Dear colleagues,
We are accepting applications for the position of Assistant Project Manager for HumetricsHSS and MESH Research in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University.
We have created a short powerpoint presentation that explains the position and what we are looking for (go.cal.msu.edu/pm2020<http://go.cal.msu.edu/pm2020>).
The full description and posting are available at https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/503210/specialist-outreachfixed-term.
Position Description Extract
"The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) and the Libraries at Michigan State University seek an Academic Specialist - Outreach to fill the Assistant Digital Projects Manager role supporting the efforts of the HuMetricsHSS initiative and the MESH research team. This is a full-time 12-month position with an expectation of annual renewal. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator with outstanding organizational skills.
The position will work to provide outreach to the academic community and beyond to support research and work associated with new models for documenting, understanding, and rewarding academic work and digital scholarly communications. The position reports jointly to HuMetricsHSS and to MESH.
[...]
The successful candidate will have experience in event planning, participation in and coordination of digital projects, a record of successful collaboration with teams that are geographically dispersed, an understanding of digital humanities and other digital projects and their workflows within an academic setting, and excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) and MSU Libraries promote an academic and organizational culture that actively seeks out and strengthens diverse voices and perspectives among its members to achieve excellence. We are interested in candidates of all backgrounds who are committed to the principle that intellectual leadership is achieved through open access and proactive inclusion. We seek candidates with integrity and a strong work ethic, who possess an understanding of what it takes to continuously improve and maintain research projects within a major academic research institution. We particularly welcome applications from women, people of color, LGBTQI individuals, and others who are traditionally underrepresented in the academy. We invite you to apply even if you have not currently mastered all of the skills listed. We seek someone with the ability to collaborate and to expand their technical skillset in creative ways; we’re happy to discuss whether you are a good fit for this role."
Review of applications begins next week, but we will continue to welcome applications until the position is filled.
Thanks,
Kristen
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
Hello everyone
This may interest some of you:
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Call for proposals:
DISRUPTING DIGITAL MONOLINGUALISM
An international workshop on languages in critical digital theory and practice
Hosted by Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
A 'Language Acts & Worldmaking' project initiative
16th and 17th June 2020
Workshop website:
https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…>
There has been increasing attention in the past few years to the challenges of multilingualism in digital practice. It has been widely accepted that digital ecosystems have a 'language and geocultural diversity' problem - at present they have a strong bias towards firstly English, and then a small group of (mostly European) languages. A series of initiatives has attempted to address this imbalance in a variety of ways, whether driven by practice (language diversity guidelines, multilingual toolkits, open data repositories, and endangered languages archives) or theory (biocultural diversity, digital modern languages and translingual/transcultural critiques).
This two-day workshop brings together leading researchers, educators, digital practitioners, language-focused professionals, policy makers and other interested parties to address the challenges of multilingualism in digital spaces and to collectively propose new models and solutions. The workshop will combine both conceptual (strategy, policy and theory) and practical perspectives (digital ecosystems, methods and tools with a focus on language). It aims to strengthen connections between numerous overlapping digital and languages-driven conversations and initiatives.
The core themes of the workshop are:
* Linguistic and geocultural diversity in digital knowledge infrastructures
* Working with multilingual data
* Transcultural and translingual approaches to digital study
* Artificial intelligence, machine learning and NLP in language worlds
The programme will feature a variety of formats, including lightning talks, posters, demos, roundtables and (a limited amount of) mini-workshops, and we welcome proposals for experimental formats. Invited speakers will represent a range of education, industry and third sector roles and we are open to new ideas through our call for proposals.
The workshop is aimed at those interested in multilingual and cross-cultural approaches to digital practice, and is likely to be of particular interest to those working in the areas of: modern languages and linguistics; multilingualism research (including endangered or minority languages and community languages); digital cultural heritage; digital humanities; new media and internet research; critical digital infrastructure studies; digital policy; translation studies; AI, machine learning and NLP.
Co-convenors
This workshop is led by the Language Acts and Worldmaking project with the support of the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project, both funded by the AHRC under its Open World Research Initiative.
Workshop aims
The aims of the workshop are:
* To map the current state of multilingualism in digital theory and practice through, and across, languages
* To identify areas of 'language indifference' in digital methodologies and infrastructure
* To bring together experts in language-driven digital study and practice to discuss priorities for future action and potential collaboration
* To discuss the value and role of languages in digital theory and practice and their implications for language study and professions
* To explore emerging models for linguistic diversity and languages-aware digital practice in academia, education and private/third sectors and to document best practice
Workshop structure
The workshop will be structured as follows:
* Day 1: Context/aims, lightning talks, demos, meetups
* Day 2: Group activities addressing the workshop's core themes through discussion and practical work
Outcomes will be defined by attendees, but may include the co-design of conceptual frameworks or practical outcomes such as prototypes or toolkits
Call for Proposals
We welcome proposals for:
* Lightning talks (7 minute presentations)
* Posters
* Technical demos (short and interactive, as part of the poster session)
* Mini-workshops (max 3 hours duration)
* Experimental formats (defined by you)
Proposals should address a theoretical or practical response to one of the workshop's core themes:
https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…>
Venue
The event will take place at King's College London in central London on Tuesday 16 June and Wednesday 17 June 2020.
Virtual participation
The event is principally designed for physical face-to-face participation, but we are open to collaboration with individuals or groups who wish to participate remotely.
Key dates
Call for proposals deadline: 12pm (GMT) on 16 March 2020
Response to proposals: 30 March 2020
Workshop: Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 June 2020
Languages
Abstracts: the main workshop language will be English, but once reviewed, we welcome translations of accepted abstracts.
At the event: we recommend that presenters consult the GO::DH Translation toolkit (https://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/conferences/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo-dh.git…>) and we welcome creative proposals for those wishing to work multilingually during the event
Outcomes
Where possible, outcomes (including, for example, reports, posters or prototypes) will be published on the event website after the workshop.
Submissions
Submissions may be made via our online form at
https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…>
Contact
The workshop is led by Paul Spence and Renata Brandao (Language Acts), in collaboration with Naomi Wells (Cross-Language Dynamics).
If you have any queries, please contact Paul Spence - paul.spence [at] kcl.ac.uk
Best wishes
Paul Spence
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Paul Spence
Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS
About: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person.aspx?id=86f6979a-0322-46d3-996b-77323ee…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a…>
Twitter: @politonaiz
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…>
Keynote presentations by Miguel Escobar Varela, on “Emic interfaces: UX design for cultural specificity” and Carrie Heitman on “Narrative and Nomenclature: Research Dialogues on Place-Based Knowledge in the Age of Digital Distance”
Additional presentations include:
* “Empowered Minorities: Language Rights and Differential Outcomes For Minorities Enjoying Kremlin Support”, Martha Olcott, Michael Downs, and Brigid 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
* “Digital Humanities and the discursive complexities of colonial ‘letterature,’ ” Ayodele James Akinola
* “Map-Based Storytelling for Evolving Places: An experiment with Digital Humanities pedagogy”, Sayan Bhattacharyya
* “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
* “Disrupting the Discourse: The Role of Digital Humanities in Addressing Anthropogenic Climate Change”, Work of 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 Onlin”e, Manasi Mishra
* “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
* “On Seeing: Surveillance and the Digital Humanities”, Christina Boyles, Andy Boyles Petersen, Arun Jacob, and Megan Wilson
* “Mobilizing Digital Humanities for Social Justice: A Rapid Response Research Workshop”, Roopika Risam and Alex Gil
* “Sites of Memory: Reflecting on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda”, Erik Ponder
* “Collaborative Pedagogy: Foreign Language and Literature Courses, Data Science, and Global Digital Humanities”, Katherine Walden, Jarren Santos, Celeste Sharpe, Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, Sarah Calhoun, and Mirzam Pérez
* “Students as Knowledge Producers: Understanding Arab-Americans in central Ohio through Oral History Narratives”, Hanada Al-Masri, Cheryl Johnson, Olivia Reynolds 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
Dear all,
we've just poublished on infolet.it an interview with Giacomo Mazzone, an IG expert who has been following the UN Internet Governance process since its inception. I think the interview is interesting for our global community for at least two reasons. First of all, it tells the story of the (failed) attempt to build a multipolar governance of the Internet. This story is largely unknown (at least among Digital Humanists). Secondly, it shows clearly the role of Global South players in the process, and the geopolitical consequences of their marginalization. It seems another example of how the geopolitics of knowledge is becoming more and more the key factor to understand today's global transformations.
As digital humanists, do we have something to say?
https://infolet.it/2020/02/04/la-guerra-sconosciuta-per-il-controllo-della-…
The interview is in Italian, and we'd be very grateful if people would help us to translate it in other languages!
Thanks!
Domenico
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that Richard Ajah and James Yeku have been elected to the GO::DH Executive Committee. Congratulations to Richard and James!
Thank you to all the great candidates<http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/2020-godh-executive-board-candidates/> for running, and to everyone who voted. Over the coming year there will continue to be opportunities to volunteer and contribute, and the Exec Committee always welcomes ideas and suggestions for new initiatives from all members.
Finally, a heartfelt thanks to outgoing Exec Committee members Amy Earhart and Tunde Ope-Davies for their service to the community over this recent transition period. We appreciate all their work and commitment to the GO::DH community and it's aims.
All best,
Brian
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Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian, KU 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 | @blros
he/him/his
Dear all,
We are happy to announce the eleventh issue of the review journal RIDE,
which has been published since 2014 by the Institute for Documentology and
Scholarly Editing. This issue is the first in the RIDE-series dedicated to
“Tools and Environments for Digital Scholarly Editing”. Initiators and
guest editors of the issue are Anna-Maria Sichani and Elena Spadini.
The idea behind this new thematic focus in the RIDE-series is that software
is part of the scholarly ecosystem and as such should be valued and
reviewed. Furthermore, we hope that reviews of tools and environments can
be useful for those involved in the creation of scholarly editions, to find
the right software for each specific need. All reviews reflect a detailed
catalogue of evaluation criteria (
https://www.i-d-e.de/publikationen/weitereschriften/criteria-tools-version-…)
and are accompanied by a summarizing factsheet (see "Meta" rubric of each
article).
RIDE 11 issue includes five reviews in English (4) and French (1) that
critically assess Tools and Environments for Digital Scholarly Editing. For
your convenience, this is the table of contents:
- Andrew Dunning: Reledmac. Typesetting technology-independent critical
editions with LaTeX, by Andrew Dunning;
https://ride.i-d-e.de/issue-11/reledmac/
- Christian Griesinger: Review of the Tübinger System von
Textverarbeitungs-Programmen (TUSTEP);
https://ride.i-d-e.de/issue-11/tustep/
- Elina Leblanc: Omeka Classic. Un environnement de recherche pour les
éditions scientifiques numériques; https://ride.i-d-e.de/issue-11/omeka/
- Andreas Mertgens: Ediarum. A toolbox for editors and developers;
https://ride.i-d-e.de/issue-11/ediarum/
- Torsten Roeder: Juxta Web Service, LERA, and Variance Viewer. Web
based collation tools for TEI;
https://ride.i-d-e.de/issue-11/web-based-collation-tools/
All reviews can be accessed for free here:
http://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-11
Enjoy the RIDE!
On behalf of the editors,
Christiane Fritze
Hello everyone--
We are about to launch the 2020 GO::DH Executive Committee election. We are pleased to have five candidates<http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/2020-godh-executive-board-candidates/> on the ballot for two open positions.
All members of this email list will receive a separate email shortly with instructions and a direct link to the ballot. The email will list me as the sender but the actual sender email address will be: noreply(a)qemailserver.com<mailto:noreply@qemailserver.com>. If you do not receive the email in the next few hours please check your junk/spam folder.
The election will be open for members to vote until Friday, January 31, 2020.
Please take a few moments to read the candidate bios and statements and vote. Thank you to all the candidates and to all members for participating!
-Brian
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Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian, KU 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 | @blros
he/him/his
This is a gentle reminder that registration for DHSI Atlantic, a DH summer
school in Ireland offering workshops in *stylometry (Dr Jan Rybicki)*, *topic
models (Dr Derek Greene)*, and *mapping (Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores) *will
remain open until April 1st.
Workshops have enrollment limits, so the sooner participants register, the
better.
For more, see: https://www.ucc.ie/en/dhsiatlantic/
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*James O'Sullivan *
josullivan.org
Happy New Year! We are continuing to seek submissions<https://handbook.pubpub.org/get-involved> for Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook<https://handbook.pubpub.org/> through January 15th, 2020. Additional details are below. Please direct any questions to digitalhandbook[at]duke.edu<mailto:digitalhandbook@duke.edu>.
All best wishes,
Beth Fischer (Williams College Museum of Art) & Hannah Jacobs (Duke University)
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Hannah L. Jacobs
Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers
Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University
hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu<mailto:hannah.jacobs@duke.edu> | 919-660-6563
dukewired.org | @dukewired | fb.com/wiredduke
MS Student, Information Science, UNC
President, Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina<http://triangledh.org/>
From: Hannah Jacobs <hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:25 PM
Subject: CfP: Digital Project Handbook
**Please share. Apologies for cross-posting.**
Call for Participation: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook
Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (https://handbook.pubpub.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__handbook.pubpub.org_&d…>) is a peer-reviewed open resource designed to fill the gap between platform-specific tutorials and disciplinary discourse in digital humanities. Led by Beth Fischer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Williams College Museum of Art) and Hannah Jacobs (Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab, Duke University), this project offers high-level recommendations for project planning, breakdowns of specific project methods in the form of case studies, and sample assignments to get instructors and students started. As the title suggests, the Handbook focuses on visual materials and visual methods of communication in digital humanities.
The project leaders are seeking submissions of case studies and sample assignments to include in the Handbook:
* Case studies are short overviews of digital projects that help Handbook readers see what such research initiatives actually look like in practice.
* Sample assignments give an overview of how specific digital humanities techniques, methods, or approaches can be practiced in classroom settings at various levels. They are intended as a resource for content and as a way of estimating the time, resources, and steps required to implement student-centric digital humanities projects from lesson planning to assessment.
For this first call, we are prioritizing submissions to the Archival<https://handbook.pubpub.org/archival>, Dimensional<https://handbook.pubpub.org/dimensional>, and Temporal<https://handbook.pubpub.org/temporal> sections of the Handbook, but we recognize that many projects fall into multiple of our project type categories<https://handbook.pubpub.org/project-types>. If your project fits with multiple project types, or if you’d like to submit to any other project type, please do not hesitate to do so. If you have questions about this, please contact digitalhandbook[at]duke.edu.
We are accepting submissions from digital humanities practitioners in a broad range of educational and cultural heritage contexts including higher education institutions, K-12, libraries, archives, museums, and those independent of institutional affiliation. All submissions that are used on the site will be subject to our peer-review process and given full attribution, and we will link to your project website or publications.
First round submission deadline: January 15, 2020
Submit your case study or sample assignment at https://handbook.pubpub.org/get-involved.
Send direct questions to digitalhandbook[at]duke.edu<mailto:digitalhandbook@duke.edu>.
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Hannah L. Jacobs
Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers
Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University
hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu<mailto:hannah.jacobs@duke.edu> | 919-660-6563
dukewired.org | @dukewired | fb.com/wiredduke
MS Student, Information Science, UNC
President, Triangle Digital Humanities Network<http://triangledh.org/>