*Global Digital Humanities Symposium*
*March 16-17, 2017*
Union Building, Lake Huron Room
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
http://msuglobaldh.org/
*Please register by: Friday, March 3, 11:59pm EST*
Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its
symposium series on Global DH into its second year. We are delighted to
feature speakers from outside of the area as well as expertise and work
from faculty at Michigan State University in this two day symposium.
*Schedule*
Thursday, March 16, 2017
- 12:00-12:30 - Opening Remarks
- 12:30-2:30 - Lightning Talk Session
- 2:45-3:45 - Cultural Memory, Identities, and Social Justice
- Shifting Representations of Zulu Identities, from Analog to Digital,
Liz Timbs, MSU
- Humanizing Data –or- DH against archival violences, Anelise Hanson
Shrout, Cal State Fullerton
- Witnessing Hate: Case Studies in Data, Documentation, and Social
Justice, Andrea Ledesma, Brown
- 4:00-5:00 - De-coding and re-coding literary canons
- Forgetting the Famines: the Kiplings and their Indian Interlocutors,
Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University
- Retelling the Story of Okonkwo: A Digital exploration of the Clash
of Cultures in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Tunde Opeibi,
University
of Lagos, Nigeria
- Towards a Platform for Studying and Analyzing Chinese Poetry,
Chao-Lin Liu, Harvard
- 5:15-6:45 - ARC Panel: Access, Data, and Collaboration in the Global
Digital Humanities
<http://www.msuglobaldh.org/uncategorized/announcing-advanced-research-conso…>
Friday, March 17, 2017
- 9:00-10:00 - Keynote: Elizabeth LaPensee, MSU
- 10:15-11:15 - Reconfiguring Narrative: Connectivities in Literary and
Game Studies
- Contending with Hegemonies, Exploring Linkages and Possibilities of
Assertions in the Global South: A Study through Role Playing Computer
Games, Siddhartha Chakraborti, Aligarh Muslim University
- Hacking "el sistema": Digital Hyper-Punk Fiction in Latin America,
Eduardo Ledesma, UIUC
- Annotation, Bibliography, and Networks: Systems of Textual
Classification for Premodern Chinese Texts, Evan Nicoll-Johnson, UCLA
- 11:30-12:30 - Mapping and 3D Environments
- Boundary-work: mapping borders, edges, and margins in “Fortress
Europe, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Western Michigan
- The $500 Challenge: 3D Modeling of Heritage Structures in
Endangered or Developing Areas, William Spates, Birla Institute of
Technology and Science, KK Birla Goa Campus
- 12:30-2:30 - Lunch (provided)
- 2:30-4:00 - Workshop
- 4:15-5:15 - Imagining the Past, Present, and Future of Digital
Humanities(or Defining Digital Humanities: The Political and Ethical Stakes)
- Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural
Productions in Post-1965 Indonesia, Viola Lasmana, University of Southern
California
- Gaps and Silences: A Case Study in Web Archiving Diverse Content,
Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Catherine Morse, Jo Angela Oehrli, Juli McLoone,
Meredith Kahn, Michigan
- Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities: Complex Global Interconections in
Search of Social Justice, Eduard Arriaga, University of Indianapolis
- 5:30-6:30 - Closing remarks and Keynote: Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti
School of Art, Design and Technology
- Reception
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com
I wanted to notify list members of a seminar taking place at the Wellcome Library, London, tomorrow Tuesday 17 January at 6.15pm. Dr Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) will speak on 'New digital and critical tools for the history of medicine and religion'. All are welcome to attend.
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2017/01/new-digital-and-critical-tools-for-…
Best wishes, Elma Brenner
Dr Elma Brenner
Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
T 020 7611 8890
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MAKE _YOUR_ EDITION: MODELS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP
Call for applications: Summer 2017 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
DEADLINES: Applications are due Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Applicants
will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2017.
INSTITUTE DATES: July 10-29, 2017
Synopsis
The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to invite applications to an NEH
Advanced Institute in the Digital Humanities for summer 2017 entitled
_Make YOUR edition: models and methods of digital textual scholarship_.
The target audience for this workshop is digital textual scholars who
are already comfortable editing their texts (in TEI XML or comparable
alternatives); the goal of the Institute is to assist them in moving
beyond textual editing to imagining, creating, and publishing
research-driven, theoretically and methodologically innovative digital
editions.
Rationale
Digital humanists already have access to workshops and tutorials to help
them learn to transcribe, edit, and tag a text in preparation for
publishing a digital edition. These training resources play a vital role
in empowering editors to formalize and instantiate their interpretations
as markup, so as to make them available for subsequent analysis.
Nonetheless, sophisticated markup expertise alone is not enough to make
an edition, and learning nothing more than tagging may leave scholars
staring at their angle brackets and wondering what to do next. For some
a solution like TEI Tapas provides an adequate next step, but for those
who wish to ask new types of questions of their documents, and to
produce new types of editions that enable new types of research, an
understanding of how to turn a set of tagged texts into a customized
edition that meets individualized research goals is crucial. Digital
humanists cannot build editions that break new methodological ground
solely on the basis of solutions prepared largely by others, and the
focus of this Institute is on the creation of digital editions motivated
by project-specific research questions and implemented from a
perspective driven first by theory of edition, second by editorial
methodology, and necessarily but less importantly by specific toolkits.
In this respect we foreground not learning a particular programming
language or technology or framework, but learning to think and act
digitally about the process of creating a digital edition. Because tools
and technologies come and go, the Institute emphasizes learning to
translate original digital thinking about editions into implementations
of those editions, rather than on “tooling up” in the context of
currently popular frameworks. In this respect, the Institute recognizes
thinking digitally in ways driven by project-specific research goals as
the most important feature of _sustainable Digital Humanities training
and education_.
Program
The Institute will introduce textual and manuscript scholars to a
powerful and broad-reaching skill set of digital methods and
technologies, grounded in a context that prioritizes a research-driven
theory of edition. The course moves in a three-week succession from
novice to experienced level, and from base textual data to full digital
publication of scholarly editions. The Institute assumes that
participants will have meaningful prior experience in digital editing
(in TEI XML or a comparable framework), but it makes no other
assumptions about prior knowledge or skills.
- An optional first-week _boot camp_ establishes basic infrastructure
skills (operating comfortably at the command line, handling files,
navigating file systems, sharing resources and code responsibly,
running Python programs from the command line, etc.).
- The second week allows participants to practice and advance their
basic skills when they start combining digital textual scholarship
theory (e.g., McGann 2004[1], Andrews 2012[2], Siemens 2012[3], Robinson
2013[4], Haentjens et al. 2015[5]) with standard (e.g., XML, Python,
Jupyter Notebooks) and advanced digital technologies (e.g.,
StemmaWeb, CollateX, Neo4j, Tinkerpop, eXist-db).
- By the end of the third week, participants will be able to
conceptualize from theory a perspective on digital textual
scholarship and digital scholarly editions. They will also know how
to go about planning and implementing such an edition by engaging
programmatically and algorithmically with digital data, handling it
computationally, and querying, analyzing, and transforming it into
visualizations that transcend the digital translation of a text as a
codex.
The Institute will meet at the main (Oakland) campus of the University
of Pittsburgh from Monday, July 10, 2017 through Friday, July 28, 2017
and will draw on an international faculty of distinguished scholars,
practitioners, and teachers of digital philology from several
collaborating institutions. On Saturday, July 29, 2017 there will be an
optional pedagogical review of the Institute, designed to assist
participants in organizing and conducting their own workshops at their
home institutions.
Instructors
- Tara Andrews (Institute of History, University of Vienna)
- David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
University of Pittsburgh)
- Hugh Cayless (Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing [DC3], Duke
University)
- Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- Na-Rae Han (Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh)
- Mike Kestemont (Department of Literature, University of Antwerp)
- Leif-Jöran Olsson (Department of Swedish Language, University of
Gothenburg)
The instructors will be assisted by Gabrielle (Gabi) Keane (Senior
Undergraduate Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh).
Details
Applications are invited for the full three-week Institute or, in the
case of those who are already comfortable with the types of first-week
topics described above, for just the second and third weeks. Applicants
should already be proficient with digital textual editing in TEI XML or
similar technologies, and should be seeking guidance and training in how
to move their texts into innovative digital editions that will enable
them to explore project-specific research questions. Evidence of
meaningful prior hands-on digital textual editing experience is
required, but prior experience in programming for textual exploration
and publication is not. Applicants who do not have prior experience with
the Python programming language must agree to complete a recommended
free online introductory Python course before the beginning of the
Institute, for which the Institute will maintain its own support and
discussion board. For budgetary reasons, preference will be given to
applications from within North America.
Participants accepted to the Institute will receive a travel allowance,
complimentary accommodation in single-occupancy dormitory rooms, and a
complimentary meal plan in the University Dining Services in lieu of per
diem. Access to the University libraries, computer labs, and networked
digital resources will also be provided. Participants must bring their
own laptops (Windows 7–10, Mac OS, or Ubuntu/Debian Linux). We welcome
scholars at all career levels from advanced graduate students through
senior faculty. Applications to the Institute should include the
following:
- A one- to two-page statement about how participation in the
Institute will enhance the scholarly and professional goals of the
applicant. This statement should describe the digital edition
project that the applicant plans to pursue or undertake, with
special attention to the research questions motivating the creation
of that edition. Preference will be shown to applications that
articulate a clear understanding of the textual research potential
of digital scholarly editions.
- A one-page description of the applicant’s experience with textual
editing. Prior experience in programming for text processing is
neither required nor expected, but those who have such experience
should describe it here.
- Brief CV (maximum of two pages), concentrating on textual editing
and Digital Humanities experience.
- Indicate whether you are applying for the full three weeks or only
for the second and third, and in the latter case please describe
your background in the areas related to those described above as
part of the “boot camp” week.
- Indicate whether you wish to participate in the optional one-day
pedagogical review of the course on Saturday, July 29.
- Participants are required to participate full-time in the Institute
for the two or three weeks that they are in residence, and must
confirm that they will not undertake other significant commitments
during the Institute period.
All application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF
file to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. The deadline for applications is Tuesday,
February 28, 2017, and applicants will be notified by March 15, 2017.
Questions may be directed to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu.
David J. Birnbaum, Institute Director
Professor and Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Faculty Fellow, University Honors College
Email: djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu
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References
1. McGann, Jerome, 2004. “Marking texts of many dimensions.” In Susan
Schreibman, Raymond Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. _A companion to
Digital Humanities_. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Andrews, Tara L., 2012. “The third way: philology and critical
edition in the digital age.” _Variants_ 10, pp. 61–76.
3. Siemens, Raymond et al., 2012. “Toward modeling the social edition:
An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the
context of new and emerging social media.” _Literary and linguistic
computing_, 27(4), pp. 445–61.
4. Robinson, Peter, 2012. “Towards a theory of digital editions.”
_Variants_ 10, pp.105–31.
5. Haentjens Dekker, Ronald, Dirk van Hulle, Gregor Middell, Vincent
Neyt, Joris van Zundert, 2015. “Computer-supported collation of
modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript
Project”, _Digital scholarship in the humanities_, 30(3), pp.
452–70.
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This announcement has been posted to Humanist (http://dhhumanist.org/),
Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/), Digital
Medievalist (https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/), TEI-L
(http://www.tei-c.org/Support/index.xml#tei-l), WWP-Encoding
(http://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=wwp-encoding), and DHUF Digital
Humanities Flanders (dh_flanders(a)googlegroups.com). Please circulate.
DH Awards 2016 – Call For Nominations
There are translations of this call for nominations available in French,
Japanese, and Spanish on the website.
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2016/nominations/
The annual open DH Awards 2016 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 2016
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.
Nominations will be open until 2017-01-27. Voting will take place shortly
after.
Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that
were launched/finished/update/created in 2016.
The categories for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2016 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 2016 use the form at:
http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2016-nominations
Apologies for cross-posting
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6th AIUCD Conference 2017
The Reverse Telescope: Big Data and Distant Reading in the Humanities
Roma, 23-28 January 2017
3rd EADH Day: 25 January 2017
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The Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD,
Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures) is
pleased to announce the sixth edition of its annual conference. The AIUCD
2017 Conference will take place from January 23th to 28th in Rome, Italy,
and it is organized by DigiLab (Sapienza University), in collaboration with
the DiXiT Marie Curie network (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial
Training).
The main topic of AIUCD 2017 is the use of big data methods, cultural
analytics and distant reading in the Humanities. Keynote speakers: Teresa
Numerico (Università di Roma 3) and Tito Orlandi (Accademia dei Lincei).
AIUCD 2017 will host the third edition of the European Association for
Digital Humanities (EADH) Day, on 25th January, introduced by a keynote of
Barbara Bordalejo (Leuven University).
The main Conference will be preceded by two events:
* The DiXiT Workshop “The educational and social impact of Digital
Scholarly Editions” (24 Jan 2017)
* The TRACER tutorial co-organized by Digilab, DiXiT and the eTRAP project
(23-24 Jan 2017)
The full program of AIUCD 2017 and correlated events is available at:
https://goo.gl/I6bFEk
Registration to the conference is open through Conftool at
https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017.
For more details on registration fees, organization and local infos, please
visit the Conference website http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/ or send an email to
aiucd2017(a)gmail.com
--
Fabio Ciotti
Dept. Studi letterari, Filosofici e Storia dell’arte
University of Roma Tor Vergata
President "Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale" (AIUCD)
I am very pleased to announce that the Medieval Academy of America's
inaugural Digital Humanities Prize is being awarded to DigiPal
(http://www.digipal.eu), in recognition of the project's scholarly
value, adherence to digital best-practices, and long-term viability. The
Prize will be awarded during the Academy's upcoming Annual Meeting at
the University of Toronto (April 6-8).
More information about the Medieval Academy of America Digital
Humanities Prize is available here:
https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/DHPrize
Lisa
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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
**apologies for cross-posting**
International Conference
Parchment, Paper and Pixels. Medieval Writing and Modern Technology
Maastricht, The Netherlands, February 2-3, 2017
organised by the working group 'Writing and Writing Practices in the Medieval Low Countries',
(Schrift en Schriftdragers in de Nederlanden in de Middeleeuwen - SSNM) in collaboration with the
Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Regional Historic Centre Limburg and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent University).
For more information, please visit https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/international-conference-parchment-paper-and-pi… or see the attached programme.
Best wishes,
on behalf of the board of SSNM,
Els De Paermentier
Latest blogpost, on digital reconstructions of particular manuscripts
associated with biblioclast Otto F. Ege and new information about these
manuscripts that the reconstructions brought to light. If your
collection owns Ege-sourced leaves, you may find this of particular
interest.
https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/manuscript-road-trip-tr…
All the best for 2017 -
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
The Institute of Classical Studies is seeking an engaged and active
Developer to work on a one-year pilot project Cataloguing Open Access
Classics Serials (COACS), in collaboration with the Combined Library of
the ICS and of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, and colleagues in the
UK, Germany and the USA. The primary function of this role is to assess
several databases of open access journals in ancient studies and
formulate an intermediate metadata format for recording and sharing the
serial and article records; build code to help with cataloguing and
indexing the contents, and ingest the results into the library
catalogue. The role also requires acting as point of contact for
academic project partners and other libraries working with the data and
code we create.
https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=665
Potential applicants are welcome to get in touch with me
(gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk) informally to discuss the position.
The deadline for applications is 17th January 2017
Please circulate this announcement among any colleagues, students, and
other lists or fora that may be interested. Many thanks.
Apologies for cross-posting.
--
Dr Gabriel BODARD
Reader in Digital Classics
Institute of Classical Studies
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
E: Gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)20 78628752
http://digitalclassicist.org/
Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University
March 16-17, 2017
CFP Deadline Extended + Keynote Speakers Announced
We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers for the Symposium
are:
- Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology)
- Elizabeth LaPensée (Michigan State University)
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. Please
email us [dh(a)msu.edu] with any questions or clarification.
Call for Proposals *Deadline (EXTENDED) to submit a proposal: Tuesday,
December 13, 11:59pm EST*
msuglobaldh.org
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its
symposium series on Global DH into its second year. Digital humanities
scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of 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 expresses a
critique of 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, and the digital divide. We view the 2017 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 Tuesday, December 13,
11:59pm EST:
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Critical cultural studies and analytics
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Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
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How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital
humanities work
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Global research dialogues and collaborations
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Indigeneity - anywhere in the world - and the digital
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Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
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Global digital pedagogies
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Digital and global languages and literatures
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The state of global digital humanities community
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Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
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The practice of digital humanities across textual, historical, and media
divides
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Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and
economies
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Open data and open access policies in a global, postcolonial context
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Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
Presentation Formats:
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3-5-minute lightning talks
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15-minute papers
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90-minute workshop proposals
Proposal form: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
718-216-5695
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com