globaloutlookdh-l April 2017

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GO::DH Election Results
by Roopika Risam 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Dear Colleagues, I'm happy to announce the newly elected members of the GO::DH executive board. Beginning their two-year terms in 2017 are: Amy Earhart Miguel Escobar Varela Alex Gil Tunde Opeibi Four other members serving the second year of their terms, which expire in 2018, are: Elena Gonzalez-Blanco Élika Ortega Thomas G. Padilla Roopika Risam We would also like to thank the following outgoing executive board members for their leadership and service to the GO::DH community: Gimena del Rio Daniel O'Donnell Padmini Ray Murray Thank you to all members who participated in the election. Sincerely, Roopika (vice-chair and returning officer, GO::DH) -- Roopika Risam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Salem State University http://roopikarisam.com

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DH intercultural round table in Rome
by Domenico Fiormonte 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

"Digital Humanities / Humanidades Digitales / Informatica Umanistica. Un dialogo interculturale." The so-called "digital humanities" are taking root at international and institutional levels. Through the creation of new centers and new organizations it is possible to attract both resourses and funding, since a “digital” component is looked upon favorably by funding bodies. But while the digital humanities can be a powerful tool for innovation, one must not forget that no technology is culturally neutral. This round table aims to reflect on the phenomenon of DH from the point of view of society and the culture of the "South," questioning the uncritical adoption of epistemological and cultural patterns arising from the Global North and offering an alternative vision of the relationship between knowledge, territories, and digital technologies. 20th of April 2017, 14.30 Sala riunioni, IV piano Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche Via Chiabrera 199 Round table discussion: Barbara Bordalejo, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Manuel Salamanca, Universidad Complutense Teresa Numerico, Università Roma Tre Manuel Portela, Universidade de Coimbra Ernesto Priani, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ernesto Priego, City, University of London Nuria Rodríguez, Universidad de Málaga Esteban Romero, Universidad de Granada Amelia Sanz, Universidad Complutense Coodinator: Domenico Fiormonte, Università Roma Tre This event is part of the project "Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales del Sur" and has received funding from the following institution. Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Coimbra Edición Literaria Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal iArtHis_Lab y Proyecto Exhibitium, Universidad de Málaga Medialab de la Universidad de Granada Red de Humanidades Digitales de México The Creative Archives' and Users' Network (UE) Domenico Fiormonte <domenico.fiormonte(a)gmail.com> 30 mar (5 giorni fa) a barbara.bordal. Estupendo Barbara :-) Solo revisé un par de informaciones y añadí el centro de Ernesto Priego. No sé si te suena el "trilingual round table". Quería subrayar el elemento multilingüe, pero si encuentras otra fórmula que te guste más... Si quieres ya puedes difundir el anuncio en las listas gringas (incluso GO::DH?). Ernesto se ocupa de las listas HDH y RedHD, yo de AIUCD. Un abrazo y gracias! Domenico *Please circulate! Apologies fro cross-posting* "Digital Humanities / Humanidades Digitales / Informatica Umanistica. An intercultural dialogue." The so-called "digital humanities" are taking root at international and institutional levels. Through the creation of new centers and new organizations it is possible to attract both resourses and funding, since a “digital” component is looked upon favorably by funding bodies. But while the digital humanities can be a powerful tool for innovation, one must not forget that no technology is culturally neutral. This round table aims to reflect on the phenomenon of DH from the point of view of society and the culture of the "South," questioning the uncritical adoption of epistemological and cultural patterns arising from the Global North and offering an alternative vision of the relationship between knowledge, territories, and digital technologies. 20th of April 2017, 14.30 Sala Riunioni, 4th floor Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche Via Chiabrera 199 A trilingual round table with: Barbara Bordalejo, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Manuel Salamanca, Universidad Complutense Teresa Numerico, Università Roma Tre Manuel Portela, Universidade de Coimbra Ernesto Priani, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ernesto Priego, City, University of London Nuria Rodríguez, Universidad de Málaga Esteban Romero, Universidad de Granada Amelia Sanz, Universidad Complutense Coodinator: Domenico Fiormonte, Università Roma Tre The is part of the project "Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales del Sur" and is supported by the following institution: Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London Centro de Literatura Portuguesa, Coimbra Edición Literaria Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal iArtHis_Lab y Proyecto Exhibitium, Universidad de Málaga Medialab de la Universidad de Granada Red de Humanidades Digitales de México The Creative Archives' and Users' Network (UE) Information contact: domenico.fiormonte(a)uniroma3.it The event will be web-streamed on: http://streaming.uniroma3.it/

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Webinar announcement: Colony in Crisis, April 11, 2017, at 11am (Miami Time)
by Taylor,Laurie Nancy Francesca 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

The next webinar in the series for Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age, will be next week, Colony in Crisis, April 11, 2017, at 11am (Miami Time). The webinar announcement is here: http://dloc.com/AA00015557/00006 and attached, and below. We hope folks can make it, and please share! Best wishes, Laurie ======================================= [cid:image001.jpg@01D2AC5B.E4654850] Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age is a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice. Please join us for an upcoming event featuring innovative digital work with Colony in Crisis, April 11, 2017, at 11am (Miami Time). Presenter: Nathan Dize and Abby Broughton (Vanderbilt University) Click here to participate in the online event: http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/Caribbean About the Presentation: A digital project created in 2014 through the collaboration of two graduate students and a librarian, A Colony in Crisis (CiC, https://colonyincrisis.lib.umd.edu/) exemplifies interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research in the contemporary, media-enhanced age of humanities scholarship. Working through the framework of the grain crisis of 1789 in colonial Saint-Domingue, CiC provides English translations and introductions of original French pamphlets in hopes of promoting a glimpse into one of the many alternative histories of the Atlantic World in the years preceding the Haitian Revolution. With the goal of curating archival documents in order to offer students and scholars alike the possibility of working with archival texts across language barriers, the team partners with instructors to implement the project in the undergraduate classroom. Fall 2015 saw the implementation of CiC in an upper-level French literature course. One year later, the team reflects on their first foray into the classroom and where to steer the project over the years to come. About the Speakers: Abby R. Broughton is a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University, where she specializes in 20th century queer literature, body and identity politics, and the intersection of illustration and text. Abby is a co-author, translator, and editor of A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789. Nathan H. Dize is a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University where he specializes in Haitian theater, poetry, and revolutionary poetics during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nathan is the content curator, translator, and editor of A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789. About the Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series: The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)<http://www.dloc.com/l/>, in partnership with the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)<http://acuril.uprrp.edu/>, the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico<http://egcti.upr.edu>, the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives roundtable (LACCHA)<https://laccha.wordpress.com/> of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)<http://salalm.org/>, has organized a series of online events, Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age, a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice. Other upcoming webinars in the series include: * May 10, 11am Miami time, Dr. Sara Gonzalez on 3D printing services Recordings of all webinars will be available in dLOC soon after the webinar. Please join us for next stage conversations from the webinars, to take place at ACURIL's 2017 annual conference, focusing on Interdisciplinary Research in the Caribbean: http://acuril2017puertorico.com/ Twitter: #digcaribbeanscholarship<https://twitter.com/hashtag/digcaribbeanscholarship?f=tweets&vertical=defau…> Twitter: @dlocaribbean<https://twitter.com/dlocaribbean> [cid:image002.jpg@01D2AC5B.E4654850] [Image result for acuril logo] [cid:image004.jpg@01D2AC5B.E4654850] [https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ff5bd152a47c6204c465eae8963ff06a?s=100&r…] [cid:image006.jpg@01D2AC5B.E4654850]

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Worshop: "Building a common model for semantic interoperability in the digital poetry ecosystems". Madrid, 15-17 March, UNED or online
by Elena González-Blanco 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

*** apologies for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the workshop that wewill be holding as part of the ERC POSTDATA project: Poetry Standardization andLinked Open Data: "Building a common model for semanticinteroperability in the digital poetry ecosystems". The Workshop will take place from 15 to 17March 2017 at the Faculty of Humanities of the UNED, and will beorganized by the Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities LINHD. Theevent is part of the events celebration of the 10 years’ anniversary of theEuropean Research Council: ERC week and Beyond. The guests at the workshop are the representatives of10 databases, of the 25 with which the POSTDATA team collaborates, arelationship that already comes from previous projects as DIREPO. The POSTDATAcollaborators are poetic projects of long standing and tradition that have beenworking in the philological field in different languages and with differentapproaches to gather information to create a common conceptual model. Theworkshop is designed over three days with open lectures to the public in themorning and private work sessions for the team and project partners in theafternoon. You can find more information about this event at thefollowing link: http://postdata.linhd.es/workshop/ Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Directora del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales http://linhd.uned.es @elenagbg ---- Queridosamigos, Nos complaceinvitaros al workhsop que celebraremos en ámbito del proyecto ERCPOSTDATA: Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data: “Building a common model for semantic interoperability in thedigital poetry ecosystems”. El Workshop tendrá lugar entre los días 15 y 17 de marzo de 2017 en la Facultad deHumanidades de la UNED, y será organizado por el Laboratorio de Innovación enHumanidades Digitales LINHD dentro de los eventos de la celebración de los10 años de aniversario del European Research Council: ERC week and Beyond. Los invitados al taller sonlos representantes de 10 bases de datos, de los 25 con los que elequipo de POSTDATA colabora, relación que viene ya desde proyectos anteriorescomo DIREPO. Se trata de proyectos poéticos de larga andadura y tradición quellevan trabajando en el ámbito en diferentes lenguas y con distintasaproximaciones para recopilar información que permita crear un modelo conceptualComún. El taller está diseñado a lo largo de tres días con ponencias abiertas al público por las mañana ysesiones privadas de trabajo para el equipo y los socios del proyecto por latarde. Podéisencontrar más información sobre este evento en el siguiente enlace: http://postdata.linhd.es/workshop/ Un saludo muy cordial, Elena González-Blanco García Directora del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales http://linhd.uned.es @elenagbg

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Reminder: Voting for GO::DH executive board elections closes Monday
by Roopika Risam 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Dear GO::DH members, Just a reminder that voting for the GO::DH executive board elections closes on Monday, April 3rd at 11:59pm (UTC -12). Information about the candidates and voting are included below. Sincerely, Roopika (vice-chair and returning officer, GO::DH) This year's outstanding slate of candidates is (in alphabetical order): 1) Amy Earhart 2) Miguel Escobar Varela 3) Alex Gil 4) Merisa Martinez 5) Kristen Mapes 6) Tunde Opeibi Our bios and candidate statements are listed below and will be posted to the GO::DH website. All GO::DH Members as of today are eligible to vote. Shortly, you will receive an email with instructions for voting from BallotBin. You may vote for up to 4 candidates. Please watch your email for your ballot and make sure to check your spam filter. If you do not receive voting instructions, please contact me (rrisam(a)gmail.com) and I will take care of it. Voting will be open until Monday, April 3rd at 11:59pm in any time zone (UTC -12). Results will be announced shortly thereafter. *Candidate Bios and Statements* *1) Amy Earhart * *Candidate Bio:* I am an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and have been involved with digital humanities since 2003. My work has focused on building infrastructure for digital humanities work, embedding digital humanities projects within the classroom, and tracing the history and futures of dh, with a particular interest in the way that dh and critical race studies intersect. I have been particularly concerned with representing a diverse history of digital humanities, as is the case with my projects The Millican “Riot,” 1868 and “Alex Haley’s Malcolm X: ‘The Malcolm X I knew’ and notecards from *The Autobiography of Malcolm X*” (a collaborative project with undergraduate and graduate students published in *Scholarly Editing*). I have published scholarship on a variety of digital humanities topics, with work that includes my monograph *Traces of Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies*, my co-edited *The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age*, and a number of articles and book chapters in volumes including * Debates in Digital Humanities. *My work has focused on building collaboration and understanding of the digital humanities within the traditional humanities. *Candidate Statement:* I am honored to be nominated to run for a position on the executive board of GO::DH and welcome the chance to contribute to a crucial organization in DH. As I articulated in my keynote at the 2015 CSDH/SCHN and ACH conference, I believe that we are at a crucial historical moment in which we need to examine the current state of digital humanities and have a frank and introspective conversation about what we want to achieve in the future. A priority of my service would be to continue to broaden the type of work that we imagine as digital humanities with a particular focus on the inclusion of rhetoric, pedagogy, new media, critical race studies, and gender studies. Such areas are not add ons to our current understanding of digital humanities, but central to the vibrancy of our scholarship. This also means that I believe it is important to focus on community building and broadening, continuing to develop ties with a greater geographic and linguistic community and giving all involved with the organization a voice. *2) Miguel Escobar Varela* *Candidate Bio*: Miguel Escobar Varela is a theatre scholar, translator and web developer who has worked in Mexico, The Netherlands, Singapore and Indonesia. He is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and director of the Contemporary Wayang Archive (cwa-web.org), a digital video library of Javanese performances. His academic work on DH has appeared in *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities,* *Digital Humanities Quarterly *and several theatre journals*. *He has participated in regional DH conferences in Australia, South Africa, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. He is also a technical consultant for several digital projects in Singapore and maintains digitalhumanities.sg, a site on DH in Singapore (more at miguelescobar.com). *Candidate Statement*: I would be very honored to serve at the Executive Board of GO::DH since my own work is devoted to promoting collaborations among people who work in different languages, technologies and academic disciplines. I am especially committed to the development of Digital Humanities tools and initiatives in Southeast Asia but also have strong ties with DH communities in Latin America, Europe and Australia. A big part of my daily work focuses on the generation of DH tools for intercultural dialogue around Indonesian theatre. Like many cultural and intellectual traditions around the world, this is an insufficiently researched but fascinating area of scholarship that stands to gain from a more global understanding of the Digital Humanities. I would be happy to learn from colleagues working in other places and to contribute to initiatives that can further the diversity of the DH landscape. *3) Alex Gil* *Candidate Bio: *Alex Gil is Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History at Columbia University. He serves as a collaborator with faculty, students and the library leveraging advanced technology in humanities research, pedagogy and scholarly communications. Current projects include Ed, a digital platform for minimal editions of literary texts; the Open Syllabus Project; the Translation Toolkit; and, In The Same Boats, a visualization of trans-Atlantic intersections of black intellectuals in the 20th century. He is founder and former chair and vice-chair of the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities initiative; co-founder and co-director of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities and the Studio@Butler at Columbia University; and, founder and editor of *sx archipelagos*, a journal of caribbean digital studies. *Candidate Statement: *In its short life, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities has had an important role to play in the way we understand and practice digital humanities as a field spanning continents. We find ourselves, though, caught in earlier agendas meant to drive change within ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations). We were founded as, and have been, after all, a Special Interest Group of the Alliance. We formed because we felt the Alliance was not ready to take in the world waiting at its doors—as it was (and continues to be) dominated by mostly white scholars from the north with a decidedly neutralist orientation—and we knew some of our friends around the world would benefit professionally from access to the "establishment." We were also a place to have conversations that dealt directly with race, empire, colonialism and language in a welcoming forum. We have done good work, I believe. I also believe that we have lost our way, myself included. It is time now to retake the roads we strayed from and the ones we've missed: to go back to focusing on projects that pick at the thorny questions; to conduct our debates on our public mailing list (not the executive private list); to focus our energies away from ADHO; to ensure representation from each continent and a white minority on the executive; and, to simplify our governance structure to avoid political wrangling. If you want to join me in a radical new chapter of GO::DH, vote for me. *4) Merisa Martinez* *Candidate Bio: *As a PhD Candidate and Marie Curie Research Fellow in the DiXiT Network, my main focus in digital humanities has been on the process of collaboration with digitization professionals and scholarly editors in the library setting. I am looking at these two groups and their processes as a way of bridging the gap between LIS and textual scholarship, to benefit the dissemination of digital editions across epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. A forthcoming article also explores cultural heritage digitization at National Libraries in Scandinavia as a fractious process of identity building that obscures access to less well-known narratives of Scandinavian heritage and experiences, while simultaneously establishing hegemonic regional narratives instead. *Candidate Statement: *For the past three years I have held the elected position of Student Representative to the Advisory Board for the DiXiT ITN, and this experience would serve me well on the Executive Committee. The GO:DH mission of promoting a broader view of the digital humanities outside of the Western-centric projects that have been its cornerstone in publications and conferences is a key reason I would like to join the Executive Committee. I am interested in discovering and developing ties to promote knowledge transfer between communities enthusiastic about DH, regardless of economic situation or geographic location. *5) Kristen Mapes* *Candidate Bio: *Kristen Mapes is the Digital Humanities Coordinator in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. She teaches and advises students in the Digital Humanities program, consults with faculty on research and teaching projects, organizes programs such as workshops, and is lead organizer of the annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium. She has graduate degrees in Library Science from Rutgers University and Medieval Studies from Fordham University. Her primary research focuses on scholarly communication and community in the digital world, specifically looking at how Medieval Studies scholars use Twitter at conferences. As a secondary research interest, she is exploring visualization and image analysis techniques to the Roman de la Rose Digital Library. *Candidate Statement: *GO:DH is the space and the community where I see the crucial work of digital humanities taking place. I am invested in the long term future of GO:DH and hope to work on the Executive Board to assist in the sustainability of the organization. In my own work at Michigan State, I am trying to embed the same ethos and values into everything that we do. I have been a primary organizer of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium, now in its second year, with the aim of creating a supportive and ethical space for exchanging ideas on key topics in DH, such as supporting and working with indigenous and underrepresented groups and environmental issues, to name a few. In my teaching, which is primarily in the “Introduction to DH” context, I am working to break with the canon to feature underrepresented narratives at the outset of undergraduate students’ interaction with digital humanities. Also, my College has taken on “Critical Diversity in a Digital Age” as a strategic goal, and I am interested in engaging deeply with the GO:DH community about what an initiative in diversity means in the context of the modern university. *6) Tunde Opeibi* *Candidate Bio: *Tunde Opeibi, PhD is Associate Professor (New Media & Digital Cultures) University of Lagos, Nigeria. He has been Visiting Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology and Senior Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He has equally been a DAAD scholar at Leipzig University, Germany, as well as Visiting Commonwealth Fellow at the Centre for Good Governance, Westminster University, London. He is the current founding chair and principal investigator at the Digital Humanities Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, and University of Lagos. He is also the country (Nigeria) representative of *Clarity-* an international association promoting plain legal language. His research interests are in New Media and Digital Cultures, Discourse Studies, Legal Communication, and Sociolinguistics. *Candidate Statement: *Within the last few years, digital humanities(dh) has continued to ignite exciting debates and interdisciplinary collaborations across the globe. I have personally enjoyed exploring the field and seeking to spread the knowledge and benefits of digital humanities to academic and research communities in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. With my background in scientific approaches to language study and socio-linguistics, I have a record of achievement in teaching, research and administrative responsibilities in the last nineteen years. I have equally had a brief political career as senior advisor on speech and communication to the governor of Lagos state, Nigeria. One of my greatest interests in life lies in developing human capital. Influencing lives positively and mentoring young scholars has given me the greatest pleasure and fulfillment. Within the next few years, I plan to become more actively involved in dh works that stand at the cutting edge of multidisciplinary innovations and interdisciplinary research space. I plan to expand my international cooperation and networking with other scholars. As a recipient of some highly competitive and reputable international scholarships/fellowships such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Commonwealth Fellowship and DAAD scholarship, I believe I have achieved some level of credibility with colleagues locally and in the wider international academic community. As the founding chair and principal investigator at the pioneer digital humanities research centre in Nigeria and sub-Sahara Africa (www.dhunilag.com), I am determined to develop the field within this region and collaborate with scholars in the wider dh communities across the world. -- Roopika Risam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Salem State University http://roopikarisam.com

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