Newsletter October 28th
In This Newsletter
- Digital Humanities Events at Vanderbilt
- 21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
- New Job Postings
- CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Digital Humanities Events at Vanderbilt
Below is a selection of upcoming events across campus that might be of interest to scholars, educators, and students working in and around Digital Humanities. You can always check out events that the Center for Digital Humanities is running on the center’s public google calendar or on the events page of the center’s website.
Introduction to Research Data Management at Vanderbilt
Data and Time: Monday, November 1, 1:00pm to 2:00pm Central
Sponsors: Digital Commons, Digital Scholarship and Communications, Research IT Services, Data and Strategic Analytics, Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt Information Technology, Office of General Counsel
Panelists: Derek Bruff, Cliff Anderson, Andrew Wesolek, Lindsey Fox, Olivia Kew-Fickus, Stephanie Rodriguez, Jesse Spencer-Smith, Michael McAllister, Jeff Loudon, Richard Chotard
Virtual Talk: Large-scale Data and Racial Inequality – Dr. Mario Small (Harvard)
Date and Time: November 4th, 2021, 12:15 – 1:15pm Central
Sponsor: Center for Digital Humanities
Digital Scholarship and Communications Office – DiSC Education and Training
Date and Time: Multiple
Workshops offered: Digital Literacies Workshop Series, GIS Workshop Series, Python Series, R Series, Github Series, Modalities of Text Mining: Exploring British Periodicals at Scale Series,
More Information and Registration: Link to DiSC Workshops webpage
Data Science Institute – Data Science Workshops
Date and Time: Multiple
Workshops offered: Managing Analytics Projects in Github (September 1), Python Intensive (September 6, 8, and 10), Git Basics (September 15), Making Github Work for Teams (September 22), Introduction to nbdev (September 29), Advance Github Flow with nbdev (October 6), Deep Learning on the DGX A100 (October 20), Hands on Transformers (October 27), Machine Learning in Practice (November 3), MLflow in Practice (November 10), State of the Art Data Science Overview (November 17)
More information and registration here
21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
The Center for Digital Humanities’ Working Groups for the 2021/2022 academic year are in full swing! These working groups are for anyone on campus interested in Digital Humanities, from absolute beginner to advanced practitioner. If you’re interested in any of the topics below, get in touch with the organizer to learn more, or sign up using the survey links below!
| 3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group
Contact: Melanie Forehand Email: melanie.j.forehand@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Black Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Brandon Byrd Email: brandon.r.byrd@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
| Digital Collections Working Group
Contact: Mickey Casad Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Text Analysis Working Group
Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield Email: danielle.r.picard@vanderbilt.edu; mark.l.schoenfield@Vanderbilt.Edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
| Game Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Spatial Humanities Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Upcoming Working Group Meetings (email contact for more info):
- Digital Collections: November 5th, 1pm: creating exhibits in Omeka and using the Geolocation plugin
- Black Studies and DH: November 17 from 2:00-3:30 pm: discussing Kim Gallon, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” (2016) and Safiya Umoja Noble, “Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities” (2019). Contact Brandon Byrd for readings.
- Text Analysis: October 29th: Working with R for text analysis, guest workshop by R. Steve Baskauf
New Job Postings
Below are job ads that may be of interest to scholars working in Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Information Science, Library Science, and more. We hope these links will encourage you to learn more about the advertised positions and institutions. If you want us to circulate a particular job ad or have any questions, please reach out to Derek Price (derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu)
Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
Application due date: 16 November 2021
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) Junior Fellows Program, Rare Book School
Application due date: 30 November 2021
G4C Festival Programmer/Curator, Games for Change
Rolling applications
CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Event: Open and Inclusive Access to Research
Date: November 8-11, 2021
Workshop: Humanities Podcasting: Multiethnic Digital Storytelling, Digital Humanities Initiative at UIC
Date and Time: November 11, 2021, 10am – 5:15pm
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Asian Canadian Content, University of Victoria Libraries & the ETCL
Date and Time: November 17th, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Event: Scholars’ Lab Computational DH Book Series – Andrew Piper’s Enumerations: Data and Literary History, University of Virginia
Date and Time: November 19th, 10:00-11:00 am Eastern
Registration
CFP: Digital Humanities Utah 6, Brigham Young University
Abstracts due: 30 November 2021
Online Event: Putting Open Social Scholarship Into Practice, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE)
Date and Time: December 8-9 2pm-4pm PST
CFP: Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities, Debates in the Digital Humanities Series
Abstracts due: December 15, 2021