DH Newsletter March 31

Posted by forehamj on Thursday, March 31, 2022 in Newsletters.

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.

Imagining a Digitally Equitable Future: Lessons from Nashville’s Past and Present

Date and Time: Apr 1, 2022 12:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)

Registration link

Text Analysis Working Group Presents: A Conversation with Xiaoling Shu

Date and Time: April 5, 2022 12:20 PM Central Time

Registration information

Inventing Futures in Modern Media: Talk with Gundolf Freyermuth

Sponsored by the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies

Date and Time: April 7, 2022 12:15 PM Central Time

Registration information

Center for Digital Humanities Showcase

Date and Time: April 28, 2022 4:00 PM Central Time

Registration information forthcoming

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

Two Can be Better than One: Adapting Mixed Method Research Approaches to Digital Environments Apr. 5th

Acadimension! 3D-Scanning and Augmentation in Research and Scholarship

Apr. 16th

For more information, see this link

Data Science Events

Data Science Institute Summer 2022

AI Summer

May 10-June 3

Information and registration

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!

Digital Humanities Writing Group

Contact: Melanie Forehand

Email: melanie.j.forehand@vanderbilt.edu

Black Studies and DH Working Group

Contact: Brandon Byrd

Email: brandon.r.byrd@vanderbilt.edu

Digital Collections Working Group

Contact: Mickey Casad

Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu

Text Analysis Working Group

Contacts: Debbie Brubaker and Mark Schoenfield

Email: debbie.l.brubaker@vanderbilt.edu; mark.l.schoenfield@Vanderbilt.Edu

Spatial Humanities Working Group

Contact: Tyler (Bear) Anthony

Email: tyler.r.anthony@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)

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Community Data Literacy, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

CLIR Community Data Fellow for Rematriation of Inuit Knowledges, Virginia Tech University Libraries

Link to job ad

Digital Humanities Media Specialist / Postdoctoral Fellow, Knox College

Applications due April 15, 2022

Link to job ad

Mellon Just Transformations Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn State University

Apply online by April 20

Link to job ad

Makerspace Manager, Charles Library, Temple University

Rolling applications

Link to job ad