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RECOMMENDED: Rethinking Data and Rebalancing Digital Power

Feb

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2023

The Ada Lovelace Institute released a new report, “Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power.” Developed by the Rethinking data working group, co-chaired by Diane Coyle (Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge) and Paul Nemitz (Principal Adviser on Justice Policy, European Commission and visiting Professor of Law at College of Europe), the report sought ...

PROJECT: Periodical Poets

Feb

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2023

Periodical Poets is a digital humanities project containing over 500 poems printed in New York-based, nineteenth-century periodicals run by Black editors. Created by Charline Jao with the support of the Cornell Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, the project is sponsored by Cornell University Library & Society for the Humanities. As explained in the project’s ...

PROJECT: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Herstory in the Colored Conventions Movement

Feb

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2023

The Colored Conventions Project announced the launch of a new online exhibit, “Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Herstory in the Colored Conventions Movement.” The exhibit “examines the work of activist, educator, and newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary within the Colored Conventions Movement. Drawing on various scholarship on Shadd Cary, this exhibit also centers her ...

POST: Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People

Feb

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2023

JSTOR Daily recently published a blogpost, “Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People.” Written by Daryle Williams (Professor of History and serves as Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of California, Riverside) and Kristina E. Poznan (Clinical Assistant Professor of History at the ...

RESOURCE: Digital Bundles: Creating Cultural Space for Indigenous Knowledge through New Technologies

Feb

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2023

The Critical Digital Humanities Network at the University of Toronto recently released a video of Jennifer Wemigwans’s keynote for Critical Digital Humanities International Conference, “Digital Bundles: Creating Cultural Space for Indigenous Knowledge through New Technologies.” From the video description: Earlier this fall, we were thrilled to welcome Jennifer Wemigwans as a Keynote Speaker at our ...

RESOURCE: Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

Feb

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2023

The Living with Machines Project recently announced the publication of its first book, Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project. Written by Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Mia Ridge and Giorgia Tolfo, this book describes the work of the overall project, which is “the largest digital humanities project ever ...

RESOURCE: South Asian Ephemera Collection

Feb

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2023

Princeton University presents the South Asian Ephemera Collection. It is an open access repository of materials to support research, teaching, and private study with the goal “to provide a diverse selection of resources that span a variety of subjects and languages and support interdisciplinary scholarship in South Asian Studies.” From the About page: At present, ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned

Feb

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2023

Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned, a new open access book, was just published. Edited by Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano, this book “is the first volume to focus explicitly on the most common and accessible kind of training in digital humanities (DH): workshops.” From the abstract: Drawing together the experiences and expertise of dozens of ...

EVENT: Professional Development Beyond Academia: Engaging Diverse Communities in the Digital Humanities

Feb

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2023

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is hosting the second event in their “Making DH Work for Us: Labor, Care, and Career” series. “Professional Development Beyond Academia: Engaging Diverse Communities in the Digital Humanities” is a virtual event that will take place on March 1 from 2-3pm EST. From the announcement: For this ...

EVENT: Publishing your Digital Project: Ask the Editor

Feb

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2023

Publishing your Digital Project: Ask the Editors is virtual event from the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at University of Toronto on March 10 from 12-1pm EST. From the announcement: You’ve assembled a team and learned the tools and are building your digital humanities project. Now what? Join the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative for a lunchtime talk with Dr. Roopika Risam, Editor ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Against Dark Times

Feb

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2023

Digital Humanities Against Dark Times, hosted at the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities from April 14-15, is currently seeking proposals that engage with: Rising political extremism and polarization Racism, colonial exploitation, gender marginalization, backlash Data capitalism and new forms of artificial intelligence Military conflict and global political instability Catastrophic climate change The uncertain future of ...