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DHC-NC Monthly Newsletter
March 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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The 2024 Digital Humanities Institute Call for Abstracts is OPEN NOW
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The
DHC-NC invites individuals and/or teams working in the digital
humanities to submit proposals to the 2024 Digital Humanities Institute.
Please share this call with your networks!
This year, the Institute will be hosted by East Carolina University in
collaboration with the DHC-NC, and will be held virtually.
This
year’s Institute is especially interested in showcasing the ways in
which qualitative and quantitative data inform digital humanities
practices. We’re also interested in how data in various forms does or
could support activism and advocacy in and beyond digital humanities.
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We're updating our newsletter
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Hopefully you noticed our newsletter's new look.
We're in the process of updating how we send and track emails from the
DHC-NC. We want to make it easier to share your news, events, updates,
opportunities and projects. And we want to make it easier for our
executive board to keep you updated on what's happening!
As we investigate efficient, affordable options, this is a preview of newsletter changes to come.
We want to hear from you - share your feedback on the new newsletter look.
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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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Save the date - and be a program chair - for the 2024 Digital Humanities Institute
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The 2024 Digital Humanities Institute call for abstracts is out! As we begin planning, we have two requests for our members:
- Save the dates: May 17 - 18, 2024
- Volunteer to be a program chair!
This year, we're asking you, our members, to help us put on the best Digital Humanities Institute yet.
Get involved - program chairs will lead a topic area: from call to
acceptance to supporting presenters, help shape the 2024 program.
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Data Matters: Spring Ahead
March 11-15
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As
research in fields such as digital humanities, political methodology,
and health services evolves, it becomes imperative that researchers
develop skills in data science to effectively and efficiently pursue
their project work.
Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at
students and professionals in business, research, and government. The
short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in
Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data
Science, and RENCI. Our springtime series, Data Matters: Spring Ahead,
will feature a selection of popular courses.
The deadline for registration is March 7 for Monday/Tuesday
courses, March 9 for Wednesday courses and March 10 for Thursday/Friday
courses.
The
Data Matters short-course series is presented in partnership with RENCI
and the Odum Institute. Spring 2024 sessions will be virtual.
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NC Humanities Fellowship informational webinar
March 15 | 1:30 PM Eastern
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North Carolina Humanities is pleased to announce a new summer Fellowship
funding opportunity! During this webinar you will learn about the
Fellowship program, the requirements, how to apply, and more.
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium
March 18-23 | virtual (March 18-20); Michigan State University (March 22-23)
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The event will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh.
Monday, March 18, 2:30-7:00pm Eastern
Tuesday, March 19, 11:30am-4:00pm Eastern
Wednesday, March 20, 8:30am-1:00pm Eastern
Each
virtual day will include Speed Networking. Using breakout rooms, we
will have two short meet-and-greet opportunities. This means that groups
of 4-6 will be gathered in a breakout room to introduce themselves and
answer a question prompt for seven minutes and then will be reshuffled
into another room for seven minutes with different people.
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Taper Remix-a-thon with Angela Chang
March 22 | 1:00 PM Eastern
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Angela Chang will lead If, Then-ers in a Remix-a-thon for Taper, an
online literary magazine for small computational pieces, published by
Bad Quarto. Taper is "a twice-yearly journal that hosts very short
computational poems and other sorts of digital literary work, composed
under the strictures of poetic compression and using practices of
sizecoding. (Work is currently limited to 2KB, a mere 2048 bytes!) Taper
is edited by a collective, independent of the publisher, that develops
each issue’s theme, selects poems, and works to authors to prepare them
for publication."
Most importantly for this session, all of the poems in Taper are
free and open source software, so anyone can study, share, and remix
them in any way. That is exactly what we plan to do this in session.
Take a look at Taper's archive and RSVP! All are welcome—no programming experience required.
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. |
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Text Analysis with Python
April 18 | 1:00 PM Eastern
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Working with a set of articles, letters, books, or social media posts?
Whether you’re working with a large or small collection of texts,
computational text analysis can help you with your research process. In
this workshop, we will explore using various Python libraries, such as
NLTK and spaCy, to conduct various text analysis approaches such as
finding word frequencies, word co-occurrence, topic modeling, sentiment
analysis, and more. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have
knowledge on how to begin their text analysis project using Python.
from the UNC University Libraries
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Tiri Kananuruk on Performing Voice and Talking Machines
April 19 | 1:00 PM Eastern
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Tiri Kananuruk will lead a session entitled Performing Voice and Talking Machines.
In this class we will learn an overview of technologies for speech
synthesis and speech recognition, looking through its history and into
its future. We will explore voice interfaces and their role in
technology, design, art and culture. We will learn how to take advantage
of existing technologies like p5.js to create our own talking machines.
Prior knowledge of computer programming will be helpful, however, it is
not required. You are welcome to bring your own language, your accent,
and your spoken identity into the class.
Prep Before Workshop:
- Create p5.js web editor account(free) - p5.js Web Editor
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. |
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Opportunities & Resources
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NEW 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:
March 15, 2024 - information webinar (see the March Events section above)
March 27, 2024 - Fellowships (up to $8,000)
To support individuals researching, developing, and implementing humanities-based work
April 18, 2024 - Large Project Grants (up to $20,000)
To support the implementation of large or long-term humanities projects
September 12, 2024 - Small Project Grants Cycle 2 (up to $5,000)
To support the implementation of humanities projects
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NEW Call for Proposals for the 2024 Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI)
Proposals due April 19
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The Call for Proposals for the 2024 Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) is
now open. At this year’s DPI, our goal is to create a virtual space that
allows participants to explore diverse approaches to digital pedagogy
from a variety of perspectives, including those of
undergraduate/graduate students, faculty, librarians, educational
developers, and technologists.
Our streams for this year’s conference include:
- Critical Ideologies and Digital Pedagogy: How do we
question and challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of
Digital Pedagogy? What underlying approaches and questions should we
engage with more deeply? How can our pedagogical practices help support
new educational priorities and social change?
- Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy
techniques and tools helped instructors and students address
anti-racist and decolonization practices in their curriculum and
research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do you have any
best practices to share?
- Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to
inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy.
What barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How
have you resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to
reflect on and share frameworks and best practices that have helped to
reduce pedagogical barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
- Sustainability, Renewability, and Environmental Costs in the digital sphere:
Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are
environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment
needed to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the
benefits of digital pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital
pedagogy proponents be good environmental stewards?
- Digital Pedagogy and the Post-Truth society: It is
becoming increasingly difficult to navigate what is real and what is
true. How can Digital Pedagogy help instructors and students to navigate
issues related to digital literacy, data ethics, artificial
intelligence, social media influences, etc.
- Digital Pedagogy and Emerging Technologies: This
new stream delves into the dynamic intersection of digital pedagogy and
emerging technologies in higher education. It focuses on how digital
tools and innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, big
data, and immersive technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality,
etc.) are reshaping teaching and learning experiences. The discussions
will cover strategies for integrating these technologies into academic
curricula, impacts and implications, and challenges of ensuring
equitable access and ethical use.
Formats
- Presentations: 20-minute synchronous sessions
presenting papers or presentations on projects, initiatives, and/or case
studies related to one of the conference streams, with time for
Q&A.
- Tool demos/workshops: 30-minute or 60-minute
interactive demonstrations of innovative or new tools that you have
integrated or are thinking of integrating into your teaching.
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NEW Call for Proposals for Texts, Languages, and Communities - TEI 2024
Proposals due April 30
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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:
- A UNC Charlotte Digital Humanities Discussion Group.
- A request form for workshops, training and networking.
- Library services to help incorporate digital humanities projects into courses.
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Highlighted Projects & Presentations
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The primary goal of the Sandcastle project
is to enable researchers to visualize non-cartesian, premodern images
of places in a comparative environment that resembles the gestural,
malleable one used by medieval and early modern cartographers and
artists.
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Immersive Women’s Herstory Month Exhibit: the 1998 Album
Experience Women’s History Month from a new view. This year the Women’s
Center and the Libraries have partnered to create an interactive exhibit
in the 360 Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery in D.H. Hill Jr. Library at
NC State.
The exhibit will be open to the public from noon to 5:00 PM daily, March 20-22.
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