DH Newsletter Jan 26th
In This Newsletter
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Digital Humanities Events
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21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
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New Job Postings
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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
Workshop: Overview of OMEKA/OMEKA S, (Sarah Swanz)
Sponsored by: the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities
Date and time: February 10th at 12:15PM
Contact DH Center Staff for Zoom link
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
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:
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Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media (February 1st)
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Re-Visioning: Virtual Reality in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Expression (February 7th)
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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!
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3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group Contact: Melanie Forehand |
Black Studies and DH Working Group Contact: Brandon Byrd |
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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 |
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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)
Digital Collections Manager, Black Lunch Table
Start date is February 15, 2022
Rolling Applications
Front End Developer & Analyst, Transgender Media Lab and Humanities Data Lab, Carleton University
Submission deadline: February 1, 2022
Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Digital Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Due date: March 1, 2022
CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Virtual Talk: Abraham Liddell: “Cape Verde and the Early Modern Black Atlantic”
Date and Time: Tuesday, Feb. 1st, 12:30pm Eastern
Workshop Series: DH Toolbox, SHN-DH@uOttawa
Upcoming Workshops:
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2 February: Notetaking and the Personal Knowledge Management scene: Maybe This Time It’ll Stick!
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16 February: Accessing, analyzing, and visualizing research data metadata using DataCite and Jupyter Notebooks
Registration and further Information
CFP: Call for Book Chapters: Privacy and Safety in Remote Learning Environments, Digital Scholarship Initiatives (DSI) at the James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Submission due date: February 7, 2022
Workshop: ITHAKA Constellate Text Analysis
Date and time: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Survey: Mapping skills landscape for Computational Literary Studies (CLS), CLS INFRA project
More information on the CLS INFRA project: https://clsinfra.io/