globaloutlookdh-l January 2018

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DH2021 call for hosts
by Claire Clivaz 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Dear all, ADHO has published the call for hosts for the DH2021. Deadline: 15 May. http://adho.org/announcements/2018/call-hosts-dh2021 The DH2021 will happen in a country outside of Europe/USA/Canada. I warmly encourage you to consider this great opportunity to make DH at the forefront in your institution, and to apply! Kind greetings, Claire Clivaz -- Claire Clivaz Head of Digital Enhanced Learning SIB | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Genopode 2016 - University of Lausanne – 1015 Lausanne t +41 21 692 40 60 claire.clivaz(a)sib.swiss The information in this e-mail, and those ensuing, is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message and notify the sender immediately.

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ELPUB 2018 deadline today
by Ernesto Priego 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi all, Just a quick last-minute reminder, just in case, that the deadline to submit proposals for the 22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 'Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure', June 22-24, 2018 at the University of Toronto, Canada, is today 31 January 2018 (I assume Toronto, Canada time). http://epress.utsc.utoronto.ca/elpub2018/call-for-papers/ #ELPUB2018 <http://epress.utsc.utoronto.ca/elpub2018/call-for-papers/> The call is also available in French and Spanish on the site. All the best, Ernesto @ernestopriego http://epriego.blog/ <https://epriego.wordpress.com/> The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ 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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Postcolonial Digital Connections conference (bursaries available)
by Roopika Risam 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Dear GO::DH Colleagues, I write to share information about the Postcolonial Digital Connections conference, which will be taking place at Halle University in Germany in May 2018. The conference organizers have up to 4 bursaries to cover travel and accommodations for scholars from countries in the Global South. The call is attached. I'd be happy to put anyone who may be interested in touch with the organizers. Sincerely, Roopika -- Roopika Risam, Ph.D. Chair, Program Area for Content Education Assistant Professor of English Salem State University http://roopikarisam.com

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Looking for a project manager for ERC project in Spain
by Elena González-Blanco 27 Jan '18

27 Jan '18

**apologies for cross posting** We are looking for a full-time project manager (part-time could be negotiable) for the ERC research project POSTDATA http://postdata.linhd.es/. More information on how to apply available here! https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/274064 best regardsElena

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Registration Open: Digital Accessibility: Assessing, Amending, and Advancing Digital Content for All Conference 2/23
by luctsdh 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Loyola University Chicago's Digital Humanities masters students invite you to attend a one-day conference to be held February 23rd, 2018 at our Lakeshore Campus. Digital Accessibility: Assessing, Amending, and Advancing Digital Content for All will take place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and the day's events will include three panels, a luncheon, and a digital accessibility edit-a-thon. The completed event program will be available soon at the conference's WordPress website linked here: https://lucdigia11y.wordpress.com/ This conference is meant as an opportunity for digital accessibility novices and experts to meet and discuss key concepts, concerns, and capabilities of individuals, project teams, and large organizations creating accessibility-aware digital content. Register to attend by filling out this brief google form: http://bit.ly/Register_digiA11y! Please forward this email with all who may be interested! This conference is sponsored by the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (https://luc.edu/ctsdh/) at Loyola University Chicago. Questions and concerns should be directed to conference organizers Rebecca Parker (rparker3(a)luc.edu<mailto:rparker3@luc.edu>) and Tyler Monaghan (tmonaghan(a)luc.edu<mailto:tmonaghan@luc.edu> ). Event updates will be made available on the CTSDH Facebook event page<http://bit.ly/FB_digiA11y> and the conference announcement page<http://bit.ly/CTSDH_digiA11y> hosted on the CTSDH website! And please be sure to tweet @LUCTSDH with the conference hashtag #LUCdigiA11y. Thank you and we hope to see you in February! Rebecca Parker and Tyler Monaghan Conference Organizers

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Two Events and a Deadline Reminder from the CTSDH at Loyola Chicago
by luctsdh 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Innovative Student Projects Highlighted in Lightning Round Presentation on Thursday, January 25th ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us for a lightning round presentation of digital projects by Loyola students on Thursday, January 25th at 4 pm in the CTSDH. We will showcase engaging work from a range of disciplines that will inspire you with the possibilities (and the productive challenges) of working digitally. Each participant will present for 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes of questions. Speakers include: * Taylor Brown (Digital Humanities), Mapping Inhumanity * Cat Litten (Computer Science), CincoGatos * Rebecca Parker (Digital Humanities), Finally in Chicago: Next Steps to Restoring Nell Nelson * Karen Sieber (History), The Well Read President: Examining the Reading Habits of Theodore Roosevelt * Liz Sink (Computer Science), PocketVote Descriptions of each talk can be found on the CTSDH website (https://luc.edu/ctsdh/stories/archive/lightninground.shtml) . Pizza will be served. Open to all. Lunchtime Lecture: "The Spirit of Notetaking: Traditional Research and Writing Strategies for the 21st Century" on Thursday, February 1st ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us for the first Lunchtime Lecture of the Spring 2018 semester on Thursday, February 1st, 12:30-1:30 pm in the CTSDH Loyola Hall, 3rd Floor. Do the old ways of researching and writing work still work in the digital age? George Thiruvathukal (Professor of Computer Science) and David Dennis (Professor of History) will share their thoughts on the important topic coming out of their recent work creating ZettelGeist (https://luc.edu/ctsdh/researchprojects/zettelgeist/) , a plaintext note-taking system, inspired by the ZettelKasten Method (https://zettelkasten.de/posts/zettelkasten-improves-thinking-writing/), which supports the familiar tried-and-true method of organizing research using a card index. This is a great chance to learn about a promising new tool in development. February 1st Deadline for Fellowship Support for 2018-19 ------------------------------------------------------------ Earn your Master's degree in Digital Humanities at one of the nation's oldest and most respected graduate programs. Learn first-hand the ways in which computational technologies are transforming how we ask - and seek to answer -- age-old humanistic questions. Gain a theoretical understanding of how technology shapes our lived experience while developing a practical knowledge for your chosen profession. Apply by February 1st to be considered for fellowship support. Learn more.<https://luc.edu/media/lucedu/ctsdh/documents/MA-Digital_Humanities-Flyer_FI…> Interested in learning more about our graduate program? Click here<https://luc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e460dff8-1415-4…> to see a recording of our last online info session! All events are free and open to the public. Questions or to RSVP: Please email Dr. Kyle Roberts (kroberts2(a)luc.edu).

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Election Official Round 2
by Alex Gil 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Dear all, I have been getting bounce-backs from Sharon since she first wrote to me volunteering to be the election official. Without a volunteer, we cannot really transfer the direction of our Special Interest Group. With this in mind, I plan to stop being chair by a symbolic February 30, regardless. To encourage you to volunteer to run our elections, I'm pasting below Dr. Risam's instructive email to Sharon in hopes that you see the relatively minor labor required: (Sharon, if you're getting these emails, as opposed to a personal one, let me know by another channel). Best, a. --- Dear Sharon, > > Thank you for being willing to serve as the GO::DH returning officer, as > we call our nomination person. I'm sorry for not writing sooner with > detailed instructions but this is the first chance I've had. > > According to our by-laws, we need a two-week period during which we > solicit nominations for the executive board. > > There are four open slots, so we need at least four nominations (more is > better). Current executive members whose terms are up may wish to run again > (I will not but there are others who might). Thus, an email should go to > the member list asking for nominees. If our response is poor, we may need > to approach potential candidates individually. We also strive for > geographic, linguistic, and other forms of diversity on the ballot. > > For each nominee, we need a short bio and (optional) brief candidate > statement. We will post these on the GO::DH website. > > Once we have our nominees, we need to open voting for a period of two > weeks. When we get to that, I can send you instructions about the voting > system we have been using. > > After the two week period is up, we need to contact the nominees > individually to apprise them of results before announcing the results to > the membership and posting the results on the GO::DH site. > > It's then up to the continuing executive board members and newly elected > members to figure out chair, vice-chair, and secretary roles. We have only > had to have a vote about that once, and it was just the vice chair role, > but that won't be your responsibility. > > Thank you again for your willingness to run the election. Please do not > hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. > > Sincerely, > Roopika >

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Science and Technology Studies in Africa 2018
by Alex Gil 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Hi all, In case you haven't seen this CFP. Might be of interest to some of you. a. *From: *"Pollock, Anne" <apollock(a)gatech.edu> *Subject: **FW: CFP - STS Africa Workshop - 4S Sydney* *Date: *January 10, 2018 at 7:52:10 PM EST *To: *"Klein, Lauren F" <lauren.klein(a)lmc.gatech.edu> Hi Lauren – Nice to see you today, even briefly! Please do pass along this CFP to folks from your networks who might be interested – thanks! --Anne **** Please submit and help spread the word to others in your networks! **** *STS Africa 2018: An NSF-sponsored pre-4S Workshop on STS on/in AfricaSydney, Australia – August 27-29, 2018* Organizers: Dr. Tolu Odumosu (University of Virginia); Dr. Anne Pollock (Georgia Tech) This Workshop seeks to explore the question “What are the boundaries of Science and Technology in Africa and how should we recognize and address both the uniqueness of African knowledge production and innovation on the one hand, and the potential that STS work in Africa has to offer to the field as a whole on the other?” We hope to answer these questions by working across the three domains of information technology, medicine, and the environment as they relate to Africa. As this is event is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and we are seeking additional support from other funding bodies, funds will be available to offset travel and accommodation expenses. We anticipate being able to fully fund all travel expenses for participants coming from the African continent, and to be able to significantly defray the travel expenses for all participants. We anticipate an intimate gathering of 24 participants, including at least 12 Africans (including at least 6 who are based at institutions in Africa). The Workshop will be held in coordination with the Society for Social Studies of Science 4S-Sydney meeting. The pre-4S events will be held at the University of Sydney, and will feature a keynote panel of prominent scholars on the topic of challenges and opportunities of doing STS work in Africa, roundtables on publishing at funding with guests from presses, journals, and funding institutions, and meals that will provide opportunities for networking and community-building. On the first day of 4S, incorporated into the program of 4S proper, there will be a Closed Panel featuring stream of panels in response to an open CFP: http://stsafrica2018.com/. *We seek submissions of abstracts in the following three areas:* *Panel 1: Information Technology* – In contemporary Africa, the music of modernity is the ring of the mobile phone. An Information Technology revolution has swept the continent especially with the adoption of the mobile phone, and in later years, the mobile internet. Multiple African STS scholars have examined the mobile phone as a particular information technology that is co-constituted with Africa (de Bruijn, Nyamnjoh, and Brinkman 2009; Zegeye and Muponde 2012, Odumosu 2017). For example, de Bruji, Nyamnjoh, and Brinkman examine emergent innovations and new practices around mobile telephony such as healing practices (van Beek 2009), engineering design (Odumosu 2017) and mobile money platforms (Donovan 2012). We seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of information technology in Africa, in ways that might intersect with or depart from the other topical areas below. *Panel 2: Biomedicine* – Similarly, much STS of Biomedicine in Africa has been in dialogue with Critical Global Health. Clinical trials have been a particularly important site for consideration of power and knowledge (Crane 2013, Kelly and Geissler 2012). In both the study of pharmaceuticals and the study of toxicology, Africa has also been part of the broader interrogation in STS of the tension in science between its claims to universality and its practice in particular places, because lab-based biosciences are figured as the most placeless and prestigious, and African scientists have challenged their exclusion (Okeke 2011, Pollock 2014, Tousignant 2013). There has been important work challenging the figuration of Africa as lack (Mkhwanazi 2016). We seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of biomedical technologies in Africa. *Panel 3: Environment* – The Environment is also central to how Africa is invoked. Africa is often used as a symbol of wildness on the one hand and underdevelopment on the other, and there is considerable scholarship of the intersections nature and development there (Walley 2004) that has much to offer STS more broadly. There has already been productive cross-talk between the spheres of Biomedicine and Environment. This is partly because of the way that, for colonial science, understanding the natural world in Africa was intertwined with other imperial projects including extracting natural resources of potential benefit to health (Tilley 2011). In the disparate spheres of bioprospecting and natural therapies on the one hand (Osseo-Asare 2014, Droney 2016, Foster 2017) and mosquito control on the other (Kelly and Biesel 2011), nature and medicine necessarily come together. We seek submissions that contribute to our understanding of the environment in Africa. *Provisional Workshop Schedule* *Monday, August 27, 2018* *Welcome, Introductions - Tolu Odumosu, Anne Pollock, all participants* - 5pm - Organizers welcome participants, explain logistics - Icebreakers - Each participant presents one slide about themselves and presents it for 90 seconds *Welcome to Australia * - 6pm Helen Verran is a historian and philosopher of science at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Northern Territories, Australia. She has expertise on both Africa and indigenous Australia, as exemplified by her books *Science and an African Logic* and *Singing the Land, Signing the Land*, and so is well-situated to provide introductory welcoming remarks. She has expressed enthusiasm about participating, pending scheduling. *Networking Dinner - *6:30pm *Tuesday, August 28, 2018* *Roundtable on funding - 10am* Funding challenges have been one of the significant barriers to doing STS work on and in Africa. This Roundtable invites representatives from key funding agencies to help Workshop participants understand mechanisms by which this work might be supported. So far, we have spoken with Wenda Bauchspies from the National Science Foundation, who has expressed her interest. We are reaching out to representatives from such funders as the European Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. *Roundtable on publishing - 11:30am* Publishing venues are also important for increasing the profile and visibility of STS work on and in Africa. This Roundtable invites representatives from key publishing venues to help Workshop Participants understand how to navigate these publishing venues. Interested in participating in principle: - Sergio Sismondo, Editor of *Social Studies of Science* - Katie Helke, MIT Press - Khadija Coxon, McGill-Queens University Press *1pm - lunch with Program Officers/Publishers/Workshop attendees* *Keynote Panel on Challenges and Promise of STS Work in Africa - 3pm* Confirmed panelists: - Clapperton Mavhunga is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research explores knowledge production and innovation in Africa. He is the author of*Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe* (MIT Press, 2014). He is a major thought leader in this space, for example as editor of the collection, published by MIT Press in 2017, *What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?* - Tunde Opeibi is a Commonwealth Fellow and a Alexander von Humboldt Fellow who currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Lagos Nigeria. His research is on new media and governance. He is the author of Discourse Strategies in Political Campaigns in Nigeria (Lambert 2011 ). He is leading the embrace of Information Technology in the Nigerian Humanities and Social Science Academy and recently organized the 2017 Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities. - Natasha Vally is a Next Generation Scholar Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She is an emerging leader in this space, both in her own research on the technopolitics of post-apartheid South Africa and as part of the organizing team of the first STS-Africa conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2014. - Abena Osseo-Asare is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning *Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa* (University of Chicago Press, 2014), which is a study of six plants which scientists in Ghana, South Africa, Madagascar and other countries sought to transform into new pharmaceuticals. *5:30 - Drinks* *6pm - Collaborative Conversations Dinner* *Submissions in response to CFP - Held during 4S on Wednesday from 11am* Because part of our goal is to find people working in this space who we do not already know, it is important to circulate a call for papers. We plan to organize submissions in response to the CFP into three panels, organized into a single stream so that all participants hear them, with the with the topical foci of (1) biomedicine (2) information technology (3) environment. *Panel on Biomedicine *~11am *Panel on Information Technology *~2pm *Panel on Environment *~4pm *Optional Post-4S meal for potential 4S-Africa organizers* Saturday, Sept 1, 2018 Having experienced 4S-Sydney, those interested in organizing potential future events, potentially included a 4S in Africa for 2022, will meet over dinner to discuss possibilities. Updates will be posted here: http://stsafrica2018.com/

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Election results and our steps forward
by Alex Gil 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Dear all, I hope the new year has started on the right step for all of us, and I wish you a fruitful year in your struggles and goals. The executive committee voted on our future soon after you cast your vote, and by unanimous vote the wishes of the collective were respected. That means that we as a community have elected to move forward with the Baby and The Bathwater Position <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSkTVP3Xib4z4RfKB3eoutSW2FKILRmkFfnfnw2…>. In short, the SIG stays as is for now, with a mandate to investigate becoming a CO. Thanks to all, and the executive committee members who participated in discussion and with their votes. I was very pleased to see such great debate and collegiality during this process, and I have high hopes for those who would carry the future banner of GO::DH. Our election for a new Chair is traditionally slated for January, and this is the perfect opportunity to pass on the reigns of GO::DH to the person that will implement our new mandate. At this point we need* a new election official *to step forward from the membership to run our elections in order for me to be able to step down. Join me in thanking Roopika Risam for running our elections for the past few years with such efficiency, clarity and professionalism. Three cheers for Dr. Risam! If anyone wants to take over this role, please contact me ASAP. We're a bit behind schedule because of the long process to decide our future. Onward GO::DH! a.

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium (Mar 22-23) Registration Open + Keynote Announcement
by Kristen Mapes 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *March 22-23, 2018* Main Library, Green Room Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh *Keynote speakers:* Schuyler Esprit <http://schuyleresprit.com/esprit/> (Dominica State College) Lisa Nakamura <https://lisanakamura.net/> (University of Michigan) *Registration is now open!* Please register by: Friday, March 9 Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/ registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The full program will be announced in early February. Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Coordinator, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University 479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308 East Lansing MI 48824 517.884.1712 kmapes(a)msu.edu

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