Hello,
I would like to put out a call for papers for the EAA (European
Association of rchaeologists Meeting) in Barcelona, Spain September 5-8. I
am co-chairing a session (#254) entitled, "Mobility and Culture Change
during Transitional Periods in and around the Alpine Region." Please see
the abstract below and submit by February 15th at:
https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018
*Abstract (Session 254)*
Transitional periods, often accompanying the migrations of people and/or
cultures to an area, are times of significant socio-cultural change as
evidenced in the archaeological record. These periods are particularly
important to study, as they can provide context and understanding to the
resulting assimilation, colonization, and ethnogenesis of populations. We
aim to discuss how the migration of people during key transitional periods
in the history of the Alpine region altered the social, economic, and
political landscapes as evidenced by human and animal remains as well as
material culture. We are interested in papers dealing with various
transitional periods, for example, from the Mesolithic to Neolithic, Copper
Age to Bronze Age, Bronze Age to Iron Age, Pre-Roman to Roman Period, and
Late Roman to Early Medieval Period. Although there are multiple
methodological approaches to answering questions related to migration and
socio-economic change, this session will focus on the use of archaeological
science, including biochemical analyses of human and faunal remains, i.e.
stable isotopes, ancient DNA analysis, and provenience studies on material
remains to discuss these transitional periods in the archaeological record.
We invite scholars to present papers with a geographic focus in and around
the Alpine region, including Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria,
Slovenia, and Monaco who are studying (1) the impact of migration on
social, economic, or political environments during key transitional
periods, and (2) employing archaeological science methodologies.
--
Ashley Maxwell, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Assistant
University of South Florida
Department of Anthropology
Dear colleagues,
I'm sending you the doctoral researcher call (see below) on behalf of
Saana Svärd, director of the Centre of Excellence in "Ancient Near
Eastern Empires" at the University of Helsinki.
Best regards,
Jouni Tuominen
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ANEE is pleased to announce we are looking for doctoral candidates.
Application text below, link here:
<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/doctoral-researchers-anee-1-3>
The Centre of Excellence in “Ancient Near Eastern Empires” (ANEE) at the
University of Helsinki will run from 2018–2025 and is directed by Dr.
Saana Svärd. ANEE asks: How do changing imperial dynamics impact social
group identities and lifeways over a millennium? ANEE covers the
Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman /
Parthian Empires. ANEE engages with methodologically varied yet
integrated research on the long-term processes by which social group
identities and lifeways were negotiated. Taken together, the innovations
of ANEE are the integrated longue durée approach; and the methodological
innovativeness of each team (both separately and in collaboration).
There will be several recruitment calls for fixed term positions during
ANEE’s lifespan (doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and
university researchers).
ANEE is now recruiting members for three teams which investigate
identity-building processes. Each team has a methodologically specific
approach yet collaborates on four work packages.
Applications are invited for DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS (1–3) for a fixed term
of up to 4 years, starting on or before 1 September 2018 to work in the
University of Helsinki. The successful candidates’ research projects
will focus on the goals of a team or teams. The applicant should
indicate to which team she/he is applying. The selected doctoral
candidates will need to apply for acceptance in the graduate school for
either the Faculty of Arts or Faculty of Theology in March 2018. Their
main duties will consist of PhD studies and writing of a dissertation.
As ANEE is deeply multidisciplinary, competence in more than one field
and/or proof of successful scientific collaboration will be considered
an advantage.
Team 1 “Digital Humanities Approaches” develops digital humanities
approaches (especially social network analysis and language technology),
using these to supplement the more traditional Assyriological
approaches. Team 1 is looking for applicants with a solid background in
Assyriology or a related field (within the
chronological scope of ANEE) and/or skills in Digital Humanities that
can be put to use in relation to ANEE’s goals. Team 1 is led by Saana
Svärd (saana.svard(a)helsinki.fi).
Team 2 “Social Scientific Theory & Applications” tests and refines
theoretical models from the social sciences for ancient evidence,
integrating anthropological approaches to archaeology with sociological
readings of textual and archaeological evidence. Team 2 seeks students
with backgrounds in history of the Levant and/or the social sciences,
and especially with an interest in migration, forced labor, and/or elite
identities, and/or ancient historians of the Persian Empire with similar
profiles. Willingness to collaborate with other teams and multiple work
packages is desirable. Team 2 is led by Dr. Jason Silverman
(jason.silverman(a)helsinki.fi).
Team 3 “Material Culture & Community Heritage” investigates the impact
of each empire on ancient local communities inhabiting the imperial
fringes and provides a sustainable future for this heritage. This it
does through an archaeological field survey program in the ancient
imperial fringe zone of southern Jordan and by developing a local
community outreach program there. Our work in Finland revolves around
promoting an understanding of Ancient Near Eastern heritage and
culture by developing a touring museum exhibition on the ancient Near
East. The team also aims to collaborate with the Finnish authorities to
further develop the policies and legislation regarding the trade in
illicit antiquities. Team 3 seeks doctoral candidates in ANE
archaeology, preferably with experience in GIS, remote sensing, and/or
satellite analysis. Team 3 is led by Dr. Antti Lahelma
(antti.lahelma(a)helsinki.fi), who is also the vice-director of ANEE.
For more information on the three teams and the work packages, please
see www.helsinki.fi/ancient-near-eastern-empires
An appointee to the position of doctoral researcher must hold a Master’s
degree in a relevant field, and must subsequently be accepted as a
doctoral candidate in the graduate school in the Faculty of Arts and/or
Theology. The appointee must have the ability to conduct independent
scientific research. Teaching or teaching-related tasks will form 5 % of
the position. The candidate should have excellent analytical and
methodological skills, and be able to work both independently and
collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary scientific community. The
successful candidates are expected to have excellent skills in written
and oral English. Skills in Finnish or Swedish are not required.
Relocation costs can be negotiated and ANEE will offer help and
information for the practicalities, if needed.
ANEE is functioning in the Faculty of Arts (Teams 1 and 3) and in the
Faculty of Theology (Team 2), located in the City Centre Campus. The
city of Helsinki is the capital city of Finland, with a population of
ca. 600 000. It has been consistently ranked amongst the top cities in
the world for quality of living. Founded in 1640, the University of
Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and
staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 15
other locations.
The salary for the position will be based on level 2 of the demands
level chart for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of
Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will be paid a salary
component based on personal performance. The salary is EUR 2,186–2,873
per month, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and experience.
The position will be filled with a 4 months trial period.
Applications should consist of the following English-language documents:
(1) CV including a possible list of publications (max. 3 pages)
(2) Contact information for two referees
(3) A research statement (max. 2000 words) consisting of
i) a brief description of previous experience, such as MA thesis
ii) a proposal for the PhD project that the applicant wants to conduct
in ANEE (including suggested dates for the project)
iii) a brief description of the plans for scientific cooperation
within ANEE, preferably specifying relevant team and work packages.
Further information on the position may be obtained from the team
leaders (see above) or the director Saana Svärd (saana.svard(a)helsinki.fi)
Please submit your application, together with the required attachments,
through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the link Apply
for job. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are
requested to send their application via the SAP HR portal. Deadline for
applications is 31 January 2018.
If you need assistance with the University’s electronic recruitment
system or SAP HR portal, please contact recruitment(a)helsinki.fi.
Apply at latest 31.01.2018
Apply link:
https://rekry.helsinki.fi/sap/bc/erecruiting/posting_apply?param=cG9zdF9pbn…
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--
Jouni Tuominen, Coordinating researcher
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG)
University of Helsinki and Aalto University
HELDIG: Room A130, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Helsinki
Aalto: Room B126, Computer Science Building, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/u/jwtuomin/
Call for Course Proposals - Deadline January 8, 2018
FSCI 2018 (FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute)
July 30 - August 3, 2018, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
· Do you have research, experience, or skills in Scholarly Communication that you can share with others?
· Could you help improve Scholarly Communications by proposing and leading a FSCI summer course?
· Do you want to teach and learn in a premiere community-led Scholarly Communications Summer School?
Course Submission Form: https://goo.gl/yRQKeu
[https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/FRHSh8UKt9KCEALr8ZE_98kFPksYbH92qWqrSpPub…]<https://goo.gl/yRQKeu>
FSCI 2018 Call for Course Proposals<https://goo.gl/yRQKeu>
goo.gl
This form is for proposals to run a course at FSCI 2018 at UCSD in La Jolla, California from July 30 to August 3, 2018. Please see the FSCI website www.force11.org/fsci for more detail on how courses are structured and the expectations of instructors. We will work with shortlisted applications in January to finalize the selection of courses. The final program will be announced in February. Submission deadline: January 8, 2017
New and returning instructors are welcome!
About FSCI2018
FSCI 2018 (FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute) is the premiere Community-led and organised summer school on current trends in Scholarly Communication.
Instructors are community members who are passionate about passing on their knowledge and experience to others in Scholarly Communication. They range from up-and-coming researchers and practitioners to world-leading experts.
The students they teach come from a wide variety of backgrounds: research, funding, administration, publishing, libraries, and information users. They range from absolute beginners to discipline leaders. They are eager to learn and represent an excellent source of potential collaborations!
If you have ideas for a course that could help other members of the community navigate this new world, then we want to hear from you!
Course Description
FSCI has two types of course.
• Morning courses (13-14 hours each), run Monday - Friday approximately 09:00 - 12:30 with a coffee break each day. Morning courses tend to contain more fundamental material or focus on broader areas of study. Examples from 2017 include “Reproducibility in Theory and Practice” and “Inside Scholarly Communications Today”.
• Afternoon courses (6 hours each) run for three hours after lunch on Monday/Tuesday and on Wednesday/Thursday. (In response to feedback from FSCI 2017, afternoon course instructors will run their classes twice to maximise availability). Afternoon courses tend to be a bit more specialised and sometimes more technical. These are excellent places for advanced topics.
In all cases, we encourage instructors to design their material around a hands-on, workshop format. Student evaluations suggest that attendees want to try things out for themselves and are less patient with a lecture-centered approach.
You can see some of the titles we had last year below.
How to Propose a Course
You can propose a course using our Course Proposal Form. This form asks you for a title, instructor(s), and some background on you and your proposed topic. A programming committee will review course proposals with the goal of choosing the best combination of topics, skill-levels, and disciplinary focus.
What Support Can I Expect?
FSCI will provide basic technical support for instructors. If you have specialised needs, we will do our best to arrange additional support. In addition, FSCI will provide complimentary tuition fees, housing, and meals for 1 instructor per course. We are currently unable to provide reimbursement for travel costs to and from San Diego, though we are seeking funding. We hope to be able to secure some funding with a focus on providing support to instructors from Low and Mid Income Economies. Additional information about travel support will be posted as it becomes available. If you do require travel funding to participate in FSCI, please indicate this on the submission form.
Sample Courses from Previous Year
• Altmetrics: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed Next?
• Applying Design Thinking and User Research to the Scholarly Communication Problem Space
• AuthorCarpentry: A Hands-on Approach to Open Authorship and Publishing
• Building Public Participation in Research
• Communication and Advocacy for Research Transparency
• Data Citation Implementation for Data Repositories
• Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle
• How Universities Can Create an Open Access Culture
• Identifying How Scientific Papers Are Shared and Who Is Sharing Them on Twitter
• Inside Scholarly Communications Today
• Open Annotation Tools and Techniques
• Open Humanities 101
• Opening the Sandbox: Supporting Student Research as a Gateway to Open Practice
• Opening Up Research and Data
• Perspectives on Peer Review
• Research Reproducibillity in Theory and Practice
• Scholarship in the 21th Century Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institute
• Software Citation: Principles, Usage, Benefits, and Challenges
• Starting Out: Skills and Tools for Early Career Knowledge Workers
• Technology and Tools for Academic Library Teams
• The Sci-AI Platform: Enabling Literature-Based Discovery
• Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Managing Digital Projects in Research and in the Classroom
• Using New Metrics: A Practical Guide to Increasing the Impact of Research
• Using the Open Science Framework To Increase Openness and Reproducibility in Research
• Using Wikidata in Research and Curation
• Walking the Line Between Advocacy and Activism in Scholarly Communication
• When 'Global' is Local: Scholarly Communications in the Global South
Bookmark the website and watch for further information.
Bookmark the website: www.force11.org/fsci/2018<http://www.force11.org/fsci/2018>
Further Information: fsci-info(a)force11.org<mailto:fsci-info@force11.org>
[U of Lethbridge Logo]
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English and Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff
Editor, Digital Studies/Le champ num<http://digitalstudies.org/>érique
<http://digitalstudies.org/>
Vice President, Force 11<http://force11.org>
Department of English and University Library
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377
http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell
@danielPaulOD
The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies:
(1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months.
See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat… <http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat…>
(2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo.
See http://oldnorse.is/ <http://oldnorse.is/>
Both programs are designed specifically for international students. The language of instruction is English.
Application deadline: February 1st, 2018
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Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Árnagarði við Suðurgötu
IS-101 Reykjavík
I C E L A N D
+ 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511
- haraldr(a)hi.is <mailto:haraldr@hi.is>
- https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ <https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/>
- Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson
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Dear all,
Duke University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Duke Information Science + Studies and the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge invite proposals for “Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies” a Digital Humanities symposium to be held at Duke University April 6 – 7, 2018. We are delighted to have Dr. Cheryl Ball (Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies and Director of the Digital Publishing Institute at West Virginia University) and Dr. Vaughn Stewart (Director of Digital ACT Studio at UNC Greensboro) as our plenary speakers.
Please see the attached CFP and visit our website <https://sites.duke.edu/digitalmatter2018> for more information. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Jessica Hines at jessica.hines(a)duke.edu <mailto:jessica.hines@duke.edu>. We hope you will consider submitting an abstract!
Best regards,
Jessica D. Ward
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The annual open DH Awards 2017 is now accepting nominations! Please
nominate any Digital Humanities resource in any language that you feel
deserves to win in any of this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2017
are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as
a DH awareness activity. Although the working language of DH Awards is
English, nominations may be for any resource in any language. Awards are
not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of
humanities. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won
and an icon for your website.
There are translations of this call for nominations available from
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/nominations/
Nominations will be open until 2018-01-28. Voting will take place shortly
after.
Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that
were launched/finished/update/created in 2017.
The categories for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2017 are:
Best Use of DH for Fun
Best DH Data Visualization
Best Exploration of DH Failure
Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts
Best Use DH Public Engagement
Best DH tool or Suite of Tools
To nominate something for the DH Awards 2017 use the form at:
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/nominations/
Best wishes,
James
--
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)newcastle.ac.uk
School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle
University
*Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University*
*March 22-23, 2018*
*We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of
participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there
will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. There is
an option to request consideration for travel funds in the proposal form.
If you have any questions, please email dh(a)msu.edu <dh(a)msu.edu>.*
*Call for Proposals* Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST
msuglobaldh.org
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its
symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities
scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range
of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden
access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that
which MSU champions
<http://cplong.org/2016/10/critical-diversity-in-a-digital-age/>, values
digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a
broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and
diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work.
Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form manifests a
critical perspective on the digital content and the position of the
researcher to their material.
With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced
and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including,
among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation,
digital rights, endangered data <http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the
digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the
conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with
foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is
especially welcome.
Michigan State University has been intentionally global
<http://www.isp.msu.edu/about/about-isp/> for more than 60 years, with over
1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service.
For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in
culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/>, a digital humanities and social science
center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern
Africa
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio_categories/africa-related-projects/>
that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity
building. WIDE <http://wide.msu.edu> has set best practices for doing
community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan
Collections, Archive 2.0
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio-item/samaritan-archive-2-0/>. Today
many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects
relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types,
welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and
particularly on the following themes and topics by *Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST:*
- Critical cultural studies and analytics
- Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
- DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
- Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance,
especially in a postcolonial context
- DH responses to crisis
- How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital
humanities work
- Global research dialogues and collaborations
- Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
- Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
- Global digital pedagogies
- Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
- Digital and global languages and literatures
- The state of global digital humanities community
- Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
- Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages,
and economies
- Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
*Presentation Formats:*
- 3-5-minute lightning talk
- 15-minute presentation
- 90-minute workshop
- 90-minute panel
*Proposal form*: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com
Greetings, all,
I'm writing to report that my Simmons School of Library and Information
Science students have just reconstructed part of Otto Ege's "Fifty
Original Leaves" portfolio, leaf no. 30 by uploading, cataloguing, and
sequencing 27 leaves from 27 collections in the Fragmentarium interface.
Here's the direct link to the reconstruction:
http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/view/page/F-djs6
Fragmentarium is a new interface that allows for cataloguing of
individual leaves (for example,
http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/overview/F-qux7) and creating an
online reconstruction. In particular, it allows users to create flexible
and editable IIIF-compliant reconstructions in a shared-canvas viewer.
It is truly extraordinary, and the possibilities are endless. The data
for each leaf and for the reconstructed object can (and will) be updated
and refined at any time, and additional leaves can be easily added. The
records for individual leaves, can be found by searching from the
Fragmentarium homepage, http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/
As their final assignment, I assigned each student one example of "Fifty
Original Leaves" no. 30 (a lovely early fifteenth-century Book of Hours)
to catalogue in Fragmentarium. In addition to identifying the text on
each leaf, part of the cataloguing process includes creating a shared-
canvas sequence in which the two images are presented in the correct
order. Then we worked together to establish the original sequence of
leaves, assembling the individual canvases in Fragmentarium to create
the reconstruction, which has its own record. Once we had built the
reconstruction, one group of students looked at the totality of the
preserved liturgy to investigate Use (it's Paris). A different group of
students scoured the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and discovered
that this manuscript was likely C. L. Ricketts, Census no. 116. That
entry led us to two Quaritch catalogues (1905 and 1910), and the
Conway/Davis Directory pointed us to a 1939 Parke-Bernet sale. Once we
found the Quaritch and PB catalogues, the identification was confirmed.
The Quaritch, Ricketts, and PB descriptions can be clearly identified
with the reconstructed manuscript, not only by codicological features
but by the contents, which include enough unusual features to make the
identification certain. This identification would not be possible based
on the data provided by a single leaf. Only by reassembling the extant
leaves can we conduct research on the liturgy and provenance of the
original codex.
I'll be giving a paper on the project at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University next May. The whole
process was a very effective pedagogical tool with real results, and I
look forward to putting my class to work on a different reconstruction
every year. I am so grateful to Fragmentarium directors William Duba and
Christoph Flüeler for facilitating the project, and to the holding
institutions for making their images available.
- Lisa
--
Lisa Fagin Davis
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
*Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University*
*March 22-23, 2018*
*We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of
participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there
will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. There is
an option to request consideration for travel funds in the proposal form.
If you have any questions, please email dh(a)msu.edu <dh(a)msu.edu>.*
*Call for Proposals* Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST
msuglobaldh.org
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its
symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities
scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range
of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden
access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that
which MSU champions
<http://cplong.org/2016/10/critical-diversity-in-a-digital-age/>, values
digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a
broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and
diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work.
Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form manifests a
critical perspective on the digital content and the position of the
researcher to their material.
With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced
and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including,
among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation,
digital rights, endangered data <http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the
digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the
conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with
foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is
especially welcome.
Michigan State University has been intentionally global
<http://www.isp.msu.edu/about/about-isp/> for more than 60 years, with over
1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service.
For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in
culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/>, a digital humanities and social science
center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern
Africa
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio_categories/africa-related-projects/>
that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity
building. WIDE <http://wide.msu.edu> has set best practices for doing
community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan
Collections, Archive 2.0
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio-item/samaritan-archive-2-0/>. Today
many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects
relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types,
welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and
particularly on the following themes and topics by *Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST:*
- Critical cultural studies and analytics
- Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
- DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
- Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance,
especially in a postcolonial context
- DH responses to crisis
- How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital
humanities work
- Global research dialogues and collaborations
- Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
- Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
- Global digital pedagogies
- Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
- Digital and global languages and literatures
- The state of global digital humanities community
- Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
- Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages,
and economies
- Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
*Presentation Formats:*
- 3-5-minute lightning talk
- 15-minute presentation
- 90-minute workshop
- 90-minute panel
*Proposal form*: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com