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DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters
by James Cummings 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Please forward, apologies for cross posting. === DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters Deadline: 1 May 2014 http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is one of the leading international training events in Digital Humanities. It is for researchers, project managers, librarians, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with additional morning parallel lectures. There will also be a peer-reviewed poster session giving delegates a chance to present their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. Presenting a poster often gives delegates a chance to receive funding to attend from their local institution. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014 and the five-day workshops offered are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions The Monday evening reception at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History also will be our peer-reviewed poster session. The poster application form asks for an abstract (max 250 words) of what your poster is about and why it will be useful for delegates at DHOxSS 2014 to see it. Only registered delegates of DHOxSS, or members of the University of Oxford, may present a research poster at DHOxSS. However, you do not need to be registered at the time of submitting the poster application form. The DHOxSS will offer an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and participate in discussions about a wide range of digital techniques and research methods, as well as exploring key topics in depth with leading senior researchers and technologists. Applications are due by 1 May 2014. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html and for enquiries email researchsupport(a)it.ox.ac.uk. Don’t forget our NeDiMAH bursaries, deadline fast approaching: 22 April 2014. http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html James Cummings Director of DHOxSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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Launching a DH Innovation Lab at UNED + THATCamp
by Elena González-Blanco 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Apologies for cross-posting, Dear Friends, It is a pleasure for me to announce that we are launching the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (LINHD) at UNED www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales on 30th April in Madrid. For the occasion, we have organized a THATCamp on Digital Humanities open for participation to everybody interested in the topic. Attendance is free, and the event will also be broadcasted via internet. For more information see www.linhduned.thatcamp.org Feel free to spread this information to everybody interested! Looking forward to meet you on Wednesday, Best regards, Elena González-Blanco Academic Director, LINHD Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales Queridos amigos: El próximo miércoles 30 de abril inauguraremos el Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED (www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales). Para ello, hemos organizado un ThatCamp sobre Humanidades Digitales de participación abierta a todos aquellos que estén interesados en el tema, que comenzará a las 10 de la mañana en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la UNED en Madrid. Se podrá asistir presencialmente o seguir el evento en directo a través de internet en vídeo. Hemos recogido toda la información en www.linhduned.thatcamp.org Os ruego difundáis esta información entre todos aquellos que puedan estar interesados. Un saludo cordial, Elena González-Blanco Directora Académica del LINHD Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales

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Fwd: [kbf] Fwd: Call for Abstracts: ITfC-IDRC Round Table
by Daniel O'Donnell 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

This is /certainly/ of interest to people here! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [kbf] Fwd: Call for Abstracts: ITfC-IDRC Round Table Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:35:24 +0000 From: Shamprasad Pujar <pujar(a)igidr.ac.in> Reply-To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum <knowledgebrokersforum(a)dgroups.org> To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum <knowledgebrokersforum(a)dgroups.org> Dear All, This could be of interest to some of you. best Regards, Sham ---------------------------------------------------------- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] Call for Abstracts: ITfC-IDRC Round Table Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:04:42 +0530 From: Roshini <roshini(a)itforchange.net> <mailto:roshini@itforchange.net> Reply-To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net <mailto:ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net>, Dear All, A Round Table on *'Inclusion in the network society- mapping development alternatives, forging research agendas'* is being organised by IT for Change <http://www.itforchange.net/> and IDRC <http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Pages/default.aspx>, from 29th September to 1st October, 2014. The round table will bring together around 25 participants – leading scholars, development practitioners and thinkers, who are interested in the theoretical and policy aspects of equity, inclusion and participation in the 'ICTs and development' domain. This open call is to invite abstracts from young development researchers and practitioners who can contribute to the debate. There is a limited number of travel fellowships for authors of selected full-length essays, to participate in the round table. For further information, please read the call for abstracts <http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/23%20April%20-%20Call%2…> (also enclosed below) and theconcept note <http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/22%20April-%20Concept%2…>. *Last date for submissions of abstracts is 31st May, 2014.* We request you to please share this with your networks. If you have received this email more than once, please accept our apologies for cross-posting. Regards, IT for Change team header Logo Call for Abstracts Round table: *Inclusion in the network society* – *mapping development alternatives, forging research agendas* *Bangalore, India* *29 September - 1 October 2014 * The experience of first-generation initiatives in the field of 'ICTs and development' has clearly demonstrated that the question of inclusion in the network society cannot be reduced merely to that of access to technological artefacts or infrastructures. In a globalised social order, the mechanisms of networked, global systems – production chains, finance, scientific and research processes, and the media – structure the rules of inclusion. They determine who has the ability to substantively participate in, and benefit from, the dominant networks of information, knowledge, production, and of cultural and resource flows. Today, as we witness what has been somewhat glibly labelled the 'mobile revolution', alongside a momentous surge in the use of social media technologies – especially by young populations in developing countries – newer frames to interpret social equity, inclusion and participation become critical for the agenda of development. How does the diffusion of ICTs connect to the democratisation of information, knowledge and culture? Does it offer new pathways for the socially marginalised to have greater control over knowledge and wealth? International Development Research Centre (IDRC), along with IT for Change, will host a round table between 29th September - 1st October, 2014, bringing together leading development scholars and practitioners to contribute to the ongoing dialogues on ICTs and development – particularly from the vantage point of equity and inclusion. In September 2009, IDRC had initiated a similar dialogue with Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence, as well as other leading thinkers, at the Harvard Forum on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction. Building on the key debates of the Harvard Forum, the round table will explore if, and how, opportunities in the emerging network society are, and can be, 'programmed' into the structures of technological networks. Another key objective of the round table is to build a research agenda that is contemporary enough to tackle the future of the ICTs and development question in the Global South. Key issues The round table will focus on the following issues: 1. What is the emerging structural-institutional ecology framing inclusion in the network society? What readings of the current paradigms of ICT diffusion, use, production and policy allow us to trace power and exclusion? 2. How do we map continuities and disjunctures in development practice when technology meets society, to build a 'new' narrative in which all people matter? 3. Under what conditions can digital technologies bring about 'equitable inclusion' in the network society? What kind of a structural-institutional ecology can facilitate efforts for 'equitable inclusion' in the network society? 4. What broad questions and specific themes would comprise a pertinent research agenda on networks, development and inclusion? What research methodologies would be appropriate in this regard? Outcomes The round table envisages the following outcomes: • Field-building that deepens theoretical inquiry on 'inclusion and equity in the network society'. • Research agenda-setting on themes at the intersection of networks, development and inclusion. • Network building to explore possibilities for further work to build a systematic body of knowledge. • Knowledge products in the form of papers/essays, that can be the basis of a special journal issue. The event is designed to bring together around 25 participants – leading scholars, development practitioners and thinkers, as well as young researchers and practitioners in the sector who are interested in the theoretical and policy aspects of equity, inclusion and participation, in the 'ICTs and development' domain. This open call seeks to identify young development researchers and practitioners who can contribute to the debate. Interested individuals need to submit an abstract of 1000 words that will become the basis for an analytical essay, in case it is short-listed for the round table. There is a limited number of travel fellowships for authors of selected full-length essays, to participate in the round table. Selection criteria include a minimum of five years of experience in the development sector, preferably with a focus on ICTs, and two publications. (Criteria may be relaxed on a case-by-case basis). Submission deadlines Abstracts must be received by*31st May 2014*. Full essays are due by *15th August 2014.* Please send all submissions and queries to: networkinclusion(a)gmail.com <mailto:mailto:networkinclusion@gmail.com> More details at: www.itforchange.net <http://www.itforchange.net/> You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community Knowledge Brokers' Forum <https://dgroups.org/groups/kbf>. A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Knowledge Brokers' Forum. 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DH in Romania
by Daniel O'Donnell 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hi all, Something reposted from Humanist that may be relevant to members of this list! Dear all, It started with a random link on your page, while we were preparing to fill a grant proposal and application for ”Mapping Transylvanian cultural representations” as a result of an International Congress. We are since then most devoted visitors, we learned from every post and every link you shared. Please help up building a DH Center in Transylvania, you can see the document attached [below]. The things are pretty developed, we just need the university senate agreement and signature (of the Babes-Bolyai University that we represent). Thank you Corina Moldovan Senior Lecturer Chief of French Department of the Faculty of Letters Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca Romania *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1398345121_2014-04-24… -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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SEMINAR “Digital Writing and Editorialisation” - Algorithms and Automated Web Curation - April 24
by Fabrice Marcoux 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

The fifth session of the seminar "Digital Writing and Editorialisation" will take place on *Thursday, April 24,* *11**:**30 AM at University of Montreal *(in room P217 of Roger-Gaudry Building)[videoconference link-up with "salle Triangle" of Pompidou Center in Paris, 5:30 PM] *More information*: *http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article33 <http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article33>* The session will be retransmitted live on *http://www.polemictweet.com/ <http://www.polemictweet.com/>* Topic of the session: *Algorithms and Automated Web Curation* Behind our reading experience lies data structured by algorithms (often proprietary) which create the meaning of content. Algorithms and editorial devices have become more and more present and powerful and create important reading trajectories. Aside from Google PageRank, what are the new metrical and statistical paradigms that shape by default (knowingly, or not) our informational world and the putting into meaning of that world? Is the algorithm a plausible (and sole) answer to the proliferation of data on the Web? Has the Web become “*un immense bazar où il serait impossible de trier l’information de qualité?*” [“an immense bazaar where it is extremely difficult to select quality information?” (A citation by Dominique Cardon regarding Yochai Benkler's “Babel objection”)] *Guest presentators are*: - *Dominique Cardon* : http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?auteur58. - *Audrey Laplante* : http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?auteur60. The seminar is organized by *La revue Sens Public*, the *Iri*, Université de Montréal and McGill University, supported by MSH Paris-Nord. It was created in 2009 in partnership with the laboratoire Invisu (INHA-CNRS). *Following session: Thursday, June 19, 2014* See the whole program: *http://seminaire.sens-public.org/ <http://seminaire.sens-public.org/>* *Thanks for sharing the information !* An invitation by Marcello Vitali Rosati and Michael E. Sinatra, teachers at Université de Montréal, Nicolas Sauret from the *Iri* , Stefan Sinclair at McGill University and Carole Dely editor of *La revue Sens Public*. -- Fabrice Marcoux Masters student in *Littératures de langue française* at Université de Montréal *fabrice.marcoux(a)umontreal.ca <fabrice.marcoux(a)umontreal.ca>* *homegnolia(a)gmail.com <homegnolia(a)gmail.com>*

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Fwd: [kbf] New 'Mapping Research Uptake Learning Materials' project launched
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi all, This is something that might be of interest to people on this list... -dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [kbf] New 'Mapping Research Uptake Learning Materials' project launched Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:10:39 +0000 From: Jo Reid <jo(a)commsconsult.org> Reply-To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum <knowledgebrokersforum(a)dgroups.org> To: Knowledge Brokers' Forum <knowledgebrokersforum(a)dgroups.org> Dear all, Here at CommsConsult <commsconsult.org> we’re doing a piece of work for theDRUSSA <http://www.drussa.net/>programme (Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa) and are looking for some help from you. They’re planning to develop a series of training materials to support universities to build capacity in research uptake management (RUM). They define Research Uptake Management (RUM) as /‘an emerging university management field with a practical, cost-effective and sustainable approach to making research accessible and getting research into use. It requires specialist individual capacity, aligned organisational structures and strategic management processes to optimise conditions for the accessibility, dissemination, uptake and application of scientific evidence.’/ The programme has already amassed a range of workshop materials and presentations around this topic and wants to commission an audit of these internal resources, as well as of similar external resources, in order to determine what the new series of training materials should cover. The new series will be aimed at complementing the existing programme of Mphils, Phds and short professional courses in knowledge utilisation for DRUSSA universities and others. The intended audience is practitioners working in the field at operational level within DRUSSA universities. So for this purpose we’re interested in unearthing any and all materials around how an institution thinks about, develops strategies, policies and processes for; nurtures staff to be more effective and passionate about; generate resources for; and evidences what impact is achieved through… a more strategic approach to research uptake. We have plenty of materials about the various elements of research uptake that an individual researcher needs to know and do, *but it is at the institutional level where we think the gap is.* It may be that you feel you have specialist knowledge of, or access to offline materials in a particular area of research uptake that we don’t already know about (e.g. because it’s not available online, or is not well known). We believe the mapping is a really helpful exercise to make visible - not only for the DRUSSA programme but to a much wider community including Think Tanks – resources that will help organisations to systematise a different way of managing research. We are encouraging DRUSSA to not only make the mapping public, but to offer the distance learning modules generated, also free of charge to whoever wants to learn. *So, if you have some RUM-related materials or information you would like to share, please either complete our short survey <http://www.researchtoaction.org/2014/04/new-mapping-research-uptake-learnin…> and/or get in contact with us via drussa(a)commsconsult.org <mailto:drussa@commsconsult.org> so that we can make sure your input is heard and arrange appropriate follow up with you. * Thank you in advance, Jo Jo Reid Project Manager CommsConsult Ltd Tremough Innovation Centre Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9TA Tel: +44 (0)1326 313133 Skype: joannacreid Twitter: @joannacreid @CommsConsultLtd *Please note: I work Mondays and Tuesdays only.* http://www.commsconsult.org/ http://www.researchtoaction.org/ You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community Knowledge Brokers' Forum <https://dgroups.org/groups/kbf>. A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Knowledge Brokers' Forum. Reply to sender <mailto:jo@commsconsult.org> | Unsubscribe <mailto:leave.knowledgebrokersforum@dgroups.org>

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Announcing The Syriac Gazetteer (http://syriaca.org/geo/) a Digital Gazetteer Project
by Michelson, David Allen 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Dear Global DH community, Many of you on this list have patiently helped members of our team, so I am pleased to let you all know that we have now officially published our historical gazetteer. A press release is below. A special thanks goes to Tom Elliott and Winona Salesky our XML architects. Thank you to the Global DM community for all of your help and your encouragement to projects like ours seeking to do multilingual DH work, Dave David A. Michelson Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity Vanderbilt University Press Release 04/08/2014 Syriaca.org publishes The Syriac Gazetteer (http://syriaca.org/geo/) Editors: Thomas A. Carlson and David A. Michelson Senior Programmers: Winona Salesky and Thomas Elliott ________________________________ Syriaca.org<http://syriaca.org/> is pleased to announce publication of The Syriac Gazetteer<http://syriaca.org/geo/>(http://syriaca.org/geo/), an online geographical dictionary to document Syriac culture in the Middle East, Asia, and around the globe. The Syriac Gazetteer<http://syriaca.org/geo/> is a born-digital publication employing eXistDB, TEI XML, and Linked Open Data URIs. All publications of Syriaca.org are made available online in a free and open format using the Creative Commons<http://creativecommons.org/>licenses. Project data and code are available in a public Github repository<https://github.com/srophe/>. What is Syriac? Syriac is a language which once flourished on the Mesopotamian plateau. A dialect of Aramaic, Syriac was widely used during much of the first millenium of the common era. Syriac speaking communities could be found in what today would be Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, Central Asia, China, and Mongolia. Sources in Syriac hold immense value for increasing our historical understanding of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Asia. In particular, Syriac sources document key moments in the development and interaction of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions of Late Antiquity. What is The Syriac Gazetteer? The Syriac Gazetteer<http://syriaca.org/geo/> is the first in a suite of reference works to be published as a part of Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal<http://syriaca.org/>. The gazetteer contains multilingual entries (in English, Syriac, and Arabic) covering over 2400 places relevant to Syriac Studies, from ancient centers of Syriac culture (such as the city of Edessa<http://syriaca.org/place/78>) to modern diaspora communities (such as the monastery of Mor Awgen<http://syriaca.org/place/680> in Switzerland). The Syriac Gazetteer<http://syriaca.org/geo/> is an ever-expanding resource created by and for users based on the principles of Linked Open Data. This publication is intended to serve a broad scholarly audience including students of Middle Eastern studies, classics, medieval history, religious studies, biblical studies, and linguistics as well as Syriac heritage communities and the interested general public. Users are encouraged to begin exploring The Syriac Gazetteer<http://syriaca.org/geo/> through these links: Main page: http://syriaca.org/geo/ About the Gazetteer: http://syriaca.org/geo/about.html Browse the Collection: http://syriaca.org/geo/browse.html Browse via Interactive Map: http://syriaca.org/geo/browse.html?view=map Edessa, the model entry: http://syriaca.org/place/78 Documentation: http://syriaca.org/geo/help/ Related Online Resources Syriaca.org<http://syriaca.org/> is also preparing a number of other publications: * Clavis Syriaca: A two volume reference guide to Syriac authors and their works for use in cataloguing Syriac manuscripts. An initial fasicule has already been published as part of The Virtual International Authority File<http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22ephrem%22+and+local.so…>. * The Syriac Prosopography: A text-based prosopography similar to the The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)<http://www.pase.ac.uk/>. * Gateway to the Syriac Saints: A two volume reference guide to Syriac saints and their vitae. * Digital Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A digital catalogue of Syriac manuscripts using the TEI XML standards<http://jtei.revues.org/372> for manuscript cataloguing. * A Union Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts: A digital catalogue of Syriac manuscripts following the model of the Fihrist<http://www.fihrist.org.uk/> union catalogue. These publications are the result of the collaboration and good will of the many scholars who have helped create them. Technical design of the project was completed by Winona Salesky and Thomas Elliott, Senior Programmers. Funding has come from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fondazione Internazionale Balzan, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.). The editors of the project welcome inquiries from the media and offers of collaboration from the scholarly community. They may be reached at info(a)syriaca.org<mailto:info@syriaca.org>. Sincerely, David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University, Co-editor Thomas A. Carlson, Princeton University, Co-editor

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Last Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014.
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

==Apologies for cross posting== A last call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of Lethbridge. Applications are due April 15, though we will continue to consider applications until the position is filled. *Specialisation: *20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism (we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be a series of ads) *Sub-specialisation: *Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the University more generally) *Starting-Salary:* In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k. *Deadline: *April 15, 2014. We will continue to consider applications until the position is filled; but do expect to begin examining the pool very soon after the deadline passes (please let your referees know this) *Further details: *http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english *Required information:* Applications should include a curriculum vitae, transcripts, outlines of courses previously taught, teaching evaluations, publication reprints or preprints, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests. Letter for reference from three referees should be mailed/emailed/faxed separately to the address below. *Postal Address:* Dr. Adam Carter, Chair, Department of English The University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 Canada *Email:* bev.garnett(a)uleth.ca (emailed applications/letters of reference are acceptable) *Fax:* +1 (403) 382-7191 (faxed applications/letters of reference are acceptable) *Administrative office telephone: *+1 (403) 380-1894 Please feel free to email the contact the chair (a.carter(a)uleth.ca), me (daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca), or any member of the department if you have additional questions.// As the deadline approaches, emailed applications are probably most certain to arrive on time. Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and the University and is a key component in a recent central administration application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University. The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting significant resources into the development of our (relatively new) graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit (currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the teaching programme in their area of research specialisation. The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada. Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about 180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors. Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org, globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding Initiative. Faculty are also associated with the Institute for Child and Youth Studies and the in-preparation Centre for Studies in the Digital Age. -dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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2nd Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014.
by Daniel O'Donnell 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

==Apologies for cross posting== A second call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of Lethbridge . *Specialisation: *20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism (we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be a series of ads) *Sub-specialisation: *Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the University more generally) *Starting-Salary:* In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k (in other words, enough to make you too expensive for Nazareth College: http://cedarsdigest.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/on-treating-the-unprepared-as-…) *Deadline: *April 15, 2014 (we intend to review applications almost immediately after the deadline, so please emphasise this with your referees). *Further details: *http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and the University and is a key component in a recent central administration application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University. The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting significant resources into the development of our (relatively new) graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit (currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the teaching programme in their area of research specialisation. The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada. Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about 180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors. Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org, globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and the Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding Initiative. -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Fwd: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital
by Alex Gil 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

[apologies for the cross-posting] An event that may be of interest to those working on Caribbean studies or Caribbean related matters. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kaiama L. Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu> Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:00 PM Subject: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital To: Kaiama Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu> Call for Papers/Projects *The Caribbean Digital* a s*mall axe* event 5 December 2014 Barnard College / Columbia University New York, NY Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2014 The transformation of the academy by the digital revolution presents challenges to customary ways of learning, teaching, conducting research, 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. Textual artifacts have been rendered literally and figuratively three-dimensional; opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration have expanded exponentially; 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. In this unique one-day public forum we intend to engage 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) Both traditional papers and integrally multimedia papers/presentations are welcome. We also welcome virtual synchronous presentations by invited participants who cannot travel to New York City to attend the event. Selected proceedings from this forum will be published in the inaugural issue (September 2015) of *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 and Kelly Baker Josephs (archipelagos(a)smallaxe.net) by *1 June 2014*. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 August 2014. -- Kaiama L. Glover Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies Barnard College, Columbia University *Haiti Unbound <http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view…>* available from Liverpool UP

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