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The full call is below. This is a fabulous opportunity because Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq) is such an excellent publication. It’s open access, which is critical to dissemination of scholarship. Most importantly, it’s woven into the full spectrum of the dynamic digital humanities community (speculative computing, how to do traditional humanities with computing, new humanities questions made possible through technology and posed by technology, technologies and tools, data mining, etc). The call below came out over the CenterNet list, which is another amazing resource worth subscribing to by anyone interested in digital humanities. Call for applications: Reviews Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly DHQ is seeking oneRead More →

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Due to enthusiastic response to our 2011 HASTAC Conference CFP, and due to conflicts with summer travels and holidays, HASTAC has decided to reschedule the deadline to September 15, 2011. The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference face-to-face on its Ann Arbor campus December 2 and 3. We invite proposals for presentations on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication. Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal They seek topics which may range over but need not be restricted to, the role of digital technologies in: Reformulating scholarly projects and products. (This might includeRead More →

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DDI Workshop: Managing Metadata for Longitudinal Data – Best Practices September, 19-23, 2011 Leibniz Center for Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany Goals This symposium-style workshop will bring together representatives from major longitudinal data collection efforts to share expertise and to explore the use of the DDI metadata standard as a means of managing and structuring longitudinal study documentation. Participants will work collaboratively to create best practices for documenting longitudinal data in its various forms, including panel data and repeated cross-sections. Description of the workshop Longitudinal survey data carry special challenges related to documenting and managing data over time, over geography, and across multiple languages. ThisRead More →

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First call for papers: *SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following the first successful SDH conference in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2011. The conference venue will be at the University of Copenhagen, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, and to allow us to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways, but ultimately they will also allow us to answer questions thatRead More →

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GL13 POSTER SESSIONS FOR SPONSORS, DELEGATES, AND LIS STUDENTS Thirteen International Conference on Grey Literature, From Social Networking to Wealth Creation, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., December 5-6, 2011 For the first time in the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, Posters will be presented on the first day. Also, for the first time a special Poster Session for LIS graduate students will take place alongside the regularly scheduled Sponsor and Poster Session. LIS posters are expected to deal with research topics in grey literature or successful course programs in which grey literature is taught at their respective colleges of library and information science. BothRead More →

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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is a new journal with a first issue expected in September 2011. The journal is open access and, according to the website: The mission of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research. Educational institutions have often embraced instrumentalist conceptions and market-driven implementations of technology that overdetermine its uses in academic environments. Such approaches underestimate the need for critical engagement with the integration of technological tools into pedagogical practice. The JITP will endeavor to counter these trends by recentering questionsRead More →

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News Release The Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org It’s the best place to learn about the history, structure and activities of the organization. The ACH is an independent, non-profit, professional organization whose principal activity is an annual conference, alternately hosted by an English-, Spanish-, French-, or Dutch-speaking Caribbean country. To encourage intellectual exchange, all delegates attend each conference session and all papers and discussions are simultaneously translated in English, Spanish and French. We encourage you to visit the website to learn more about our mission and initiatives. *CALL FOR PAPERS:*** The ACH has alsoRead More →

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The fifth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010 (Sunday-Monday). The tag line for this year’s colloquium is “Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate.” This does not exclude a whole lot. Quality will always trump category, but we will be particularly interested in papers or poster sessions about annotation, scholarly crowdsourcing, and challenges of human/computer interaction. How to create better texts from OCR may be a problem in which new forms of human/computer interaction hold particular promise. The deadline for submissions is August 31, with notification by September 17. We welcome submissionsRead More →

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The next MLA convention will take place in Los Angeles on January 6-9, 2011. The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures calls for papers for the following two sessions: Visual Textualizations: Latin American Colonial Lives : This panel seeks to explore how written and visual/iconic narratives from the colonial period interact with their verbal counterparts to convey views and perceptions of the colonial experience in Latin America. Please send one-page abstract and 2-page c.v. by March 05 to R. Quispe-Agnoli (quispeag@msu.edu) Colonial Masculinities/Masculinidades colonials: Papers exploring masculinities (i.e. ecclesiastical, military, subaltern) and their representations in colonial Latin American literature and culture; theoretical approaches to hegemonicRead More →

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From: UF Libraries’ News, Events, and Updates Students (graduate or undergraduate) making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States are invited to participate in ARTBOUND by submitting work to a juried artists’ book exhibition and permanent collection at The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries! Entrants are to submit handmade, artists’ books printed in edition. Books printed with letterpress, intaglio, inkjet, and/or screenprint techniques will be considered. We will also consider one-of-a-kind handmade books created in other mediums. We are looking for high quality, original work. Click HERE to download PDF entry form for ARTBOUND.Read More →