The DH section of the Midwest Modern Language Association is accepting paper abstracts for its upcoming conference, to be held November 13-16, 2014, in Detroit, Michigan. Possible topics include: Historical approaches to mapping and visualization Absence, silence, and (in)visibility in maps Mapping difference—class, race, gender, and accessibility Critical visual literacies Remediations and reconceptualizations of space ...

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities has issued a call for papers for its annual conference, JADH 2014,  to take place September 19-21, 2014 in Ibaraki, Japan. This year’s conference theme is “Bridging GLAM and Humanities through Digital Humanities”: At JADH2014 we will be especially interested in hearing presentations that focus on these [digital] methodologies ...

Web Archives for Historians is building “a collective, crowd-sourced bibliography to bring historians together who are using, thinking about using, or getting interested in web archives.” Contributions to the bibliography may be blog posts or articles or anything in between, and should cover one of the following: (a) reflections on the need for web preservation, ...

A call for proposals sponsored by the Libraries and Research discussion group and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion group of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been issued on “Bibliography for the 21st Century”: Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary ...

The Library of Congress is accepting proposals for its Digital Preservation 2014 conference, to be held July 22-24 in the Washington, DC, area. Session types include panels or presentations, 5-minute lightning talks, demonstrations, and posters. To be considered, submit a proposal (up to 300 words) describing what you would like to present to ndiipp [at] ...

Proposals are being accepted for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), which will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) from September 8 – 12, 2014 in London, UK. Workshop, tutorial, and panel submissions due: March 2, 2014 Full ...

Librarians! An invitation to comment and provide feedback on a draft “Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects” has been extended until February 9, 2014. The taxonomy, which is available as a Google doc, will be used by digital humanities resources such as DH Commons, Bamboo DiRT (Digital Research Tools), and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure ...

Harvard University will be hosting Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections, June 16 — June 27, 2014. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the institute will introduce participants to the “concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial ...

Tufts University has issued a call for contributions to a two-day workshop on publishing textual data, to take place on March 27-30, 2014. From the announcement: As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the ...

Editors Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb have put out a call for book chapter proposals for Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, with the Association of College & Research Libraries as the potential publisher. “Digital humanities is changing the way that humanities scholars research and teach, and libraries ...