• Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures
• Global Digital Humanities Symposium
• Introducing the Critical Code Studies Working Group
• Call for Papers: “Mediating the #MeToo Movement: Intersectional Approach”
• 2018 Digital Scholarship Colloquium – The Digital and Democracy

Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2019 CFP

Thursday, March 21, 2019 (All day) to Friday, March 22, 2019 (All day)

Global Digital Humanities Symposium

March 21-22, 2019

MSU, Main Library, Green Room

msuglobaldh.org

Call for Proposals

Deadline: November 15

Proposal form

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its fourth year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials.

Focused on these issues of social justice, we invite work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate.

Given the growth of these fields within the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, endangered data, and the digital divide. DH communities have raised and responded to these issues, pushing the field forward. We view the 2019 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome. Additionally, we define the term “humanities” rather broadly to incorporate the discussion of issues that encourage interdisciplinary understanding of the humanities.

This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by Thursday, November 15, 11:59pm EST:

• Critical cultural studies and analytics
• Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
• DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context
• DH responses to crisis
• How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work
• Global research dialogues and collaborations
• Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
• Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
• Global digital pedagogies
• Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
• Digital and global languages and literatures
• The state of global digital humanities community
• Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
• Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies
• Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
• Surveillance and/or data privacy issues in a global context
• Productive failure

Presentation Formats:

• 5-minute lightning talk
• 15-minute presentation
• 90-minute workshop
• 90-minute panel
• There will be a limited number of slots available for 15-minute virtual presentations

Please note that we conduct a double-blind review process, so please refrain from identifying your institution or identity in your proposal.

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Introducing the Critical Code Studies Working Group

This year, we’re inviting HASTAC to join in the Critical Code Studies Working Group both in the forum and on Twitter. Here’s a brief primer on CCS.

What is Critical Code Studies?

(see this article)
Critical Code Studies is the application of methodologies from the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. Extra-functional means not “outside of” but “growing out of” its function. In other words, once we know what the code does, we can then say what it means, or what code does (assuming it does anything) is only part of its meaning. “Critical” emphasizes the use of philosophical lenses, known in the humanities as “critical theory.” In particular, Critical Code Studies draws lessons from the models of Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Studies. CCS uses code as an excavation site for explorations of culture.

What is the Working Group?

A biennial gathering of scholars of all levels interested in exploring culture through code. This is our fifth biennial working group, marking our 10 year anniversary. The first of these was published in electronic book review. The goal of the working group is to spend concentrated energy for a fixed period time developing new methods, theories, and readings, while discussing key issues in programming culture.

How does it work?

The working group has hosted weekly plenary discussions accompanied by individual code critique threads where participants offer code for discussion. Featured presenters lead the discussion.

How participants and non-participants can engage?

Participants are encouraged to join the weekly discussions and start and comment on code critique threads.
Non-registered participants are encouraged to react and discuss online as we make our conversations public for the first time. We’ve taken down the garden wall. There will be a Twitter Chat run by HASTAC Scholars that will accompany each week of the working group and everyone, registered and not, are invited to participate.

You can continue your work after the Working Group by applying to be an affiliate of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCs) Lab.

Critical Code Studies (brief reading list)

The original essay of course might help.
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology

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State of the Field (2014) (includes a lit. review)
http://computationalculture.net/field-report-for-critical-code-studies-2014%E2%80%A8/

Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV
http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/64

The first CCSWG can be found in electronic book review
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/ningislanded

How does CCS relate to Software Studies, Algorithmic Studies, Platform, Black Code Studies, Media Archeology?

Critical Code Studies takes as its chief object computer source code. Code is often software and runs on hardware, so the study is deeply tied to those fields (Software and Platform Studies), and of course, it benefits from the approaches of media archeology. Since algorithms are implemented in code, there’s much overlap between CCS and the recently named algorithm studies, but CCS has an added focus of examining the specific code used to instantiate the algorithm.

While Critical Code Studies shares and extends the work of these interrelated fields, CCS works to develop methods for specifically addressing elements of computer source code, since such methods are not required for analyses in these other disciplines. CCS also stresses the centrality of hermeneutics, known also as critical theory, to the interpretation of source code.

Black Code Studies is a recent field launched in a special issue of The Black Scholar edited by Jessica M. Johnson and Mark A. Neal. While BCS takes the term “code” more broadly, this year we are exploring code through a BCS lens, learning what that approach can bring to CCS practices. In similar ways, we have worked with FemTechNet and feminist approaches and post-colonial approaches in our working groups. These few examples have demonstrated how each new set of lenses offers further opportunity for critical inquiry.

The field is still quite young, so we look toward new developments and discoveries as scholars continue to explore the meaning of code.

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Call for Papers: “Mediating the #MeToo Movement: Intersectional Approach”

CfP: “Mediating the #MeToo Movement: Intersectional Approach” – Journal of Communication Inquiry

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Call for Papers: “Mediating the #MeToo Movement: Intersectional Approach”

The Journal of Communication Inquiry (JCI) invites submissions that adopt critical-cultural approaches to exploring the #MeToo movement from an intersectional perspective for its October 2019 theme issue, “Mediating the #MeToo Movement: Intersectional Approach.”

As the #MeToo hashtag resonated with thousands of women, empowering them to share their experiences of sexual harassment and assault, it also prompted a national conversation about the systems of oppression and privilege that both enable and operate through sexual victimization. Having originated in African American activist Tarana Burke’s work with marginalized communities, the two words that came to symbolize the movement put no rhetorical boundaries on survivors’ race, class, or gender, providing a welcoming space for them to tell their stories. Yet, as the movement gained prominence, the mainstream media centered its coverage on experiences of White, upper-middle class women victimized by White men. By doing so, it effectively echoed Burke’s words that “Sexual violence knows no race, class, or gender, but the response to it does,” and emphasized the need for an intersectional approach to understanding the origins and ramifications of the movement that would illuminate the ways in which race, class, and gender work together to reinforce and preserve the structures of disadvantage and discrimination. As the movement received global attention, and in some countries, such as Russia and France, experienced discursive pushback that evoked cultural specificity argumentation, it also became clear that the survivors’ experiences, and the cultural conversation surrounding them, are not only racialized, gendered, and classed, but can be complicated by an interplay of other identities, such as nationality, ethnicity, religion, and others that need to be brought into discussion.

This call for papers invites submissions that problematize the ongoing cultural conversation around sexual hostility, harassment, and assault by critically examining the intersectionality of the #MeToo movement and the complex role of the media, broadly defined, in shaping the movement’s potentialities and consequences for social change. Studies that display theoretical and methodological innovation are particularly encouraged, as are submissions that bring into analysis international contexts and other social categorizations beyond race, gender, and class.

As an interdisciplinary journal, JCI is inviting submissions from scholars in different fields who can explore the topic in various geographical, cultural and political contexts and make a clear original contribution to critical cultural scholarship. The deadline for submitting the manuscripts is January 15, 2019. A maximum 7,000-word paper (including references, tables, etc.) will be considered for publication, subject to double blind peer-review. Please contact Managing Editor Volha Kananovich (jci@uiowa.edu) with questions.

Contact Info:

Volha Kananovich
Managing Editor, Journal of Communication Inquiry
E327, Adler Journalism Bldg.
Iowa City, IA, USA – 52242
Email: jci@uiowa.edu
Web: http://jci.sagepub.com/

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Williams College Museum of Art invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. The Fellow’s work is part of WCMA Digital, a major initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that aims to make the museum’s collections open and accessible to all, and develop a set of digital tools to support new pedagogical, creative and intellectual explorations of the collection.

WCMA’s Mellon Fellow for Digital Humanities will explore and encourage digital humanities scholarship and methodologies within a museum context, with access to collections and involvement in exhibitions and public programs. WCMA is uniquely suited to connect and collaborate with programs, people and projects across campus. The project builds on digital humanities projects across the College in the departments of English, History and American Studies, and the College’s Library.

Reporting to WCMA’s Mellon Manager of Digital Initiatives, the Fellow will be part of the vibrant and collaborative staff at WCMA.

The Fellow will also be art of Williams’ academic community, including its postdoc peer group, which spans academic programs. Undergraduate research is an emphasis at Williams, and this position will have the opportunity to work closely with talented, research-oriented college students.

Williams is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff. In your cover letter, please highlight your experience with and commitment to supporting diverse and inclusive communities.

Responsibilities

• Explore, investigate, and evaluate emerging tools and technologies related to your research and the WCMA collection.
• Develop (or lead the development of) tools for the investigation, visualization, and curation of the museum’s open collections.
• Hold individual and group DH research training and informational sessions for faculty, staff, and students.
• Help curators and faculty members develop and implement digital projects arising from the museum’s open collections.
• Co-organize a convening with the Clark Art Institute exploring the questions of computation in art history, museums, and collections-based scholarship. Share work with the wider museum and digital humanities communities.
• Co-organize an exhibition based on DH tools and research, in collaboration with curators and faculty.
• Possibly teach one class per semester.
• The Fellow will collaborate with the faculty advisory committee of WCMA Digital.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have received a Ph.D. in a humanistic discipline after January 1, 2010, but before beginning the fellowship in July 2018.
• Experience in the use and application of one or more DH methodologies (e.g., visualization, text-mining, text-encoding, GIS, network analysis, database design, digital editions) for creating and transmitting scholarship.
• Ability to work in interdisciplinary humanities environments.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate the opportunities of digital research to scholars in the humanities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated digital project management experience.
• Deep familiarity with museum collection databases, metadata standards, folksonomy projects.
• Knowledge of open scholarship trends, resources, and applications.
• Programming experience.
• Teaching experience at the undergraduate level.

For optimal consideration, please submit resume materials by June 30, 2018. Review of resumes will continue until the position is filled.

Link to Posting

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