Fortnightly Roundup [October 29, 2022]
Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina
DHC-NC Fortnightly Roundup
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Events Calendar
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 – 2:00 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.
“New Directions in Manuscript Studies: The Digital and Manual Future”
Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto
Where: Virtual
When: Wednesday, November 9 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (EST)
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This is a critical moment. Millions of manuscript images are available online in repositories across the world, but what differences do they and could they make to contemporary knowledge and understanding of textual cultures from the past? Some inherited research that provides the basis of manuscript history is limited, partly because of what was available to scholars; partly because of previous scholars’ own, sometimes biased, worldviews; and partly because of the tools they had to hand. What kinds of new discoveries, then, might be facilitated by the mass digitisation of manuscripts and through new computational and digital methods and tools. More, what further limitations exist for the work (some of it manual) that is yet to be done?
Elaine Treharne is Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches Manuscript and Archival Studies, and Early British Literatures.
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 | 5:00pm - 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
Call for Papers: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) 2023
**The deadline for submissions to the ADHO DH2023 conference has been extended to November 4, 2022.**
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.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
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.
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in History, Public and Digital History (Tenure Track), Butler University
The Department of History, Anthropology, and Classics seeks a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of assistant professor whose training, scholarship, and teaching is focused at the intersections of Public and Digital History. The ideal candidate is a dedicated educator and promising scholar who will develop courses, projects, and opportunities in Public and Digital History and in their specific areas of expertise. The successful candidate would work with departmental colleagues to develop new educational opportunities, internships, and career pathways for students, including connections with local and regional institutions and organizations. Preferred areas include but are not limited to histories of medicine, science, and technology; migration and movement; indigeneity; the environment, ecology, and geography; and formations of political resistance. Teaching load for tenured faculty is three courses per semester.
Review of applications will begin November 3, 2022 (extended deadline), and will remain open until filled. Applicants should have earned a doctorate in History (revised) at the time of appointment. For more information, visit the job posting.
Job Opportunity: Associate or Full Professor of Community Engaged Digital Production, Digital Technology and Culture (DTC), Washington State University
This position will join a multi-and interdisciplinary faculty and a growing major. The successful applicant will teach undergraduate courses within their area of expertise. They will have a two course per semester (2-2) teaching load including undergraduate courses and graduate courses in the certificate they may also develop courses in their area of expertise. They will lead in the development of collaborative practices, spaces, and projects that engage the university and other publics and be an active part of the DTC faculty. Candidates will engage in creative production, scholarship and research in their areas of expertise to extend and build on their existing portfolios; support current and emerging research, teaching, and creative activities in community engaged initiatives at WSU system wide, to external communities, and within the region. Successful candidates will also provide leadership within the unit. The DTC program is committed to the retention of faculty and as such the successful candidate will be provided with a faculty mentoring committee within the College of Arts and Sciences and have access to university programs such as the External Mentor Program (https://advance.wsu.edu/externalmentors/).
Read more and apply here.