The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...

The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to ...

With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...

The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.” Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete ...

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute invites applications for its visiting scholar fellowship program. This program provides “opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Visiting Humanities Scholars, UConn Humanities Scholars, and UConn Graduate Humanities Fellowships are year-long and allow for time and space to research, write, and collaborate on work that extends ...

The University of Houston’s US Latino Digital Humanities Center is once again offering grants-in-aid through its Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These grants provide a stipend of up to $7,500 to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in ...

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) announces the call for proposals for its third round of grants. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these grants are designed to support faculty and librarians at public colleges and universities (excluding R1s) to support course and curriculum development. There are three categories of grants available: DEFCon Teaching ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE) has posted a call for comments on a new grant program designed to support studies about the state of the humanities in the United States. The ODE are seeking feedback from any interested parties concerning “the most pressing needs and topics in the ...

The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/HN) is an opportunity to earn a certificate based on attending 100 hours of eligible DH workshops; anyone is eligible to apply for a certificate “regardless of institutional affiliation or citizenship.” Learn more about the certificate and what counts as an eligible workshop, and check out ...

The CollectionBuilder 2023 Incentives Program is the latest grant-funded opportunity for using and contributing to CollectionBuilder, and open-source, Lib-Static tool and infrastructure. Currently, applications are being accepted to their Library & Information Science (LIS) Student Program. The program offers eight $400 stipends to current LIS students interested in learning more about and using CollectionBuilder for ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new program, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, “to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and ...