Texts » Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on […]
Over the next year, Soundbox will stage a series of provocations – from the Latin pro-vocare, “to call forth” — that confront the current sound of knowledge. Collectively, these provocations will showcase some of the most innovative uses of sound in scholarly settings, both creative and critical. Documentation of these collected works will be published on the web as […]
This panel will feature presentations that offer interpretations of texts, language, literature and/or literary history that definitely began with a digital approach. Crucially, however, we will ask presenters to speak not about their methods but instead about their interpretation, results, and conclusions. Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 from […]
