Newsletter August 25th
In This Newsletter:
- Meet our incoming fellows
- Upcoming DH events
- Call for Mellon Partners for Humanities Education Collaboration Grants
- Calls for papers and conferences
Meet Our Incoming Fellows:
Please join in welcoming our new cohort of Mellon Fellowship for the Digital Humanities recipients.
Faculty Fellows:
Jana Harper, Art
Danielle Picard, Medicine, Health & Society
Mark Schoenfield, English
Lijun Song, Sociology
Meike Werner, German, Russian & East European Studies
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Melanie Forehand, Spanish
Derek Price, German Studies & CMAP
Graduate Fellows:
Elvira Aballi Morell, Spanish & Portuguese
Debbie Brubaker, Religion/Theological Studies
Meghan McGinley, French & Italian
Samantha Rogers, History
Katerina Traut, Political Science
Kayleigh Whitman, History
Tyler Anthony, Spanish & Portuguese &CMAP
Ethan Calof, English & CMAP
Victoria Hoover, English & CMAP
Maren Loveland, English & CMAP
Ricky Sakamoto-Pugh, History & CMAP
Abigail Trozenski, German, Russian & East European Studies & CMAP
Call for Mellon Partners for Humanities Education Collaboration Grants:
The Mellon Partners for Humanities Education program is pleased to announce the fourth and final round of collaborative grants to support the shared teaching and research goals of faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences from our consortium of partner institutions: Berea College, Fisk University, Tennessee State University, Tougaloo College, and Vanderbilt University. Applicants may apply for grant funds totaling between $1,000 and $20,000 for a one-year project. Full details at: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/call-for-mellon-partners-for-humanities-education-collaboration-grants/
Upcoming Events in the Digital Humanities Community:
Nested Knowledge Digital Art Exhibition
August 27th 3 to 5 PM Central
Digital Galery Celebration and Reflection
Meeting link available on their website the day of the event: nestedknowledge.online
Calls for Papers and Conferences:
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
organizing its third conference with the theme “Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent”.
Submission deadline extension (29 August 2021)
Final call for papers DHASA Conference 2021
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za/
Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (https://handbook.pubpub.org/) is an open online resource providing guidance for anyone starting or working on their own digital projects. Structured around project stages and digital methods, the Handbook incorporates examples of research and teaching submitted by scholars and practitioners from around the world. The Handbook editors are seeking submissions of sample assignments and case studies. Find out more & submit: https://handbook.pubpub.org/get-involved. We accept submissions on a rolling basis and will next be reviewing new submissions on September 30, 2021.
The Humanities Editors Collective housed in the Department of Humanities at York University is excited to announce a special issue for the journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Imaginations is a multilingual, open-access peer-reviewed journal with a core focus on international visual cultural studies. Led by Editor-in-chief, Markus Reisenleitner, the journal is funded by the federal granting agency of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and showcases original artwork and scholarly research in original languages.
Original research essays should be between 5000-7000 words. Book reviews (750 – 1000 words), short essays (3000 – 4000 words), and experimental artworks will also be considered. Please include a separate 250-word author biography and contact information. The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2020. Please send all inquiries and submissions to editorsathuma@gmail.com.
African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC- 2021)
Conference Date: 22nd –25th November, 2021.
Venue: University of Lagos, Nigeria/University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Morocco (Hybrid: Virtual/in-person). Conference Languages: French, Arabic & English.
Registration is free but membership is mandatory. Please register here: https://africanelit.org/AELAIWC.php .