DH Newsletter Jan 21
In This Newsletter
- Digital Humanities Events
- 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.
Virtual Talk: The Pleasures and Perils of Mapping an Empire (Kelly O’Neil)
Sponsored by: the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities
Date and time: January 27th at 12:15 PM
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:
- Better Presentations for You and Your Grad Students (January 26th)
- Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media (February 1st)
- Re-Visioning: Virtual Reality in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Expression (February 7th)
- Professional Productivity: Better Project Collaboration through Technology (February 11th)
For more information, see this link
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 |
| 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 |
Working Group First Meetings:
- Game Studies and DH: Tuesday, Jan 25th @ 2pm
- Spatial Humanities: Friday, Jan 21st @ 1pm
- Text Analysis Working Group: Jan 25th @ 12:30pm
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 Scholarship Librarian, University of South Florida Libraries
Applications due: January 28, 2022
Assistant Professor / Digital Pedagogy Librarian, University of Dayton Libraries
Applications due: January 31, 2022
Associate Director for Research and Publications, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
Applications due: February 1, 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Studies, Davidson College
Application due: March 1, 2022
CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Virtual Talk: Color Matters: How Will 18th-Century Color Print and Textual Meaning Survive Mass Digitization?”, Dr Kirstyn Leuner
Thursday 27 January 2022, 5pm UK time
CFP: “At the Threshold: Looking Forward, Looking Back” — Bibliographical and Book Studies in Canada, The Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Société bibliographique du Canada
Abstracts due: 28 January 2022
Virtual Talk: “Here to enter a dyvel wyth thunder and fyre” – a plea for editorial infrastructure in the digital age
Talk occurring on Monday January 31, 2022 at 10am Pacific time
CFP: Spatial Humanities 2022, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
Submissions due: 14th February 2022
Study: Use of the TEI in Spanish
Survey closes: February 28, 2022
CFP: EHRI-Seminar | The Lviv Ghetto: Narrating and Mapping the History of Exclusion and Violence, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv)
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2022
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