DH Newsletter February 16th
In This Newsletter
- Digital Humanities Events
- Announcements
- 21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
- New Job Postings
- CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Digital Humanities Events
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.
Workshop: ArcGIS Storymaps (Stacy C. Johnson)
Hosted by: The Digital Humanities Center Digital Collections Working Group
Date and time: Feb 18th @ 1pm
Email daniel.a.romero.suarez@vanderbilt.edu for Zoom link
Events: New Horizons in Digital Social Science Research Events
Speaker: Dr. Trena Paulus
Talks: What Can Qualitative Data Analysis Software Do for You?, Tuesday, February 22, 1:30–3:00p.m.
Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World, February 22, 4:00–5:00p.m.
Sponsored by: Digital Scholarship & Communications (DiSC) at the Vanderbilt Libraries
Talk: Covid-19 Archive (Dr. Marissa Rhodes and Erin Craft)
Sponsored by: the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities and the Digital Collections Working Group
Date and time: Friday, February 25, 1pm – 2pm
For Zoom link, contact Mickey Casad at m.casad@vanderbilt.edu
Workshop: Software Carpentries: Reproducible Research with R
Sponsored by: Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Research IT Services, Data Science Institute, and ACCRE, and DiSC
Date and Time: Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m
Location: Data Science Institute Sony Building on Vanderbilt Campus
DiSC Education and Training: Spring 2022
Workshops this semester include a number of workshops on introductory and intermediate GIS technologies and techniques, introductions to GitHub, Network Analysis, and Wikidata, as well as beginner and intermediate lessons in both Python and R.
For more information and registration, see this link
Digital Commons Spring 2022 Events
Upcoming Events:
- Digital Project Management for Research Teams (February 21st)
- What Can Qualitative Data Analysis Software Do for You? (February 22nd)
- Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World (February 22nd)
- Designing Graphs and Charts for Publication (February 25th)
For more information, see this link
Announcements
Center for Digital Humanities Blog: Did you know that the Center has a blog? During their fellowship year, fellows contribute to the Center for Digital Humanities’ blog, writing about their ongoing Digital Humanities research and teaching practices and projects, exploring new texts, concepts, and tools, and reflecting on how Digital Humanities relates to other areas of their work. Take a look at some of the recent posts here!
21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
The Center for Digital Humanities’ Working Groups for the 2021/2022 academic year are gearing up for another exciting and productive semester! 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!
| 3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group
Contact: Melanie Forehand |
Black Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Brandon Byrd |
| Digital Collections Working Group
Contact: Mickey Casad Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu |
Text Analysis Working Group
Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield Email: debbie.l.brubaker@vanderbilt.edu; mark.l.schoenfield@Vanderbilt.Edu |
| Game Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu |
Spatial Humanities Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu |
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)
IT Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Immediate review of applications
Programmer Analyst, University of Ottawa
Application Closing Date: February 20, 2022
Senior Research Software Engineer, Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Princeton
Review of applications will begin on March 15, 2022
CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Workshop: Introduction to TEI for Scholarly Texts, Institute of English Studies, Digital Humanities Research Hub
Event Dates and Times: 21 February 2022 – 25 February 2022, 3:30PM – 4:30PM
CFP: Ancient MakerSpaces 2023, Archaeological Institute Of America/Society For Classical Studies
Submissions due March 14, 2022
CFP: Digital Ecologies In Practice, University of Bonn
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15/04/2022