Fortnightly Roundup [October 14, 2022]
Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina
DHC-NC Fortnightly Roundup
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Events Calendar
“Music, Politics, and the Trauma of Performed Reenactment”
North Carolina Central University
When: Tuesday, October 18 | 4:00 pm (EDT)
Where: NCCU Music Building, Room 102
Musicologist, cultural historian, and digital humanist Dr. Imani Mosley will give a presentation entitled “Music, Politics, and the Trauma of Performed Reenactment" in Room 202 of the Music Dept at 4:00pm on 18 October. Dr. Mosley’s talk will be based on her chapter “Say Her Name: Invocation, Remembrance, and Gendered Trauma in Black Lives Matter" in Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma.
Coffee & Viz in the Afternoon: “Understanding Color for Data Visualization”
North Carolina State University Libraries
When: Friday, October 21 | 1:30pm – 2:30 pm (EDT)
Where: James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Teaching and Visualization Lab, 1070 Partners Way Raleigh, NC 27606
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Dr. Christopher Healey’s work harnesses visual perception to create visualization techniques supporting the rapid and effective exploration and analysis of large, complex datasets. Color is a familiar concept that we all recognize and use in our day-to-day lives. Understanding how color 'works' is a much more fascinating problem, however, involving the physics of light, visual perception, language and culture, and context. This talk will touch on these issues by discussing them and demonstrating how they affect presenting data with color. Dr. Healey will also discuss some ongoing projects, including the extensive COVID-19 dashboard. In conjunction with this talk, Libraries staff will also highlight the EnChroma Indoor Color Blind Glasses, which are available to check out from the Wellness & Accessibility technology lending collection.
If, Then: Technology and Poetics Series: “Kathy Wu on Teaching with RiTa.js”
Carolina Seminars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the NULab, Northeastern University
When: Friday, November 4 | 1:00 pm (EDT)
Where: Virtual
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If you're planning your next semester and want to integrate creative coding projects into your classroom, join artist and educator Kathy Wu on Friday, November 4 at 1PM Eastern for a workshop on teaching with RiTa.js, a free/open-source library for writing in programmable media. RiTa "provides functions for simple language processing and generation tasks without the overhead or complexity of a full NLP stack." RiTa runs in a variety of environments, and Kathy's work focuses specifically on running it in p5.js for creating creative, generative work. This workshop is specifically aimed at arts and humanities educators, but artists, programmers, and teachers of all skill levels are welcome.
This event is part of a collaborative, public, and interdisciplinary virtual working group and workshop series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation. Check out our website here and get in touch with Carly Schnitzler (csch...@live.unc.edu) or Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (lber...@northeastern.edu) with any questions or suggestions.
Coffee & Viz in the Afternoon: “Mapping Land-Grab and Next”
North Carolina State University Libraries
When: Friday, November 11 | 9:30 am – 10:30 am (EST)
Where: James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Teaching and Visualization Lab, 1070 Partners Way Raleigh, NC 27606
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The Land-Grab Universities project presents archival evidence and historical narrative through multiple points of entry: writing, cartographic design, interactive web map, photography, and open data. In this talk, cartographer and writer Margaret Pearce will look at how the maps and graphs are designed to amplify the project for accountability and specificity at multiple scales, then consider how cartography might contribute to inspirations for what can come next, to keep accountability on the table. Margaret Pearce is a Citizen Potawatomi tribal member and cartographer living on Penobscot homelands in Maine. She sees cartographic language as a powerful mode of graphic expression complementary to writing and speech, where narratives and dialogues across cultures and between viewpoints can be explored and new possibilities given room to emerge and flower, in particular for the expression of Indigenous geographies.
In a related event on November 10, keynote speakers Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee will discuss the funding of land grant universities through Indigenous land dispossession, and ways that universities are responding to their findings.
“Reframing Failure: Setting the Failure Agenda”
Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London
When: Tuesday, November 15 | 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm (GMT)
Where: Virtual
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In 2012 Lisa Spiro wrote, ‘Not all experiments succeed as originally imagined, but the digital humanities community recognizes the value of failure in the pursuit of innovation’. A decade later, what does failure mean for the digital humanities community today? If there is value in failure, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’? Join us for a roundtable discussion about the state of failure in digital humanities today.
If you have any questions about the series, please email the facilitators Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay at digitalh...@sas.ac.uk.
Digital South Panel Series: “Alternatives to the Research Paper: Reflections on Digital Pedagogy Projects on the American South”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When: Wednesday, November 16 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm (EST)
Where: Virtual
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Glenn Hinson will discuss The Descendants Project, which seeks to better memorialize individuals who were killed in lynchings through student research and engagement with descendants. A team led by Banu Gökarıksel will talk about Mapping Karen Parker’s Journal,
a StoryMaps project that contextualizes major events found in the journal of Karen Parker, UNC’s first Black woman undergraduate student, in order to highlight her activism for gender and racial equity and civil rights.
Opportunities
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Digital Culture & Design, Coastal Carolina University
Coastal Carolina University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design position, to begin August 16, 2023. Housed in the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts' Department of English, Digital Culture and Design is an undergraduate, digital humanities program that situates critical making, collaboration, and innovative, inclusive pedagogy at its core.
By November 1, 2022, interested candidates should submit their materials electronically at https://jobs.coastal.edu/postings/18469.
Call for Papers: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) 2023
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference, July 10-14, 2023 at the University of Graz, Austria. The theme of the 2023 conference is “Collaboration as Opportunity.” We particularly invite proposals that relate to the South-Eastern Europe theme, but encourage submissions from all who work in all Digital Humanities disciplines, methodologies, and pedagogies. With respect for the significant number of languages in which DH is conducted, the organizers have determined that the conference will be conducted in English so as to include the work of as many scholars as possible.
Deadline for Submissions: October 25, 2023 Hawaii Standard Time (GMT-10)
For more information, please visit the conference website.