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Announcing the
2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute
University of Victoria, June 8-12, 2009
We are now open for registration! Early registration rates are available until April 1, 2009. To register, or for more information, go to this URL: http://www.dhsi.org/user_interface. See Registration Fees section below for rates.
* Mandate
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation.
* Host and Sponsors
The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others.
* Curriculum
Institute Lectures (to be confirmed):
Melissa Terras (University College London), Dot Porter (Dublin, DHO), Donald Bruce (Guelph), Robert Blake (UC Davis), Daniel O'Donnell (Lethbridge)
Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Robin Davies [Vancouver Island U] and Michael Nixon [Vancouver Island U])
Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen])
[4] Expressing Physical Materiality in Digital Projects
(instructed by Dot Porter [Dublin, DHO]) [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo])
[6] Teaching and Learning with Technology in Applied Linguistics
(instructed by Catherine Caws [U Victoria] and Ulf Scheutze [U Victoria]) [7] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [Kevin Stranack and Alec Smecher])
Advanced consultations: [8] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [9] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [10] Digital Tools for Literary History (instructed by Susan Brown [U Alberta, Guelph] and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta])
* Registration Fees ($ CDN)
Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. Information about scholarships will be announced on this listserv as it becomes available.
* Accomodation On Campus
The University of Victoria is currently holding space for Summer Institute participants in dormitory and cluster housing. Internet access is available in each bedroom and payphones are located in or near all buildings. To secure a room, we advise booking before April 8, 2009. A deposit for your first night's accommodation is required to guarantee all reservations. The remaining balance is due at check-in.
Residence Rooms
Bedrooms in Residence (dormitory) buildings come with either 1 or 2 single beds. Shared washroom facilities are located on each floor along with a central lounge to relax and watch TV with other guests. * Rates TBA
Cluster Units
Similar to an apartment or townhouse, Cluster Housing units come with 4 bedrooms, 2 washrooms and a shower. Each bedroom in the unit contains 1 single bed. The living room is furnished with a loveseat and coffee table. The kitchen has a fridge, stove, dishwasher and dining room table with chairs and is equipped with dishes, cutlery and utensils. Please note cable and phone lines are available however televisions and telephones are not provided in the units. * Rates TBA
To make a reservation, please use the form provided on the dhsi website For additional information and floor plans visit http://housing.uvic.ca/visitor/index.php
Individual DHSI participants are responsible for making their own reservations with the University of Victoria Housing Office. To secure a room, please book by APRIL 8th, 2009. After this date, we cannot guarantee room availability.
* Website
For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and additional accommodation information – see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org.
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-- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter@gmail.com