globaloutlookdh-l September 2014

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Big Data exhibition + DH in Bcn, 2nd. Oct.
by Antonio Rojas Castro 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

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

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CLARIN COMPETENCY CENTER IULA-UPF (IULA-UPF-CCC)
by ARANO POGGI, SILVIA BEATRIZ 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

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.es lab.org/ Email: iulatrl(a)upf.edu Twitter:CLARIN_ES_LAB ------------------------------ [1] <file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/U19551/Mis%20documentos/Dropbox/_PLA%20COMUNICACIO%20CLARIN%20FEDER/doc1-eng.docx#_ftnref1> "Fons europeu de desenvolupament regional (FEDER), Programa operatiu FEDER de Catalunya 2007-2013, Objective 1"

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Open Access in Latin America
by Alex Gil 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

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>

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How do I become a member?
by Julia Polyck-O'Neill 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

Hello, I am a Canadian doctoral student hoping to become a member of GO:DH. How do I proceed? Thank you, Best, Julia Polyck-O’Neill

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CfA Summer School Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, 20-26 Sep 15) via H-Arthist
by Dagmar Riedel 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

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>.

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Extension for Digital Diversity conference
by Alex Gil 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* I'm forwarding for us the extension for the Digital Diversity 2015. Hope to see you there! a. ---- 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*.

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Convocatoria para participar /Convite à participação Día de las Humanidades Digitales 2014
by Ernesto Priani 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

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: - CenterNet <http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/> - Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional (HDH) <http://www.humanidadesdigitales.org/> - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México <http://www.filos.unam.mx/> - Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) <http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/> - Associação das Humanidades Digitais - 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 - Associação das Humanidades Digitais - Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales -- Escucha mi podcast Ráfagas de pensamiento http://ernestopriani.podbean.com/ 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

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Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship Colloquium: Pedagogy and Practices
by Leigh Bonds 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

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: - collaborating with students on digital projects (e.g. digital archives, text mining, game design, GIS) - enhancing field research by using mobile applications for data collection - supporting faculty and student digital scholarship through libraries’ and specialized centers’ efforts - 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

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apoyo para encuentro SUr SUr
by Yasmín S. Portales Machado 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

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 -------------------------------------- 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/

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AroundDH comes to an end
by Alex Gil 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

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.

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