Newsletter October 21st
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.
Digital Commons – Close Reading, Far Reading: Using Text Analysis in Research and Scholarship
Date and Time: Monday, October 25th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Panelists: Mark Schoenfield, professor of English, Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African and African American art, and Pedro Rodriguez, postdoctoral fellow in data science and political science
Sponsors: Digital Commons, Center for Digital Humanities
Location: Virtual
Registration and More Information here
German, Russian and East European Studies – Tracing Transnational Legacies: Perspectives on Digital Scholarship in German and Russian Studies
Date and Time: Tuesday October 26th at 4:00pm (Central)
Panelists: Faith Hillis (University of Chicago), Helmut Smith (Vanderbilt University), and Derek Price (Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University)
Sponsor: Department of German, Russian and East European Studies
Co-sponsor: Center for Digital Humanities
Location: Virtual
Registration and information here
Digital Scholarship and Communications Office – DiSC Education and Training
Date and Time: Multiple
Workshops offered: Digital Literacies Workshop Series, GIS Workshop Series, Python Series, R Series, Github Series, Modalities of Text Mining: Exploring British Periodicals at Scale Series,
More Information and Registration: Link to DiSC Workshops webpage
Data Science Institute – Data Science Workshops
Date and Time: Multiple
Workshops offered: Managing Analytics Projects in Github (September 1), Python Intensive (September 6, 8, and 10), Git Basics (September 15), Making Github Work for Teams (September 22), Introduction to nbdev (September 29), Advance Github Flow with nbdev (October 6), Deep Learning on the DGX A100 (October 20), Hands on Transformers (October 27), Machine Learning in Practice (November 3), MLflow in Practice (November 10), State of the Art Data Science Overview (November 17)
More information and registration here
Announcements
HASTAC Scholars Program Call for Applications, 2021-2022
The Vanderbilt HASTAC network is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 HASTAC Scholars Program! Graduate students interested in learning more about digital humanities and gaining hands-on experience with DH practice are encouraged to apply.
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is a global network of individuals and institutions brought together by their shared interest in the intersections of digital media, 21st-century education, digital humanities, science, technology, and the arts. The HASTAC scholarship competition is open to any graduate student with an interest in arts, humanities, science, and technology. Up to nine Vanderbilt University graduate students will be appointed as HASTAC Scholars in 2021-22.
The Vanderbilt program awards HASTAC Scholars a $500 stipend for their one-year appointment. For more information on this scholarship opportunity, please see this webpage on the Center for Digital Humanities’ website.
21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
The Center for Digital Humanities’ Working Groups for the 2021/2022 academic year are in full swing! 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, or sign up using the survey links below!
| 3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group
Contact: Melanie Forehand Email: melanie.j.forehand@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Black Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Brandon Byrd Email: brandon.r.byrd@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
| Digital Collections Working Group
Contact: Mickey Casad Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Text Analysis Working Group
Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield Email: danielle.r.picard@vanderbilt.edu; mark.l.schoenfield@Vanderbilt.Edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
| Game Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Spatial Humanities Working Group
Contact: Derek Price Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here! |
Upcoming Working Group Meetings (note: for best info, reach out to working group contact)
- Text Analysis: Oct 22nd at 11:30am – doing text analysis with R
- 3D Models and Immersive Environments – Oct 22nd at 11am
- Digital Collections: Oct. 22nd at 1pm – Working with Omeka
- Spatial Humanities: Nov 3rd at 2:30pm – GIS Workflow and project discussion
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)
Assistant Professor, Digital Curation and Preservation (Tenure Track), University of Arizona
Application Due: Rolling applications
CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops
Event: DHMS: Black Beyond Data, Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative, University of Connecticut
Date and Time: October 25, 2021, 4:00–5:30pm Eastern
Speakers: Jessica Marie Johnson and Kim Gallon
Link for more info and registration
Conference: 2021 INS Annual Meeting Social Justice at the Center: Shaping the Future of Neuroethics
Registration deadline: October 29, 2021
Workshop: Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure (King’s Digital Lab, King’s College Department of Digital Humanities)
Date: November 18, 2021
Workshops: Fall 2021 Programming Historian Book Club, Basic Text Processing in R and Introduction to Python Sequence
Date and Time: October 21st 3:30-5PM EST and November 18th 3:30-5PM EST
Event: Scholars’ Lab Computational DH Book Series – Andrew Piper’s Enumerations: Data and Literary History, University of Virginia
Date and Time: November 19th, 10:00-11:00 am Eastern
EVENT: Egyptomania in the Mail & Online: Digital Archives and Imperial Imaginings of an “Antique Land” through Vintage Postcards
Date and Time: October 27, 12:30 – 1:50pm pst.
Call for Interventions: Computers and Writing 2022: Practicing Digital Activisms
Proposals due: November 1, 2021
Conference: Digital Humanities 2022: “Responding to Asian Diversity”, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Proposals due: November 30, 2021, 11:59 PM Hawaii Standard Time (GMT-10)
CFP: 7th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Digital Humanities at Michigan State University
Proposals due: Wednesday, December 1, 2021