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‘Sight Unseen’: Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference

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IAAS Annual Conference will be held at Trinity College Dublin on the 24th & 25th of April.

The Irish Association for American Studies is an all-island organisation that supports and promotes the study of the United States in Ireland. ‘Sight Unseen’ is a two-day interdisciplinary conference which will see academics from across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Canada, and the United States examine the theme of seeing, surveillance, and the visual sphere in American culture. Dr. Lee Jenkins (UCC) will give the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture on April 24th.

A full programme of events is available on the IAAS website. Registration is now open and you can book your place here. The Peggy O’Brien Book Prize will be presented at the conference dinner on April 24th. If you wish to attend the dinner we would recommend booking your place in advance as spaces are limited. Any queries in relation to the conference can be directed to iaasconference@gmail.com.

Call for Submissions: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets

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Call for Submissions:

Special Edition: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities

 

Abstracts Due: April 15, 2015

Full Chapters Due: August 1, 2015

 

Submit Abstracts electronically via .doc, .txt or .pdf to:

Jennifer Guiliano

jenguiliano@gmail.com

 

meth·od·ol·o·gy

ˌmeTHəˈdäləjē/

noun

noun: methodology; plural noun: methodologies

  1. a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.

 

Forty years on from the advent of digital humanities computing, there is a flood of case-study work that explores specific instances of computational methods (e.g. close and distant reading via textual analysis, visualization methods for social networks, etc) being developed and then utilized within the digital humanities. Yet, despite this cross-pollination of methodology to the humanities, little has been done to discuss methodology outside of the project-based context in either the contemporary or future contexts. We know the specific results of particular methods within a given project, but much less about how those processes and workflows would function outside of that singular dataset or specific area of study.  Several questions arising from current practice remain unanswered: Can Digital Methods fully realize the promise of humanities and arts-driven inquiry when confronted with complex datasets? Is Digital Methodology in conflict with efforts to conduct micro or local level analyses as it encourages the use of “Big Data” and other large-scale longue durée-type analyses? Does Digital Methodology offer its own problematic system of assumptions? What grounds have humanists ceded to scientists? What impact does this have on the tools created and the future of Digital Methodology? How should we train the next generation of scholars to deal with complex cultural records, and to interrogate and argue for tools suitable for humanities inquiry? This special edition of the International Journal of Arts and Humanities Computing (IJHAC) seeks submissions from scholars who explore what the future of Digital Methodology will be ten, fifteen, twenty or even fifty years in the future.

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MAKE U 2015 @ DHSI

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The MakerBus  http://www.makerbus.ca  team is once again pairing up with
the folks at Eurekamp  http://p4c.ualberta.ca/eurekamp/  to bring a week
long summer camp for kids 8-12 to the University of Victoria in parallel
with DHSI. If you are traveling out to DHSI this summer during the week of
June 8–12 and would like to bring your children with you, please consider
having them join us at MAKE U for a week of creative building, thinking,
and tinkering.

More information can be found here:
http://dhmakerbus.com/2015/03/06/make-u-eurekamp-and-dhsi/

If you have any questions regarding the camp, please email
info@dhmakerbus.com

Survey on DH Pedagogy

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We are collecting data for a research paper on digital humanities pedagogy, and would be very appreciative of any contributions. We are surveying and interviewing instructors as well as surveying students, so if you have taught or taken a class about digital humanities, we want to hear from you!

Our research will investigate DH curriculum through the perspectives of students and faculty. We will examine how DH is taught and learned in various departments at both undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Interviews with DH instructors and students will provide a framework for understanding the nascent DH curriculum. This qualitative data will help open the dialogue between students and faculty, providing a platform for sharing practical tips for improving DH pedagogy and curriculum.

If you are a DH instructor, please take our survey here: http://goo.gl/6DqciN

If you are a DH student, please take our survey here: http://goo.gl/voephZ

As a token of our appreciation, survey participants will be entered to win one of ten $5 Starbucks gift cards.

Please feel free to distribute this message as widely as possible.

Thank you for your time!

Erica Hayes, Ariadne Rehbein, and Siobhain Rivera, MLS Candidates
Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Information and Library Science
dhpedagogystudy@gmail.com

Website for JADH2015 in Kyoto launched

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The organising committee for the annual conference of the Japanese
Association for Digital Humanities JADH2015 “Encoding Cultural Resources”,
to be held in Kyoto Sep. 1 to 3 later this year, is proud to announce the
launch of the conference website at http://conf2015.jadh.org.

The Call For Papers is still open and scheduled to close one month from now
on May 7th, 2015.  Don’t miss this opportunity to join us for the latest on
Digital Humanities in Japans old capital Kyoto! Topics relevant to the TEI
are most welcome, even if there is no thematic connection to Japan.

DRHA Dublin 2015

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www.drha2015.ie

It is with great pleasure that I would like to invite you to DRHA Dublin 2015 – Digital World. Digital Responses, hosted by Dublin City University in partnership with the National Library of Ireland, the Digital Arts and Humanities Structured PhD Programme (DAH), and the Royal Irish Academy. Our conference takes place 30th August to 2nd September 2015 in the vibrant Irish capital city of Dublin and will include contributions from an exciting range of keynote speakers from across the world. This is an historic moment too for the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Conference as it is the first time the event has been hosted by a university outside the United Kingdom.

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CFP: Network Detroit Digital Humanities Conference

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Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice will return Friday, September 25, 2015 to Lawrence Technological University. Network Detroit showcases the best of digital humanities research in the great lakes region by leading scholars from museums, libraries, universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. For this event, we welcome proposals for papers and panels that focus on the digital humanities, especially regarding the cultural heritage of Michigan and Detroit.

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DH@Guelph Summer Workshops: registration open until April 20th

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Registration is now open for the inaugural DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, which will run May 19-22 with courses on Omeka, topic modelling, and a CWRC-shop on collaborative online scholarship, plus an introductory talk and reception, a panel on DH and early career scholars led by Adam Hammond (Guelph; soon to be at San Diego State University), and a plenary by Jennifer Roberts-Smith (Waterloo) titled “Your Mother is Not a Computer: Phenomenologies of the Human for Digital Humanities”. Courses count towards the University of Victoria graduate certificate in Digital Humanities. Fees and on-campus accommodation costs are modest. Deadline for registration is April 20th.

Susan Brown

Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory

President (English), Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Societé canadienne des humanités numériques
Visiting Professor                               Professor
English and Film Studies                    School of English and Theatre Studies
University of Alberta                           University of Guelph
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5              Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada
780-492-7803                                    519-824-4120 x53266

2015 Lancaster Summer School in Interdisciplinary Digital Methods

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This year’s programme for the Lancaster Summer School in Interdisciplinary Digital Methods has been announced. These will be held at Lancaster University, UK 14-17th July 2015. This year’s offerings include: the ERC Summer School in GIS for the Digital Humanities, a course that has run successfully for a number of years, and a new course in Corpus Methods for the Humanities. There are also three other courses in corpus methods which may be of relevance: Corpus Linguistics, Statistics for Corpus Linguists, and  Corpus Approaches to Social Science.

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7-8 April: “Making Links” Conference in Victoria

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Interested in Linked Open Data, Early Modern Drama, digital editions, encoding, apps, performance, and/or digital maps? “Making Links: Texts, Contexts, and Performance in Digital Editions of Early Modern Drama” will bring together scholars from an international community of those interested in taking advantage of the digital medium to publish editions of Early Modern Drama, and to make them freely available to a global audience. The conference features paper sessions and workshops on linking in and between these editions. Featured projects include: Internet Shakespeare Editions, Digital Renaissance Editions, Queen’s Men Editions, The Map of Early Modern London, Folger Digital Texts, Global Shakespeares, EMOTHE, Shakespeare au Quebec, the Digital Companion to Music in the English Drama, and others.

Please visit http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/ise/makinglinks for full information about the conference.