OPPORTUNITY: Speaking in Code

Applications are now being accepted for “Speaking in Code,” an NEH-funded symposium taking place November 4-5, 2013, at the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The event has been organized as an attempt to make explicit the tacit knowledge that is usually employed by software developers in the digital humanities.

As the announcement explains:

Over the course of two days, participants will:

• reflect on and express, from developers’ own points of view, what is particular to the humanities and of scholarly significance in DH software development products and practices;
• and collaboratively devise an action-oriented agenda to bridge the gaps in critical vocabulary and discourse norms that can frequently distance creators of humanities platforms or tools from the scholars who use and critique them.

Speakers include Steve Ramsay, Bill Turkel, Stéfan Sinclair, Hugh Cayless, and Tim Sherratt. (For a discussion about the diversity of this lineup, take a look at Natalia Cecire’s recent post and responses from Alex Gil and Bethany Nowviskie.)

The deadline to apply is September 12.