News, Resources

Resource: Getting Started with Charts in R

So you want to make some charts in R, but you don’t know where to begin. This straightforward tutorial should teach you the basics, and give you a good idea of what you want to do next. Getting Started with Charts in R.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Carleton College Humanities Center: New Digital Humanities Associates Positions for Students

Two to three students from both Carleton and St. Olaf will be selected to learn a few carefully chosen, important Digital Humanities technologies.  They will train intensively with staff members in IT and the Library from both colleges during the month of January 2013.  They will then “practice” these technologies through working consistently on a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: alt.dh.edu — Digital Humanities special panel, Northeastern U. 3/16-3/17/2013, proposals due 1/15

As part of the 7th annual Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association Conference, alt/, we seek proposals for a special roundtable on innovative digital approaches to literary, historical, and/or cultural materials. alt.dh.edu — Digital Humanities special panel — 3/16-3/17/2013, proposals due 1/15 | cfp.english.upenn.edu.

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CFParticipation: Tapestry Conference: Weaving Stories and Data

Tapestry is a new conference on storytelling with data. While it focuses on visual ways of telling stories in journalism, there will be a broad range of topics, and a line-up of amazing speakers. The conference is limited to 100 participants, and invite-only. We are looking for more people who are interested in storytelling with data. […]

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CFP: Whose History is it Anyway? Public History in Perspective Conference – September 2013 – University of Central Lancashire

This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, […]

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Funding: 2 PhD Positions in Digital Heritage – Universiteit van Amsterdam

Starting in February 2013, the Allard Pierson Museum and the department of Media Studies of the Faculty of Humanities participate for four years in the EU-FP7 funded project on “Material EncounterS with Cultural Heritage” (meSch) as part of an international consortium. 2 PhD Positions in the Area of Digital Heritage – Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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Funding: PhD fellowships in digital culture; also extremist discourse online; U. of Bergen

The University of Bergen has seven open fellowships for the whole department (so any topic within digital culture, Nordic, linguistics, comparative literature, classics and theatre studies) and one earmarked stipend for a project examining extremist discourse online. As I’ve mentioned before, Norwegian PhD fellowships are really very good, as they are treated as regular jobs with benefits and […]