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FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2023-2024 VRA Project Grant Call for Applications

Oct

5

2023

Visual Resources Association (VRA) announced the call for project grant applications for 2023-2024. From the VRA Project Grant description: The Visual Resources Association Project Grant awards up to $3,000 to support projects in the field of visual resources and image management. The project must be completed within one year from the time the grant is ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digitizing Hidden Collections

Oct

5

2023

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced its call for proposals for the 2023-2024 cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices. From the call: Launched in 2021, the program is designed to support efforts to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and ...

EVENT: FLDH Webinars: August Lineup

Jul

31

2023

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) invites you to its August webinars series: Curaduría de datos y narrativas geoespaciales sobre redes de intercambio y comercio indígena en la región del Orinoco, siglos XV al XVIII Friday, August 4, 2 p.m EDT Register here Dr. Maria José Afanador-Llach, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia ...

RECOMMENDED: Rethinking Data and Rebalancing Digital Power

Feb

23

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

23

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

23

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

23

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

23

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

23

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: Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned

Feb

23

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 ...

OPPORTUNITY: Dream Lab 2023

Feb

23

2023

Registration for Dream Lab 2023 is now open. Organized by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, this week-long digital humanities training opportunity is designed for “graduate students and early-stage scholars aspiring to be teaching faculty, research librarians, museum professionals, and archivists.” Courses include: Advocating for Community: Data Collection and ...