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Folio Futures will bring together scholars from around the world to assess the history of and future possibilities for editing Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The symposium will take place on Friday, April 26 at Texas A&M University-College Station and livestreamed on Zoom.
Applications are now open! Texas A&M faculty, staff, and graduate students may apply. Applications are due by Monday, April 29, 2024. Awards will be announced mid-May 2024.
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The University of Arizona (UA) Libraries is seeking a Geospatial Specialist to develop an interdisciplinary service program supporting the geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial data needs of the UA research and instruction communities. Emphasized in the position are impactful instruction/training, extensive research support, and active engagement in campus outreach and collaboration. Applications are due by January 15, 2024 with an anticipated hire date of April 15, 2024.
As part of their DPhil research program at the University of Oxford, Erin Canning is seeking to conduct semi-structured interviews of 30 to 45 minutes with adult individuals involved in critical cataloguing and terminology review projects or initiatives in museums. They are looking to speak with individuals who work at, for, or with a museum and participate in critical cataloguing, terminology review, or related projects. Participants do not have to be employed by a museum directly to participate, but the critical cataloguing project does need to address museum data.
Debates in the Digital Humanities is looking for a new team to edit the next general volume in the series. The Debates series, published in print and online by the University of Minnesota Press, highlights topics of pressing interest to the field as they emerge. General volumes are published at several-year intervals and seek to survey the full range of issues animating the field at a given moment. This call welcome proposals from editorial teams as well as from individuals. Proposals are due by January 31, 2024. Finalists will be interviewed in Spring 2024.
Debates in the Digital Humanities (DDH) 2023, the fourth volume of the series, is now available in a free, interactive, open-access version on the DDH Manifold website. This volume presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education. It includes crucial contributions to the field—from a vital forum centered on the voices of Black women scholars, manifestos from feminist and Latinx perspectives on data and DH, and a consideration of Indigenous data and artificial intelligence, to essays that range across topics such as the relation of DH to critical race theory, capital, and accessibility.
The University of Virginia Press seeks to hire a partially remote Editorial and Technical Specialist for their Rotunda division which digitally publishes peer-reviewed scholarly works. The successful candidate will be working primarily on the American History collections and other Rotunda publications as needed. The successful candidate will have a solid background in digital humanities and/or digital library skills and projects. Experience with XML and XML editing is a requirement, and ideally with related programming technologies such as XSLT and XQuery; other relevant skills include general web development/programming and familiarity with Mac OS, version-control systems, metadata standards, and controlled vocabularies.
The ARTFICTIONS project invites scholars, students, artists, and practitioners to contribute to “Rebuilding the Socio-creative through Digital Culture”, an international symposium dedicated to exploring the intricate intersections between subject formation, radical imagination, gaming mechanics, troll culture, and collective societal approaches in this time of ubiquitous screen-mediated exchange. The seminar will analyse the role of digital culture in examine the ways in which digital culture is providing alternatives to (instead of just being behind one of the main causes of) techno-conservative politics, individualist subject-formation, processes of neoliberalisation and practices of biopolitical exclusion. Proposals are due by January 27, 2024. The symposium is scheduled for June 11-12, 2024 at University College Cork in Ireland.
US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) at the University of Houston invites applications to their Grants-in-Aid program. Proposals must draw from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is now the United States, dating from the Colonial Period to 1980. Scholars will also have the opportunity to publish on Arte Público Press’ APPDigital publication platform. Applications are due by January 8, 2024.
The Journal of Musicological Research has published a roundtable article, “Pedagogical Approaches to Music Encoding”. This article presents five essays from emerging scholars, librarians, and music faculty who are using music encoding as a pedagogical tool with undergraduate and graduate students in academic library and university settings. In these case studies and applications, the contributors are all using the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), one of several music encoding standards.
Northwestern University Libraries invites applications for a forward-thinking data scientist to help build its new Academic Innovation Work Group. With a focus on interdisciplinary research, including the humanities and social sciences, the successful candidate will work with researchers to understand the computational and analytical needs required to investigate the research questions underlying potential projects, to scope external and internal project opportunities, and to apply current computational and/or machine learning techniques to a range of topics and data types. In addition, they will instruct students and researchers on best practices in data science and digital scholarship in both formal and informal settings.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Libraries is currently hiring for a key position to lead its Research Data & Digital Scholarship team. This position will direct the Libraries’ Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, the library’s home for professionals in the digital humanities, digital scholarship, and research data management and services. As the Center’s head, the Director will supervise approximately ten staff with responsibilities across the spectrum of digital scholarship and research data projects.
