Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

I hope you will be interested in reading my novel, “The Romances of George Sand,” which is forthcoming 9/12/2014. I believe this is a great book, and I would also like to see reviews on it up on Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, etc. before the release date. If you are curious about this book, I’d be delighted to offer a free electronic copy in ex…[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 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?