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Centernet CFP–NANO: New American Notes Online (Issue 5) Special Theme: Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, Deadline: 1 October 2013

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NANO: New American Notes Online

Call for Papers: Issue 5

Special Theme: Digital Humanities, Public Humanities

Deadline: 1 October 2013

www.nanocrit.com

Scholars, artists, and new media practitioners—including Sharon Daniel, Erik Loyer, Alex Juhasz, Liz Losh, Tara McPherson, Kathleen Woodward, Sarah Elwood, Margaret Rhee, Kim Christen, and Alan Liu—have recently investigated the intersections of digital methods with cultural criticism, demonstrating how investments in technologies and computation are not necessarily antithetical to investments in critical theory and social justice. Building on these investments, this special issue of NANO (http://www.nanocrit.com/) asks how, when, and for whom digital humanities is also public humanities, with particular attention to project-based research. For instance:

● Which digital humanities projects are currently engaging contemporary politics and social exclusion, under what assumptions, and through what mechanisms?

● How are these projects articulating relationships with their publics and community partners, and through what platforms and forms of collaboration?

● How are public humanities projects being preserved, circulated, and exhibited through digital methods? By whom? Using what protocols and technologies?

● Does public humanities have “data”? If so, then how is that data defined or structured? If not, then what are some concerns about data-driven research?

● What might the histories of digital humanities (however defined) learn from social justice activism, participatory research, context provision, and witnessing?

● How are building, making, or coding activities embedded in social justice initiatives?

Across text, image, audio, and video, authors are invited to individually or collaboratively submit notes or brief “reports” detailing projects that work across digital and public humanities, including projects that do not identify with either term.

For the issue, a “report” implies a submission that, at a minimum:

● Focuses on an existing project, which is in development or already live;

● Provides screengrabs, screencasts, or snapshots of that project and (where possible) treats them as evidence for an argument about the project;

● Intersects questions of computation and technology with questions of culture and social justice; and

● Articulates a narrative for the project, including (where applicable) its workflows, motivations, interventions, management, and partners.

Invited by NANO, the editor of this special issue is the Maker Lab in the Humanities at the University of Victoria, including Adèle Barclay, Nina Belojevic, Alex Christie, Jana Millar Usiskin, Stephen Ross, Jentery Sayers, and Katie Tanigawa.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: For this special issue, we are accepting submissions across text, image, video, and audio. All submissions should be submitted to both maker and editor.nanocrit by 11:59pm on 1 October 2013 in your time zone. The body of the email should include your name(s), your affiliation(s), the title of the submission, five keywords describing the submission, and media type(s) and format(s) for the submission. Where possible, the submissions should be attached to the email. Should a submission exceed the email attachment limit, then the body of the email should also include a URL for the submission. The URL should not be discoverable on the web (e.g., it should be behind a passcode-protected wall, in a private cyberlocker, or not visible by search engines). Do not include your name(s) in any file name. Your name(s) should only be included in the body of your email.

If your submission is in text, then it should not exceed 3500 words (DOC(X)s and RTFs are preferred). Up to 15 high-resolution (at least 600 dpi) images are permitted (JPEGs are preferred) per submission. Video submissions should be 3 to 10 minutes in duration (MOVs and MP4s are preferred; minimum resolution: 426 x 400; maximum resolution: 1920 x 1080). Audio essays should also be 3 to 10 minutes in duration (MP3s and WAVs are preferred, encoded at 256 kbit/s or higher). Both audio and video can also be embedded in any text submission (no more than 5 instances of embedded media per submission).

All submissions should follow MLA guidelines for format, in-text citations, and works cited. Please email any questions about the submission guidelines to maker and editor.nanocrit.

SCHEDULE: Below is a tentative timeline for this special issue:

April 2013: Call for papers

October 1, 2013: Deadline for submissions to maker and editor.nanocrit

October 2, 2013: Peer review commences

November 1, 2013: Comments by the editors sent to all authors

November 25, 2013: Authors return final, revised submissions to the editors

December 1, 2013: End of peer review process

December 1, 2013: Final versions of selected submissions sent by editors to NANO

December 6, 2013: Publication in NANO

COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS: NANO expects that all submissions contain original work, not extracts or abridgements. Authors may use their NANO material in other publications provided that NANO is acknowledged as the original publisher. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for reproducing copyright text, art, video, or other media. As an academic, peer-reviewed journal, whose mission is education, Fair Use rules of copyright apply to NANO. Please send any questions related to copyright and permissions to editor.nanocrit.

QUESTIONS: Please do not hesitate to contact the Maker Lab in the Humanities (special issue editor) at maker with any questions or concerns about this special issue.

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions to this issue of NANO.

The Maker Lab in the Humanities at the University of Victoria

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Special Issue Editors: Adèle Barclay, Nina Belojevic, Alex Christie, Jana Millar Usiskin, Stephen Ross, Jentery Sayers, and Katie Tanigawa

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Centernet Professor in Digital Humanities, UWS (Australia) vacancy

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The School of Humanities and Communication Arts brings together scholars with interdisciplinary research interests in the following fields:
advertising, anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, graphic design, history, international relations, journalism, linguistics and modern languages, literature and literary studies, media and visual studies, media production, music recording and performance, music therapy, philosophy, photography, political and social theory, religious studies, and web design.

Their research intersects with the focal areas of a range of University Research Institutes and Centres: The Institute for Culture and Society, The MARCS Institute, The Religion and Society Research Centre, and the Writing and Society Research Centre. In the area of Digital Humanities, the School will be working in very close collaboration with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and with the eResearch team. In addition to researchers from the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the Digital Humanities Research Group is expected to incorporate researchers from the technology disciplines, primarily, from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and to develop close links with the UWS eResearch Team.

Applications are invited for the continuing position of Professor (Academic Level E) from scholars with outstanding teaching and research strengths in Digital Humanities. The position will be responsible for providing academic leadership and for developing research and teaching programs in the Digital Humanities. As the Professor in Digital Humanities, you will be responsible for leading and developing the new Digital Humanities Research Group (DHRG). You will have a PhD and a demonstrable record of excellent teaching and high quality international publications in the area of Digital Humanities, and success in obtaining competitive research funding and delivery on the projects. You will bring with you management and leadership skills, and experience in generating and managing large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. You will be responsible for the DHRG’s intra- and inter-institutional relations, and for the development of both a strategic and 3-year operational plan for the Research Group

The School operates in a multi-campus environment and the successful applicant is expected to teach on all campuses on which the School operates in face-to-face teaching delivery and/or through blended learning technologies. This position will be located at the Parramatta campus.

Remuneration Package:Academic Level E AUD$189,215 p.a (comprising salary AUD$160,629, 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading)
Position Enquiries: Professor Peter Hutchings, (61 2) 9772 6167; p.hutchings@uws.edu.au Closing Date: 13 March 2013
How to apply: Please visit the UWS website http://careers.uws.edu.au/Current-Vacancies for full details on this position and how to apply.

Digital Humanities Tools and other resources

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Sorry, should also add this syllabus

Research is not infrastructure

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..sometimes.

Research infrastructure is not research just as roads are not economic activity. We tend to forget when confronted by large infrastructure projects that they are not an end in themselves. There is an opportunity cost to investing precious research funds into infrastructure. Every $100,000 lab that lasts four years before needing renewal is the equivalent to $25,000 a year for a Ph.D. student to do research for four years.

A is not B, just as C is not D. OK. But C can be A.

Road Infrastructure  The backbone of transport system

In order to develop innovative and cost-effective alternative transport concepts and to assess their potential impact, research is required on two areas. First, the needs and opportunities for new transport means and systems over the next 10 to 30 years, such as the innovative use of pipelines, floating tunnels, automated underground distribution systems, large capacity transport means, including investigations as to how current means could fulfil future requirements and how innovative technologies can be integrated. Second, the safe, efficient and environmentally-friendly integration of new means of transport, e.g. high-speed vessels, into existing transport operations.

I enjoy Professor Rockwell’s papers, but I disagree that infrastructure is not research, and by that I mean research infrastructure has to be research-based, otherwise it is not providing for genuine research. This is a complex argument (I hope that does not mean long-winded) so I won’t go into it too much tonight.

Key issues though are

  • what is are humanities?
  • what is infrastructure?
  • can infrastructure be emergent research?

From my knowledge of gothic cathedrals and computer games I say “yes it can” to the last question.

I still like his conclusion though even if I argue with his definition of (research) infrastructure.

NB is housing intangible? I think not.

“research infrastructure” means equipment, specimens, scientific collections, computer software, information databases, communications linkages and other intangible property used or to be used primarily for carrying on research, including housing and installations essential for the use and servicing of those things.” (From the Budget Implementation Act, 1997, c. 26)

Reference

Rockwell, G. (2010, May 14). As Transparent as Infrastructure: On the research of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/m34315/1.2/

DARIAH Poster accepted for DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2013 Nebraska

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Dear Dr. Erik Malcolm Champion,

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your submission to Digital Humanities 2013, “DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Center on Research and Education,” has been accepted.

This year the number and standard of abstracts submitted was quite high, but we were pleased to be able to open up a sixth parallel track to accommodate more presentations by members of our growing community. The Program Committee accepted 47% of proposed panels and 65% of paper proposals across the short and long categories. Of the remaining submissions, 33% were accepted in poster format.

The DH2013 conference is at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 16-19 July 2013

DIGHUMLAB launch Mon 10 September, 12.00-17.30 Aarhus Denmark

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DIGHUMLAB LAUNCH

We are having a launch of DIGHUMLAB, on 10 September. Attendance is free but general public or  student online registration is required as seats are limited.

Details: mandag 10 september 2012: 12.00 – 17.30

Location: Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard building, på hjørnet af (corner of) Finlandsgade og Helsingforsgade, Aarhus North.

Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus Denmark

 TimeEvent
12.00Informal gathering and light food
12.30Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen & Dean of Arts, Mette Thunø, Aarhus University
12.45Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Morten Østergaard
13.00DIGHUMLAB 1: Professor Bente Maegaard: Language Tools and CLARIN
13.15DIGHUMLAB 2: Professors Niels Ole Finnemann & Niels Brügger: NetLab
13.30DIGHUMLAB 3: Professor Johannes Wagner: Interaction Labs
13.45Sally Chambers, Secretary General, DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
14.00Steven Krauwer, CLARIN ERIC Executive Director
14.15Coffee break
14.30Professor Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University
15.10Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales Chair in Digital collections, National Library of Wales
15.50Coffee break
16.00Associate Professor Palmyre Pierroux, InterMedia, University of Oslo
16.30Professor Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Media Lab, Aalto University
17.00Open Floor Discussion and questions
17.30Light refreshments

William Pannapacker´s comments on DH2011 conference

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http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Tent-Digital-Humanities-a/129036/

We speak with each other primarily through scholarly channels—which is essential to our work—but that creates a void in public discourse about what we do. How can we justify putting money into seemingly impractical fields when college costs more than an average house?

From my perspective, as part of a generation that went through graduate school in the 1990s, the “DH” field is a response to a feeling of disenfranchisement and alienation from traditional academic culture in the context of a radically changed system of employment.Digital humanities cultivates scholarly collaboration as well as individual exploration, technological innovation alongside methodological rigor. It redefines the nature of academic careers while dealing with longstanding disciplinary conversations. And it engages in complex, theoretical heavy lifting while building projects that are often based on the Internet, available to the public, and indisputably useful. (Consider the various projects of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Hamilton College’s Digital Humanities Initiative.)

Interesting, not just for the article, but for the comments debate. How is DH related to the humanities, and not just to all academics? Precisely because it is new to humanities scholars (the issue of defining new media all over again).
Micah Vandegrift [http://micahvandegrift.wordpress.com/) wrote in the comments:

“Now I’d like to turn to the larger problems facing the field, such as the reality that most people don’t know all that much about it…We speak with each other primarily through scholarly channels—which is essential to our work—but that creates a void in public discourse about what we do.´
I think this is exactly the point of the “digital” aspect of digital humanities. The scholarly channels are now exactly public, and engaged with in the public sphere, through the nature of digital technologies. As Sandy Thatcher mentions below, the correlation between digital and openness, in this case opening up scholarship to a public audience, is a key component that delineates traditional humanities from digital humanities.”

abstract for “Digital Humanities Congress 2012” @ Sheffield UK accepted

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I wrote the below abstract for Digital Humanities Congress 2012 at the University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012
http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/dhc2012

Title: Research As Infrastructure
Abstract:
In the edited book Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew Gold, the chapter “The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism” by Dave Parry raised the controversial question as to whether Digital Humanities should be the application of computing, or an inquiry as to how digital media has irrevocably changed the Humanities. While this may appear to be a very theoretical issue, the debate has major practical consequences. For example, I have been entrusted with managing the development of a national research infrastructure for the Digital Humanities. This task may seem to involve logistics, technical details, and general funding issues. However, before we even get to that stage we have major fundamental, political and theoretical challenges.
We currently have four universities as partners, the national library (or libraries) should be joining soon, and hopefully the major museums will follow. Our government has asked that we include as many as possible, a noble goal, but in practice we have hit a major roadblock. How does one create a national focus while allowing academics and other researchers to pursue their own specific goals? This also raises a deeper question, what are the boundaries of the Digital Humanities pertinent to our researchers, beyond which we should not tread? Having discovered our niche, or niches, how can we focus on key research areas important to our country in particular, without becoming cut off from international networks?
Of course there are perennial questions such as how can one develop an infrastructure five years ahead, based on catering for technology that we are not yet using? How can a distributed network allow for unified identity and individual planning? This leads us to a more pragmatic issue of which resources are best managed centrally, and which are best distributed. These more technical issues do however return us to a central problem: how one create a centre for something that has no physical centre, unifying traditionally disparate and sceptical disciplines, without restricting them or discriminating between them?

So now my task is to solve the problems so I can deliver the paper!

Digital Humanities, 3 functions, 5 major requirements for basic infrastructure

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http://coreyslavnik.com/ojs/index.php/JournalOfViralAnalytics/article/viewFile/15/25
also presented at Digital Humanities 2010 in London, where Geoffrey  Rockwell was paraphrased as saying

Three points in particular [sic] where made with regards to how the value of Digital Humanities could best be demonstrated. Perhaps the most important one is that DH can be described as an enabling field, in the sense that it allows other fields to do research that would otherwise not have been possible. The second one was that DH can help academics to dramatically increase their outreach, especially beyond academia (in particular in relation to crowdsourcing, social media etc. As Geoffrey Rockwell put it: We help the Humanities reach a broader public. Last, but not least DH helps to prepare students and young researchers for the new challenges they are going to face in their careers, for instance in the media content industry, but also in many other fields. It was also Geoffrey who formulated a list of requirements for the basic infrastructure that has to be made available by any university that is serious about supporting (digital) research:

  • Social lab for projects and meetings
  • Digitisation facilities and specialised hardware
  • Support for utilities (lists, blogs, wikis…)
  • Virtual machines for projects
  • Advising and long term technical support

Distributed Digital Humanities Labs

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We are not alone! Southampton  and I think Göttingen are examples of distributed Digital Humanities Centres. It is not easy to do this and that is precisely why it is so important. I hope to write a working paper on the issues and currrent trial solutions this year, but I need to find out more about the issues, solutions, and labs that are truly distributed, and why.

cfp The 3rd U21 Digital Humanities Workshop at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, September 19 – 21, 2012

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The third U21 Digital Humanities workshop will take place at Lund University from 19 to 21 September 2012

The conference will have Interfaces – Digital studies of culture and cultural studies of the digital as its theme. Provisional sessions titles include Digital heritage and digital preservation and Teaching and learning – the digital classroom. Early Career Researchers and graduate students will be welcome to attend, as well as established academics and practitioners in this area.

The first day of the workshop will be held at the Centre for languages and literature. The Centre opened in 2004 and is the home for language, linguistic and literature disciplines at Lund University. It aims to create an environment where research can interact with both education and applications. The vision is to create an unique multidisciplinary research and education environment.

An important part of the research environment is the Humanities Laboratory. The Humanities Lab is a cross-disciplinary lab-environment for research and education concerning culture, communication and cognition.

The second day will be at Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre where the Department of Design Sciences pursues research and education focusing on the interaction between people, technology and design. Here we will visit the virtual reality lab.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 14.

first issue of Journal of the Digital Humanities is out

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http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/

I would have to quibble with a quote on the website

The debates around the role of ‘theory’ in digital humanities are debates about the relationship between saying and doing.- Natalia Cecir

That quote doesn’t say anything new about digital humanities per se: it is a problem with all of academia. Where it might be slightly more relevant to digital humanities would be in the problem of what would be specific to digital humanities rather than to other fields or disciplines.

DIGHUMLAB, Denmark, and me..

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I will take up a new role in Aarhus Denmark, project leader/manager of DIGHUMLAB, (or DigHumLab), the new Digital Humanities Lab, to “to spearhead the structuring of the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB”. It is hosted by Aarhus University, but part of a consortium including Aarhus University, Aalborg University, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark.

The Humanities and Heritage

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I have a little personal research project partially on the backburner, my own view of digital humanities. To improve my viewpoint I have been reading articles on the Internet (our library is a bit behind in this area) on definitions of humanities, for I think that is part of the problem in defining “digital humanities”. Lo and behold I found this (interesting if ironic) definition of humanities, with a strong emphasis on heritage:

National Endowment For The Humanities

According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”

cfp: Digital Humanities

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Digital Humanities 2011
Call for Papers Hosted by Stanford University

19-22 June 2011
http://dh2011.stanford.edu

Abstract deadline: November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT).

Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2011, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1