Special issue of Visual Resources

http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/gvir-cfp-digital-art-history-1q2017

In 2013, Visual Resources published a special issue devoted to Digital Art History. We recognize that since that date considerable activity has taken place in this area, which was then still in a phase of relative infancy. We feel that now…[Read more]

BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION

Title: Planning and Implementing a Digital Humanities Project
Lead Author: Sarah Ketchley (University of Washington)
Subject: Digital Humanities/Project Management
Target audience: Humanities Graduate Students & Faculty
Single author or Multiple authors: Single
Rebus project manager(s): Zoe Wake Hyde
License: CC BY

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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature was initially created by Robin deRosa at Plymouth State University. Working with students, they collected public domain texts, edited them as necessary and created introductions for each to form the beginnings of a new, definitive anthology of Early American Literature.

The project is now in the…[Read more]

Hello!

I thought members of this group might be interested to know that Barbara Fister has shared the text of her Marjorie Whetstone Ashton Annual Lecture, “Practicing Freedom for the Post-truth Era,” with the Library and Information Science group. You can find the text in CORE at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6H35Q. Here’s the abstract:

Why do we…

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Welcome to the Humanities Commons speculative fiction group! I’m envisaging this as a place to share scholarship and events, of course, but also as a source of recommendations and discussion of contemporary speculative and science fiction. So… what are you reading? What would you recommend?

April 13th would have been Seamus Heaney’s 78th birthday. I wonder if any Humanities Commons users have scholarship or teaching materials on Heaney that they’d like to share in the repository for others to use?

The DHSI listserv recently had a lively discussion about the best places a DH newcomer could go for an overview. @kdharris summed up the responses to her question (asked for a senior colleague) on her blog.

The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) invites submissions for the 2017 Graduate Paper Prize.

ASAP awards a prize of $250 annually for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of the anthropology of policy and a condensed version of the winning paper will be published in the ASAP Anthropology News column and linked on the ASAP…[Read more]

Digital Frontiers is an annual conference that explores advances and research in humanities and cultural memory through the lenses of digital scholarship, technology, and multidisciplinary discourse. The conference recognizes creativity and collaboration across academic subjects by bringing together researchers, students, librarians, archivists,…[Read more]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Attend the Allied Media Conference on June 15-18, 2017 in Detroit, MI!

Registration now open at https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc

Deadline to propose is March 12.

Disrupting Mainstream History: Memory Keeping, Storytelling, and Community Archives Track. The Disrupting Mainstream History Track will explore how to produce,…[Read more]

Job Description
The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/01/digital) and is designed to extend Brown’s capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication. The Digital Scholarship Editor plays an important role…[Read more]