Posted on behalf of Claire Clivaz:
Dear colleagues,
Here is a newly-published collection of essays that may interest you.
Kind greetings,
Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne (CH)
Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Edited by Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne, Andrew Gregory, University of Oxford and David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne,
in collaboration with Sara Schulthess, University of Lausanne
Ancient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises.
http://www.brill.com/products/book/digital-humanities-biblical-early-jewish…
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar, the last of 2013:
Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance) - Brian Reffin Smith, Collège de 'Pataphysique, Paris
Date: Tuesday, 10th December, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT)
Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand campus)
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx
Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested:
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348553749
The seminar will be followed by wine and festive nibbles.
All the best,
Valentina Asciutti
Abstract: The French word "Détournement", loosely translatable as hijacking, leading astray or appropriation, describes the sideways or "alt" use of computer applications outside their original fields: for example the use of medical imaging software to make movies, of spelling checkers to scramble text, or of fluid behaviour modelling software to make drawings. It is a two-way process and win-win situation, because "unauthorised" or simply crazy uses of apps can feed back ideas into their mainstream application as well as leading to creative splurges in other disciplines. Examples, some interactive, will be shown of hijacking computer software and iPad apps into areas of art, sound, text, cognitive psychology and because of the venue, anatomy (it is recommended not to eat before this seminar).
Bio: Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, theoretician, zombie and musician. He has spent about 40 years teaching ideas of "détournement", using them for art and writing about them, and is a pioneer of computer based conceptual art. He won the very first Golden Nike (the 'Oscars' of computer art) at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria and his art and text works are shown internationally. His fields of activity are computer-based art and general creativity, performance art, Zombie studies and 'Pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. He is a book reviewer for Leonardo. He was for 25 years a French civil servant, as Professeur, Art et Informatique, in the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges, France. He holds the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy in the Paris-based Collège de 'Pataphysique, and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the publication of
Digital Philology 2.2. This is a special issue edited by Deborah McGrady and
devoted to Rethinking the Boundaries of Patronage. It includes essays by
Jeanette Patterson on the Bible historiale, Andrea Tarnowski on de Mézières
Epistre lamentable, Amy N. Vines on Hoccleves Series, and Helen Swift on
defenses of women. Additionally, the Fall 2013 issue of DPh features an
article on Auerbachs counterphilology, by James I. Porter, and an essay
reviewing the terminology used to describe manuscripts, by Tjamke Snijders.
Five reviews of digital projects close the volume. Here is the link to the
Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.2.2.html . I hope you
enjoy it!
Best,
Albert Lloret
Albert Lloret, PhD
Managing Editor, Digital Philology
<http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/>
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret
Hello all, apologies for cross-posting,
We now invite proposals for presentations in the Spring Term 2014 Centre
for e-Research (CeRch) seminar series at King's College London.
The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a
range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the
Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research,
digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. Talks can
cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise,
including applied and theoretical papers and discussion of early
results. More details about the CeRch Seminar Series are at the bottom
of this email.
The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic
career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to
facilitate remote speakers.
Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the
event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. Reasonable limited travel
expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if
necessary.
Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words to Anna Jordanous, via
email to cerch(a)kcl.ac.uk by *Thursday 12th December 2013*. Please also
contact Anna if you have any questions.
Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 21st
Jan, 4th Feb, 18th Feb, 4th March, 18th March 2014. Please indicate your
availability for these dates or alternative Tuesdays (January-March
2014) in your submission email.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Regards,
Anna Jordanous
Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
London.
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Centre for e-Research Seminar Series*
The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London runs an
interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during
term time.
With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social
sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate
discussion and provide new and innovative insight into design,
development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, and the
theoretical issues that they raise (especially where they interact with
a range of other fields).
Previous topics have included visualisation, webometrics, digital
research infrastructures, computational creativity, motion data,
computational linguistics, cultural value and social network analysis,
among many others. Details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/ .
The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative
questions or applications, using technology-enhanced methods. The series
provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to
anyone interested in debates around theories and practice in computing
and digital technologies.
Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm
(unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum Space, at King's College
London, Strand Campus
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx).
Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles.
Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars
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Centre for e-Research,
Department of Digital Humanities,
King's College London,
26-29 Drury Lane,
London WC2B 5RL
(apologies for cross-posting; please forward to anyone you think
interested)
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The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please
nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of
this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the
community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity.
There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon
for your website.
Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will
take place in January 2014.
Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that
were launched/finished/created in
2013.
To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at:
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/
The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities
Awards 2013 are:
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**Best DH tool or suite of tools**
Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of
tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling,
encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work.
**Best DH contribution not in the English language**
Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or
publications that are not in the English language.
**Best use of DH for fun**
Nominations for this category should be for
projects/resources/sites for DH which are designed to be fun or
inherently playful.
**Best DH blog post, article, or short publication**
Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH
publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or
other publication.
**Best DH visualization or infographic**
Nominations for this category should be for a graphic,
infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community.
**Best DH project for public audiences**
Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed
to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education,
including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged
citizens, etc.
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Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations
page at:
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/
If you have any questions please see
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at
james(a)dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards
James Cummings
DHawards.org
This week's blog: medieval manuscripts in Nebraska...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
Acting Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
17 Dunster St., Suite 202
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting. I just would like to remind everybody that the DIXIT ITN deadline is rapidly approaching: your applications should be sent by the 10th of December to the respective host institution and to the central coordinator institution (University of Cologne).
DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers. Please notice the following criteria for eligibility which it seems they were somehow not so clearly expressed before:
- Candidates should not have already a PhD: the fellowship is meant to support the successful candidate to obtain one.
- Candidates should not have more than 4 years full time research experience
- Candidates should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years.
Application for one Experienced Researcher is also out which has the following eligibility criteria:
- Candidates should have already a PhD or an equivalent research achievement.
- Candidates should not have more than 5 years full time research experience and not less than 4.
- Candidate should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years.
Please find here the references to all open positions: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html
Two of the Early Career Researchers will be based at King's College London (see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde…): please get in touch with me if you are interested either in documentary editing or social editing.
Many thanks to all that will give it the largest diffusion.
Best
Elena
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Dr Elena Pierazzo
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Department in Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Phone: 0207-848-1949
Fax: 0207-848-2980
elena.pierazzo(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk>
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh
lt is with great pleasure that Global Outlook::Digital Humanities
announces the winners of its first DH essay prize.
http://t.co/7xhUcgfUXG The competition, which was supported by funds
awarded by the University of Lethbridge and an anonymous donor,
attracted 53 entries in 7 languages.
The first prize winners (in alphabetical order) are
* Dacos, Marin (Open Edition, France). La stratégie du Sauna
finlandais: Les frontières de Digital Humanities. Essai de
Géographie politiqued’une communauté scientifique.
* Gawne, Lauren (University of Melbourne, Australia). Language
documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide.
* Pue, A. Sean, Tracy K. Teal, and C. Titus Brown (Michigan State
University, USA). Bioinformatic approaches to the computational
analysis of Urdu poetic meter.
* Raval, Noopur (Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity (JNU), New Delhi, India).
On Wikipedia and Failure: Notes from Queering the Encyclopedia.
Second prize winners (also in alphabetical order) are
* Arauco Dextre, Renzo (Memoragram, Lima, Peru). Memogram, un
Cloud-Service Para la Memoria Colectiva.
* Carlson, Thomas A. (Princeton University, USA). Digital Maps are
still not territory: Challenges raised by Syriaca.org’s Middle
Eastern places over two millenia.
* Tomasini Maciel, Julia (University of Maryland, USA). Humanidades
Digitales y traducción literaria: Latinoamérica entre el portugués y
el español.
* Portales Machado, Yasmín Silvia (Havana, Cuba). Perfil demográfico
de la blogosfera hecha en Cuba en diciembre de 2012.
* Tasovac, Toma and Natalia Ermolaev (Centre for Digital Humanities,
Belgrade, Serbia). Interfacing diachrony: Rethinking lexical
annotation in digital editions.
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
* Arbuckle, Alyssa (University of Victoria, Canada). The risk of
digital repatriation for indigenous groups.
* Baryshev, Ruslan, Igor Kim, Inna Kizhner, Maxim Rumyantsev (Siberian
Federal University, Russia). Digitial Humanities at Siberian Federal
University.
* Calbay, Francis Raymond (HayPinas.org, Taipei, Taiwan).
User-Generated vitriol: Ethnic stereotypes in online comments on
media reports of a South China Sea shooting incident.
* Farman, Jason (University of Maryland, USA). Mapping virtual
communities: The production of crisis maps and cultural imaginaries
of the Diaspora.
* Finney, Tim (Vose Seminary, Australia). How to discover textual groups.
* Ives, Maura and Amy Earhart (Texas A&M University, USA).
Establishing a digital humanities center: Vision, reality,
sustainability.
* Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang (Leiden University, The Netherlands).
Transparency strategies in digital scholarship.
* López Villaneuva, José Manuel (Mexico). Reflexiones sobre la RedHD
en México: desarrollo y alcance de la RedHD en la comunidad
académica universitaria.
* Menon, Nirmala (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India).
Multilingual digital publishing: A postcolonial Digital Humanities
imperative.
* O’Sullivan, James (Ireland). The emergence of Digital Humanities in
Ireland.
* Ouellette, Jessica (University of Massachussetts, USA). Blogging
borders: Transnational feminist rhetorics and global voices.
* Perozo Olivares, Karla (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Venazuala).
Una aproximación al desconocimiento de las masas digitales.
* Riedel, Dagmar (Columbia University, USA). The digitization of books
in Arabic script and the digital divide in Muslim societies.
* Sandstedt, Jørgen (University of Iceland, University of Oslo,
Iceland/Norway). Text-dependent automated methods in scribal hand
identification.
* Schmidt, Desmond (University of Queensland, Australia). Towards a
model for the digital scholarly edition.
* Sobczak, Anna (Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Poland). A CO Z
HUMANISTAMI? – CYFROWA HUMANISTYKA JAKO LEKARSTWO NA OBECNY STAN
POSTRZEGANIA HUMANISTYKI W MEDIACH ELEKTRONICZNYCH?
The committee thanks all authors for their submissions and their
patience with the (longer-than-anticipated) adjudication process. The
competition was extremely tight and the remaining submissions included
many excellent papers that the referees singled out for special comment.
Although this exhausts the current funding, it is hoped that we will be
able to repeat this competition in future years. The organisers also
thank the adjudication panel for their hard work and willingness to help
out.
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
Apologies for cross-posting.
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From: *Chad Nelson*
Date: Friday, November 22, 2013
Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014
To: phillydh <phillydigitalhumanities(a)googlegroups.com>
GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building
apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. It
will take place the weekend of February 1-2, 2012 at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections.
The event will bring together programmers, curators, librarians, designers,
archivists, and anyone else with a passion for GLAM data, to build fun and
interesting apps with the tremendous amount of GLAM data that is openly and
freely available. On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, participants
can pitch ideas for projects related to a specific data set or for broader
GLAM-related applications. This could be anything from creating Omeka
plug-ins to building a virtual city tour app using local digital
collections. Small groups will form and participants will begin working on
their projects through Sunday, with a goal to present a working prototype
by Sunday afternoon.
Challenges and Data
We are seeking proposals of Data Challenges for teams to work on during the
hackathon. Challenges can be as simple as a dataset and a vague idea of
what could be done with that data, or could be an already identified
problem with your data that you are seeking help to solve.
The only requirements for proposing a challenge are:
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Someone from your organization commits to participating in the event.
They will help steward teams who take up that challenge by giving context
to your data.
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If you r challange includes a dataset, that data should be made
available for use and reuse. Providing your data openly means that anyone
can build applications with your data before, during, and after the
hackathon.
Submit a Challenge Now <http://bit.ly/1bp5xpV>
If you’re not sure how your organization's data could be used or want some
help brainstorming a challenge, just get in touch with
glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com');>, we're happy to help.
You can also submit your dataset without proposing a
challenge<http://bit.ly/1cg6bEr>.
We'll highlight your dataset on our website for attendees consideration.
But I'm not a programmer -- can I participate?
The input of content specialists like museum curators, librarians,
archivists, catalogers,GLA researchers and others who know the data
produced by GLAM organizations, is crucial to creating successful projects.
We don't just want your participation, we need it!
You can find more information on http://glamhack.com
Thanks,
Philly GLAM Hack organizers
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