About the resource: The March is a documentary by filmmaker James Blue (1930-1980) about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963. Blue filmed participants as they prepared for the March on Washington in their home cities, followed them as they traveled to Washington, and recorded their reactions as they listened […]
From the CFParticipation: Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes (edited book) Edited by Christina Lee and Erik Champion (Curtin University) We are soliciting contributions for an edited book that will explore the affective landscapes – both real and imaginary – in screen tourism… The book will explore how affective landscapes in screen tourism are sights/sites of […]
From the announcement: Happy to announce that Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa) and myself are organizing a workshop to be held between February 27th and March 1st 2019 at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences. While scholars (and a few scientists) have been developing new methodological approaches for working with historical data, there have been few […]
From the report: Exploit, Code-Switch, Glitch I’d like to open with two quotes to situate my paper within a DH, perhaps para-DH discourse, that is primarily speculative in its intervention. First, a quote from [SLIDE] “Critical Unmaking: Toward a Queer Computation,” by Jacob Gaboury, we must “acknowledge how futurity has been colonized by the cultural […]
About the funding: The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa welcomes applications for a full-time, twelve-month Postdoctoral Scholar. The two-year residency will begin on August 12, 2019 and is a twelve-month appointment each of the two years. The position is funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and […]
From the ad: The Department of History and Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University seek applications for the position of Specialist- Curriculum Development, also knowns as Director of the Lab for Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR). LEADR (leadr.msu.edu) is an interdisciplinary space for undergraduate and graduate students to learn, experiment, and build […]
About the funding: …As an event, the Lab receives no financial support from any institution or corporation, relying instead on the donations and contributions of its community, and on the revenue generated by registrations. Each year, we earmark funds to provide fellowships to as many people as we can. A Digital Pedagogy Lab Fellow attends […]
About the resource: With each new technological development promising to “revolutionize education”, we need to start asking how…and at what cost. Platforms that provide services allegedly for free often do so in exchange for data about its users—forming a deep layer of surveillance over our online lives. Asking students to use online platforms and services […]
From the report: As part of GIS Day 2018, the Digital Scholarship Group, the Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis), and the College of Arts, Media and Design brought Nil Tuzcu and Arzu Çöltekin to present on mapping and visualization. Nil Tuzcu is an information designer and urban technologist specializing in spatial data analysis and visualization […]
From the ad: This will be a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in African American data curation, with time split between the Colored Conventions Project (CCP) and the CLIR Fellow’s own research. Working as a key member of the CCP team, the Fellow will implement and supervise new, multi-institutional partnerships for gathering documents, organizing research data, and […]
