Dear Global Outlook members,
We are glad to announce that on the 2nd of October a discussion about Big
Data and Digital Humanities will take place in Barcelona at the CCCB. Also
we will be presenting great projects and a few recent DH centers created in
the hispanic context. More details below:
<http://bigbangdata.cccb.org/big-data-als-estudis-dhumanitats/>
If you are in Barcelona on these days we will be happy to meet you.
All the best,
María Morrás y Antonio Rojas
Dear,
We are writing to introduce to you the new "CLARIN COMPETENCY CENTER
IULA-UPF " (IULA-UPF-CCC) <http://www.clarin-es-lab.org/>".
The IULA-UPF CLARIN Competency Centre is a collaborating center of the
CLARIN research infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences, along
with centers in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Netherlands, Poland,
and Czech Republic.
The IULA-UPF-CC –CLARIN was created with the mission to revitalize the use
of language technology research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and
to advise researchers regarding access to data and applications in order
conduct experimental research with the objective of extracting data from
texts.
Thanks to funding from the FEDER Programme[1]
<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/U19551/Mis%20documentos/Dropbox/_PLA%20COMUNICACIO%20CLARIN%20FEDER/doc1-eng.docx#_ftn1>
and
the University Pompeu Fabra, IULA-UPF-CCC has developed a catalog designed
to facilitate access to the use of computer applications for potential
beneficiaries. The catalog, based on linked open data (Linked Open Data,
LOD), allows you to view and connect to any open sources of information
from the entire www.
The catalog, designed from the collaboration between linguists, computer
scientists, documentalists and humanists, helps the user to discover new
information and to make it more navigable. Currently, the catalog provides
access to materials from their source so that a given user can also make
his or her own path to discover it. The source materials were selected to
show how other HCS researchers have used them for different tasks and
applications.
We hope that these developments are of interest and that you can
disseminate our center to anyone who you may think would also be
interested. Moreover, we appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Nuria Bel and Silvia Arano
CLARIN COMPETENCY CENTER IULA-UPF
Web address: http://www.clarin.eslab.org/
Email: iulatrl(a)upf.edu
Twitter:CLARIN_ES_LAB
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"Fons europeu de desenvolupament regional (FEDER), Programa operatiu FEDER
de Catalunya 2007-2013, Objective 1"
Dear all,
I share with you Dominique Babini's new book on Open Access in Latin
America, which some of you may find useful.
>From the foreword:
*We hope that this book will provide some headway in introducing
inclusiveness in the global open access scholarly communications and will
ensure full participation of an important developing region on the world.
We also believe that this book will help appreciate the contribution that
Latin America is making in rethinking the way the world is producing,
distributing, using and evaluating research output in the digital world. *
The book is freely downloadable here:
biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/se/20140917054406/OpenAccess.pdf
<http://t.co/oNstdmTgHx>
From: Florian Sprenger <fsprengerfs(a)gmx.de>
Date: Sep 27, 2014
Subject: CFP: Summer School Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, 20-26 Sep 15)
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, September 20 - 26, 2015
Deadline: Nov 10, 2014
Challenging Methods – 1. Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures
Hosted by Digital Cultures Research Lab and the Institute for Advanced
Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation; organized by Florian
Sprenger and Christoph Engemann
The inaugural issue of the Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures
explores the question and challenge of methods in media studies and
digital cultures. Hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study Media
Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) and the Digital Cultures
Research Lab (DCRL), the Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures
provides advanced training in the study of media, their theory,
aesthetics and history. Focusing on one special topic annually, it
affords a select group of graduate students the opportunity to work
with distinguished international scholars from all fields of media
studies in an intimate and highly focused context and provides a
platform for participants to engage in dialogue with other doctoral
students from around the world working in similar or related fields.
This year’s topic, Challenging Methods, reacts to the demands for a
discussion of methods that recently have become prevalent in the
context of media studies. Historically and institutionally, this field
of research originated when scholars from a variety of fields started
to confront their disciplines and specifically their methodologies with
the questions of media epistemology. From those investigations of the
hitherto overlooked media-theoretical presumptions and media practices
of their original fields, a discourse emerged that was labeled media
studies – “Medienwissenschaften”.
Incorporating heterogeneous approaches ranging from philosophical and
aesthetic via ethnographic and sociological to epistemological and
performative as well as interventionist practices and net criticism,
media studies has not developed an overarching theoretical or
methodological frame and instead privileged object specific approaches.
Nonetheless, it is within this exchange among disciplines, and fostered
by the tasks brought forward by digitalization, that the question of
the relationship between media and methods recently has become a
prominent field of inquiry. This includes demands for a specification
of methods in media studies. Data-driven analysis of large corpora of
texts, visuals or sounds have led to a re-adjustment of the question of
empirical, qualitative and historical research, while at the same time
raising methodological expectations. The stakes of digitalization,
themselves important topics of the field, intervene in the economy of
sources, their circulation and availability, hence in the practices of
research and increasingly turn out to be a challenge of methods for
media studies.
It is this situation between new technical possibilities and an
institutional consolidation that frames the Summer School. Despite
these developments, it seems futile to simply project the longstanding
methodological debates of sociology, history, or ethnography onto the
respective fields of media research. In this regard, the stakes of
media studies lie in the assumption that methodological questions
always question the media of methods: those very technologies and
epistemological presumptions that underlie all methods.
This is the point of departure for the Summer School. Instead of taking
account of different methods, we intend to create an open and
provocative space for the reflection of the technical, epistemological,
historical, and perhaps also methodological conditions of methods,
either under the reign of digitalization or regarding a re-formulation
of specific presuppositions. As a forum, the Summer School "Challenging
Methods" will investigate the historical situation of the current
demand for methods, the importance of technological developments, and
the subsequent transformations of our own research, writing, and
thinking.
Considering the experience that methodological questions are most
thoroughly addressed in dissertations, the Lüneburg Summer School for
Digital Cultures will bring together a group of around 18 young
international scholars with renowned faculty to investigate the status
and challenge of methods in media studies. Connecting scholars from
different fields, it aims to open up discussions in media studies,
while at the same time offering the chance to investigate the specific
mediality of methods in other fields.
The week long Summer School is structured as a series of shared
seminars, keynote lectures and three streams taught in small groups.
The first stream will investigate the promise of digital tools; the
second stream will tackle the dimensions of a politics of methods; and
the third stream will confront methods as cultural techniques:
1. Tools of Methods – Chaired by Till Heilmann (University of Siegen),
Keynote by David Gugerli (ETH Zürich)
This stream asks how the increased use of digital devices in humanities
research affects methodology. Starting with an introduction to the
different media theoretical conceptions of tools the stream will
investigate the specificity of digital tools and ask if the notion of
the tool changes under digital conditions. In light of this background
the group will investigate the relation between new digital tools like
text editors or database systems and the evocation of new methods as
promoted by the digital humanities. How can such recursive research
into the evolving digital research infrastructures help us to
understand our own changing methods and allow us to shape new types of
methodologies, without methodology becoming an end in itself?
2. Politics of Methods – Chaired by Hanno Pahl (University of Luzern),
Keynote tba,
Methods play a central role in shaping the knowledge regimes of
scientific disciplines. Studying the often contentious history of their
institutionalization within a field allows an investigation of how the
introduction of methods privileges certain epistemological positions.
Via comparing media studies to two established disciplines – economics
and sociology – this stream will explore the history and presence of
the politics of methods in their institutional and epistemological
effects. How can such comparison not only help to profile the specifics
of digital media studies’ methods, but also provide evocative potential
for exchanges between media theory, social theory and theoretical takes
on markets and capitalism?
3. Cultural Techniques – Chaired by Christina Vagt (Technical
University Berlin), Keynote tba,
The three primary registers of cultural techniques (image, writing,
number) can help to understand the role of materiality and technology
within the sciences and humanities. In this respect, cultural
techniques are modern auxiliary sciences (an assemblage of methods and
objects) that can disrupt or stabilize specific objects or methods
within disciplines. The stream will ask its participants to practice
and reflect on their own field of study and their methodological
framework as cultural technicians. It will also question, how the
cultural techniques approach, which so far has gained particular
traction in historical and epistemological research contexts, can be
made fruitful in contexts of ethnographic or interventionist inquiry.
The Lüneburg Summer School on Digital Cultures invites applications
from outstanding doctoral candidates, but also master students at the
end of their exams, throughout the world in media studies and related
fields such as film studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history,
architecture, sociology, politics, the history of science and visual
culture.
All application materials should be sent by email to
florian.sprenger(a)leuphana.de and must be received by November 10, 2014.
Applicants who have been admitted will be notified by the end of
November.
The working language of the Summer School is English. Applications are
accepted in English or German, should be submitted electronically in
PDF format and include the following:
- Letter of Intent indicating academic experience, interest in the
Summer School’s annual topic and the selection of one of the three
streams (max. 300 words);
- Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages);
- Abstract of a possible presentation at the Lüneburg Summer School for
Digital Cultures of no more than 2000 words, double spaced, with
standard margins;
- Contact information (name, institutional address, email) of two
potential references.
Please use the following naming convention for your application files:
Lastname_Letter_of_Intent.pdf
Lastname_Curriculum_Vitae.pdf
Lastname_Abstract.pdf
Lastname_Contact_Info.pdf
Participants will receive a reader with texts and material for the
seminars. There is no participation fee. Accommodation costs will be
covered by the organizers. We have a limited amount of need-based
travel funding available. Please indicate in your application letter if
you wish to apply for travel funding.
For further information on the DCRL and MECS please visit:
http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/digital-cultures-research-lab/project/res…http://mecs.leuphana.de/
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Summer School Digital Cultures (Lüneburg, 20-26 Sep 15). In:
H-ArtHist, Sep 27, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/8516>.
*Apologies for cross-posting*
I'm forwarding for us the extension for the Digital Diversity 2015. Hope to
see you there!
a.
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Hello all,
Please note the new CFP deadline for the Digital Diversity 2015 conference,
below and at our website:digitaldiversity2015.org.
Best wishes, Kathryn Holland
*Digital Diversity 2015: Writing | Feminism | Culture*
*Orlando turns 20*
Edmonton, Canada 7-9 May 2015
How have new technologies transformed literary and cultural histories? How
do they enable critical practices of scholars working in and outside of
digital humanities? Have decades of digital studies enhanced, altered, or
muted the project to recover and represent more diverse histories of
writers, thinkers, and artists positioned differently by gender, race,
ethnicity, sexualities, social class and/or global location? This
conference examines the trajectory of feminist digital studies, observing
the ways in which varied projects have opened up the objects and methods of
literary history and cultural studies. It marks the twentieth anniversary
of the start of the Orlando Project, an ongoing experiment in digital
methods that produces *Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles, from
the Beginnings to the Present* (orlando.cambridge.org). Alongside
pioneering projects such as the Women Writers Project, the Corvey Project,
the Dickinson Electronic Archives, the Perdita Project, and the Victorian
Women Writers Project, Orlando blazed a new path in the field, bringing
together feminist literary studies with emerging methods of digital
inquiry. These twenty years have witnessed a revolution in how we
research, produce, and circulate knowledge. It is time to reflect upon the
impact of the digital turn on engagement with the literary and cultural
past.
We welcome presentations that will together reflect on the past, present,
and future of digital literary and cultural studies; examine synergies
across digital humanities projects; and stimulate exchanges across such
fields as literary history, history, art history, cultural studies, and
media studies.
Potential topics include:
- Transformations and evaluations of feminist, gender, queer and other
recuperative literary studies
- Digital manifestations of critical race studies,
transatlantic/transnationalist or local/community-based approaches
- Collaborations between digital humanities specialists and scholars in
other fields
- Born-digital critical and creative initiatives in cultural history
(journals, blogs, electronic “branch” projects, crowdsourcing, multi-media,
and interactive projects)
- Editorial initiatives, digitization and curation of primary texts,
representation of manuscripts and the writing process
- Inquiry into texts, networks, and historical processes via
visualization and other “distant reading” strategies
- Authorship and collaboration: the work of women and other historically
marginalized writers, traditional models of scholarship, and new conditions
of digital research and new media
- Sound and sight: sound and visual arts studies in digital environments
- Identities and diversity in new media: born-digital arts in word,
sound, and image, in genres including documentaries, blogs, graphic novels,
memoirs, hypertexts and e-literature
- Conditions of production: diversity in academia, publishing, library,
information science, or programming, past and present
- Cultural and political implications of particular tools or digital
modes of presentation
- Pedagogical objectives, practices, environments
- Dissemination, accessibility, and sustainability challenges faced by
digital projects
The conference will include paper/panel presentations as well as
non-traditional presentation formats. Please submit abstracts (500 words
for single paper, poster, or demonstration, and 1500 words for panels of 3
papers or workshops) along with a short CV for each presenter. We are
applying for funding to support the participation of students and emerging
scholars.
We welcome proposals for other non-traditional formats. Half- to full-day
workshops will be held on the first day of the conference; demonstrations
and poster presentations will be embedded in the conference program.
Proposals for workshops should provide a description, outline, and proposed
schedule indicating the length of time and type of space desired.
The deadline for all submissions is * 26 September 2014*. Send proposals
and CVs by email, to *digdiv2015(a)gmail.com <digdiv2015(a)gmail.com>*. Follow
us on Twitter *@digdiv2015*.
Invitamos a todos los humanistas digitales, a las personas implicadas en
proyectos donde concurran las humanidades y la tecnología, o quienes estén
interesados por el tema de la cultura digital en general, desde el más
amplio horizonte de perspectivas reflexivas y prácticas, a unirse a
nosotros en este segundo Día de las Humanidades Digitales que tendrá lugar
el día 15 de octubre de 2014.
Un día en la vida de las Humanidades Digitales (Día HD) es un proyecto de
publicación digital común abierta, que convoca a investigadores de todo el
mundo interesados en las Humanidades Digitales (principalmente a aquellos
cuya producción sea en español o portugués) para que documenten con texto e
imagen (durante un día) las actividades que desarrollan.
El objetivo del proyecto es ofrecer en un sitio web un panorama de la
actividad desarrollada por los participantes congregados en el evento, de
forma que se contribuya a dar respuesta a la pregunta: ¿qué es lo que hacen
realmente los humanistas digitales?
El proyecto se ha realizado en años anteriores en inglés, y el año pasado
en español y portugués.
Para participar en el proyecto, por favor, regístrate aquí:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/registrarse
<http://dhd2013.filos.unam.mx/register>
Más detalles sobre el proyecto:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/acerca <http://dhd2013.filos.unam.mx/acerca>
Recomendaciones para participar:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/recomendaciones
<http://dhd2013.filos.unam.mx/recomendaciones>
El hashtag del Twitter para el evento es #diahd14
El Día de las Humanidades Digitales está organizado por:
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CenterNet <http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/>
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Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional (HDH)
<http://www.humanidadesdigitales.org/>
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
<http://www.filos.unam.mx/>
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Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD)
<http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/>
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Associação das Humanidades Digitais
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Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales
Português
A todos os humanistas digitais ou a todos aqueles que dirigem e/ou
colaboram em projectos de humanidades com uma componente digital.
Por favor, juntem-se a nós para o segundo Dia das Humanidades Digitais
(versão ES / PT) que terá lugar no dia 15 de outubro de 2014.
Um Dia na Vida das Humanidades Digitais (Dia HD) é um projecto que pretende
documentar um dia de trabalho de pessoas que estejam envolvidas em
projectos que ligam as humanidades e a computação. Pretende-se reunir
pessoas de todos o mundo que falem ou trabalhem primordialmente nos idiomas
espanhol e português, para através de texto e imagem registar os eventos e
actividades de um dia de trabalho. O objectivo do projecto é cruzar num
único local os labores de todos os participantes, deste modo elaborando um
recurso digital com o qual se possa responder à questão “O que é que os
humanistas digitais efectivamente fazem?”
Para participar no projecto, por favor, registe-se aqui:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/registrarse
Informação mais detalhada sobre o projecto, estão disponíveis aqui:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/acerca
Recomendações para participar:
http://diahd2014.filos.unam.mx/recomendaciones
A hashtag do Twitter para o evento é #diahd14
O Dia das Humanidades Digitais é organizado por:
- *CenterNet*
*- Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional (HDH)*
*- Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD)*
- Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méixco
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Associação das Humanidades Digitais
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Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales
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Dr. Ernesto Priani Saisó
www.ernestopriani.com
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Circuito interior, Ciudad Universitaria, S/N
C.P. 04510 México, D.F.
México
The Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University
<http://library.case.edu/ksl/>, in collaboration with the River Campus
Libraries at the University of Rochester <http://www.library.rochester.edu/>
, Vanderbilt University Libraries
<http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/>, and Washington
University in St. Louis Libraries <http://wustl.edu/libraries/>, is pleased
to announce that registration is now open for the Freedman Center for
Digital Scholarship Colloquium: Pedagogy and Practices.
This colloquium will bring together both faculty and librarians across
disciplines to discuss instructional methodologies and strategies for using
digital tools in humanities, science, and social science classrooms. Our
diverse group of presenters from institutions across the United States and
Canada will be presenting on a wide range of topics:
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collaborating with students on digital projects (e.g. digital archives,
text mining, game design, GIS)
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enhancing field research by using mobile applications for data collection
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supporting faculty and student digital scholarship through libraries’
and specialized centers’ efforts
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collaborations between faculty and librarians to support digital
scholarship efforts in the classroom
The Colloquium will feature presentations, panels, and unconference
sessions. All activities will take place at the Kelvin Smith Library on
Case Western Reserve's campus. For more information, and to register,
please click here <http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/colloquium/>.
*E. Leigh Bonds, PhD*
Digital Research Services Librarian for the Humanities
Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
11055 Euclid Avenue, Room 201-P | 216.368.4253
Hola:
Quisiera saber si alguien de la red puede darme pistas de dónde conseguir fondos para ir a un encuentro académico en Brasil.
Fui aceptada con una colega para presentar la ponencia “Templos virtuales para Osamu Tezuka en Cuba. Construcción de un perfil de los blogs dedicados a anime y manga en la plataforma cubava.cu”
Tras saltar por encima de las pésimas coordinadoras de Cuba, descubrí esto: será en la Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA), en Foz do Iguaçu/Brasil, 27 a 29 de noviembre (http://www.unila.edu.br/es/noticias/evento-academico / http://jornadaslatinoamericanas.blogspot.com.br/).
Creo podría ser interesante intercambiar sobre las identidades y el impacto de la cultura japonesa en AL con el giro tecnológico del intercambio de archivos digitales y las comunidades on line, pero –como siempre- ser de Cuba implica que no hay apoyo de las instituciones y tampoco acceso a opciones internacionales.
Escucho ideas, siempre que no incluyan a la USAID.
Gracias
Yasmín S. Portales Machado
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Marxista, Feminista y Bloguera
"Yo misma nunca he podido averiguar exactamente qué es el feminismo. Sólo sé que la gente me llama feminista cada vez que expreso sentimientos que me diferencian de una alfombra".
Rebecca West, 1913
Twitter: @nimlothdecuba
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663817529
Mi blog: http://yasminsilvia.blogspot.com/
Parte de Proyecto Arcoiris
Colectivo LGBT, anticapitalista e independiente, de Cuba
http://proyectoarcoiris.cubava.cu/
Parte de Observatorio Crítico de Cuba
¡A la izquierda, pero por la izquierda!
http://observatoriocriticodesdecuba.wordpress.com/
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that our tour of the world of digital humanities in
80 days <http://www.arounddh.org/> is over. Thanks to all who helped make
the project possible and helped us spread the word. This was truly a
project that involved collaboration from people all over the world. You can
take a look for yourself in the credits page
<http://www.arounddh.org/credits/>. We hope that the project gave us all a
broader view of what is going on globally. I personally learned an enormous
amount working on this project and hope to do a write-up of those lessons
at some point in the future. In the meantime I live you with a picture of
the Full Journey <http://www.arounddh.org/journey/>.
[image: Inline image 1]
Cheers,
a.