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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
HASTAC scholars
5 October 2013
Congratulations to Maryam Patton and Matthew Harrison for being accepted to the HASTAC Scholars Program for the 2013-2014 academic year. HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collabratory)is an alliance of individuals and institutions that explore the impact of new technologies in "how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities". HASTAC Scholars come from over 75 colleges and universities and are actively involved in hosting online discussions, developing projects, and organizing events.Save the Date: Free Beer & Pizza on March 26th
15 March 2013
The Princeton Digital Humanities Initiative presents:Reminder: DigHum Summer Course Stipend Deadline
5 March 2013
A reminder that the deadline to apply for the Digital Humanities Course Development Summer Stipend is fast approaching. Proposals due March 15, 2013.First Digital Humanities Mixer
22 February 2013
Tuesday, February 26 4:30pm in Frist Multipurpose Room A (one floor below the eatery)Digital Humanities Initiative Featured in Daily Prince
8 February 2013
"In a new initiative, University faculty and staff are working together to encourage the development of digital tools in the study of the humanities. The Digital Humanities Initiative at Princeton is a project to bring together members of the University community who are working to explore how digital tools may be used to aid humanistic scholars. The initiative was created to address an organizational obstacle that English professor Meredith Martin encountered while working on a personal project — the Princeton Prosody Archive, a database of digitized records of poetry that preserves various unique typographies and characters..."Speaker Series Announcement: February 5, 2013
8 February 2013
February 5, 2013, 4:30pm, McCormick Hall 101 (Art Museum) Reception to Follow Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies at the New School, is a groundbreaking national leader in media studies, a scholar and media-maker whose work links cultural studies, digital humanities, and interactive media. Dr. Balsamo received her PhD in Communications Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and began her faculty career in the School of Literature, Culture, and Communications at Georgia Tech, where she published a distinguished book about the cultural implications of emergent biotechnologies, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. In 1999, having grown interested in the practical linkages between technology and culture, she accepted an offer to join the celebrated Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), collaborating in the design of media for reading, exhibition, public art, and cultural projects. In 2003, Dr. Balsamo moved from Silicon Valley to USC, where she had been jointly appointed in the Annenberg School of Communications and the School of Cinematic Arts. She directed the Collaborative Design Lab within the Interactive Design Division of the School of Cinematic Arts. She has been a leader in the growth of digital humanities nationally, serving on the Advisory Board of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Co-laboratory) since its founding in 2003. In 2011, she published Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work, a transmedia book (with accompanying DVD and web linkages to interactive media projects) that synthesizes and theorizes the links between her cultural studies scholarship and digital media projects.Starting Points for the Digital Humanities
16 December 2012
In response to a "Session on the Profession" we held in the Department of English earlier this month, I've received a few requests to circulate the resources presented. The following journals, tools, and communities provide some good starting points for anyone looking to experiment with their research or just learn a little bit more about current debates in the field. While many of these links are geared toward literary studies, I'd love to hear from others about the fundamentals of digital research in history, musicology, sociology, etc. This list is in no way meant to be exhaustive -- just to provide some points of entry for those looking to get started. For a more thorough introduction to digital humanities, check out Todd Presner's fantastic graduate syllabus at UCLA.Digital Humanities Winter Institute at MITH
16 May 2012
The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, and lectures during an intensive, week-long event.