globaloutlookdh-l November 2012

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Fwd: Global Outlook/Afro-Hispanists
by Alex Gil 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hi all, Here's the response from Dorothy. I will try to ring her tomorrow to learn more about what she recognizes as avenues of collaboration. Best, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: African Hispanic Studies Conference <ahsconf(a)uoguelph.ca> Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Global Outlook/Afro-Hispanists To: Alex Gil <colibri.alex(a)gmail.com> Cc: Amilcar Priestley <proyectoafrolatino(a)gmail.com>, Daniel O'Donnell < daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Dear Alex, Thank you very much for your email and for your interest in the Afro-Hispanic virtual conference . My main motivation for working on this initiative is to use technology to build bridges between this side of the Atlantic and various African institutions. It is my hope that through this conference we will be able to draw in African voices to the discussions in Afrohispanism. As we identify our strengths and limitations in our transcontinental/transnational use of technology in this project, we will be in a better position to enhance our collaboration with Africa and its Diaspora. I have looked at the mission and vision of Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities (GO::DH) and I see opportunites for collaboration with you as well. Thank you also for the link to http://afrolatinoproject.org. It is a great project. Indeed, it is a significant source of reference in one of the proposals I have received for the conference. Thank you once again for getting in touch. Should you wish to chat further you can reach me at 519-824-4120 ext 53179. Best Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Gil" <colibri.alex(a)gmail.com> To: ahsconf(a)uoguelph.ca Cc: "Amilcar Priestley" <proyectoafrolatino(a)gmail.com>, "Daniel O'Donnell" < daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Sent: Friday, 23 November, 2012 1:09:14 PM Subject: Global Outlook/Afro-Hispanists Dear Dorothy, I'm writing on behalf of the Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities (GO::DH) special interest group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO). We recently heard of your initiative to organize a virtual conference of Afro-Hispanists. I work on the Afro-Atlantic 20th century myself, especially on the writings and thought of Aimé Césaire. We are very excited that you are forming these transnational bonds using the available technologies to highlight the global nature of our scholarly enterprise. At the ADHO we are engaged in several initiatives, including the GO::DH, to build communities of practice in digital scholarship around the world. One of the major problems of the development of digital scholarship in the humanities has been the siloed nature of our efforts. We hope that GO::DH will eventually allow all continents and diasporas to form a visible front for new practitioners. Although the overt theme of your conference is not the digital itself, we feel that you are using the digital in the transformative manner that speaks to the digital humanities. Here's an example, which you may be aware of, of the 'transformative' use of technology that speaks to your conference theme: http://afrolatinoproject.org/ . (Amilcar Priestley cc'ed here) We would love to learn more about your conference, and perhaps build bridges between us. I would love to have at least a quick call next week if you are available to learn more about the details of the conference and the reach of the digital in your organizational principles. All the best, -- Alex Gil Digital Scholarship Coordinator Humanities and History Columbia University Libraries -- Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, PhD Convenor Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/ Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies School of Languages and Literatures University of Guelph Canada -- Alex Gil Digital Scholarship Coordinator Humanities and History Columbia University Libraries

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Fwd: [DHSI] International Virtual Conference: Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies [Conferencia Internacional Virtual: El afro-hispanismo en África / África en el afro-hispanismo]
by Daniel O'Donnell 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

FYI. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [DHSI] International Virtual Conference: Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies [Conferencia Internacional Virtual: El afro-hispanismo en África / África en el afro-hispanismo] Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:48:59 -0500 From: African Hispanic Studies Conference <ahsconf(a)uoguelph.ca> To: <institute(a)lists.uvic.ca> Call for Papers International Virtual Conference: Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies. 4-8 March, 2013 Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies is a multidisciplinary online conference designed to examine new insights that are brought by a transnational inquiry into Afro-Hispanic cultural expression. The online format of this conference is fundamental to the underlying goal of forging connections and transcending personal, geographical and disciplinary barriers to appreciating the transnational dimensions of African cultural expression. It is also key to embracing the complexity of voices, media of representation and modes of expression within contemporary African arts and cultures in a global context. More information available at: www.guelphahsconf.ca Inaugural Speakers Professor Ato Quayson Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Topic: "Africa's Diverse Diasporas: A Continental Longing for Form?" Professor Kwesi Yankah President, Central University College, Accra. Ghana Plenary Speakers Profesor Bahia uld Mahmud uld Awah Profesor honorario, Departamento de Antropología Social. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Topic: "El legado lingüístico colonial en el Sahara Occidental como excolonia española" Profesor Justo Bolekia Boleká Poeta y Catedrático del Departamento de Filología Francesa Universidad de Salamanca Topic: “Impresiones y conmociones culturales en el afro-hispanismo africano” Important Dates December 1, 2012 Deadline to submit abstracts December 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance of proposal February 1, 2013 Registration deadline February 8, 2013 Submission of pre-recordings and other conference material March 4-8, 2013 Conference Convenor: Dorothy Odartey-Wellington ahsconf(a)uoguelph.ca (University of Guelph) Convocatoria: Conferencia Internacional Virtual: El afro-hispanismo en África / África en el afro-hispanismo. 4-8 de marzo de 2013 El afro-hispanismo en África / África en el afro-hispanismo es una conferencia multidisciplinar online diseñada para examinar las nuevas apreciaciones que surgen de una investigación transnacional sobre la expresión cultural afro-hispánica. El formato online de esta conferencia es primordial para el objetivo fundamental de establecer conexiones y de transcender las barreras personales, geográficas y disciplinarias que impiden apreciar las dimensiones transnacionales de la expresión cultural africana. También es clave para abrazar en un contexto global la complejidad de voces, medios de representación y modos de expresión dentro de las artes y las culturas contemporáneas de África. Informacion adicional: www.guelphahsconf.ca Discursos inaugurales Professor Ato Quayson Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Tema: "Africa's Diverse Diasporas: A Continental Longing for Form?" Discursos plenarios Professor Kwesi Yankah President, Central University College, Accra. Ghana Discursos plenarios Profesor Bahia uld Mahmud uld Awah Profesor honorario, Departamento de Antropología Social. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Tema: "El legado lingüístico colonial en el Sahara Occidental como excolonia española" Profesor Justo Bolekia Boleká Poeta y Catedrático del Departamento de Filología Francesa Universidad de Salamanca Tema: "Impresiones y conmociones culturales en el afro-hispanismo africano" Fechas Importantes Diciembre 1, 2012 Entrega de propuestas Diciembre 15, 2012 Notificación de aceptación de propuestas Febrero 1, 2013 Plazo de inscripción Febrero 8, 2013 Entrega de pregrabaciones y otros documentos para la conferencia. Marzo 4-8, 2013 Conferencia Convocante: Dorothy Odartey-Wellington ahsconf(a)uoguelph.ca (University of Guelph) -- Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, PhD Convenor Afro-Hispanic Studies in Africa/ Africa in Afro-Hispanic Studies School of Languages and Literatures University of Guelph Canada _______________________________________________ Institute mailing list Institute(a)lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/institute

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CSDH/SCHN conference
by O'Donnell, Dan 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Hi all, The Canadian DH meeting takes place t this year in Victoria on June 3-5. It is followed immediately by DHSI (the digital humanities summer institute). I wonder if that might not make for an interesting place for us to consider a session as well? What do others think? For that we might be able to get some travel funding through a SSHRC fund. What do you think? Maybe something pan-regional? Sent from Samsung Mobile

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AroundDH
by O'Donnell, Dan 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Alex, I wonder if there is anything go::dh can do to support aroundDH. Is there? I'm still working out the budget we were given by uleth for go::dh, but it seems for example that we might be able to include some admin costs from your project. Since I'm also not sure everybody knows what it is about, maybe you could say something here to us about it. -dan Sent from Samsung Mobile

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Update and a new funding programme
by Daniel O'Donnell 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi all, A quick update: the Steering Committee has been discussing our proposal, but had to put it off till this week in order to deal with some other business and because of time pressures for some of the members. In the meantime, Michael Sinatra passed this on to me last week: http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Media/Pages/IDRC-and-SSHRC-Launch-iPaSS.aspx I'm asking our research office how they think we can get on the radar for this, since it will be by invitation and they are thinking primarily about the Social Sciences rather than the humanities. But there might be scope for a nice multi-society approach once we know that. > IPaSS will support strategic research in four areas: > > Information and Networks: The digital revolution, characterized by > the widespread use of mobile technology and the internet in the > developing world, has created opportunities for disadvantaged > communities to improve learning outcomes, benefit from greater > government openness and accountability and create new economic > prospects. Researchers will work to develop understanding of how > accelerated advances in networked technologies, will transform > governance, science, learning and livelihoods. > Inclusive Growth: Despite overall economic growth and fewer people > living in poverty, growth has not always led to better jobs or to > increased income opportunities for the poor. Researchers will seek to > develop policies and practices that create decent jobs and encourage > the development of enterprises, particularly for women and young > people. > Governance, Security, and Justice: As some 1.5 billion people live in > areas affected by violent conflict and organized crime, researchers > will help States and societies build secure, equitable, and > responsive societies. > Green Growth: At a time when the global economy and climate change > top policy agendas around the globe, researchers will deepen > understanding how societies can spur economic growth in a way that > simultaneously promotes environmental sustainability. > > Building on many years of cooperation, IPaSS will further IDRC’s and > SSHRC’s goal to put the social sciences at the service of the public > and ensure that they address issues of mutual concern to Canada and > the world. > > University-based experts from Canada and from low- and middle-income > countries will be invited to submit research proposals on these four > themes. Up to 10 applicants will receive seed funding to develop a > formal application. Up to five partnerships retained after an > international merit review will then receive up to CA$2.5 million > over four to seven years to carry out the research. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Amazing news: uleth has agreed to $5k funding for admin for go::dh
by O'Donnell, Dan 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

As in the subject line. Just heard or VPR will give us $5k admin support for GO::DH. I need to give him a budget, but at least there's a bit of confidence. And those are Canadian dollars not those U.S. kind ;-) -dan Sent from Samsung Mobile

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Second revised prospectus
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi Neil (cc'd the rest of the group), Here is another revision, incorporating the suggestions you'd made about governance and trying to incorporate the points about tone and rhetoric raised by Alex, Oyvind, and in the hallways here, Titi. Because the disconnect between networks in these different geographic and economic regions is so strong, and because ADHO is so closely aligned (at the moment) with the networks in the high income world, it is difficult to avoid rhetoric that smacks of neocolonialism. In this revision, I've tried to indicate that this is an attempt to broaden ADHO rather than co-opt other people. That being said, it is probably in the end impossible to come up with a way of describing the current situation that does not run into this problem. So at a certain point we probably have to say we've done our best and move on to praxis. I've worked with this so often, I am not seeing typos any more. If anybody does, please pass them back to me. I believe unless my changes are stupider than I think, it is otherwise ready to go to the SC. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Almost there, but on to Plan B
by O'Donnell, Dan 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hi all, We have done very well on the session, given the short lead,the fact that we've also been working on our terms of reference, and that we are just starting out. we're not going to make the session proposal deadline. However that is by no means a disaster: we have a good topic, good names of speakers, and have been working together well.This means we have what is necessary to go with the original plan of holding a sponsored roundtable during a business session . Our proposal for the terms of reference is before the steering committee. Once they have decided at the end of this coming week we can find out more about the mechanics of megetting a spot. In the meantime, it seems to me we should continue to build the session. should we invite the proposed speakers to join our Little group, for example? Sent from Samsung tablet

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Last call
by O'Donnell, Dan 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hi all, If we are going to submit something, we have less than 24 hours. As I understand it, this means we still need confirmation from somebody in HK and PRC as speakers. Otherwise, we have a speaker (Joey) from Taiwan, a chair, and a respondant. Marcus has written an abstract that represents our purposes. If we can confirm those 2 speakers tomorrow, we have a session. Otherwise we don't, though we can ask to use a business session afterwards. I'm happy to file the proposal if the confirmations are there! Sent from Samsung tablet

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DH session proposal "Chinese DH"
by Marcus Bingenheimer 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Dear all, Below a proposal for a GO::DH session at the DH 2013. Ideas? Suggestions? Comments? The application deadline is Thursday so there is not much time left but there is still time for changes. greetings from Philadelphia marcus waiting for the hurricane ============================= ADHO GO:DH Session on “Chinese DH” The newly founded ADHO initiative Global Outreach (GO::DH) aims to facilitate communication between the various ADHO committees and emergent DH groups and activities in countries which are not yet well represented within ADHO. This session proposal is one of GO::DH attempts to raise the visibility of underrepresented communities, in this case, of work done in the Chinese speaking world. Like all cultures, China is faced with the question of how to model its cultural heritage in a digital environment. Comparable only to India in historic range, geographic size, and population, there are various initiatives in China, Hongkong and Taiwan that work on solutions to digitize and distribute their shared cultural heritage. After successful international cooperation yielded the Unicode standard, which resolved the pressing issue of how to represent the logographic writing system in computing, continued dialog on standards and practices in DH is of mutual interest for both ADHO members and the emerging DH centers in China, Hongkong and Taiwan. In East Asia, efforts by Japanese practitioners of DH has already resulted in the foundation of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities, which joined ADHO last year, an important development in the globalization of the field. In the Chinese speaking world too there is great potential for dialog, synergy and cooperation between DH centers to discuss standards and practices. Communication about shared standards generally improves the chances that the results are interchangeable, avoids duplication of efforts, and increases efficiency. As internationalization and support for developing, regional centers is part of ADHO’s mission, the members of the GO::DH feel it is desirable to organize a roundtable on “Chinese DH” with representatives from China, Taiwan, Hongkong and perhaps Singapore to speak about the situation of DH in their societies and the prospects and potential problems for further collaboration with both within East Asia as well as with ADHO members. Following a discussion on the globaloutlookdh list regarding the possible format for such a roundtable, Neil Fraistat, the current Chair of ADHO, offered to split the ADHO business meeting and use the second 45 min section to a ADHO GO::DH roundtable on “Chinese DH”. We plan to invite at least one representative from China, Hongkong and Taiwan to speak for 10 min to provide the audience with a quick overview of activities, followed by a 15 min roundtable discussion with the speakers and one or two GO::DH members. Possible questions to explore: What are the prospects for further national or regional organization in East Asia? How can we make better use of existing structures to further the globalization of Chinese DH? How viable, e.g., would be a panel in Chinese at the next DH? ADHO GO::DH Session (45 min) 1. DH in China (10min) 2. DH in Hongkong (10min) 3. DH in Taiwan (10min) 4. Roundtable (15min) ==================================

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