globaloutlookdh-l July 2016

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Knowledge monopolies and academic publishing
by Domenico Fiormonte 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Dear all, I'm very grateful to RedHD for translating in Spanish my article on the monopolies of knowledge. I really hope it would be of interest for members of this list: http://humanidadesdigitales.net/blog/2016/07/25/el-desafio-de-asia-ante-los… It would be if someone could translate it or summarize it in other languages on his/her blog or website. Yes, these are all things we already know, but I think it is important that our community circulate these news and reiterate our objection to the present system of academic publishing. It is not enough for commercial publishers to bring our libraries to their knees. Now they want to eliminate cultural and linguistic diversity: multilingualism it's too expensive. The RedHD article is part of an ongoing research that Ernesto Priego and I will be presenting (hopefully) next October in Toronto: https://thewinnower.com/papers/4965-knowledge-monopolies-and-global-academi… And speaking of knowledge diversity, please don't miss this great article just twitted by Ernesto: https://theconversation.com/global-academic-collaboration-a-new-form-of-col… All the best Domenico

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Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics
by Ernesto Priego 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Dear all, I hope you are well. Please accept my apologies for potential cross-posting. As the end of July approaches we'd like to remind members of this list that the deadline for Find David Bowie: Alternative Approaches to Bowie and Comics is fast approaching on 1 September 2016. *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* <http://comicsgrid.com/> invites authors and artists to submit contributions for a special collection of papers offering alternative scholarly approaches to David Bowie *and* comics. This call for papers explicitly invites submissions from early-career, marginalised, or underrepresented scholars, including those who are people of colour, queer, or woman-identifying. This will be an open access scholarly collection edited by Dr Brenna Clarke Gray (Douglas College, New Westminster, Canada) and the *Comics Grid* editorial team. This call for papers seeks to encourage more diverse, open access comics scholarship around ‘David Bowie’ as a cultural phenomenon. The editors do not wish to establish thematic or methodological boundaries to this call, and invite colleagues to submit research work inspired by its title. Submissions, however, must fulfil *The Comics Grid*’s editorial guidelines, which are available here <http://comicsgrid.com/about/submissions>. *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* is an open access journal; authors retain copyright of their own work and the published content is made available on HTML and PDF under a Creative Commons-Attribution <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> License. *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship* is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium <https://about.openlibhums.org/libraries/supporting-institutions/>. The consortium keeps growing every day. The journal’s publisher, Open Library of Humanities, focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. OLH journals are indexed by the following services: CrossRef, JISC KB+, SHERPA RoMEO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCOHost, and Google Scholar. In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH. To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. Full CFP details: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2016/06/06/call-for-papers-specia… http://www.comicsgrid.com/announcement/ *Submission deadline (full papers): 1 September 2016* With many thanks for your kind attention, Dr Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego https://epriego.wordpress.com/ http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be forwarded, disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of any related organisations, projects, colleagues or employers.

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Delhi: ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop
by Alex Gil 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Of interest (from Sandeep Mertia): *Call for Abstracts -** ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. * ‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data will finally see the ‘end of theory <http://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/>’. This hyperbole has it that the new technologies being developed today can produce truth based on computations of large amounts of machine readable digital data. Beyond such deterministic claims, the ‘Data Revolution’ indeed poses compelling theoretical and methodological challenges in all fields with stakes in knowledge. The present conjuncture, we would argue, is loaded with possibilities for rethinking ‘data-driven knowledge’ through longer histories of classification, enumeration, quantification, techno-scientific practices, and forms of media storage, retrieval, computational analysis and use. Scholarship in the emerging field of data studies has established close connections with science & technology studies (STS), and media and software studies. There is now a growing body of work <http://bds.sagepub.com/> which questions the Big Data hubris and the excesses of the post Web 2.0 digital deluge. ‘Raw Data’, as Geoffrey Bowker and Lisa Gitelman among others have suggested, is an ‘oxymoron’. In the Indian context, concerns about statistics, governance and knowledge, evident in the histories of colonial census, the work of P C Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Planning Commission, the emergence of scientific computing in the 1950s-60s, government regulation of media, electronics and telecom, provide a vivid background to think about the new technics, materiality and aesthetics of our digital cultures. In times when Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have passed their initial developmental hype-cycles and mobile phones have somewhat flattened the so-called ‘digital divides’ (while creating many new ones), the fields of information research in India are grappling with socio-technical reconfigurations of a widening scope and scale. The projections and contestations around our much promoted march towards a #DigitalIndia <http://www.digitalindia.gov.in/> with the world’s largest biometric database (#Aadhaar <https://uidai.gov.in/>); a nation-wide digging campaign for broadband connectivity in villages and the building of one hundred #SmartCities <http://smartcities.gov.in/>; and the intense pursuit of the ‘Next Billion’ users by a floating array of large technology companies and startups (#FreeBasics <https://0.freebasics.com/desktop>, #StartupIndia <http://startupindia.gov.in/>); have inundated the space for reflection and critique. The many known and unknown lives and after-lives of data in this ecosystem of flux demand description, interpretation, concepts, and – if the data permits – theory. In the past Sarai has organised workshops on ‘Social & Cultural Lives of Information <http://sarai.net/social-and-cultural-life-of-information-workshop-discussio…>’ and the ‘Lives of Information’ <http://sarai.net/lives-of-information/>, to reflect upon the cultures of information practices and the connections between colonial and post-colonial information infrastructures in South Asia. Continuing our focus on contemporary realities, ICTs and infrastructures, the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop aims to encourage research on pertinent questions concerning ‘data’ – its imaginaries, infrastructures, knowledge politics, and techno-science and media cultures in India and South Asia. The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop hopes to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to examine the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in Indian and South Asian contexts. We are interested in a conversation which dynamically moves back and forth in science, technology and media history and anthropology to reflect upon the many layered abstractions and materialisations of data, information and knowledge. The key questions which the workshop will explore are: – What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? – How do we map the relationships between data, infrastructure and knowledge production? – How do we reimagine data and information through longer histories of statistics, bureaucracy, governmentality and development? – What are the stakes involved in analysing the ever increasing volume, velocity, variety and value of data? How do practitioners understand the changing nature of their work with data? – How do we conceptualise the new data publics? Workshop themes include: – Histories of State and Statistics, Classification, Enumeration and Planning – Data Analytics, Data Ontologies, Digital Objects – Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences, Cultural Analytics – Cultures of Software Engineering and Design – Data, Memory and Materiality: Archives, Paper/Digital Databases, Warehouses, Data Centres, Server Farms – Thinking through Digital Infrastructures: Hardware, Code, Meta-Data, Formats, Protocols, Programming Languages, Information Architectures, Algorithms, Apps, Interfaces, Platforms, APIs, etc. – Data-Driven Urbanism: Geographies of Mobile Computing, Locative Apps and Social Media, GIS, and Smart Cities – Openness, Transparency and Access to Data/Information/Knowledge. #RTI #OpenData #DNAProfiling #Copyright #Encryption #Privacy – Platforms as Government: Transnational Networks of Intermediaries and the Flows of Data/Capital – ‘SysAdmin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator>’ like the State: Bio-Politics, Surveillance, User/Citizen, Governance, Policing and Law. #Aadhaar #ITact #CyberSecurity – ‘Beautiful Data <https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-data>’: Design, Aesthetics, Vision and Visualisation *The Sarai Programme invites submission of abstracts for the ‘Lives of Data’ workshop. Besides academic researchers, we strongly encourage media, design and software practitioners to apply for the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words, and should be sent to dak(a)sarai.net <dak(a)sarai.net> by 15 September, 2016, with the subject heading ‘Proposal for the Lives of Data Workshop.’ Authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by 01 October, 2016.*

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Ayuda para ir a la Universidad de Oregon / Help me to move to the University of Oregon
by Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

ENGLISH AT THE BOTTOM ¡Saludos Colegas! Fui aceptada en el programa de Maestría en Español por el Departamento de Lenguas Romances de la Universidad de Oregon (ciudad Eugene, estado Oregon, país Estados Unidos). Las clases comienzan el 15 de septiembre de 2016. La Carta de Admisión incluía una oferta de apoyo financiero a través del sistema de Beca para Profesor Ayudante (GTF por sus siglas en inglés). Esta beca incluye un buen salario durante los nueve meses del curso, una exención de matrícula y seguro médico (general, dental, oftalmología y medicamentos). Genial, ¿no? Probablemente sepan que me defino como Marxista feminista y queer, y que ese marco de referencia ideológico guía mi trabajo e intereses. Como estoy profundamente comprometida con el feminismo y los derechos LGBT, leo mayormente ensayos o materiales políticos sobre género y sexualidades. En mi tiempo libre leo ficción especulativa y veo insanas cantidades de TV y cine fantástico. Claro, con todo eso encima, mis intereses investigativos se orientan mayormente a los conflictos relacionados con el género y las sexualidades disidentes en la literatura de fantasía y ciencia ficción de Cuba. Decidí regresar a la academia porque, aunque no soy la única que escribe sobre fantasía y ciencia ficción en Cuba, si soy la única feminista del gremio, y al mismo tiempo la única de las feministas en la crítica literaria sin una formación en lingüística o literatura (soy licenciada en Crítica Teatral). Quiero cambiar eso, y conseguir una mejor comprensión en las relaciones entre la literatura especulativa cubana y sus equivalentes en América Latina y el Caribe. Bueno, me aceptaron, llené los papeles –físicos y virtuales– de la matrícula… Lo único que queda por hacer es conseguir fondos para mudar a mi pequeña familia (mi mamá, mi hijo y yo) de La Habana a Eugene (4.371 Km, poca cosa). Por eso te pido ayuda. Necesito $ 3.700 para cubrir el costo de las visas (solo dos, la del niño no tiene costo), los pasajes de avión, techo y comida hasta que cobre mi primer cheque de la Universidad de Oregon. ¿Pueden ayudarme? Diez dólares o cincuenta, cualquier ayuda será bienvenida, esa es la gracia del micro-financiamiento, después de todo. La web para recibir las donaciones está en: https://www.gofundme.com/2dwda8k Tuya ENGLISH VERSION Hello dear colleagues: I was accepted by the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon, USA) to obtain a MA in Spanish. The classes start on September 15th, 2016. The Admission Letter included an offer of financial support in the form of a Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF). This fellowship provides a nice nine-month salary for each year awarded, a tuition waiver, and health coverage (medical, dental, vision and prescription). Cool, isn’t? Probably you now that I define myself as a Marxist, feminist and queer, that ideological framework helps me to define my work and research interests. Since I´m deeply compromised with feminist and LGBTI issues, I read mostly gender or LGBTI essays or political issues. In my “free time” I read speculative fiction and watch insane amounts of sci-fi TV and movies. So, of course, my research interests are related to the expression of gender issues and dissident sexualities in Cuban science fiction and fantasy literature. I decided this return to the academia because I’m not the only person writing about fantasy and science fiction in Cuba, but I actually do know that I’m now the only feminist devoted to the subject, and the only feminist literary critic in Cuba without any academic background in language or literature (my BA was in Theater Critics). I wish to change that, and achieve a better comprehension of the relations and coincidences between Cuban speculative literature and the Latin American and Caribbean speculative literatures. So, the only remaining challenge is to fund the moving my little family (my mom, my son and I) from La Habana to Eugene (4.371 Km from La Habana). That’s way I ask for your help. I need $ 3.700 in order to pay for the visas (only two, the child´s is free), flying tickets and living expenses until I get my first pay check from the University of Oregon. Can you help me? Ten bucks or fifty, anything will be a help, that’s the crowdfunding point. I set up a web site for the help: https://www.gofundme.com/2dwda8k Yours -- Yasmín S. Portales Machado -------------------------------------- Marxista, Feminista y Bloguera Twitter: @nimlothdecuba Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663817529 Mi blog: https://yasminsportales.wordpress.com/ ¡A la izquierda, pero por la izquierda!

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DHSI GO::DH Travel Bursary
by Élika Ortega 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Dear GO::DH, This is a reminder that Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, Canada offers a number of travel bursaries to members of the GO::DH community. DHSI is a great community and a great opportunity to meet people and learn a lot. The application process for 2017 is now open. For more information visit http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php All best, Élika

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Post-doctoral 4 years DH position in Madrid at LINHD-UNED
by Elena González-Blanco 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

**Apologies for cross-posting** Dear DHresearchers, LINHD offersthe possibility to appoint a DH Post-Doctoral researcher in Madrid, Spain LINDH is aresearch center on Digital Humanities at UNED that works as a hub forinnovation, consultancy and training intended for researchers and projects inSpanish. It is a constituent member of the first Spanish Clarin-K Center andthe leader of the DARIAH proposal from the Spanish group. We areoffering a 4 year Post-Doctoral position co-funded by the Madrid Community Governmentand by UNED to bring talented researchers to our university from foreignuniversities. Requirementsfor this position are: -a PhDdegree (not before 2005) -havingspent at least 3 years outside Spain, and at least 2 of the last 3 years in a foreignuniversity. -DH orcomputer science training through official degrees and/or courses, or provenexperience in the field. -at least 5 qualified publications. -Spanishlanguage abilities (not required, but very desirable) The closingdate for applications is 27th July 2016, and applications have to be sent via https://gestiona3.madrid.org/quadrivium/talento,but it is a requirement to contact us by email to egonzalezblanco(a)linhd.uned.esas soon as possible and some days before the deadline in order to checkeligibility and guide you through the application process. Looking forwardto hearing from you soon, Best regards Elena González-Blanco Dpto. deLiteratura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad deFilología, UNED Paseo Senda delRey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 http://linhd.uned.es http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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