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DHC-NC Monthly Newsletter
May 2024
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Updates, events, opportunities and more from the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina.
Have an update, story, event, opportunities or something else digital humanities-related? Send it our way and we'll share it in our next newsletter.
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COMING SOON The 2024 Digital Humanities Institute
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It's almost time for the 2024 Digital Humanities Institute. The planning team is working diligently to finalize the program - more details coming soon.
We're excited to share that the keynote will be given by
Dr.
Fernanda Duarte.
This year’s Institute will showcase the ways in which qualitative and quantitative data inform digital humanities practices.
The 2024 DHI is a fully virtual conference hosted by East Carolina University (ECU).
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PROJECT HIGHLIGHT In and Beyond Western NC, Cartoon Asheville Supports Teaching, Research
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You never know where a digital humanities project will start – or end up. What starts as a project to engage students could also grow up to be a unique research archive for historians.
While teaching at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, David Dry had an idea: use “this day in (local) history” bits to engage his students. It turned out to be a great idea – and an open archive of materials called
Cartoon
Asheville.
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We're updating our website
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It's not just our newsletter that's getting a refresh. Our website will be getting some updates in the coming weeks, too.
Our focus is on making the website relevant, current and accessible. And we're excited about creating a hub for all things digital humanities in North Carolina.
Is there something you'd like to see on our website? Let us know!
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If, Then Creative Computational Potluck
May 3 | 1:00 PM Eastern | Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library (UNC)
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Come share work you love! We're mixing up our usual open mics, but keeping a similar format. We're thinking 10-minute slots where folks can share creative or critical projects that they admire, but did not create.
If you'd like to share in the potluck, please fill out this form so that I can set up a schedule—we have six slots that are first come, first serve!
And, if you don't want to share yet, still plan on coming out to support and please RSVP—there is so much brilliance in our group and so much to be learned!
This event is part of If,
Then: Technology and Poetics, a collaborative, public, and interdisciplinary virtual working group and workshop series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation. Get in touch with Carly Schnitzler ( csch...@jh.edu) or
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram ( l...@umd.edu) with any questions or suggestions.
And, if you don't want to share yet, still plan on coming out to learn and support! |
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ICYMI: ▶️ Recording of 'Tiri Kananuruk on Performing Voice and Talking Machines' available
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On Friday, April 19, Tiri Kananuruk led a session entitled Performing Voice and Talking Machines. In this class we learned an overview of technologies for speech synthesis and speech recognition, looking through its history and into its future.
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Opportunities & Resources
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NEW Call for Proposals for ADSA ‘24
Proposals due June 1
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The ADSA
Annual Meeting brings together data science practitioners, educators, and researchers from all disciplines to share approaches in data science research and education, with a strong emphasis on responsible data science.
The theme this year is Data Science and AI - Keeping Humans in the Loop.
ADSA’24, hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science, will draw our focus to humanity in data and AI - humans as data producers and data engineers, humans as AI designers and developers, humans represented in data, and humans as data and AI users and
as the beneficiaries or victims of data and AI. We will explore the central role of humans in the data and AI revolution: to maximize its benefits for research and innovation; to ensure that the use of data and technologies and the insights they generate are
aligned with our values and priorities; and to ensure that the future workforce are prepared to continue discovery and innovation.
We seek session proposals on three tracks.
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Research: We are particularly interested in research that uses data / AI in novel ways that can inform researchers across disciplines; rigorous,
ethical and reproducible research practices; and research that can benefit particularly well from multi-institution collaboration.
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Training and Education: We are particularly interested in sessions on data science pedagogy, how to upskill researchers with new data science and
AI methodology, and how to define essential data science and AI skills for future researchers and non-researchers.
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Societal Impact: We welcome sessions that focus on the societal impact of data and AI-driven research; cross-sector collaboration in developing and
implementing new technologies and using them to support decision making; equitable access to data, AI and insight.
The meeting will be hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science October 29-31 at the University of Michigan.
Session proposals are due June 1, 2024 with notification of acceptance by June 21, 2024.
Thanks to Jamie Harr for sharing!
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Journal launching this month: Digital Studies in Language and Literature
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Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature. The journal provides a platform for scholars, researchers,
educators, and practitioners to explore and share their insights, discoveries, and innovations in this evolving field. DSLL welcomes empirical studies, review articles (including meta-analysis and narrative synthesis), theoretical articles, and studies on
research methods.
The scope encompasses studies conducted using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods; studies that are either text- or learning-based; studies investigating the creation, application, or influence of technological tools and instruments; and studies that
observe the occurrence of events or features or examine the relationships between phenomena. We encourage interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between digital technology, language, and literature, as well as insightful discussions on the challenges
and opportunities posed by the digital era in the realms of linguistic and literary studies. The journal especially welcomes research that examines populations, regions, settings, or topics that have been ignored or less represented in mainstream academia,
uses innovative methods, generates transformative evidence, informs practice and policy making, and adopts unique perspectives.
Thanks to Paul Fyfe for sharing!
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North Carolina Humanities Fellowship program
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North Carolina Humanities is launching a new
Fellowship
program to support the faculty and staff of community colleges, colleges, and universities in North Carolina!
NC Humanities is investing in the future of humanities scholarship by providing up to $8,000 to individuals researching, developing, and implementing humanities-based work. Fellowships are designed to allow recipients the flexibility to step away from their
busy workloads and further or complete their research for two months.
Full-time, part-time, adjunct, and retired faculty members and staff affiliated with an accredited institute of higher education in North Carolina are eligible to apply. Funds may support recipient’s compensation related to humanities research. Fellowships
will support a wide range of humanities topics with possible outputs including archaeological reports, articles, books, digital resources, translation, and more.
Important dates:
September 12, 2024 - Small
Project Grants Cycle 2 (up to $5,000)
To support the implementation of humanities projects
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Call for Proposals for Texts, Languages, and Communities - TEI 2024
Proposals due May 10
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We are pleased to announce a call for papers, posters, panels, demos, and workshops for “Texts, languages, and communities – TEI 2024”, the twenty-fourth conference and annual general meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative that will be held in person 7–11
October 2024 at Universidad del Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The TEI Guidelines “are addressed to anyone who works with any kind of textual resource in digital form” and any source written in any language can be published in TEI. However, all texts are cultural constructs and can be understood, analyzed, and consequently,
encoded, in many different ways. Even though the TEI’s remit is global, different communities of practice have grown as part of the initiative, like the East Asian/Japanese SIG, the Music SIG, or TTHub project. These different communities of practice have
developed and put to use different approaches, methodologies and technologies for encoding and publishing cultural objects.
The conference topic – “Texts, languages, and communities”– aims at highlighting the global outreach of the TEI together with its local adaptations and bringing us together as a diverse and multilingual community, where the exchange of experiences and shared
learning will help us reflect on the texts we investigate, the languages we use, and the communities we create.
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Digital Humanities Resource Guide (UNC Charlotte)
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Atkins Library has created several resources to support students, faculty and staff interested in Digital Humanities (DH).
Highlights include:
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A UNC Charlotte
Digital
Humanities Discussion Group.
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A request form for workshops, training and networking.
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Library services to help incorporate digital humanities projects into courses.
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Highlighted Projects & Presentations
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History@Work blog series on Labor History and Digital Humanities
These four essays are a series on labor history, digital humanities, and public history. Authors who wrote essays for this series developed their work as part of a fall 2021 graduate labor history colloquium taught by Dr. Andrew Urban at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
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IDEA Music | Musica IDEA
This project explores what it means to read the arcane notation and page designs of 16th-century music. With an initial focus on the frottola (song) books of the first music printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, IDEA Music illustrates applications of 16th-century music
theory, pedagogy, and printing practices to this repertory, together with research about the history, performance practices, and patronage of these songs and the people who created them.
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