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Newsletter September 28th

Posted by on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in Events, Newsletters.

In This Newsletter

  • Digital Humanities Events
  • Announcement: Digital Project Microgrants are now available!
  • 21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups
  • New Job Postings
  • Calls for Papers and Conference Submissions
  • 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.

Center for Digital Humanities – Virtual Talk with Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Asst. Professor of History at UC Riverside

Date: Thursday, 7th Oct. 2021

Sponsor: Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities

Registration Form

Digital Commons – Digital Presence – Academic Podcasting

Date and Time: Thursday, October 7th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Panelists: Ed Cheng, Hess chair in law; Kate Stuart, assistant director, Office of Career Development; and Amy Hill, doctoral student in German and comparative media analysis and practice

Sponsor: Digital Commons

Location: zoom

More Event Details and Registration

Mellon Partners for Humanities Education – Digital Archives, Mapping, and Higher Education

Date and Time: Friday, October 8th, 8:45 am – 12noon

Panelists: Dr. Jesse Montgomery, Berea College, Dr. Emma Banks, Tennessee State University, Dr. Deann Armstrong Trakus, Tougaloo College, Dr. Magana Kabugi, Fisk University, Dr. Tiago Fernandes Maranhão, Tougaloo College with Maria Paula Andrade, Vanderbilt University, Dr. Jason Smith, Tougaloo College

Sponsor: Mellon Partners for Humanities Education

Location: Virtual

Registration: RSVP to angela.c.sutton@Vanderbilt.Edu

Additional Information: See attached poster

Digital Commons – Close Reading, Far Reading: Using Text Analysis in Research and Scholarship

Date and Time: Monday, October 25th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Panelists: Mark Schoenfield, professor of English, Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African and African American art, and Pedro Rodriguez, postdoctoral fellow in data science and political science

Sponsors: Digital Commons, Center for Digital Humanities

Location: Virtual

Registration and More Information here

Digital Scholarship and Communications Office – DiSC Education and Training

Date and Time: Multiple

Workshops offered: Digital Literacies Workshop Series, GIS Workshop Series, Python Series, R Series, Github Series, Modalities of Text Mining: Exploring British Periodicals at Scale Series,

More Information and Registration: Link to DiSC Workshops webpage

Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities announces Digital Project Microgrants for 21/22 Academic Year

The Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce faculty digital project microgrants for 2021-2022.

 

These awards are intended to jump-start faculty projects involving digital technology and research in the humanities or qualitative social sciences. We encourage the development of project teams that include graduate and undergraduate students. Collaborations between faculty members are also encouraged. Any Vanderbilt faculty members may apply.

 

Applicants may request up to $2,500 for:

  • Undergraduate research assistants
  • Graduate research awards
  • Project website support
  • Programmers/developers for hire
  • Software and/or data acquisition
  • Training
  • Conference travel for undergraduate or graduate student team members

For more information, see the announcement on the Center for Digital Humanities’ website.

 

To apply, send your 250-word project description and budget to dhcenter@vanderbilt.edu.

21/22 Digital Humanities Working Groups

The Center for Digital Humanities’ Working Groups for the 2021/2022 academic year are in full swing! 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, or sign up using the survey links below!

3D Models and Immersive Environments DH Working Group

Contact: Melanie Forehand

Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!

Black Studies and DH Working Group

Contact: Brandon Byrd

Sign-up Link:  Sign Up Here!

Digital Collections Working Group

Contact: Mickey Casad 

Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!

Text Analysis Working Group

Contacts: Danielle Picard and Mark Schoenfield

Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!

Game Studies and DH Working Group

Contact: Derek Price

Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!

Spatial Humanities Working Group

Contact: Derek Price

Sign-up Link: Sign Up Here!

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, please reach out to Derek Price (derek.t.price@vanderbilt.edu)

Assistant Research Professor, Office of Digital Humanities, Brigham Young University

Application Due: 31 Oct 2021

See job posting #101457 under Faculty Positions at https://yjobs.byu.edu/.

Assistant Professor of English and Digital Studies – Tenure Track, The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Application Due: 01 Nov 2021

Link to job ad

JHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto

Application Due: 30 Nov 2021

Link to job ad

Calls for Papers and Conference Submissions

Call for Contributions: EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine.

Abstracts due October 29, 2021.

Link to CFP

Call for Workshop Participants: Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps (Stanford University)

Workshop Dates: February 28 – March 4, 2022

Applications due: November 12, 2021

Link to CFP

DH Scholarship News

Book Launch: Matthew Kirschenbaum, BITSTREAMS: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL LITERARY HERITAGE

Date and Time: 20 Oct 2021

Additional information and RSVP here