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RECOMMENDED: Tech Won’t Save Us: Don’t Fall for the AI Hype with Timnit Gebru

Feb

9

2023

Explore the latest episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, a podcast that “examine[s] the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable.” ...

RESOURCE: Smithsonian Open Access

Feb

9

2023

The Smithsonian recently launched Smithsonian Open Access, featuring “more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items” from their collection. The open access content includes “images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.” All content is available for download and reuse, and will surely prove ...

RESOURCE: Debates in the Digital Humanities: New OA Editions

Feb

9

2023

Several new editions in the Debates in Digital Humanities series are now open access in Manifold. Most recently added volumes include Debates in the Global Digital Humanities and People, Practice, and Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center. The Debates in Digital Humanities series, which began with the first Debates book in 2011, has grown into a comprehensive ...

CFP: ACH 2023 (virtual)

Feb

9

2023

The Association for Computers and the Humanities seeks proposals for ACH 2023, our virtual conference, to be held June 29-July 1, 2023. From the announcement: We welcome a broad range of topics, with a particular emphasis on social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis

Feb

9

2023

Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis Guest Editors: Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and Sara Dias-Trindade (Universidade do Porto and CEIS20) From the call: From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the Russian war against Ukraine, to accelerating climate change, to the rise of neo-fascist politics that target racial and ethnic minorities, refugees, and ...

CFP: Turning It Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship

Feb

9

2023

The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship seeks proposals for a special issue “Turning It Off and Back On Again: Speculative Digital Librarianship.” From the call: Digital Librarianship is a thriving subfield of LIS, concerned with the tools, technologies, theory and practice of creating, managing, sharing, and exploring digitized and born-digital material held by cultural heritage ...

EVENT: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations

Feb

9

2023

The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies at UCLA is hosting a free, virtual conference Wednesday, March 8, 2023–Thursday, March 9, 2023. Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations “considers the ongoing reassessment of memory and heritage work and heritage ownership, as it is understood by libraries, ...

EVENT: Automation by Design

Feb

9

2023

Automation by Design is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation, to be held Friday through Saturday, February 17 & 18, 2023. Hosted by the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering & University Libraries, this two-day symposium explores “The platformization of society, ...

EVENT: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Feb

9

2023

The 8th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will take place as a virtual event, March 13-15, 2023, and as an in-person event at Michigan State University, March 17, 2023. The Global DH Symposium explores how “DH has been a key site for interrogating narratives about disruption, connection, virtuality, surveillance, algorithmic bias, data and resistance, the ...

EVENT: Lightning Lunch: Old Data, New Data

Feb

9

2023

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Toronto is hosting their fourth virtual lunch in their 2022-2023 lightning lunch series on February 17 at 12pm EST. The session will explore “digital humanities approaches working with new data and ethics — and the afterlives of old data.” The conversation will feature three speakers: Dr. ...

EVENT: Policies for a Better Internet: Securing Digital Rights for Libraries

Dec

1

2022

The Internet Archive will host an upcoming virtual discussion, “Policies for a Better Internet: Securing Digital Rights for Libraries,” on December 8 at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. Facilitated by Chris Lewis, President of Public Knowledge, the discussion will focus on the Internet Archive’s upcoming report “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for ...