Newsletter for March 16th

Posted by forehamj on Thursday, March 17, 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.

Pathways After the PhD: A Career Chat

Sponsored by: the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities

Date and Time: March 24th, 12:15 – 1:15pm Central

Link with more information and Zoom link

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:

Acadimension! 3D-Scanning and Augmentation in Research and Scholarship (Apr. 16th)

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

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

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)

Research Associate: EyCon (Visual AI and Early Conflict Photography), Loughborough University

Applications due 20 March 2022

Link to job ad

PostDoc “Learning through Failure,” University of Toronto Mississauga

Application deadline March 31st

Link to job description

Program manager for El Proyecto de literatura puertorriqueña/Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR), University of Houston

Link to job ad

Assistant Director of Digital and Open Scholarship, Princeton University Library

Link to job ad

Sr Research Software Engineer, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University

Link to job ad

Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University

Link to job ad

Open-Rank Teaching Professor or Professor of the Practice in Digital Humanities, Northeastern University

Link to job ad

Final day for application submissions: Apr 18th

Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and/or Atlantic World History, Loyola University

Link to job description

CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops

Lecture Series, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) at Université de Montréal, and the ThincLab at Guelph University

Upcoming lectures:

Decolonizing computer programming (18 March 1:00EST)
Ethics of Indigenous Digital Scholarship Panel (25 March 2:00EST)
Data Feminism (1 April 1:00EST)
AI for the Rest of Us (8 April 1:00EST)

Link for more information

CFP: DHSI 2022 – Online Edition Conference & Colloquium

Submissions due Apr 4th

Submissions link

CFP: Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities – DHSI 2022

Submissions due Apr 4th