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The Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama (www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities) is pleased to invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities. The post-doctoral fellow will hold a joint appointment in the University Libraries and the History Department in the College of Arts & Sciences. The fellow will conduct his or her own research and work in conjunction with the ADHC staff to promote and develop the digital humanities community on campus. The committee welcomes all applicants with an active research agenda in History or a related discipline (such as Classics, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, or Religious Studies). The successful applicant will have attained a Ph.D. by June 2012 and willRead More →

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This post is a bit late, but UNC-Chapel Hill officially launched their Digital Innovation Lab in October. The Digital Innovation Lab focuses: on the collaborative production of digital public goods:  digital projects, products, tools, and applications that are of special social and cultural value, can be produced for free public use (or at a minimal marginal cost) are scalable, are reusable and repurposable, and/or serve multiple audiences/end-users. The development of these digital public goods might arise from individual faculty research, teaching, or public engagement activities within the humanities and social sciences, or from projects, processes, and technologies developed in other areas of the university’s workRead More →

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SIG-AH and SIG-VIS (Arts & Humanities, Visualization-Images-Sound) of ASIST are joining forces to examine the digital humanities and information visualization with a group of papers to be published in an upcoming special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Geotags, participatory content, automatic classification methods, statistical analyses, visualization techniques and other technological methods have enhanced the pedagogy and scholarship within the humanities in recent years. With this in mind papers are being sought which present an overview of the digital humanities and information visualization, or which address the current and potential future intersection of the two topics. Special topicsRead More →

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Call for Papers, Panels and Posters *********************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting *********************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011 (extended until Wednesday 16 November, 2011) NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011 REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012 The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 March, 2012. The conference willRead More →

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Full job announcement: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/hr/libpersonnel/APP197.pdf RESPONSIBILITIES: The Rutgers University Libraries seek an experienced, innovative, and service-oriented librarian to fill the new position of Digital Humanities Librarian in the John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Reporting to the Assistant Chancellor and Director of the John Cotton Dana Library and under the direction of the Head of Public Services for the Dana Library, the Digital Humanities Librarian will provide support to faculty and students through the integration of digital resources, methodologies, technologies, and analytical tools with traditional resources and approaches to research and instruction in the humanities. The positionRead More →

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The College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University invites applications and nominations for an open rank position (assistant/associate/full professor) in the field of Digital Humanities to begin fall 2012. The successful candidate will have expertise in new computational approaches that help distill meaning from texts and artifacts, and in new modes of presenting these in electronic formats. Examples include but are not limited to text-mining, geographic information systems, natural language processing, visualization, or complex network analysis. He or she will be familiar with the theoretical challenges implicit in this emerging field, will have an interest in translating knowledge within and between disciplines andRead More →

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Freedman Center Colloquium: Building a Culture for Digital Scholarship November 7th and 8th, , 2011 Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University Cleveland,  Ohio The Colloquium will provide an overview of: the nature and state of digital scholarship the support and infrastructure necessary to ensure faculty and student success the changes in the academic culture that are essential for digital scholarship to thrive new forms of scholarly communication underway or essential to exploit the advantages of digital scholarship. Complete program information is available at http://library.case.edu/ksl/colloquium/ The keynote speakers are: Dr. Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Associate Director of NINES, co-director of 18thConnect, and the directorRead More →

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Re-posted from the CenterNet Email List: [Posted on behalf of Profs. George K. Thiruvathukal and Steven E. Jones at Loyola University Chicago, DHCS 2011 Co-Chairs] We are pleased to announce that the program has been set for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://chicagocolloquium.org) which will be held November 19-21 at Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus, located in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile. The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry andRead More →

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News: JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance and Ithaka S+R release final report on their Case Studies in Sustainability, revealing how different business models fared during the economic downturn 6 October New York, NY and London, UK–Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, released today “Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability,” a report that reviews the impact of tumultuous times on the business models of 12 digital projects first profiled by S+R in 2009. Some of the projects profiled include the UK’s National Archives’ Licensed Internet Associates programme, which has shown major revenue growth in recent years despite budget cutsRead More →

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Call for DH “Lightning Shorts” at American Studies Association 2011! The Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association solicits conference attendees to present their newest digital projects or related work in “lightning shorts”. These 3-5 minute presentations, held October 22nd from 10-11:45 am at the annual conference at the Baltimore Hilton, allow any attendee to present their on-going or completed work in the digital humanities, receive community feedback, and participate in a culminating discussion of issues raised by the presentations. To sign-up to present, please email dhcaucusasa@gmail.com with a maximum 250 word abstract of your intended lightning presentation, your name and affiliation. We areRead More →