Hello all,
I hope you don't mind a bit of shameless self-promotion (I don't like the
term myself but unfortunately the feeling remains). I was interviewed about
my work on the OpenScience network:
http://blog.scienceopen.com/2016/04/open-science-stars-ernesto-priego/
I feel that in these days of hyper-connectivity and constant social
networking we sometimes don't really know what other colleagues are
doing... we stay in touch but don't really know much about each other and
about what motivates our work etc.
I talk a lot in the interview but Jon who interviewed me was kind enouch to
highlight some blurbs that may spare you having to read the whole thing.
I thought I'd share as I think I express there some of the reasons why I
find the work of Global Outlook so important, even if I don't refer to this
group directly.
If you click on the link, thank you.
Thanks for allowing me to share this with you here.
All the best,
Ernesto
Dr Ernesto Priego
@ernestopriego
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Dear friends, amigxs, amixs, vrienden,
Please see and help us share the call for papers/projects below to your
colleagues and students working at the intersection of digital humanities,
Caribbean studies and adjacent fields. The CFP is also available at The
Caribbean Digital III website <http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2016/>.
Apologies if you've already received this call via other networks.
Thanks,
Kaiama, Alex and Kelly
Call for Papers
a Small Axe Project event
2 December 2016
Barnard College / Columbia University
New York, NY
*Deadline for proposals:* 15 July 2016
The transformation of the academy by the digital revolution presents
challenges to customary ways of learning, teaching, conducting research,
interpreting documents and presenting findings. It also offers great
opportunities in each of these areas. New media enable oration, graphics,
objects, and even embodied performance to supplement existing forms of
scholarly production as well as to constitute entirely original platforms.
Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration have expanded enormously;
information has been made more accessible and research made more efficient
on multiple levels. Scholars are called upon, with some urgency, to adapt
their research and pedagogical methods to an academic climate deluged by a
superabundance of information and analysis. This has created opportunities
for open-ended and multiform engagements, interactive and continually
updating archives and other databases, cartographic applications that
enrich places with historical information, and online dialogues with peers
and the public.
The need for such engagements is especially immediate among the people of
the Caribbean and its diasporas. Information technology has become an
increasingly significant part of the way that people frame pressing social
problems and political aspirations. Aesthetic media like photography and
painting—because they are relatively inexpensive and do not rely on
literacy or formal training—have become popular among economically
dispossessed and politically marginalized constituencies. Moreover, the
Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic
and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by
disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and
physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others
and elsewheres in relentless relation. Yet while we celebrate these
opportunities for connectedness, we also must make certain that the digital
realm undermine and confront rather than re-inscribe forms of silencing and
exclusion in the Caribbean.
Following on conversations that animated our events in 2014
<http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2015/sxcd2014/> and 2015
<http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2015/>, we look forward in this third
public forum to engaging critically with the digital as practice and as
historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and
opportunities presented by the media technologies that evermore intensely
reconfigure the social and geographic contours of the Caribbean. We invite
presentations that explicitly evoke:
- the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary
possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean
- metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean
philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic concepts as “submarine unity,” the
rhizome, Relation, the spiral, repeating islands, creolization, etc.
- gendered dimensions of the digital in the Caribbean
- the connection between digital technologies and practices of the
so-called Caribbean folk
- specific engagements with digital spaces and/or theories by individual
Caribbean artists and intellectuals
- the ways in which digital technologies have impacted or shaped
understandings of specific Caribbean political phenomena (e.g. sovereignty,
reparations, transnationalism, migration, etc.)
- structural means of facilitating broad engagement, communication, and
accessibility in the Caribbean digital context (cultivation of multilingual
spaces, attentiveness to the material/hardware limitations of various
populations)
- in what ways has the digital brought welcome bibliographic,
philological and curatorial attention to endangered or neglected archives
in the region
Both traditional conference papers and integrally multimedia presentations
are welcome. We also welcome virtual synchronous participation by
presenters who cannot travel to New York City to attend the event. Selected
participants from this forum will be encouraged to submit their work to *sx
archipelagos* – an interactive, born-digital, print-possible, peer-reviewed
Small Axe Project publication.
Abstracts of 300 words and a short bio should be sent to Kaiama L. Glover,
Kelly Baker Josephs, and Alex Gil (tcd(a)smallaxe.net) by *15 July 2016*.
Successful applicants will be notified by 15 August 2016.
For more information on previous Caribbean Digital events, visit Caribbean
Digital 2015 <http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/2015/> and our archived page
for Caribbean Digital 2014
<https://wayback.archive-it.org/1914/20151224034027/http://caribbeandigital.…>
.
Dear colleagues,
Chers collègues,
We are proud to announce to you a call for papers for a French-language DHQ Special issue: deadline to submit articles in French, 30th of September 2016, to dhqfrench(a)gmail.com
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/cfps.html
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer un appel à contribution pour un numéro spécial de DHQ consacré aux humanités digitales francophones. Délai de soumission des articles: 30 septembre 2016 à dhqfrench(a)gmail.com
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/cfps.html
Le comité éditorial; the editorial committee:
Aurélien Berra, Claire Clivaz, Sophie Marcotte, Emmanuelle Morlock et Louis-Pascal Rousseau, members of Humanistica steering committee; membres du comité d'Humanistica, www.humanisti.ca
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It is with great pleasure that I announce the winners of the 2016 GO::DH
executive elections (in alphabetical order:
- Elena Gonzalez-Blanco
- Élika Ortega
- Thomas G. Padilla
- Roopika Risam
Each was elected to a two year term.
We owe a debt of gratitude to all who stood in the election and to our
outgoing Executive members: Øyvind Eide and Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa.
The executive will meet soon to choose its officers.
Dear all,
It is my pleasure to share the news that we're launching today the
Translation Toolkit on alpha version that we've done as GO::DH working
group including Alex Gil, Gimena del Río and Dan O'Donnell primarily, but
really the result of talking and listening to all of you for the past two
years.
The project seeks to promote multilingual practices on different realms of
DH work like conferences, publications, developments and websites. In this
release, the emphasis is put on ad hoc, conference, translation. We hope
some of the strategies outlined in the Toolkit can be implemented over the
upcoming Summer conference season.
Currently, the Toolkit is available in English-Spanish bilingual version.
You can visit the site here http://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/
Many thanks to everyone who has pitched in ideas, we hope to count on your
feedback for further iterations.
All best,
Élika (on behalf of the whole team)
Dear colleagues,
it is with great pleasure that we share with you the presentation of
burckhardtsource.org at Basel State Archive (Swizerland), the institution
preserving Jacob Burckhardt’s estate.
The event will take place next Monday 18 April 2016, please find attached
the official invitation.
Best regards
Costanza Giannaccini
--
Costanza Giannaccini, PhD
ERC Project "The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt"
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa, Italy
*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
Dear all,
I hope the following call will be of interest to some of you.
The EADH brings together, and represents, the Digital Humanities in Europe.
It includes the entire spectrum of disciplines that research, develop, and
apply digital methods and technologies to the study of art, history,
language, literature, music, archeology, etc. With the goal of gathering
representative works and promoting access, we have created a slider on our
website that will feature initiatives for a period of time: http://eadh.org/
We are looking for projects undertaken during the last five years that
contribute meaningfully to Digital Humanities in Europe. If you want to add
your Digital Humanities project to our website, please fill in our web
submission form with a description and your contact details:
http://eadh.org/projects/submit-your-project
At the moment submissions are accepted in English. All submissions will be
reviewed by the EADH executive committee.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further details at
rojas.castro.antonio(a)gmail.com
All the best,
--
Antonio Rojas Castro
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Communication Coordinator
<http://www.facebook.com/antoni.rojas>
*Global Digital Humanities Symposium*
*April 8-9, 2016*
Union Building, Room 55
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
http://msuglobaldh.org/
Free and open to the public.
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be livestreamed:
*Livestream link for Friday, April 8 - https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI
<https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI>*
*Livestream link for Saturday, April 9 - https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg
<https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg>*
We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as
expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two
day symposium. The Symposium will begin with a half day workshop on Minimal
Computing and will include a range of talk types across the two days.
*Breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks will be provided to all registrants
on both Friday and Saturday. In addition, a reception with appetizers will
be provided on Friday.*
*Schedule* (all times are EST)
Friday, April 8
- 9:00-11:30 - Minimal Computing Workshop, Alex Gil
- 11:45-1:00 - Lunch (provided)
- 1:15-1:30 - Welcoming Remarks
- 1:30-2:30 - (Global) Digital Humanities and Subalternity: Questions
and Provocations - Radhika Gajjala
- 2:45-3:45 - Panel
- Mapping the Religious Soundscape of the Midwest, Amy DeRogatis and
Bobby Smiley
- Muslims in the Midwest, Mohammad Khalil
- MSU Vietnam Group Archive, Charles Keith
- 4:00-6:00 - LOCUS <http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus/next/>
(lightning
talks session)
- 6:30-7:30 - Reception
Saturday, April 9
- 9:45-10:45 - Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World
Literature, Hoyt Long
- 11:15-12:15 - MSU Archive of Malian Photography, Candace Keller
- 1:30-1:45 - Remarks, Dean Christopher P. Long, College of Arts and
Letters
- 1:45-3:00 - Roundtable
- 3:30-4:30 - Minimal Computing and the Borders of the New Republic of
Letters, Alex Gil
- 5:00-6:00 - Lessons from Global, Pre-Modern, Jewish Digital
Humanities, Dorothy Kim
Find out more about the symposium at http://msuglobaldh.org/about/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Specialist, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308A
East Lansing MI 48824
517.884.1712
kmapes(a)msu.edu
Dear all,
Humanist subscribers on this list may have seen already my message in reply
to the launch of the new EPI Search engine (http://isce-library.net/epi.aspx).
Basically, I was discussing the implicit (and undeclared) linguistic bias
of this tool, and I gave few examples.
As I did not get any reply from ISCE, and the examples were expunged from
the Humanist email, I decided to republish my reflection on our blog:
http://infolet.it/2016/04/06/search-engine-without-a-difference/
Hope it will help others to reflect on the profound epistemic and cultural
consequences of these instruments.
All the best
Domenico