globaloutlookdh-l October 2018

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Questionnaire: “Mapping Laboratories in the Humanities”
by Urszula Pawlicka 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Dear all, You are welcome to participate in the questionnaire “Mapping Laboratories in the Humanities”! The following questionnaire is a part of my postdoctoral research project, titled “Laboratory Beyond the Science: Towards a New Physical Place and a New Paradigm in the Humanities”, conducted in the Department of Media at Aalto University. The purpose of this questionnaire is to identify the (digital) humanities, media, and cultural laboratories all over the world. My ultimate goal is to map laboratories created in different parts of the world and representing various models. One challenge is to locate laboratories established in countries where a language barrier makes it difficult to reach them. Therefore, your role is very important for me! If you know a lab created in the (digital) humanities, media or cultural studies at the university, please fill out this short (nine questions) questionnaire! It takes 3-4 minutes. I would appreciate if you can complete it by 31 October: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlgsArwBcLWN10jt2ZXeI8_OIUMgD1o2x… Please circulate the questionnaire to your networks (the universities, departments, and researchers)! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me to the address: urszula.pawlicka(a)aalto.fi Thank you! Urszula ------------------------------- Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Media, Aalto University https://research.aalto.fi/portal/urszula.pawlicka.html

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DHCS 2018 Registration Now Open!
by luctsdh 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Please join us for the 13th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, to be held on Friday-Sunday, November 9-11, 2018 at Loyola University Chicago. Highlights of this year's conference include: * An opening plenary, #DH in the City, on Friday evening that shines the spotlight on Chicago-themed DH projects; * A keynote on Saturday evening with Prof. Miriam Posner, UCLA * A full day of panels, posters, and workshops on Saturday and a half-day on Sunday This conference will be held at Corboy Law Center, 32 E. Pearson St. on Friday evening and Lewis Towers, 111 E. Pearson St. on Saturday and Sunday. Check-in and breakfast begin at 8:00 am on Saturday and Sunday. For the full program, visit the conference website: dhcs2018.com<http://dhcs2018.com> To register for the conference, please visit our secure registration site: <http://luc.edu/dhcs18> luc.edu/dhcs18<http://>? If you have any questions, please contact Kyle Roberts, Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, at kroberts2(a)luc.edu. Many thanks to our generous sponsors: Gale-Cengage, Adam Matthew, DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University Chicago College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago. We look forward to seeing you in November!

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium CFP - Submissions due November 15!
by Mapes, Kristen 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Dear colleagues, We welcome proposals from around the world for the 4th annual Global DH Symposium at Michigan State University. This year we have incorporated an option to present virtually. While most of the presentations at this event will be in person presentations, we wanted to ensure there were a few spots available to people unable to present in person or for whom traveling to the US would pose a risk. Additionally, we are continuing our policy of providing travel funding to speakers who request it, and we hope to be ever more effective at making the Symposium truly global. Please spread the word, and do message me with any questions! Sincerely, Kristen Mapes Global Digital Humanities Symposium March 21-22, 2019 MSU, Main Library, Green Room msuglobaldh.org<http://www.msuglobaldh.org/> Call for Proposals Deadline: November 15 Proposal form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8WhgGPBMvMhni-uv80BGNI1cVFW2GatY…> Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its fourth year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. Focused on these issues of social justice, we invite work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate. Given the growth of these fields within the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, endangered data<http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the digital divide. DH communities have raised and responded to these issues, pushing the field forward. We view the 2019 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome. Additionally, we define the term "humanities" rather broadly to incorporate the discussion of issues that encourage interdisciplinary understanding of the humanities. This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by Thursday, November 15, 11:59pm EST: * Critical cultural studies and analytics * Cultural heritage in a range of contexts * DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement * Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context * DH responses to crisis * How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work * Global research dialogues and collaborations * Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital * Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism * Global digital pedagogies * Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital * Digital and global languages and literatures * The state of global digital humanities community * Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change * Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies * Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context * Surveillance and/or data privacy issues in a global context Presentation Formats: * 5-minute lightning talk * 15-minute presentation * 90-minute workshop * 90-minute panel * There will be a limited number of slots available for 15-minute virtual presentations Please note that we conduct a double-blind review process, so please refrain from identifying your institution or identity in your proposal. Notifications of acceptance will be given by December 22, 2018 Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, 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 | @kmapesy she/her/hers

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CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly Special issue: "Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities"
by Urszula Pawlicka 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities CFP: Special Issue for the Digital Humanities Quarterly Editors: Mila Oiva (University of Turku) and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger (Aalto University) Although the concept of digital comes with an assumption of placelessness and detachment from physical space and geographical location, these matters still play a significant role in the way the digital humanities research is practiced today, and also in the future. The location, the surroundings and infrastructure open the questions of accessibility and equality: space shapes the opportunities for doing digital humanities research, both enables and hinders collaboration, and both unifies and divides scholars. The purpose of this special issue is to examine the different aspects of situated research practices of the digital humanities covering two perspectives: physical and virtual. The physical places of research refer to the various digital humanities sites (laboratories, centers, departments) all over the world and more widely to the surroundings a location in a particular city, country, cultural sphere or continent affecting research practices. As virtual environments of digital humanities scholarship, we define the digital internet-based platforms, services, and tools that enable research and scholarly collaboration. The aspects that determine digital humanities research in both physical and virtual places are infrastructure (material and non-material), social interaction (communication and collaboration), and context (social, cultural, and political situatedness). The aspects influence each other and changes in one of them can affect the others. They have also impact on what is studied, the ways research can be done, and, in the end the results of our knowledge, what kind of knowledge digital humanities research can provide. We seek a series of articles that address the following issues, but not limited to, organized in two thematic clusters: 1) Lab: Physical Situatedness; and 2) Slack: Virtual Situatedness. Lab: Physical Situatedness This cluster proposes: - To look at digital humanities place from a pragmatic point of view to answer the questions of how to build a place for digital humanities within the university; what kind of institutional requirements need to be fulfilled and what type of obstacles stand in the way of development of the local field; and how a policy affects place, people, and research practices? - To explore different sites of digital humanities, such as center, laboratory, department, and library in order to reflect upon infrastructural changes, differences, functions, and challenges. - To consider people’s sense of belonging to place of digital humanities and a way of establishing local digital humanities community through various activities and events. Place attachment made by policy, representation, and symbolic gestures is, however, accompanied by a negative side of place identity that is exclusion. Therefore, the question is whether a place of digital humanities creates a mechanism to exclude people from the place and thereby, from the field. - To investigate digital humanities place from the local perspective, its social and cultural surroundings, and political conditions. How do the geographical location, the structure of national or international funding tools, proximity or distance to the (other) DH institutions, libraries, or IT businesses influence the ways digital humanities research is done in a particular place? How are the local DH communities being established, and what are the best ways for enabling collaboration and sharing of expertise, tools and resources? Slack: Virtual Situatedness This cluster aims: - To explore the ways the digital collaboration and analysis platforms and software direct digital humanities research. As digital humanities often involves interdisciplinary collaboration and the research ‘materials’ are in digitally shareable form (data, code, visualizations), the research practices are also increasingly performing in a digital way. We discuss at Skype meetings, organize the workflow through Slack and Trello, share materials through Github and Dropbox, and co-write papers in Google Drive. Do we use these platforms because they are the best ones, or because they are marketed the best, and all the other use them as well? In what ways the algorithms of the virtual spaces direct the communication, collaboration, and the research findings of digital humanities? - To analyze how utilization of virtual collaborative spaces tie us with other kinds of cultural and political dimensions. Being built by humans, the digital collaboration and analysis software contain cultural and spatial structures that enable one kind of activity and constraints the other. Does virtual collaboration enable crossing the physical, cultural, and language boundaries, or do the virtual spaces strengthen these boundaries, or construct new ones? - To investigate the questions of ethics, accessibility, privacy and sustainability incorporated in the tools that we use for research. Timeline: Deadline for 200-Word Abstracts emailed to the Editors (milaoiv(a)utu.fi and; pawlickadeger(a)gmail.com): October 15, 2018 Decisions on accepted abstracts: November 1, 2018 Deadline for final paper sent to the Editors: February 1, 2019 Review and peer review: All articles will be reviewed by the Editors and then the publisher’s peer reviewer. Finished versions of accepted works will be based on the peer review timeline of DHQ. Please contact the Editors with any questions: Mila Oiva: milaoiv(a)utu.fi Urszula Pawlicka-Deger: pawlickadeger(a)gmail.com About the Editors Mila Oiva Dr. Oiva is a postdoctoral researcher of Cultural History at the University of Turku. She works in transnational Oceanic Exchanges digital humanities project funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform/Digging into Data. In 2017-2018 she worked at the KONE Foundation funded project “From a Road Map to a Roadshow” project collecting the best practices of facilitating digital history research in Finland, located in the History of Industrialization and Innovation (HIIVA) group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aalto University in Finland. She was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at UC Berkeley in 2014-2015, and participated in the Culture Analytics long program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA in spring 2016. She is author and co-author of several publications, for example Matres, Inés, Mila Oiva, and Mikko Tolonen. “In Between Research Cultures The State of Digital Humanities in Finland.” Informaatiotutkimus, no. 2/2018; Johnson, Bruce, Mila Oiva and Hannu Salmi. “Yves Montand in the USSR. Mixed messages of post-Stalinist/Western cultural encounters.” In Entangled East and West: Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction during the Cold War, ed. by Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen and Giles Scott-Smith, (forthcoming) and Oiva, Mila. Selling Fashion to the Soviets. Competitive Practices in the Polish Cloth Export in the early 1960s. In: Competition in Socialist Society, ed. Katalin Miklóssy & Melanie Ilic, Great Britain, Routledge, 2014. Urszula Pawlicka-Deger Dr. Pawlicka-Deger is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Media at the Aalto University and a member of Research Data Management Working Group at the Aalto. She conducts research on infrastructural and conceptual transformations in the humanities with an emphasis on a laboratory place. Her last publication related to this topic includes a paper, titled Data, Collaboration, Laboratory: Bringing Concepts from Science into Humanities Practice released in “English Studies” (2017). Besides, she works on open science and research data management in the (digital) humanities. She presented her work at the following international conferences: “The Making of the Humanities VI” at the University of Oxford (2017), the American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting at Harvard University (2016), and Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria (2014). She was a visiting Fulbright scholar in Creative Media and Digital Culture at Washington State University Vancouver, US (2014/2015), and a visiting researcher in English Department at Stony Brook University (2015/2016). Over the years, she has published peer-reviewed scholarly articles (“English Studies”, “CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture”, and “Teksty Drugie”, etc.) and a monograph Literatura cyfrowa. W stronę podejścia procesualnego (Electronic Literature: Towards Processual Approach, Katedra 2017). http://pawlickadeger.com/ ------------------------------ Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Media, Aalto University https://research.aalto.fi/portal/urszula.pawlicka.html

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