globaloutlookdh-l June 2015

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Website editor for GO::DH
by Daniel O'Donnell 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hi all, We are looking for one or two volunteers to act as website editor for GO::DH to replace James Sullivan, who will be stepping down when a replacement is found. The GO::DH website is run using Wordpress. The Website editor is an officer of GO::DH and attends the executive meetings. This would be a great position for anybody who is interested in getting so more about the community and has some webskills. If you would like more information about the current setup and/or duties, please contact James O'Sullivan (josullivan.c(a)gmail.com). If you would like to volunteer, please contact daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca, telling us something about your experience and interests. -dan

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Looking for digital humanities projects to write wikipedia articles about
by Stuart A. Yeates 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

I'm a long-time wikipedian looking for digital humanities projects to write wikipedia articles about. Suitable projects are: * mature projects * not primarily related to a single funding source * the subject of multiple open-access, digital accessible, secondary sources with (at least) English-language abstracts * ideally non-English, multi-lingual or touching on indigenous languages. If you know of a project that sounds like this, please drop me an email with some links to the secondary sources clearly identified. Alternatively you can have a crack for yourself on wikipedia and drop me an email. For examples of the kinds of things that are possible see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Corpora I also do academic biographies based on obituaries. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky

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DH organizations around the world
by Alex Gil 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

** apologies for cross posting ** Dear all, Here is a quick neatline sketch <http://testing.elotroalex.com/dhorgs/>of the digital humanities organizations I can see around the world today. The map is quick and dirty, and misrepresents much. It would be nice to get a representation of memberships from each org by city or state, that would help localize trans-nationality more accurately. In lieu of that I'm hoping this can spark a conversation about representation, language and location. If you have private suggestions, feel free to send me a line. I welcome all public suggestions. As I say in the about page: LIES THIS MAP TELLS: This map does not represent the trans-national membership of these > organizations. A heat map from member tallies would be more accurate. > CenterNet is absent. Humanistica and ACH have a much wider reach than the > map gives them credit for. My rationale for doing it was to show the > territoriality of the largest number of members in each of these orgs, OR > the regions they de facto represent. I find my lies point in the direction > of a tension between language vs. region, representation vs. proportional > membership. The lies are meant to spark a conversation about how we can > move forward organizationally at the global level, through and around ADHO. > I would favor moves in the direction of clearly defined meso-level > regional/national organizations—open to global membership, of course, but > clearly based somewhere—for the support of semi-local communities. The key > here is support and representation for semi-local communities. To be clear, > I am not against co-existence and collaboration with language-based > trans-regional organizations that stretch the planet, and do believe we can > achieve local support and representation if we work together carefully at > the intersections of language/region/representation, as long as we foster > local growth and agency. On that note, I should point out that many > organizations represented here are already both language-region, like the > RedHD or the DHD. > In addition to these regional/language chapters, I imagine a union that > can organize a global conference and foster collaboration. What ADHO is > trying to do now.

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GO:DH dinner tonight at DH2015
by Elena González-Blanco 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Dear all, For those of you that are in Sydney, we are organizing a GO:DH "unofficial" dinner tonight. Let's meet at the door of Novotel Parramatta at 19:30!We are looking to meet youBest Elena, Gimena, Oyvind & Alex Elena González-Blanco García Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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Fwd: [SEDIT-L] Office of the Historian release volume on Mexico; Central America; and the Caribbean, 1973-1976
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: FRUS Press Releases <FRUSPressReleases(a)state.gov> Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2015, 11:53 Subject: [SEDIT-L] Office of the Historian release volume on Mexico; Central America; and the Caribbean, 1973-1976 To: <SEDIT-L(a)listserv.umd.edu> MEDIA NOTE Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs Release of *Foreign Relations of the United States*, 1969–1976, Volume E–11, Part 1, Documents on Mexico; Central America; and the Caribbean, 1973–1976 This volume is part of a *Foreign Relations* subseries that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. The volume on American Republics has been divided into two parts: Part One, this volume, documents the formulation of a new U.S. policy towards the region as a whole and bilateral relations with fourteen countries and one British possession—The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua—during the second Nixon and Ford administrations; Part Two, forthcoming, documents bilateral relations with countries in South America. U.S. policy towards Latin America during this period centered on establishing what Henry A. Kissinger called a “New Dialogue” with the region. Launched in October 1973, just days after Kissinger took office as Secretary of State, the “New Dialogue” was envisioned as a constructive way for the United States to meet the challenge posed by the perceived emergence of a Latin American regional bloc. The initiative called for regular meetings of foreign ministers to address issues of mutual concern and aimed to restore a sense that a special relationship existed between the United States and its neighbors to the south. By 1976, however, U.S. officials had largely abandoned the idea of pursuing a unified regional policy, as called for by the “New Dialogue.” Instead, recognizing that Latin America was not a monolithic bloc, the Ford administration focused more on bilateral relations with the nations of the hemisphere. As this volume documents, during the Nixon and Ford administrations immigration and narcotics control emerged as key issues in bilateral relations, particularly with Mexico. Other themes that occur are water salinity, economic concerns, and investment disputes. Finally, military regimes controlled many Central American governments during the 1970s, and some early hints of the unrest that generated the civil wars of the 1980s appear in the documents in this volume. This volume was compiled and edited by Halbert Jones, which is available exclusively on the Office of the Historian website at http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve11p1. For further information, contact Adam Howard, General Editor of the Foreign Relations series, at (202) 955–0202 or by e-mail to history(a)state.gov. This email is UNCLASSIFIED.

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Global DH China - Beijing/Italy
by KC Jackson 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

I will be taking part in scholarly research and an Artist residency this summer in Beijing and Italy. If you are aware of any DH related lectures, workshops in June & July please feel free to reach out. -Krystal

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