globaloutlookdh-l April 2014

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2nd Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014.
by Daniel O'Donnell 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

==Apologies for cross posting== A second call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of Lethbridge . *Specialisation: *20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism (we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be a series of ads) *Sub-specialisation: *Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the University more generally) *Starting-Salary:* In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k (in other words, enough to make you too expensive for Nazareth College: http://cedarsdigest.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/on-treating-the-unprepared-as-…) *Deadline: *April 15, 2014 (we intend to review applications almost immediately after the deadline, so please emphasise this with your referees). *Further details: *http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and the University and is a key component in a recent central administration application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University. The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting significant resources into the development of our (relatively new) graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit (currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the teaching programme in their area of research specialisation. The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada. Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about 180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors. Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org, globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and the Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding Initiative. -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Fwd: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital
by Alex Gil 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

[apologies for the cross-posting] An event that may be of interest to those working on Caribbean studies or Caribbean related matters. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kaiama L. Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu> Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:00 PM Subject: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital To: Kaiama Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu> Call for Papers/Projects *The Caribbean Digital* a s*mall axe* event 5 December 2014 Barnard College / Columbia University New York, NY Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2014 The transformation of the academy by the digital revolution presents challenges to customary ways of learning, teaching, conducting research, and presenting findings. It also offers great opportunities in each of these areas. New media enable oration, graphics, objects, and even embodied performance to supplement existing forms of scholarly production as well as to constitute entirely original platforms. Textual artifacts have been rendered literally and figuratively three-dimensional; opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration have expanded exponentially; information has been made more accessible and research made more efficient on multiple levels. Scholars are called upon, with some urgency, to adapt their research and pedagogical methods to an academic climate deluged by a superabundance of information and analysis. This has created opportunities for open-ended and multiform engagements, interactive and continually updating archives and other databases, cartographic applications that enrich places with historical information, and online dialogues with peers and the public. The need for such engagements is especially immediate among the people of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Information technology has become an increasingly significant part of the way that people frame pressing social problems and political aspirations. Aesthetic media like photography and painting--because they are relatively inexpensive and do not rely on literacy or formal training--have become popular among economically dispossessed and politically marginalized constituencies. Moreover, the Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others and elsewheres in relentless relation. Yet while we celebrate these opportunities for connectedness, we also must make certain that the digital realm undermine and confront rather than re-inscribe forms of silencing and exclusion in the Caribbean. In this unique one-day public forum we intend to engage critically with the digital as practice and as historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that evermore intensely reconfigure the social and geographic contours of the Caribbean. We invite presentations that explicitly evoke: - the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean - metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic concepts as "submarine unity," the rhizome, Relation, the spiral, repeating islands, creolization, etc. - gendered dimensions of the digital in the Caribbean - the connection between digital technologies and practices of the so-called Caribbean folk - specific engagements with digital spaces and/or theories by individual Caribbean artists and intellectuals - the ways in which digital technologies have impacted or shaped understandings of specific Caribbean political phenomena (e.g. sovereignty, reparations, transnationalism, migration, etc.) - structural means of facilitating broad engagement, communication, and accessibility in the Caribbean digital context (cultivation of multilingual spaces, attentiveness to the material/hardware limitations of various populations) Both traditional papers and integrally multimedia papers/presentations are welcome. We also welcome virtual synchronous presentations by invited participants who cannot travel to New York City to attend the event. Selected proceedings from this forum will be published in the inaugural issue (September 2015) of *sx:archipelagos *- an interactive, born-digital, print-possible, peer-reviewed Small Axe Project publication. Abstracts of 300 words and a short bio should be sent to Kaiama L. Glover and Kelly Baker Josephs (archipelagos(a)smallaxe.net) by *1 June 2014*. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 August 2014. -- Kaiama L. Glover Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies Barnard College, Columbia University *Haiti Unbound <http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view…>* available from Liverpool UP

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