Hi all,
An email from a colleague of mine seeking support for a PhD student who's been unjustly arrested.
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From: snacleth-l <snacleth-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca> on behalf of Ozcan, Gulden <gulden.ozcan(a)uleth.ca>
Sent: September 27, 2020 11:45
To: snacleth-l, MailList <snacleth-l(a)uleth.ca>
Subject: [snacleth-l] Call to Free Carleton PhD Candidate Cihan Erdal
Dear friends,
I am writing to inform you about my friend, Carleton Sociology PhD Candidate, Cihal Erdal’s detention in Turkey.
Cihan was in Turkey to visit family and conduct his fieldwork as part of his PhD research. On Friday, he was detained along with 81 other pro-Kurdish activists, academics and politicians.
We just started a letter campaign open to Canadian scholars' signature. Cihan is a permanent resident, not a citizen of Canada. Our hope is to pressure Canadian authorities to take action on Cihan's case.
Feel free to circulate this among your networks.
https://forms.gle/LQKuJ1XPCL5DympY6
In solidarity,
--
Dr. Gülden Özcan
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
T1K 3M4
Traditional territory of the Siksikaitsitapi (The Blackfoot Nation)
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*** With apologies for x-posting***
You are welcome to attend the following webinar:
September 25: “Events” in the Post-“Information” Age
A/Professor Julia Sonnevend and Dr. Bernard Geoghegan
Will the word information acquire new meanings under the pressure of technological transformations caused by the Covid-19 digital lockdown? How will people understand, define and experience major or minor events when they are limited to virtual encounters, online meetings and social media catch-ups? The webinar will interrogate old meanings and explore emerging connotations of what becomes information and whither the nature of an event in the seamless enfolding of the two in the online world.
Register here:
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series…
Date & time:
September 25, 2020
New York (Eastern Daylight Time): 8:00 AM
London (Greenwich Mean Time +1): 1:00 PM
Melbourne (Australian Eastern Standard Time): 10:00 PM
This webinar is a part of the series:
Redefining Digital Keywords
>From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms
(Digital Studio, the University of Melbourne)
Register here: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series
Synopsis:
In 2016 Benjamin Peters published his edited collection Digital Keywords<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167336/digital-keywords> (Princeton University Press). With provocative short essays from international digital media scholars in anthropology, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology, the book explored and critiqued the rich vocabulary of the growing field of digital humanities on 25 keywords, ranging from meme to surrogate, from forum to mirror, from cloud to digital.
The pandemic outbreak has challenged and reconfigured human experience across physical, social and digital realities, and hence urges us to revisit our digital keywords vocabulary. This global webinar series will bring together leading digital humanities scholars to reflect upon their original contributions to the Digital Keywords. Each webinar will focus on two digital phenomena and their corresponding keywords to explore how their meanings are changing in the face of disruptions caused by lockdowns or social distancing, and what new cultural practices, social challenges and political implications emerge around the new digital vocabulary.
Series curated by Dr Natalia Grincheva (Digital Studio Senior Research Fellow).
Schedule
October 9: “Geeking” and “Prototyping” the “New Normal”
A/Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester and Professor Fred Turner
Could we imagine and prototype human life in the post-pandemic world? Will geeks rule in the emerging social conditions of the new normal, or will they simply become extinct in the digital mainstreaming of daily life? The webinar will tackle the question of human typologies in new social formations and online networks.
October 23: “Sharing” and “Gaming” in the Post-pandemic World
Dr. Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri
How do we share online versus offline and what games can we play when limited within digital reality? What are the consequences on our health and well-being of non-stop digital sharing of our lives and emotions? And is it possible to transfer sport matches, games, and even such world sport mega-events as the Olympics into the digital world? The webinar will aim to answer these questions in conversation with Dr Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri.
November 6: “Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”
Professor Jodie McVernon and Professor Sean Cubitt
What new meanings of words such as zoom and virus did the Convid-19 outbreak instigate? How did we move from ‘Google it’ to ‘Let’s Zoom’, and what are the economic and political implications of platform-imperialism in the time of the 24/7 digital communication? What are the real and potential powers of online and biological viruses to disrupt, challenge, improve or destroy human life? The final webinar will facilitate a cross-disciplinary conversation between researchers at the University of Melbourne to share insights on the role of digital technologies in the current pandemic with its consequences for moral, social and physical being.
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Dear friends,
We are excited to announce the African Digital Storytelling Symposium<https://africandh.ku.edu/digital-storytelling-symposium-2020> on October 8 and 9, 10:00 AM – Noon (US Central Time) and we hope you will help spread the word and join us!
Featuring more than a dozen speakers, the symposium on digital storytelling in Africa will center the ways in which digital media hardware and software expand the forums and techniques available to Africans to tell stories about different aspects of life on the continent. We bring together participants from different parts of the world, including African locations, to think together about digital storytelling and what it might mean in the context of African digital cultures. The conversation will be of interest to anyone interested in storytelling and the digital humanities more generally.
The Symposium is free, streaming online via Zoom and Facebook, and open to anyone to join. (Registration information will be available soon.)
Full schedule and other details at: https://africandh.ku.edu/digital-storytelling-symposium-2020. We also have a nice storymap<https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/c10da3f1749b58ce5bcae2d7e3922e96/s…> with information about the outstanding lineup of speakers. Kudos to my colleague James Yeku here at the University of Kansas for envisioning this event and putting it together, and thank you to all of the speakers and sponsors. We hope to see you there!
Speakers include:
* Kim Gallon, Purdue University
* Esther Armah, The Armah Institute
* Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu, Cornell University
* Chao Tayiana, African Digital Heritage (Kenya)
* Bayo Puddicombe, Chopup Games (Nigeria)
* Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Yoruba Names Project (Nigeria)
* Shola Adenekan, University of Amsterdam
* Sanjin Muftić, University of Cape Town, South Africa
* Jayne Batzofin, University of Cape Town, South Africa
* Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, University of Ghana
* Ainehi Edoro-Glines, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Titi Babalola, University of Toronto
* Iryna Kuchma, EIFL
* Organized by James Yeku, University of Kansas.
Sponsors
* Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
https://idrh.ku.edu/
* Kansas African Studies Center
https://kasc.ku.edu/
* Department of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas
https://afs.ku.edu/
* Center for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos
https://www.cedhul.com.ng/
* EIFL
https://eifl.net
* Global Outlook::Digital Humanities
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/
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Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Kansas Libraries
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
450 Watson Library
1425 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu> | http://idrh.ku.edu<http://idrh.ku.edu/> | @blros
he/him/his
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Dear All,
I would like to share news about a publication that just came out and is very relevant to digital humanities and cultural heritage:
"Signed by a large number of professionals, the Passenger Pigeon Manifesto is a call to public galleries, libraries, archives, and museums to liberate our cultural heritage."
The Manifesto: http://ppmanifesto.hcommons.org It was also published by multiple platforms online and will appear in print publications too.
Please do share it with others and, if you have the opportunity, consider acting on the call. A twitter post for sharing is available here: https://twitter.com/adamhrngzo/status/1305522265803505665
Best wishes,
Adam Harangozó
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'Thank you' emails have a massive carbon footprint:
So this is me saying thanks without sending it. Every email has a carbon footprint, reduce it by sending less<https://www.ovoenergy.com/blog/ovo-news/think-before-you-thank.html>.
#WhatWeCanDo
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Dear all,
During the last few days, the DH community has seen a crisis in the managing of Humanist, the ACH sponsored and ADHO supported discussion group. The list moderator published a message by Gabriel Egan that stated that an essay by Khalid Warsame was objectionable because of “...its casual anti-white racism” (you can find Egan’s original post here: https://dhhumanist.org/volume/34/220/).
There was an immediate reaction to Egan’s words and several scholars replied to the list. However, Humanist is a moderated list, meaning that all posts -- both Egan’s original post and any replies by others must be approved by the list moderator.
Bethan Tovey-Walsh was one of the first two people who wrote a reply to Egan’s post. But while Egan’s original post was published to the list, her reply -- and the replies of others were not. As she explains in a blog post she wrote about the issue (http://linguacelta.com/blog/2020/08/Humanist.html), this was the result of a decision by the list moderator that discussion of the post represented a “distraction” from the purpose of the list (Tovey-Walsh’s characterisation). The argument appears to be that matters of race, racism, and other similar issues which shape the lived experiences of all members are not relevant topics in the digital humanities.
This position is difficult to reconcile with the fact that discussions of equity and inclusion issues have been a part of mainstream Digital Humanities for many years. There have been collections of essays published on the matter; sessions at the ADHO conference Digital Humanities; and individual workshops for most of the last decade. It is more unusual to claim that such debate has no place in DH than to claim that it does. The fact that replies to a posting that invoked the trope of “anti-white” racism were censored while the original post was not would be disturbing at any time. It is especially troubling given the context of decolonial perspectives in the discipline. It implies a “who’s in, who’s out” dynamic that has been the particular subject of much recent discussion in the DH community.
Speaking as individuals and collectively, we believe that Humanist should be a community in which all voices can be heard and where individuals are not censored for standing up for equity and inclusion or for pointing out and criticising problematic arguments such as those made by Egan. We also believe that the ADHO code of conduct, which references the conference specifically, should apply to all ADHO spaces, whether virtual or in-real-life.
The voices of members of our community have been suppressed for too long. Denying them the opportunity to right a wrong or giving the impression that racist statements will go unchallenged on Humanist further silences voices that need to be heard and preserves a status quo that should have been dismantled years ago.
As leaders of GO::DH, we stand in support of the voices that challenge racism and any other kind of discrimination and we encourage a space in which engaged critical discourses gain more visibility in the fight against systemic oppression.
Barbara Bordalejo
Brian Rosemblum
James Yeku
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You are welcome to attend the following webinar:
“Internet” and “Hackers”: New Threats and Opportunities
Professor Gabriella Coleman and Professor Thomas Streeter
Synopsis: Has Covid-19 transformed how we will live in the Internet in our digital future? What are the democratic promises of hacktivism and the security dangers of hacker cybercrimes? This webinar will explore the social, ethical and political implications of the new technology-society relationships in the (post)pandemic times of this free-wheeling horizon of and expanded cyberspace.
Register here: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series…
Date & time:
September 11, 2020
New York (Eastern Daylight Time): 8:00 AM
London (Greenwich Mean Time +1): 1:00 PM
Melbourne (Australian Eastern Standard Time): 10:00 PM
This webinar is a part of the series:
Redefining Digital Keywords
>From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms
(Digital Studio, the University of Melbourne)
Register here: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series
Synopsis:
In 2016 Benjamin Peters published his edited collection Digital Keywords<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167336/digital-keywords> (Princeton University Press). With provocative short essays from international digital media scholars in anthropology, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology, the book explored and critiqued the rich vocabulary of the growing field of digital humanities on 25 keywords, ranging from meme to surrogate, from forum to mirror, from cloud to digital.
The pandemic outbreak has challenged and reconfigured human experience across physical, social and digital realities, and hence urges us to revisit our digital keywords vocabulary. This global webinar series will bring together leading digital humanities scholars to reflect upon their original contributions to the Digital Keywords. Each webinar will focus on two digital phenomena and their corresponding keywords to explore how their meanings are changing in the face of disruptions caused by lockdowns or social distancing, and what new cultural practices, social challenges and political implications emerge around the new digital vocabulary.
Series curated by Dr Natalia Grincheva (Digital Studio Senior Research Fellow).
Schedule
September 25: “Events” in the Post-“Information” Age
A/Professor Julia Sonnevend and Dr. Bernard Geoghegan
Will the word information acquire new meanings under the pressure of technological transformations caused by the Covid-19 digital lockdown? How will people understand, define and experience major or minor events when they are limited to virtual encounters, online meetings and social media catch-ups? The webinar will interrogate old meanings and explore emerging connotations of what becomes information and whither the nature of an event in the seamless enfolding of the two in the online world.
October 9: “Geeking” and “Prototyping” the “New Normal”
A/Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester and Professor Fred Turner
Could we imagine and prototype human life in the post-pandemic world? Will geeks rule in the emerging social conditions of the new normal, or will they simply become extinct in the digital mainstreaming of daily life? The webinar will tackle the question of human typologies in new social formations and online networks.
October 23: “Sharing” and “Gaming” in the Post-pandemic World
Dr. Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri
How do we share online versus offline and what games can we play when limited within digital reality? What are the consequences on our health and well-being of non-stop digital sharing of our lives and emotions? And is it possible to transfer sport matches, games, and even such world sport mega-events as the Olympics into the digital world? The webinar will aim to answer these questions in conversation with Dr Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri.
November 6: “Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”
Professor Jodie McVernon and Professor Sean Cubitt
What new meanings of words such as zoom and virus did the Convid-19 outbreak instigate? How did we move from ‘Google it’ to ‘Let’s Zoom’, and what are the economic and political implications of platform-imperialism in the time of the 24/7 digital communication? What are the real and potential powers of online and biological viruses to disrupt, challenge, improve or destroy human life? The final webinar will facilitate a cross-disciplinary conversation between researchers at the University of Melbourne to share insights on the role of digital technologies in the current pandemic with its consequences for moral, social and physical being.