globaloutlookdh-l December 2019

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Call for Nominations to GO::DH Executive Committee
by Rosenblum, Brian 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, In 2019 Amy Earhart and Tunde Opeibi graciously agreed to provide another year of service on the GO::DH Executive Committee, allowing GO::DH to have a full, 8-member Committee. Thank you to both Amy and Tunde for your service! With their term coming to an end, we are now seeking at least two nominees for election and/or acclamation to the Committee. This will be for a two-year term of service beginning immediately after the election, from February 1, 2020 - January 31, 2022. All voting positions on the Committee are for two year terms that can be renewed three times. We begin with a nomination period, which will close Sunday, January 12 at midnight in all time zones, followed by a two-week elections period. The election will be held by electronic ballot open to all subscribers to the list. The work of the GO::DH Executive Committee is not heavy, but it is important to our community and the support of an approach to DH that recognizes, supports, and encourages linguistic, regional, and other forms of diversity. This year, GO::DH has launched a series of articles with translations in Digital Studies/ Le champ numérique, and has been in discussions with ADHO about moving from a Special Interest Group to a full organizational member. 2020 promises to be another active year for the organization, with the launch of "Around DH 2020" and working on a new version of the Quantifying DH infographic (http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/news/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.global…>), in addition to a new minimal computing version of our website. We welcome your ideas and enthusiasm for other initiatives GO::DH can undertake! Please consider nominating yourself (self-nominations are common and welcome) or somebody else in our community by emailing Brian Rosenblum at brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu>. All who wish to put their names forward will be warmly welcomed as candidates. Again, the deadline for nominations is Sunday, January 12. In your email, please include the following information: * The name of the nominee * Preferred email address of the nominee (if you are nominating somebody other than yourself, please be sure to cc your nominee on the email so that we know they are willing to stand and that we know we have a working email address for them). * An optional brief candidate statement (<250 words). This can be anything you wish: a bio; an explanation of your aims for the position; political planks. This statement will be published to the GO::DH website. I hope you will consider putting your name forward. Brian Rosenblum <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Brian Rosenblum Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian, KU Libraries Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities 450 Watson Library Lawrence, KS 66045 brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu> | http://idrh.ku.edu | @blros he/him/his

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A Faustian bargain
by Domenico Fiormonte 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Dear all, as a DHer I was particularly struck by this report by Amnesty on surveillance giants: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol30/1404/2019/en/ "But despite the real value of the services they provide, Google and Facebook’s platforms come at a systemic cost. The companies’ surveillance-based business model forces people to make a Faustian bargain, whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse." As some of you already know, I've been criticizing the political and social role of these platforms since long ago. And I'm increasingly wondering how the DH community - and especially our global community - can remain silent in the face of documented violations of human rights. Beacause this is exactly what's going on. It's not just about data. Would make any sense to start a discussion here on how to respond as digital scholars to these (not anymore just epistemological or cultural) abuses? Or should we just go on, using Google and Facebook as those and other documented abuses did not exist? Sconsolatamente Vostro, Domenico

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Registration open & Program announced - Global DH Symposium (March 26-27, 2020)
by Mapes, Kristen 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Global Digital Humanities Symposium March 26-27, 2020 Michigan State University (USA) East Lansing, Michigan msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh Registration is open and the program is now available! Join us for a fantastic event. Registration Deadline: Friday, March 13 Free and open to the public. Register (for in person and/or virtual attendance) at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__msuglobaldh.org_registr…> Thursday, March 26, 2020 * 9:30-10:40 – Keynote Presentation (Miguel Escobar Valera) * 11:00-12:15- Lightning Talks * Empowered Minorities: Language Rights and Differential Outcomes For Minorities Enjoying Kremlin Support, Martha Olcott, Michael Downs, and Bridget McBride * Regularization of Kinship Relations to Enrich the Social Networks, Bin Li * Relational Landscapes: Teaching Chaco Canyon Ancestral Pueblo Monumental Architecture with Immersive Technology, Laura Smith * Building an Inclusive Digital Local History in the Midwest, Benjamin Ostermeier * Digital Mapping of Culpability and the Culpable in African War Texts, Richard Ajah * DH and Cultural Heritage: Digitisation of Eyo Festival in Nigeria, Felix Bayode Oke * Between Phallus and Freedom: An Ethnography on the Embodied Experiences of Tinder Users in Cape Town, Leah Junck * Digital Apprehensions of Indian Poetics, A. Sean Pue, Zahra Rizvi, Asra Junaid * Using GIS in representing the significance of transnational financial support for deaf education in China, circa 1880s-1920s, Shu Wan * 1:30-2:00 – Presentation Session * Exploring Tahrir Square as a Rhizomatic, Intra-active Hybrid Space, Mai Ibrahim * Queer Data, Lauren Bridges * Digital Humanities and the discursive complexities of colonial ‘letterature,’ Ayodele James Akinola * 2:50-3:50 - Presentation Session * Map-Based Storytelling for Evolving Places: An experiment with Digital Humanities pedagogy, Sayan Bhattacharyya * Saami OCR, Andre Kåsen * Landscape of Buddhas: Geospatial analysis of rock-carved images in the mountains of South Korea, Elizabeth Lee * 4:10-5:30 – Presentation Session * Digitalising political communication in West Africa: Facebook and Twitter in election campaigns and political practices in Ghana, Akwasi Bosompem Boateng * Can Library Metadata Stand with Hong Kong?, Joshua Barton, Mike Erickson, Lucas Mak, and Nicole Smeltekop * Intersection: Digital Humanities, Research Data Management and Libraries in African Higher Education Institutions, Thembelihle Hwalima * Teaching with Data in the Academic Museum, Beth Fischer * 5:30-7:30 – Poster Session and Reception * Disrupting the Discourse: The Role of Digital Humanities in Addressing Anthropogenic Climate Change, Sarah Goldfarb * From Archival Absence to Digital Presence: (Dis)Covering the19th-Century Black Press in Ohio, Jewon Woo * Visualizing Poetic Meter in South Asian Languages, A. Sean Pue, Ahmad Atta, and Rajiv Ranjan * Echoes of Handicraft: The Use of Digital Technologies in Preserving and Representing Textiles from East Asian Ethnic Minority Groups, Xiaolin Sun and Catherine Nichols * SiRO- A Platform for Studies in Radicalism Online, Manasi Mishra Friday, March 27, 2020 * 9:30-10:30 – Keynote Presentation (Carrie Heitman) * 10:50-12:00- Presentation Session * Making Uganda’s Intellectual History Digital: Knowledge Preservation and Ethical Considerations, Samantha Stevens-Hall * The Evolution of the Enslaved Project, Kylene Cave and Duncan Tarr * From Archive to Big Data: Workflows of the China Bibliographic Database, Edith Enright * When Managing a digital archive becomes a be-or-not-to-be issue, NGUE UM EMMANUEL * 1:15-2:45 – Breakout Sessions * Panel - On Seeing: Surveillance and the Digital Humanities, Christina Boyles, Andy Boyles Petersen, Arun Jacob, and Megan Wilson * Workshop - Mobilizing Digital Humanities for Social Justice: A Rapid Response Research Workshop, Roopika Risam and Alex Gil * Film Screening - Sites of Memory: Reflecting on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Erik Ponder * 3:15-5:45 – Panel Session * Collaborative Pedagogy: Foreign Language and Literature Courses, Data Science, and Global Digital Humanities, Katherine Walden, Jarren Santos, and Mirzam Pérez * Students as Knowledge Producers: Understanding Arab-Americans in central Ohio through Oral History Narratives, Hanada Al-Masri, Cheryl Johnson, Olivia Rynolds and Alexis Grimm 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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