Friday, May 16, 2014

DUE 8/1/14 - NYC DH Group offering Grad Student Project Awards

NYC DIGITAL HUMANITIES GROUP ANNOUNCES CASH PRIZES FOR GRAD STUDENT PROJECTS

NYCDH, a cross-disciplinary community in support of the digital humanities in NYC, announced yesterday the Graduate Student Project Award with cash prizes of up to $1,000.

Graduate students throughout New York City are welcome to submit proposals for digital projects that enhance the utility of humanist materials or topics. Specific requirements for proposals and more information about the program are now available the NYCDH site. Submissions are due on the August 1, 2014.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop [online] - June 16-22, 2014

From HASTAC: The Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop is a FREE, online, asynchronous, interdisciplinary, participant-driven workshop for scholars and individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The goal of the workshop is to create an online space where participants can exchange scholarship and ideas. Register here before May 5: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/dehertoghlb/2014/03/08/feminist-scholars-digital-workshop-sign-information

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

CFP: DHCommons peer-reviewed journal, DUE 2014-Aug-15

Lot of intriguing opportunities here. Take a look at the CFP below. The DHCommons site also has a list of exciting projects going on at universities that are looking for collaborators.

>>>>> The editorial team of centerNet's new DHCommons journal is thrilled to request submissions for its inaugural issue. We seek mid-stage digital projects who wish peer review and feedback that will contribute to the project's development.

Project teams are asked to submit a "project statement" that will be used by the reviewers. The project statement will be published in the journal, alongside the reviews. Project teams are invited to recommend reviewers for their project if they wish. Reviewers will take into consideration both the project statement and the actual project. Projects will be assessed for both their form (technical aspects) and content (humanities content). The project statement should describe how the project contributes to its field(s) and in what ways the digital methods and modes of presentation address larger academic issues. More detailed information about *DHCommons*' Vision, Submission Policies, and Review Policies can be found at http://dhcommons.org/journal.

*DHCommons* editors will be ready and willing to answer questions and work with project directors as they craft these materials, particularly for those submitting to this first issue, which will be by necessity experimental.

*Submissions are due by August 15, 2014 for publication of the first issue in late Fall 2014.*

*DHCommons* invites project statements in a wide variety of languages. We have an international Advisory Board and will work with authors towards finding reviewers in the appropriate language.

The *DHCommons* journal aims to support digital humanities scholarship by providing peer review for mid-stage digital projects. *DHCommons* will make visible the important work that often goes unseen in the midst of DH project development and help DH scholars claim departmental, disciplinary, and institutional credit for that labor. *DHCommons* intends to provide the robust and recognizable system of academic credit that scholars require.

The *DHCommons* journal is a centerNet publication, sponsored by ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations), supported by DARIAH (the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), and published by Anvil Academic Press . The founding Co-Editors-in Chief are Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University), Isabel Galina (UNAM) and Laurent Romary (Inria) with Quinn Dombrowski (UC Berkeley) as technical editor. The Editorial Board includes Anne Baillot (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Cheryl E. Ball (West Virginia University), Marin Dacos (Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte), Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward's College), Jason Ensor (University of Western Sydney), Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), Rafael Pérez y Pérez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa), Torsten Reimer (Imperial College London), Roopika Risam (Salem State University), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta), and Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne)"

Presentation @CUNY Grad Center, 4/10, 7pm -“The Long Arc of Visual Display”- Lauren Klein

CUNY Digital Humanities event: CUNY Graduate Center alumnus Lauren Klein to present “The Long Arc of Visual Display” on Thursday, April 10th from 7-9pm in room 9207.

This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-klein-the-long-arc-of-visual-display-tickets-11172550399

This event will be live-streamed and live tweeted (follow @cunydhi and use #cunydhi).

“The Long Arc of Visual Display”

We live in what’s been called the “golden age” of data visualization, and yet, the graphical display of quantitative information has a long history, one that dates to the Enlightenment and arguably before. This talk will explore the origins and applications (both historical and contemporary) of data visualization techniques, locating the emergence of the visualizing impulse in eighteenth-century ideas about data, evidence, and observation. By illuminating these ideas at work in examples past and present, Lauren Klein will show how we can begin to identify the arguments—political as much as aesthetic—that underlie all instances of visual display. In so doing, she will also demonstrate how the digital humanities, through the incorporation of ideas from the fields of media studies, information visualization, and the history of science, might be expanded to consider how data might be conceptualized, visualized, and deployed in order to advance humanistic critique.

Lauren Klein is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include early American literature and culture, food studies, media studies, and the digital humanities. Her writing has appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, and American Quarterly. She has taught at Brooklyn College and at Macaulay Honors College, both branches of CUNY. Between 2007 and 2008, she worked as an educational technology consultant for One Laptop per Child, a non-profit aimed at bringing low-cost laptops to children in the developing world.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

A Critque: "How to lie with data visualization" @NYU ITP, 3/13/14, 12:30pm

This one looks really interesting...

"Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with Datavis (and other works)"

A lecture by Mushon Zer-Aviv,

March 13, 2014, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

NYU ITP, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/event-disinformation-visualization/


Designers, statisticians, journalists, researchers and technologists often apply visualization techniques in an attempt to get the big picture out of large quantities of data. In this rush towards informational imagery both creators and viewers are often taken by the lure of what Edward Tufte defines as “beautiful evidence”. But is information visualization indeed just another type of evidence, or is it a form of visual argument? Mushon Zer-Aviv would talk about the dark side of datavis and would discuss some of his own creative work in this theme including WikipediaIllustrated.org, The Turing Normalizing Machine (mushon.com/tnm) and his work with the Public Knowledge Workshop (hasadna.org.il).


Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the co-founder of Shual.com - a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org - a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel - a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine - exploring algorithmic prejudice; Alef - the open source multi-script font; the Collaborative-Futures.org collaboratively authored book; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon is also in charge of map design at Waze.com. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam - an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a faculty member of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. Mushon blogs at Mushon.com. Follow him at @mushon."

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Panel @Columbia, 2/27/14: Research Without Borders: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship

“Research Without Borders: Negotiating Constraints and Open Scholarship”, 1-3pm on Thursday, February 27, 2014 in Garden Room 1 of Columbia University’s Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required. http://cdrs.columbia.edu/cdrsmain/2014/02/3043/

Panel description: How is research produced, accessed, and distributed in the presence of constraints? What does it mean for underserved communities to have research openly accessible to them? How does community participation in research change the nature of that research, and how do academia and society benefit? How and why should academic work be made available to the public? Points of discussion will include: exploring the ways research is being made openly accessible to overcome these constraints, how and why researchers have incorporated community participation into their projects, and alternative scholarship distribution models. Our panelists are Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media Studies at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and Lela Prashad, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at NiJeL. Moderating the panel is Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. This event is co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Scholarly Communication Program and the Digital Humanities Center.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

GIS & Spatial Databases Workshops at Baruch

Frank Donnelly, Geospatial Data Librarian & Assistant Professor at Baruch College Library is teaching two GIS workshops at Baruch for CUNY faculty/staff/grad students:

  • Workshop: GIS Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software (using QGIS), this semester at the Baruch College Library. There are three, day-long sessions on Fridays: Feb 28th, Apr 4th, and May 2nd. Each session is identical. Advance registration is required, cost is $30 and includes a tutorial manual and light breakfast. For more information and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/gisprac
  • Also offered: half-day sessions on spatial databases (using QGIS and Spatialite) on Fri Apr 11th, details and registration for that session are here: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis/spatialdb