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POST: Resistance, Racialized Violence, and Database Design

Mar

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2018

Sarah Whitwell (McMaster University) has authored a post for the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship’s blog, entitled “Resistance, Racialized Violence, and Database Design,” detailing her work defining “resistance” for a database schema: When inputting data on incidents of racialized violence, for example, I must decide how to code types of violence… It is ...

RESOURCE: “Natural Allies”: Librarians, Archivists, and Big Data in International Digital Humanities Project Work

Mar

1

2018

Alex H. Poole and Deborah Garwood (both Drexel University) have submitted a pre-print of their article, “‘Natural Allies’: Librarians, Archivists, and Big Data in International Digital Humanities Project Work,” to ResearchGate. From the paper introduction: This paper first reviews the literature, concentrating on the relationships among digital humanities (DH), Library and Information and Science (LIS), ...

CFP: Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black Conference

Mar

1

2018

The University of Maryland’s African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) has posted a call for proposals for their first national conference, to be held at the University of Maryland on October 18-20. The conference’s theme is “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black”: What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, ...

CFP: 2018 Digital Frontiers/Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Conference

Mar

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2018

Digital Frontiers has posted a call for proposals for the 2018 Digital Frontiers/University of Kansas’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) Digital Humanities Forum, to be held October 4-5 at the University of Kansas. The theme for the conference is “Finding Community in Digital Humanities”: When the diversity of disciplines, technologies, and communities ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist, Bucknell University

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head, Special Collections/University Archives and University Archivist, the responsibilities of the Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist are two fold: work with the Bucknell University campus to establish an effective and sustainable digital preservation program and actively participate in the processing and description activities taking place in Special Collections/University Archives. ...

JOB: Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Queens College

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: We seek a creative, collaborative librarian who can take the lead in the development of these new initiatives. The ETDS librarian will work collaboratively to support the development of the new initiatives to create high-impact learning spaces within the library that make use of new technology and digital pedagogies. In addition to ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Central Connecticut State University

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: Central Connecticut State University’s Elihu Burritt Library seeks a collaborative, creative and enthusiastic Digital Humanities Librarian to join the professional staff. The successful candidate will provide leadership in identifying trends and emerging technologies in digital humanities and building partnerships and cultivating relationships with key university units to develop digital humanities collections and ...

POST: What Can Data Visualization Learn from Feminism?

Feb

22

2018

Paxtyn Merten (Northwestern University) has written an article in Storybench, a publication of the NU School of Journalism, discussing the work of Catherine D’Ignazio (Emerson College) on data literacy and feminism. In “What Can Data Visualization Learn from Feminism?,” Merten summarizes six points given by D’Ignazio to encourage “a feminist perspective on the design of ...

CFP: Slavery in the Machine (sx archipelagos)

Feb

22

2018

sx archipelagos has issued a call for papers for a special section, “Slavery in the Machine,” guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson: This special section aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. Topics may include but are not limited to: black code studies through a hemispheric lens plantation ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference

Feb

22

2018

The Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, now in its 4th year at Pennsylvania State University, has issued a call for proposals for the 2018 conference (July 16-18). Recognizing how DH scholarship in practice necessarily bridges conventional academic distinctions, we invite contributions from across the field, including faculty researchers, unaffiliated scholars, librarians, technologists, artists and critical-makers. Whitney ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Asia 2018 Summit

Feb

22

2018

Stanford University will host the Digital Humanities Asia 2018 Summit on April 27-28, 2018. Organized by Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford University), author of The Chinese Typewriter: A History, the two-day conference features an international group of speakers on a wide range of topics: [T]he DHAsia 2018 Summit will focus on four (4) areas of research ...