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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for 2019 Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference—due Nov. 10 in the discussion
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
November 10, the deadline to submit proposals for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference, is fast approaching! Have you sent in your proposal yet?
ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Next summer, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon…[Read more]
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Anna Kijas started the topic CFP: Nov. 10 Deadline for ACH 2019 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe CFP deadline for the inaugural Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference (in partnership with Keystone DH) is fast approaching! Please submit your proposals by November 10, 2018. The CFP is also available in Spanish and French.
ACH is the United States-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities…[Read more]
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Catherine Addington deposited Transcription: More Than Meets the Eye in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoA low-tech introductory workshop on print-to-digital transcription for an audience interested in the creation of digital editions. Learning objectives include: recognition of the intellectual labor involved in transcription; understanding of the basic concepts of textual scholarship, especially the distinction between text and document;…[Read more]
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Sten Kauber started the topic Job: ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in DIGITAL HUMANITIES in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoTallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This would offer a unique possibility for an internationally established scholar in digital humanities, digital culture studies or i…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Crip Technoscience in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCrip technoscience
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Enlivened City: Inclusive Design, Biopolitics, and the Philosophy of Liveability in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoShortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNew digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Aimi Hamraie deposited Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNew digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoWe live in an increasingly übercapitalist society. It’s übercapitalist in that a specific version of neoliberalism, characterised by low pay, zero-hours and fixed-term contracts, is growing ever more aggressive; and that the disruptive technology firm Uber offers one of the most high-profile examples of this intensified form of deregulated cap…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited A Garden of Wandering: A Response to Simon During in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis short essay is part of a Forum centered upon responses to Simon During’s essay, “Precariousness, Literature and the Humanities Today,” Australian Humanities Review 58 (May 2015), and argues (following Nicholas Bourriaud’s figure of the radicant) for the becoming-itinerant of humanistic practice, as well as for reinventing the Academy as a wan…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Why We Blog: An Essay in Four Movements in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay comprises four parts, each by one of the co-bloggers at In the Middle (http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com). Karl Steel argues that the benefits of academic blogging outweigh its potential humiliations, and that academic conferences should post their papers publicly and allow for comments so that conferences, in a sense, never end.…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited “An Instrument for Adoration”: A Mini-manifesto Against Metrics for the Humanities (to be Elaborated Upon at a Later Date) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis mini-manifesto takes a firm and unwavering stand against any and all metrics that might be devised to measure scholarly productivity, “outcomes,” and the value of scholarship in the humanities. Regarding the notion of a “humane” or “humanistic” metrics for scholarship produced in the Humanities, we don’t need more “humane indicators of excell…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Dictionary of English Etymology – is it online? in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoGoogle Scholar found me a preprint entitled “The Dictionary of English Etymology for Analyzing Expressions”, by SARAKI Masashi, OSADA Tetsuo, and NITTA Yoshihiko at Nihon University. (No idea if it was ever published.) Such a dictionary would come in very handy, if I could query it from a script.
Does anyone know of a place this can be found online?
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Eileen Joy deposited Let Us Now Stand Up for Bastards: On the Importance of Illegtimate Publics in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis essay is partly a response + riposte to Johanna Drucker’s Jan. 2014 essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, “Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing,” and partly a plea for the University, and the Humanities, along with their publishing “arms,” to be refashioned, not as sites of cultural Authority from which Knowledge…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2018 Syllabus in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis syllabus is my fifth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. In consultation with my colleagues, I decided that this year’s version should also include a unit that looked at digital objects with a humanities perspective. The course is organized around four projects, each of which is oriented…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge deposited Breathing life into digital collections at the British Library in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHow are research libraries preparing to meet the needs of 21st century researchers? For the past decade, the British Library’s Digital Scholarship team has worked to ensure that the Library’s collections, systems, policies and processes meet the emerging needs of anyone who wants to conduct innovative research with the Library’s digital colle…[Read more]
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Katherine Bowers deposited @RodionTweets, Parts 4-6 + Epilogues in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]
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Katherine Bowers deposited @RodionTweets, Prologue + Parts 1-3 in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]
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Laurie Pearce deposited Data Management Plan. Berkeley Prosopography Services: Implementing the Toolkit in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoData management plan submitted in the successful application for the 2014-2016 NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant.
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