Newsletter September 28th
In This Newsletter
- Digital Humanities Events
- Announcement: Digital Project Microgrants are now available!
- 21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
- New Job Postings
- Calls for Papers and Conference Submissions
- DH Scholarship News
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.
Center for Digital Humanities – Virtual Talk with Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Asst. Professor of History at UC Riverside
Date: Thursday, 7th Oct. 2021
Sponsor: Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities
Digital Commons – Digital Presence – Academic Podcasting
Date and Time: Thursday, October 7th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Panelists: Ed Cheng, Hess chair in law; Kate Stuart, assistant director, Office of Career Development; and Amy Hill, doctoral student in German and comparative media analysis and practice
Sponsor: Digital Commons
Location: zoom
More Event Details and Registration
Mellon Partners for Humanities Education – Digital Archives, Mapping, and Higher Education
Date and Time: Friday, October 8th, 8:45 am – 12noon
Panelists: Dr. Jesse Montgomery, Berea College, Dr. Emma Banks, Tennessee State University, Dr. Deann Armstrong Trakus, Tougaloo College, Dr. Magana Kabugi, Fisk University, Dr. Tiago Fernandes Maranhão, Tougaloo College with Maria Paula Andrade, Vanderbilt University, Dr. Jason Smith, Tougaloo College
Sponsor: Mellon Partners for Humanities Education
Location: Virtual
Registration: RSVP to angela.c.sutton@Vanderbilt.Edu
Additional Information: See attached poster
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
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
Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities announces Digital Project Microgrants for 21/22 Academic Year
The Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce faculty digital project microgrants for 2021-2022.
These awards are intended to jump-start faculty projects involving digital technology and research in the humanities or qualitative social sciences. We encourage the development of project teams that include graduate and undergraduate students. Collaborations between faculty members are also encouraged. Any Vanderbilt faculty members may apply.
Applicants may request up to $2,500 for:
- Undergraduate research assistants
- Graduate research awards
- Project website support
- Programmers/developers for hire
- Software and/or data acquisition
- Training
- Conference travel for undergraduate or graduate student team members
For more information, see the announcement on the Center for Digital Humanities’ website.
To apply, send your 250-word project description and budget to dhcenter@vanderbilt.edu.
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
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
Black Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Brandon Byrd
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
Digital Collections Working Group
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
Text Analysis Working Group
Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
Game Studies and DH Working Group
Contact: Derek Price
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
Spatial Humanities Working Group
Contact: Derek Price
Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!
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, please reach out to Derek Price (derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu)
Assistant Research Professor, Office of Digital Humanities, Brigham Young University
Application Due: 31 Oct 2021
See job posting #101457 under Faculty Positions at https://yjobs.byu.edu/.
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Studies – Tenure Track, The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Application Due: 01 Nov 2021
JHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto
Application Due: 30 Nov 2021
Calls for Papers and Conference Submissions
Call for Contributions: EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine.
Abstracts due October 29, 2021.
Call for Workshop Participants: Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps (Stanford University)
Workshop Dates: February 28 – March 4, 2022
Applications due: November 12, 2021
DH Scholarship News
Book Launch: Matthew Kirschenbaum, BITSTREAMS: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL LITERARY HERITAGE
Date and Time: 20 Oct 2021
Additional information and RSVP here