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CFP: MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities

Of Victorian Interest: CFP: MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities (3/1/2013; 1/9-12/2014). The Victorian Division seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Informatics.What were the properties of information in the Victorian period? Was there a Victorian culture of information? How did Victorians, amass, manage, propagate information? How did ideologies and economies of information […]

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CFP: Mediating the Nonhuman and The 6th Annual UCSB Research Slam

Transcriptions. Topics for the Research Slam are welcome to intersect with the above questions or to move in different directions; methods and formats might include: media experiments with big data, big image archives, and web scraping computer-aided transformations and deformations of texts and media objects inventive engagements with big data and distant reading techniques experiments […]

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Opportunity: Visualizing the Classics Prize

Visualizing the Classics – Anvil Academic. Anvil Academic and Dickinson College Commentaries announce the availability of a $1,000 prize for the best scholarly visualization of data in the field of classical studies submitted during 2013. Two runners-up will be awarded prizes of $500 each. Submissions must include: one or more visual representations of data that involves some linguistic […]

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Resource: mid 19th century Paper Dolls Collection

Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century. The dolls in this collection appear to date from the mid-19th century. Their exact date and place of origin are unknown. The first Western paper dolls appeared in 18th century Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Several sources assert their existence in 9th century Japan. […]

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CFP: New Works on Electronic Literature & Cyberculture

CFP New Works on Electronic Literature & Cyberculture: CLCWeb (3/1/13) | Electronic Literature Organization. CFP: New Works on Electronic Literature and Cyberculture CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.5 Deadline: March 1, 2013 Email to: mzalbidea [at] lasallecampus.es This CFP is aimed at participants in the 2012 ELVA  conference on Electronic Literature & other scholars of electronic literature.  […]

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CFParticipation: Finding Digital Archives

Finding Digital Archives The goal of the following survey is to understand how researchers and scholars locate and use freely available digital archival collections. A freely available digital archival collection can be defined as having the following features: 1) accessible over the public Web (i.e., not a library or personal subscription), 2) arranged and described […]

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Job: Associate or Full Professor of Digital Media, University of Illinois

Tenured: Associate or Full Professor of Digital Media, University of Illinois | HASTAC We seek an outstanding scholar, innovator, and teacher of digital, mobile or emerging media to join our faculty in the College of Media. This is a tenured 9-month academic year joint appointment where interdisciplinary work and collaboration are highly encouraged; ability to […]

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Resource: The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts

The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum houses an extraordinary collection of some 850 illuminated manuscripts from diverse cultures around the world. Full digital surrogates of many of these manuscripts are available on this website. We hope you enjoy them and incorporate them into your work and projects.

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Resource: The Catholic Pamphlets Collection

The Catholic Pamphlets Collection | Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) Blog. The Catholic Pamphlets collection at the University of Notre Dame contains a wide variety of pamphlets, booklets, and other documents pertaining to Catholicism or the Church in some way. The collection is located at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Hesburgh Library, […]