Monthly Archives: April 2017

FemTech Network Gathering @ Allied Media Conference

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FemTechNet Network Gathering @ the 19th annual Allied Media Conference

 June 15-18, 2017

Do you lead technology or feminist focused courses, workshops, activities, or actions on your campus or in your community? Or are you interested in being involved with intersectional feminist media-based practice in your community — be that in your neighborhood, your local education center, or in other more formal educational and higher learning institutions?

Since 2013, FemTechNet (FTN) has organized, coordinated, and documented a distributed, open, collaborative course on the topic of feminism and technology. The work of maintaining this network has become the focus of our research, as well as our media, teaching and learning practices. In response to the precarious (be they financial, emotional, physical, spiritual, ideological) positions most of our members inhabit, and the inherent challenges of doing this work, we operate in a horizontal committee structure to prioritize the fair distribution of labor.

FTN aims to be an artist or activist collective that strives for mutual care and kick-ass projects that get done based on the interest and energy of participants. We also aim to provide a supportive community for the difficult work of feminist pedagogy. We invite you to build with us, so that we may support each other and create online spaces that value ethics, care, reciprocity, safety and privacy at their core. If this sounds interesting to you or if you’ve worked with FTN in the past and want to be a part of reshaping its future, Register by May 21st!

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FemTechNet is an activated network of hundreds of scholars, students, and artists who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science, and feminism in a variety of fields including Science and Technology Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women’s, Queer, and Ethnic Studies. In the FemTechNet (Feminist Technology) Network Gathering we will explore how technology perpetuates existing structural inequalities and what can we do to make technologies work for us and our diverse communities. We will create a collaborative space for revealing the power relations embedded in technology, such as racial bias in tech design, systemic threats to online safety, and gender imbalances. Our goal is to review existing materials from the FemTechNet archive of videos, syllabi, and/or assignment prompts in order to formulate continued organizing goals. Our hope at the AMC is to bring people into the FemTechNet network and springboard new projects and collaborations.

Participants will walk away with a bank of successful intersectional feminist project designs, alliances with people in different geographical and institutional contexts, and supportive relationships built from face-to-face collaborations. To apply to attend, please submit an application.

Coordinators of this network gathering are Ashley Walker, Veronica Paredes, Heide Solbrig, and Anne Cong-Huyen.

CFP: Digital Humanities 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop

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Shaping Humanities Data: Use, Reuse, and Paths Toward Computationally Amenable Cultural Heritage Collections

Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums have been building digital collections for decades. Approaches developed to provide access to these collections often emulate analog research experiences that focus on supporting single object interactions and features like virtual “page” turners. While approaches of this kind have been very valuable for some kinds of scholarship, researchers and instructors seeking to leverage computation can find it difficult to work with collections developed in this vein. One barrier to developing approaches that better support these researchers is an incomplete understanding of how humanists, among others, are using and reusing cultural heritage data – and what they may need moving forward. Collections as Data is one of a range of efforts encouraging cultural heritage organizations to develop collections and systems that are more amenable to emerging computational methods and tools. Beyond simply designing-to-fit, the movement towards computationally amenable collections provides an opportunity to  reframe, enrich, and/or contextualize collections in a manner that seeks to avoid replication of long standing biases inherent in cultural heritage collection practice.

In this day-long Digital Humanities 2017 pre-conference workshop, we aim to engage directly with research and pedagogical practice that draws upon digital collection use. This workshop will ultimately inform the development of recommendations that aim to support cultural heritage community efforts to make collections available as data.

Proposals:

We seek proposals for talks, demonstrations (of projects, collections, tools, datasets, or other work), hands-on instruction, or walk-throughs that explore approaches and issues common to computational creation and/or use, and reuse, of digital collections. Proposals for talks can be brief (10 minutes) or extended (30 minutes). Similarly, proposals for demonstrations and hands-on instruction can be brief (30 minutes) or extended (60 minutes). We encourage submissions from all members of the DH community engaged with cultural heritage collection data, whether using data, preparing and stewarding data, or designing interfaces that enable discovery and access. We are invested in developing a program that reflects the international scope of DH work.

Submit your proposal (300 words) using the online form by May 7, 2017.

Notification of acceptances will be sent out on or before June 1, 2017.

For further information, or to check if your proposal will be appropriate, contact thomaspadilla@ucsb.edu

JADH2017: “Creating Data through Collaboration”

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The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its sixth annual conference, to be held at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, September 11-12, 2017.

The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with practices that aim to cross borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages, cultures, organizations, and so on, as related to the field of digital humanities.

As creation of research data — collection, feature extraction, annotation, and organization —  is a seminal component of all DH projects, means and modes of this data-creation have been handled in various ways as digital approaches have evolved. Recently, the focus on methods of collaborating in data creation has been renewed with the rapid growth of projects that are crowd-sourced on the Web. The re-emergence of data creation based on this approach provides a wider range of data, as it has the potential to include contributors who are not only researchers, but also members of the general public. Such a new possibility should be taken due advantage of, especially given the difficult situation for the humanities fields in the academy. This year we strongly encourage you to submit proposals about methods and problems in collaborative approaches for data collection, especially crowd sourcing and other forms of public engagement. With this as our suggested central focus, we nonetheless welcome papers on a broad range of DH topics. For example:

Research issues, including data mining, information design and modeling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship.

Some examples might include text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; and more.

Abstracts should be of 500-1000 words in length in English, including title.

Please submit abstracts on the open conference system for conference below by May 8, 2017.

Full Call for Papers

Type of proposals:

  1. Poster presentations: Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters should be on-hand to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on displayed at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs.
  2. Short papers: Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development.
  3. Long papers: Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies.
  4. Panels: Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of approximately 500-1000 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit a 500-1000 words outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate.

Assistant Professor – Interactive Media & Game Design, SUNY Polytechnic

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) is New York’s globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem. As the world’s most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly is dedicated to the goal of building a diverse and inclusive teaching, research, and working environment. Potential applicants who share this goal, especially underrepresented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Department of Communication and Humanities at SUNY Polytechnic Institute invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interactive Media & Game Design (IMGD) to start in August 2017.

Responsibilities:

  • apply interactive media in research and/or professional practice, teaching courses in UI and UX design, virtual and augmented reality, instructional design, interactive audio, and/or 2D and 3D digital media
  • establish a robust research agenda, and shape our new IMGD program and to help it grow into new, state-of-the-art facilities that will be available for the Fall 2017 semester

Minimum Qualifications:

  • MFA or other suitable graduate-level degree in a relevant field
  • demonstrated scholarly interests and/or creative practice involving the arts, design, and technologies
  • demonstrated commitments to supporting and cultivating diversity in the university and/or interactive media professional environments
  • PhD in a relevant field preferred.

To Apply: submit the following via the online application

  • C.V.
  • letter of application
  • statement of teaching philosophy
  • statement of research interests and plans
  • contact information for three work-related references
  • SUNY Polytechnic employment application
  • Applicants must address in their applications their abilities to work with a culturally diverse population.

Closing date for receipt of applications: April 14, 2017

 

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, SUNY Polytechnic Institute will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, gender identification, genetic information, familial status, marital status, pregnancy, status as a domestic violence victim, criminal conviction, disability, military status, disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal veteran, active duty or wartime campaign badge veteran, or other characteristic as protected by law.

2017 Rutgers—Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera Symposium

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The R-CADE makes digital technology available to scholars for research and creative activities.

Scholars are free to take apart, dissect, and repurpose artifacts in the R-CADE as they attempt to understand their historical and cultural significance. While the R-CADE does not preserve in the sense of keeping objects in their “original” condition, the archive is in fact an exercise in the preservation of digital culture. By allowing for the study and exploration of digital ephemera, the R-CADE aims to ensure these digital artifacts a place in our histories and our various scholarly conversations. Each year the DSC hosts a symposium during which scholars share research and creative work. Scholars and artists work over the course of many months by researching and/or repurposing an object of study, and they share this work during the symposium.

2017 Rutgers—Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera Symposium
Friday, April 21, 2017, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Tentative Schedule

Register Here

For more information about the event contact Jim Brown at jim.brown@rutgers.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities, University of Exeter

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The University of Exeter is seeking permanent, full time Research Fellow to begin 1st July 2017.

At Exeter, we integrate digital methods and practices into the heart of our Humanities research. We are fascinated by the fresh research questions, interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse new fields of study catalysed by digital research, and we host an expanding range of projects in this specialism. Above all, Digital Humanities enables us to extend research enquiries in the Humanities, to formulate new questions, to forge productive collaborations across disciplines and to deliver outputs and impacts, training and teaching, that are more accessible and more widely understood than ever before. Increased investment by the University has led to the creation of an exciting new laboratory and research space due to open in June 2017.

We are looking for a research leader with an international reputation to shape and direct the strategic development of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be instinctive innovators in this fast-expanding research area with a proven record of excellence in funded projects and field-leading publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must be a skilled and committed teacher with a vision for the integration of digital approaches and applications in the student experience. You should also have an established profile in the appropriate professional networks and organisations and a demonstrable capacity to develop collaborations with a variety of non-HE partners.

The post-holder will be based at Exeter’s Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages and Theology and Religion.

FIND FULL POSTING HERE

DEADLINE – APRIL 27, 2017

For further information please contact Professor James Clark, Associate Dean for Research in Humanities and Chair of the College’s Digital Humanities Strategy Group, email: j.g.clark@exeter.ac.uk or telephone: (01392) 725684.

 

Department of Computer Science Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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The Department of Computer Science at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of visiting assistant professor, beginning in July 2017.  This is a one year appointment, with possible renewal for two additional years.
  • The teaching responsibility is two courses per semester.
  • The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in hand or have fulfilled all requirements for the degree by the start of the appointment.
  • We seek a colleague who is committed to excellence in undergraduate computer science education and who is comfortable teaching courses in a variety of areas.
  • Apply Online with:
    1. cover letter
    2. curriculum vitae
    3. three confidential letters of recommendation
    4. brief teaching statement, which should include a description of their teaching experience and a discussion of what courses they feel prepared to teach.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. 

For questions, contact the department chair, Professor John Rager, jer@cs.amherst.edu.

Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The College is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff. 

Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Exeter

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The University of Exeter is seeking a full time, permanent Professor in Digital Humanities to start 1st September 2017.

At Exeter, we integrate digital methods and practices into the heart of our Humanities research. We are fascinated by the fresh research questions, interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse new fields of study catalysed by digital research, and we host an expanding range of projects in this specialism. Above all, Digital Humanities enables us to extend research enquiries in the Humanities, to formulate new questions, to forge productive collaborations across disciplines and to deliver outputs and impacts, training and teaching, that are more accessible and more widely understood than ever before. Increased investment by the University has led to the creation of an exciting new laboratory and research space due to open in June 2017.

We are looking for a leading figure with a strong international reputation to lead and shape the strategic direction of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be innovative researchers with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must have a distinguished track record in teaching, should be innovative in your approaches to teaching, and should demonstrate leadership in the field through participation in professional bodies and links with relevant companies and organisations.

The post-holder will be based at our Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages and Theology and Religion.

FIND FULL POSTING HERE

DEADLINE – APRIL 27, 2017

Applicants are encouraged to contact the PVC of the College, Prof Andrew Thorpe (tel: 01392 724396 or email: A.J.Thorpe@exeter.ac.uk) to discuss the post further.

Digital and Computational Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College

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Bowdoin College, in support of its Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) Initiative, invites applications for a Digital and Computational Studies Postdoctoral Fellow starting Fall 2017. The appointment will be for two years with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. The ideal candidate may come from any discipline and will have a demonstrated commitment to integrating digital and/or computational methodologies in their scholarship and instruction. Candidates whose research focuses on an aspect of the relationship of digital technologies with hermeneutics, history, education, ethics, the environment, or social practice are especially encouraged to apply.

The rising importance of digital and computational methods is transforming higher education and, in particular, the traditional view of the liberal arts. The liberal arts, broadly speaking, also have the power—perhaps the responsibility—to participate in and shape the development, use, and interpretative capabilities of these tools. Bowdoin has a vibrant DCS community working together to integrate new technologies and forms of creative expression and knowledge production into our curriculum and our scholarship. The DCS steering committee includes faculty from Art History, Chemistry, Computer Science, Digital Humanities, Earth and Oceanographic Sciences, English, Government, Mathematics, and Romance Languages. We have established a thriving Digital Humanities course cluster, and staff from the library, academic technology and IT support courses and projects in collections management and film studies, digital mapping and literary analysis, social media analysis, text analysis with high performance computing, and scientific computation, to name a few.

Responsibilities:

The Digital and Computational Studies Fellow will be both a resource and a catalyst for broadening these efforts.

  • Teach one course per semester; typically one introductory level course, which may include co-teaching, plus one DCS topics course each year, possibly cross-listed in another discipline. Preference for teaching that integrates at least two of the following: text mining (in Python or R), digital mapping, network analysis, data visualization, agent-based modeling, or digital exhibit and archive development.
  • Join the DCS program committee to help craft the growing program in DCS and co-mentor the DCS student community, including advising independent studies.
  • Ability to work across disciplines and actively reach out to colleagues in order to develop new courses that will be housed in departments outside DCS.

Qualifications:

  • completed Ph.D. by June 30, 2017 (provide documentation from their home institution confirming this schedule), and no earlier than January 1, 2014.

To Apply:

  • Complete an online application profile and include:
    • cover letter discussing experience and plans for incorporating computation into their scholarship and teaching
    • short course descriptions of one or two DCS courses the candidate would like to teach or help develop
    • curriculum vitae
    • names and contact information for three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation on request.

Review of applications will begin on April 20, and continue until the position is filled.

 

Bowdoin College is committed to equality and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs.

CONVERGE Conference

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Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship encourages design educators, design researchers, and designers to take advantage of opportunities in digital scholarship, learn how to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects, and find new intersections within their existing research trajectories. To redefine what it means to be a designer and a design researcher today, we ask: How can design converge with digital scholarship in more than a superficial way? How might aspects of digital scholarship impact design research? What are the key questions at the intersection of design and the humanities?

Register Here – Online registration will close on May 19

Keynote Speakers:

Johanna Drucker – “Digital Projects and the Role of the Designer”

Casey Reas – “ULTRACONCENTRATED: Image, Media, Software”

Erik Loyer – “Embodied Convergence: Personal stories of interdisciplinary collaboration and the impacts it has on the lives of the collaborators”