Announcements, News

Announcement: #s143 @ MLA 19 – Screen/Post-Screen DH

From the announcement: The following #MLA19 session will take place on January 3, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Suite 5 from 7-8:15 pm. Screen/Post-Screen Digital Humanities The screen shapes our concept of the digital, and further, the contemporary communication of graphical information. Figures like Johanna Drucker mobilize this fact toward charting fluid formations in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc – Networking Archives, Queen Mary University of London

From the ad: The School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on an AHRC-funded research project, ‘Networking Archives: Assembling and analysing a meta-archive of correspondence, 1509-1714’… This project, which was launched in October 2018, will bring together early modern correspondence data collected in […]

News, Resources

Resource: Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data

From the resource: What if text analysis could help with teaching the research process? In particular, with guiding students toward asking thoughtful and interesting research questions about the text? As opposed to traditional “close reading”, text analysis facilitates what many scholars call “distant reading”. In “distant reading”, texts can be analyzed at speeds and magnitudes […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of Digital Studies, University of Chicago

From the ad: Reporting to the chair of the Digital Studies faculty board, the Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of Digital Studies will have a leading role in building the Digital Studies program. His or her responsibilities will include teaching five quarter-length courses per year (normally, two in Autumn, two in Winter, and one in […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: DATECH 2019 – Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage

From the CFP: We are delighted to draw your attention to our Call for Papers for DATeCH 2019, which will take place from 8-10 May 2019 at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the heart of Brussels, Belgium. The International DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) conference brings […]

News, Reports

Report: The State of Digital Preservation in 2018

From the report: Our cultural, historic, and scientific heritage is increasingly being produced and shared in digital forms. The ubiquity, pervasiveness, variability, and fluidity of such content raise a range of questions about the role of research libraries and archives in digital preservation in the face of rapid organizational and technological changes and evolving organizational […]

News, Resources

Resource: Temporal Network Analysis with R

About the resource: The reality is that most historical networks change over time. At certain points they may grow, or shrink, or dissolve completely. Actors or objects enter and exit these networks over the course of their existence. People or things may occupy highly central roles for a brief period of time – perhaps a day, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Program and Project Manager, Dartmouth

From the ad: To support research and programming in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster and to support the Dartmouth HASTAC program. This position will include project management, program coordination, and outreach responsibilities for both HASTAC and DHSE. The DHSE cluster is committed to anti-racist, feminist principles and will support a broad range of […]