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PROJECT: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico

May

2

2024

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico (DECM Project) is an effort to share and analyze datasets of the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España, 16th and 17th century documents that provide insight into indigenous and colonized groups of the Virreinatos, or regions of the early Americas that were being colonized by Spanish viceroys. The project combines ...

POST: CNI’s Spring 2024 Project Briefings

May

2

2024

The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...

RESOURCE: ARL’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence

May

2

2024

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “Research Libraries Guiding Principals for Artificial Intelligence,” a brief values-statement on the use of AI in their policy advocacy and engagement. From the background statement: Articulating a set of research library guiding principles for AI is useful to influence policy and advocate for the responsible development and ...

CFP: Handbook of Humanities Podcasting

May

2

2024

The Humanities Podcasting Network (HPN) is compiling an edited collection to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. A 250-word abstract is due by May 5th, submitted through a Google Form. Topics for inclusion range from Historicizing the Humanities Podcast to Queer and Feminist Voices in podcasting, with over 20 topics represented. HPN seeks contributors from a ...

PROJECT: Alice Dunbar-Nelson Correspondence Network Dataset

Feb

22

2024

A Collections as Data pilot project at the University of Delaware, the network dataset for Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s correspondence is now available for download via the UDel institutional repository. Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an African-American civil rights activist, author, educator, wife of notable poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; the correspondence collection contains her literary, professional, and personal papers, ...

CFP: DH Inside Out (DH2024 Mini-Conference)

Feb

22

2024

DH2024 is seeking submissions and reviewers for the mini-conference at DH2024, “DH Inside Out,” which will be held August 6-9 at George Mason University. Rather than focusing on research and theoretical applications, this conference will focus on the technical details within the context of a project – from design and implementation to tools and code. ...

CFP: DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

Feb

22

2024

DH@Guelph is seeking course proposals for its 2024 Summer Workshops, May 14th-May 17th. From the call, the committee seeks: 4-day workshops on any aspect of digital humanities. Proposals will be selected by the local organizing committee with a view to maintaining the workshops’ emphasis on diversity in the digital humanities, meeting demand for particular topics, ...

CFP: Texas Digital Humanities Symposium

Feb

22

2024

The Texas Digital Humanities Symposium will be held September 5-6, 2024, at Baylor University’s Moody Memorial Library. The keynote will be Dr. Tanya Clement of University of Texas at Austin. “Digital Humanities Unveiled: A Practical Exploration” is the theme of this year’s symposium, and proposals will address topics in the following areas: DH Content: Diverse ...

CFP: MLA 2025 Panels

Feb

22

2024

The Modern Language Association’s 2025 Annual Convention will be offering several panels with overlaps in digital humanities and librarianship. The 2025 Convention theme is “Visibility,” and will be in New Orleans in January of 2025, with proposals due for submission in various dates in March 2024. Here are two panels with particular connections: Invisible Labor: ...

EVENT: Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories

Feb

22

2024

Baylor University will host “Discovering DH: Honoring Women’s Stories” on February 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm CST. Speakers are women faculty at Baylor who have contributed to DH scholarship. The event will take place in Baylor’s Moody Memorial Library, but will also be offered as a virtual session for registrants. Speakers will include: Heidi Hornik, ...

EVENT: DHSI-East 2024

Feb

22

2024

This intensive 4-day workshop, “Understanding and Deploying the Basics of Generative A.I.” will be held April 29-May 2 on the campus of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Instructors will be Aaron Tucker (University of Toronto), Meghan Landry, and Adnane Ait-Nasser (ACENET), with a keynote from Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary’s University) on “Mecha ...