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Announcing Scholarships for the 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria June 18-22, 2007 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/

* Scholarships

We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes possible the offering of a limited number of scholarship-subsidized spots in the 2007 Summer Institute. These will be awarded to scholars in the digital humanities, both students and professionals. The application deadline is March 1st. Applicants will be informed of their success before March 15th. The application form is available on line at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/apply_scholarship.php.

* Additional ACH Travel Bursary

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (www.ach.org) is Offering several bursaries to assist graduate students by defraying travel and lodging costs, up to $750 CDN. You may apply for the this bursary at The same time as for Institute scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary.

* 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 is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Malaspina University-College, 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: Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa, SSHRC); Hugh Craig (U Newcastle); France Martineau (U Ottawa); Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen); David Hoover (NYU); Bill Bowen (U Toronto); Bertrand Gervais (UQAM); Ollivier Dyens (Concordia U)

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 Allison Benner [U Victoria])

Intermediate offerings: [3] Edition Production (instructed by Dot Porter [U Kentucky]) [4] Multimedia: Tools and Techniques for Digital Media Projects (instructed by Aimée Morrison [U Waterloo])

Advanced consultations: [5] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (led by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers). [6] Advanced Consultation in Text Encoding (led by Susan Schreibman [U Maryland]). [7] Text Analysis, A Masterclass (led by Hugh Craig [U Newcastle])

* Registration Fees ($ CDN)

Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $450 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 30th.

* Website

For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information -- see the institute's website, at this URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/.