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Tuition Scholarships for the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 8-12, 2009 http://www.dhsi.org

We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes it possible for us to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots in the 2009 Summer Institute. The scholarships are open to everyone and are awarded on the basis of need and merit; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the exception of a small administration fee.

The application form is available on line at http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships. The application deadline for this year is March 15th, with news of scholarships returned no later than the end of March. Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a limited number of scholarship spots in each course. Please apply early!

* Additional ACH Travel Bursary

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is again offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as for DHSI 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 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 [Alec Smecher and James MacGregor])

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.

* 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://www.dhsi.org.