Good morning,
Please share the news on the next webinar in the Caribbean Studies in the Digital Age series. Please let me know on any questions.
Best wishes,
Laurie
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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, Ramble Bahamas, May 7, 2018, 11am-12pm (Miami Time).
Presenters: Dr. Tracey Thompson and Jessica Dawson, University of The Bahamas
Click here to participate in the online event: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/8927374603
About the Presentation:
2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of a watershed in Bahamian political life: the advent of majority rule. So as to pay tribute to that anniversary in an appealing and enduring way, "From Dat Time": The Oral & Public History Institute of the University of The Bahamas ("FDT") launched an ambitious venture in the field of digital humanities. The "FDT" team, guided by the Institute's mandate to develop curricular and recreational materials in a variety of media, committed itself to fashioning a digital heritage trail through which Bahamian students could retrace important steps in the Bahamian political story. The team went further: it envisioned building a platform that could serve as a publication engine for all research undertaken by the Institute. Such a platform, so the team judged, would augment limited scholarly publication in the field of Bahamian political history. It would widen access to historical literature among students and educators located throughout the far-flung Bahamian archipelago. It would draw on the Institute's strength as a vehicle devoted to collecting and preserving oral narratives of community elders, many of whom had played significant roles in social, educational, and political transformations in the mid-1900s. It would press into service a media archive consisting of rare photos and film from the 1960s and 1970s - images long hidden from public view. The result of the team's investment was Ramble Bahamas. Utilizing the Omeka content management system and the Curatescape framework, Ramble Bahamas presents geographically-tagged exhibits about historically significant places and objects in The Bahamas. Each exhibit is comprised of a narrative outlining the importance of the location or object, relevant historic and contemporary images, and oral history audio or video clips in which informed narrators speak of events associated with the location or object. Since its launch in November 2016, Ramble Bahamas has been introduced to students at the University of The Bahamas and to high school teachers of History and Geography. Plans are under way to integrate the platform into national curricula in History so as to advance the nation-building mandate of the university.
About the Speakers:
Tracey Thompson, PhD: As Director of "From Dat Time": The Oral & Public History Institute of the University of The Bahamas, Tracey Thompson oversees the research programme and administrative processes of the institute. Tracey has been involved in research, teaching, and administration at the University of The Bahamas for more than twenty-five years. Her research foci lie principally in African and African Diaspora History, in Philosophy of History, in Oral History, and in Public History.
Jessica Dawson, MA: In her capacity as Public History Fellow in Research & Technology for "From Dat Time": The Oral & Public History Institute of the University of The Bahamas, Jessica Dawson acted as webmaster and curator for Ramble Bahamas. Prior to this, she taught tertiary courses in the field of cultural anthropology and worked in historic preservation. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Washington State University and an M.A. in American Studies & Public History from Youngstown State University.
About the Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series:
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico, the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives roundtable (LACCHA) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), 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.
Webinars in the 2018 series are:
· April 2, 11:30-12:30pm: Digitization Training for dLOC Contributors (English)
o Presented by Laura Perry, University of Florida
· April 9, 11am-12pm: Demystifying Digital History (English)
o Presented by Dr. Debbie McCollin, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
· May 7, 11am-12pm: Ramble Bahamas (English)
o Presented by Dr. Tracey Thompson and Jessica Dawson, University of The Bahamas (Facilitator: Crystal Felima)
· May 16, 11am-12pm: Endangered Archives Digitization Grant and More (French)
o Presenter: Marie-France Guillaume, Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l'Instruction Chrètienne (Facilitator: Dr. Hélène Huet)
Please join us for next stage conversations at ACURIL's 2018 annual conference, focusing on Open Access in Caribbean Libraries, Archives and Museums: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions http://acuril2018republicadominicana.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__acuril2018republicadomi…>
Twitter: #digcaribbeanscholarship<https://twitter.com/hashtag/digcaribbeanscholarship?f=tweets&vertical=defau…>
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Dear all
This may interest people working with Modern (Foreign) Languages - please forward as appropriate.
** Apologies for cross-posting **
As part of the AHRC-funded (OWRI) 'Language Acts & Worldmaking' project, we are conducting a survey on attitudes towards digital culture and technology in the Modern Foreign Languages, with attention to both theory and practice. If your work/research involves Modern Foreign Languages in some way, we would be very interested to hear about your experiences and invite you to take part in our survey. The survey is aimed at people with any level of digital expertise, and whose work involves Modern Foreign Languages in any role (whether that be as researcher, learner, teacher, funder, policy-maker, digital practitioner, cultural practitioner or other).
For most participants, the survey will take about 15 minutes. For those who have strong involvement in digital theory or practice, you will be offered additional optional questions which might make the survey longer.
We will analyse the survey results for future presentation and publication - all results will be anonymised- and will present initial findings in the coming year.
This survey is part of a research project called 'Modern Foreign Languages Research: Digital Mediations' which was submitted to, and approved by, the King's College Research Ethics committee under its Minimal Ethical Risk Registration Process (REC Reference Number: MR/17/18-280).
The survey will be open until 31st May 2018
If you have any questions, please contact Paul Spence at paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk
Link to survey: https://kings.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/attitudes-towards-dc-in-mfl
Many thanks
Paul Spence and Renata Brandão
King's College London
For more information about our research, see https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/
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Paul Spence
Senior Lecturer
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx
Programme Convenor for MA in Digital Humanities Co-Investigator on Language Acts & Worldmaking project https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/
Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano)
---Apologies for cross-posting, but the Scholarly Communication approach
might interest some of us in the list---
Proposals for presentations on new or creative approaches to research
communications and e-scholarship are invited to #FORCE2018 – to be held at
McGill University in Montreal, Canada on October 11 & 12, 2018.
FORCE2018 promises to be a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders
come to the table for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk
about changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is
communicated, shared and used.
Researchers, publishers, librarians, computer scientists, informaticians,
funders, educators, citizens, patients, and others attend the FORCE meeting
with a view to supporting the realisation of promising new ideas and
identifying new potential collaborators.
The theme of FORCE2018 is engagement. Proposals should emphasise how
presenters are engaging their communities or how they will engage
FORCE2018 participants. This might mean an interactive presentation,
showcasing the tangible impact of your work, encouraging the FORCE2018
community to join your efforts, or another way in which others are engaged.
Learn more about the format and theme and submit your proposal at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmcNJs2dx361_
YZmekXNn7k8YtMKoFI1G1Rx1Ske6HVrDhGA/viewform
Learn more about the meeting at https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2018
About FORCE11
FORCE11 is a non-profit organization and community of scholars, librarians,
archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to
help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing.
Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in modern
scholarly communications through the effective use of information
technology. We are a neutral information market, where stakeholders come to
the table for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about
changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated,
shared and used. Learn more and join the FORCE11 community on our website.
You may also follow us on Twitter @force11rescomm
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Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/
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Twitter: @gimenadelr
Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar
Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab:
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Dear colleagues,
This year, annual conference of the Japanese Association for Digital
Humanities (JADH) will be held at Tokyo, September 9-11.
The deadline is May 8.
****************** CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline May 8) ******************
JADH (The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities) conference 2018
co-located with
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative Consortium) conference 2018
http://conf2018.jadh.org/
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- Submission Deadline: May 8, 2018
- Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2018
- Conference date: September 9-11, 2018
- Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo
The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite
proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially
encourage papers treating topics that deal with practices that aim to
cross borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages,
cultures, organizations, and so on, as related to the field of digital
humanities.
Theme: "Leveraging Open Data"
Open Data has recently been a driver in various fields. The notion,
activities, and the data themselves have gradually been gaining
attention in the humanities. Large scale reusable data and greater
integration of open data provide new research opportunities with
relatively few costs. Open data has been strongly assisted by recent
developments in digital tools, guidelines and frameworks that leverage
digital cultural resources. It has become more important to share data
and tools and to discuss their use in the context of digital humanities.
This year we strongly encourage the submission of proposals about
methods, results, and problems of leveraging open data in the
humanities. With this as our suggested central focus, we nonetheless
welcome papers on a broad range of DH topics.
Abstract: 500-1000 words in length in English, including title. Please
submit abstracts on the open conference system for conference below by
May 8, 2018.
Program Committee:
Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
James Cummings (Newcastle University, UK)
J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois, USA)
Øyvind Eide (University of Koeln, Germany)
Makoto Goto (National Institute for Humanities, Japan)
Shoichiro Hara (Kyoto University, Japan)
JenJou Hung (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan)
Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Akihiro Kawase (Doshisha University, Japan)
Asanobu Kitamoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Chao-Lin Liu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Maciej Eder (Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland)
A. Charles Muller (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hajime Murai (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)
Susan Schreibman (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland)
Masahiro Shimoda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)
Donald Sturgeon (Harvard University, USA)
Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Tomoji Tabata (Osaka University, Japan)
Toru Tomabechi (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College, USA)
Christian Wittern (Kyoto University, Japan)
Taizo Yamada (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Dr. Asanobu KITAMOTO
Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
http://codh.rois.ac.jp/http://researchmap.jp/kitamoto/