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DH Newsletter March 7th

Posted by on Monday, March 7, 2022 in Newsletters.

In This Newsletter

  • Digital Humanities Events

  • 21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups

  • New Job Postings

  • CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops

  • DH Scholarship News

Digital Humanities Events

Below is a selection of upcoming events across campus that might be of interest to scholars, educators, and students working in and around Digital Humanities. You can always check out events that the Center for Digital Humanities is running on the center’s public google calendar or on the events page of the center’s website.

 

Workshop: Software Carpentries: Reproducible Research with R

Sponsored by: Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Research IT Services, Data Science Institute, and ACCRE, and DiSC

Date and Time: Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

Location: Data Science Institute Sony Building on Vanderbilt Campus

Registration link

 

Pathways After the PhD: A Career Chat

Sponsored by: the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities

Date and Time: March 24th, 12:15 – 1:15pm Central

Email derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu for Zoom link

 

DiSC Education and Training: Spring 2022

Workshops this semester include a number of workshops on introductory and intermediate GIS technologies and techniques, introductions to GitHub, Network Analysis, and Wikidata, as well as beginner and intermediate lessons in both Python and R.

For more information and registration, see this link

 

Digital Commons Spring 2022 Events

Upcoming Events:

  • Podcasting Essentials: What You Need to Know to Launch Your Own Podcast (March 9th)

  • Creating Engaging Research Videos through Digital Storytelling (March 16th)

For more information, see this link

21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups

The Center for Digital Humanities’ Working Groups for the 2021/2022 academic year are gearing up for another exciting and productive semester! These working groups are for anyone on campus interested in Digital Humanities, from absolute beginner to advanced practitioner. If you’re interested in any of the topics below, get in touch with the organizer to learn more!

 

3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group

Contact: Melanie Forehand

Email: melanie.j.forehand@vanderbilt.edu

Black Studies and DH Working Group

Contact: Brandon Byrd

Email: brandon.r.byrd@vanderbilt.edu

Digital Collections Working Group

Contact: Mickey Casad

Email: m.casad@vanderbilt.edu

Text Analysis Working Group

Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield

Email: debbie.l.brubaker@vanderbilt.edumark.l.schoenfield@Vanderbilt.Edu

Game Studies and DH Working Group

Contact: Derek Price

Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu

Spatial Humanities Working Group

Contact: Derek Price

Email: derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu

New Job Postings

Below are job ads that may be of interest to scholars working in Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Information Science, Library Science, and more. We hope these links will encourage you to learn more about the advertised positions and institutions. If you want us to circulate a particular job ad or have any questions, please reach out to Derek Price (derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu)

 

Faculty Position in Digital History, Duke Kunshan University

Applications due: April 1, 2022

Link to job ad

CFPs, Conferences, and Workshops

CFP: GSA 2022 Panel: Digital Humanities Knowledge Production in German Studies, German Studies Association

Abstracts due March 15, 2022

Link to CFP

 

CFP: 7th Annual Islamicate Digital Humanities Network Conference

Abstracts due Friday, March 25, 2022

Link to CFP

 

CFP: Submissions to The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers

Proposals due March 31, 2022

Link with more information

DH Scholarship News

“Women Writers Online” free during Women’s History Month (March 2022)

Guide to Women Writers Online

Link to Women Writers Online Website