Call for abstracts: NEMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association https://nemla.org/index.html 2015 annual convention Ryerson University, Toronto 30 April to 3 May 2015 Panel “Digital Humanities and Publishing Humanities Scholarship Today.” Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, org. Purdue University and Purdue University Press…[Read more]

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]

Dear friends and colleagues,

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is proud to announce the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes.

HTRC Extracted Features Dataset:

https://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/Features

Features are data attributes defined in such a…[Read more]

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CFP: MLA 2015</p>

Special Session Roundtable: Gender and the Archives</p>
This roundtable will discuss ways in which gender interacts with or impacts the collection, preservation, or very existence of archives and archival materials, broadly understood.</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We encourage submissions from scholars working in all historical p…[Read more]

Designing an Archive for Cloud and Crowd –
How can networks (human and/or digital) combat institutional amnesia? What digital spaces can we build today to preserve a history for tomorrow? 350-word proposals by 14 March 2014. Contact amanda.licastro@gmail.com or benmiller314@gmail.com

The Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:

The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]

This session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:

Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts–reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]

Dear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,

CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.

<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]

I Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/adefl_bulletin_t_ade153_0&land=1

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered…[Read more]

I’ve joined a journal as “Digital Appropriations” editor for reviews of digital projects and texts related to William Shakespeare. For details, contact me and/or see the  Call for Submission here: http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/2013/09/27/bl/

Mein Lebenslauf, an autobiographical cantata by Georg Schönberg with text by himself , was and remains an important linguistic, cultural, and historical document as well as a work of art.

Georg Schönberg (1906-74) was the son of renowned composer Arnold Schönberg by his first wife, Mathilde Zemlinsky, sister of his good friend Alexander Ze…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’m excited to be participating in DH2013, my first-ever DH conference. I’m sure many others are attending as well. I wonder if there are ways to create some useful crossover here with the conversations […]

Does anyone have some good examples or guidelines to share?

Now that I’ve joined this group, I get to take issues with the idea of digital humanities being defined as broadly as it has been, right?