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Science Librarian, St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University seeks an innovative, creative and service-oriented colleague as our next Science Librarian. Part of the Libraries and Information Technology division and reporting to the Director of Libraries, the Science Librarian oversees the Launders Science Library.

 

Responsibilities:

  • outreach to science departments regarding resources, services, and spaces
  • work closely with students and faculty in innovative ways that will have an ongoing impact on advancing scientific knowledge across the curriculum
  • supervise the Science Library staff
  • manage the collections
  • provide instruction, reference, and research consultation services for students and faculty in the sciences
  • be able to work well in a collegial and team environment and will possess strong communication, interpersonal and teaching skills
  • be part of a multi-disciplinary team of colleagues which engages in the development of policies, goals and procedures and serves as a resource to the campus on evolving patterns of scholarly publishing, including open access initiatives and the management of scientific data
  • support physical and virtual presences, strive to maintain a high level of resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reliability with regard to the academic needs of students and faculty, and proactively seek to engage with students and faculty on existing and emerging technologies, programs, and initiatives.

Qualifications:

  • Have an ALA-accredited MLS degree or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with the scientific literature and ability to help others understand trends is required.
  • Interest and desire to successfully use and support science
  • Knowledge of trends in scholarly communication, degree in the sciences or related research experience, previous academic library experience are preferred.

Apply Online with the following:

  1. Cover Letter/Letter of Application
  2. Resume
  3. References

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

Full position posting and application details

The University is committed to and seeks diversity among its faculty, staff and students. Such a commitment ensures an atmosphere that is diverse and complex in ways that are intellectually and socially enriching for the entire campus community. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups, as well as from individuals with experience teaching or working in a multicultural environment, are encouraged. St. Lawrence University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Professor in High Performance Computing, Umeå University

Umeå University welcomes applications for a permanent position as full Professor in High Performance Computing at the Department of Computing Science. We are seeking a strong academic leader with a clear strategic vision that can complement existing expertise and link activities to other strong research areas at Umeå University. This includes to form new networks within and outside Umeå University, participate in the planning of research projects and actively apply for research funding.

Deadline: March 2, 2017

Full position posting and application details

Position Details:

  • familiarity with the subject area of high performance computing.
  • during the first six years of employment at least 75 % of the time will be assigned to research
  • research-informed teaching and supervision at basic, graduate and postgraduate levels
  • some administrative and managerial tasks
  • collaboration with or an active role in leadership within the national center for scientific and parallel computing, HPC2N, is also an opportunity
  • the successful candidate will have an important role and large freedom in developing the area of high performance computing at the department, both in research and in undergraduate and graduate education
  • In teaching, focus will be on teaching and supervision on advanced and postgraduate level. Experience in teaching (preferable in HPC) at basic and advanced level (first and second cycle) is required.

Qualifications:

  • documentation to demonstrate scientific and research-informed teaching skills
  • administrative, leadership qualities and the ability to initiate collaborations outside of academia
  • particular emphasis will be put on the degree of scientific expertise relating to the core of high performance computing
  • the ability to develop and lead personnel
  • pedagogical skills will be taken into account
  • administrative abilities and the ability to initiate collaborations outside of academia is also a factor
  • topicality, excellence and originality of your research and the ability to carry out research projects will be assessed.
  • Significant emphasis will be put on scientific work published in internationally well-respected scientific journals and conference proceedings of scientific conferences. Documented experience from applying that expertise in at least two application areas is an advantage. Documented ability to competitively obtain research funding is important.

For more information about moving to Sweden and working at Umeå University, see http://www.cs.umu.se/working_cs_umu

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Three Positions in Digital Humanities at Michigan State

MSU Digital Humanities logo

The College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University seek a group of culturally engaged digital arts and humanities scholars to join a transformative initiative to explore, interrogate, and cultivate Critical Diversity in a Digital Age. We are looking for creative, collaborative leaders in digital humanities and digital arts who think synthetically about scholarship, teaching, and creative endeavors. Applications are invited for positions in the following areas at the Associate or Full Professor level:

  • Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities
  • Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Rhetorics
  • Digital History

These new colleagues will join a group of faculty and students at Michigan State University with an energetic focus on humanities questions of race, inclusion, cultural preservation, global interconnectedness, and engaged scholarship.  They will be part of the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR), which serves as an interdisciplinary catalyst for MSU scholars, artists, and teachers who work at the intersections of self/society, digital/material, technology/culture to advance leading-edge scholarship and creative activity that integrates diversity in a digital age.

Three broad mission areas shape the initiative for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age:

  1. To expose the limits of existing practices and structures of reality in order to interrogate the conditions under which they operate and thus to uncover what they enable and prevent
  2. To discern what is possible in the wake of this exposure so that we might imagine more just possibilities of engagement
  3. To enact practices of justice and freedom rooted in and animated by discerning critique.

This is the first of a two-phase cluster hire, seeking applications from creative, energetic, and empathetic scholars at the Associate or Full Professor level with a demonstrated record of leadership, achievement, and mentoring who will help further frame, develop, and support our Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative. Please see the full position posting for further details and application requirements.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Princeton University invites applications for a two-year Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, starting in July 2017.

Submissions received by March 1, 2017 will receive priority

Full position posting and application details

Position Responsibilities:

  • devote 50% time to participating in the life of the Center, which includes: collaborating with faculty, graduate students, librarians, programmers, and designers on DH projects, providing consultations, offering workshops, and attending regular staff meetings and CDH events.
  • teach at least one but no more than two digital humanities courses during the two year term of the fellowship, subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, and will carry the title of lecturer when teaching.
  • 50% time will be dedicated to developing a research project during non-teaching terms, with CDH staff guidance.
  • bring theoretical, methodological, and technical expertise to the CDH community.

Qualifications:

  • demonstrated experience working on digital humanities projects, as well as familiarity with the main DH trends, research tools and technologies, is required.
  • expertise in data visualization and/or network analysis is preferred.
  • must show excellence in teaching, and must have skill and interest in advising students and colleagues in Digital Humanities work.
  • must have the ability to work collaboratively, and have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Un-tenured scholars who received a PhD within the last three years are eligible to apply.

Applications: submit an online application and include the following:

  1. cover letter with title and summary (200 words) of proposed digital humanities research project
  2. curriculum vitae
  3. sample syllabus for an undergraduate-level introduction to digital humanities course
  4. names and contact information of three referees.

This position is subject to the University’s background check policy. Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Historical Network Research Conference, Turku, Finland

The Historical Network Research group is pleased to announce its 4th annual conference, held at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland, on 17-20 October 2017.

The 4th Historical Network Research Conference seeks to further strengthen and foster the awareness of historians for the possibilities of network research and create possibilities for cross- and multidisciplinary approaches to the networked past by bringing together historians, social scientists and computer scientists.

The organisers welcome proposals for individual contributions discussing any historical period and geographical area. Topics might include, but are not limited to: historical social netwoks, policy networks, kinship and community, geospatial networks, cultural and intellectual networks, and methodological innovations.

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2017

Full CFP and Submission details

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Open Knowledge Practicum, Digital Humanities Summer Institute

In partnership with the University of Victoria Libraries and the Faculty of Humanities, UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is offering Open Knowledge Practicums for this year’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) participants, as well as university faculty, staff, and students, and members of the greater Victoria community. The practicums will run 31 May – 2 June 2017 (the week prior to DHSI). Open Knowledge Practicum Fellows will join the team in the ETCL in order to contribute to a well-defined topic in open, public venues (e.g., Wikipedia).

Students may wish to explore an area connected to their study, and to work with a field specialist; faculty and staff may propose to make more accessible some of the work in their field, and choose to work with a student or other colleagues; citizen scholars may wish to engage in family, community, or local public history. Fellows may wish to engage with materials from UVic’s library and archives, create an openly available exhibit of digital material, contribute to online knowledge bases like Wikipedia, and beyond. We ask only that you use your imagination to propose something you’d be interested in doing!

Requirements:

  • basic facility in the area of proposed work and technologies pertinent to the proposal
  • be self-directed and have experience working toward defined goals
  • ability to work successfully in a team environment
  • ability to make a 3-day commitment to participate on-campus, in the ETCL.

Applications: send the following electronically to <khatib@uvic.ca>

  1. cover letter that proposes work for the practicum and outcomes; indicate if you would like to be considered for an honorarium related to the fellowship
  2. CV
  3. names and contact information for two people who can speak to your competencies in the area

Applications accepted on rolling basis through March 1

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Drew University

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science (non-tenure track), to begin August of 2017. The successful candidate will teach six courses per year in a department that values ongoing faculty development in teaching computer science in a liberal arts environment, with opportunities to develop electives outside the current computer science curriculum.

Requirements:

  • Ph.D. in computer science or closely related discipline is preferred. ABD candidates will also be considered
  • demonstrated excellence in teaching
  • breadth in the discipline that complements the computer science program’s existing strengths
  • dedication to teaching undergraduates in a liberal arts context
  • help the department develop offerings in data science, digital humanities, communications, networks, or cyber security are particularly encouraged to apply.

Application: submit the following as PDF files to HR0117-5@drew.edu

  1. cover letter
  2. curriculum vitae
  3. graduate transcripts
  4. personal statement that describes how teaching and research experience and expertise will support the particular requirements of this position
  5. three letters of reference, at least two of which specifically address the candidate’s experience or potential for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Submit all materials by March 1, 2016 for full consideration

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CFP: Frequencies: Patterning Interconnectivity & Networked Temporality

“In both historical and contemporary contexts, the development of new technology has been pivotal in establishing and modulating global patterns of connectivity, and in setting the rhythm and pace of interaction through asynchronous flows of material and information. In our current moment, the capability of algorithmic processes to further mediate meaning and integrate networks of sensorial and computational content offers the possibility for connections to be performed with new timing, layering multiple presents and mixing potential realities. These changes in techno-social dynamics shape artistic, scientific, and cultural practices, and have a profound impact on the ways in which we singularly and collectively construct meaning through a shifting relationship to temporality and interconnectivity.”

For its third annual Graduate Symposium- “Frequencies: Patterning Interconnectivity & Networked Temporality”– the Student Caucus of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology is currently inviting cross-disciplinary proposals which consider presence, permanence, and performativity in digitally mediated contexts, and which critically engage with the ways that these concepts challenge contemporary notions of causality, authorship, and intentionality. We are interested in global resonances and emerging properties that reflect an ever-growing distribution of process across biological, technological, and social systems, and how these may be viewed from a variety of cultural perspectives. We seek proposals which situate these trends in relation to artificial intelligence, telepresence, and augmented reality, and emerging scholarship which explores structures of consciousness and modes of perception through the lens of both human and non-human interaction. We encourage presentations that reflexively consider process, research-creation, and collaboration, and link academic and performative modalities.

Deadline: March 1st, 2017 at 11:59pm EST.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the impact of algorithmic mediation on:

  • Networks, webs, infrastructures, and their expansions
  • Time consciousness in relation to globalization
  • Continuity and discontinuity, flows, and streams
  • Temporal aesthetics
  • Authorship, memory, and narrative
  • Human/machine agency in creative practice
  • Archives and artifacts
  • Live, recorded, and mediated presence
  • Instrumentality and technologies of performance
  • Technics of representation and perception
  • Sensory substitution
  • Emerging sense theories, esp. in relation to time
  • Sonic materiality
  • Listening and embodied cognition
  • Ontological politics
  • Transcorporeality and posthumanism
  • Improvisation and distributed creativity
  • The ‘work-concept’
  • Emergence in the creative process
  • Popular conceptions of time in film, media, art, and literature

This one-day symposium will offer a unique symbiotic opportunity for researchers, scientists, and artists to gather, exchange, bond, and cross-fertilize future landscapes for research that is currently materializing across disciplinary boundaries.

Presentation formats:

Papers, poster, workshops, round tables, performances, presentations- traditional and experimental- and other emerging forms will all be considered. We encourage cross-disciplinary interpretations, variations and unforeseen mutations of our working themes.

Submissions – send the following to sensoriumsymposium@gmail.com:

  1. 300-word abstract with working title
  2. short biography
  3. specify the format of your presentation, keeping in mind it should be no more than 20 minutes in length (90 minutes for panels and/or roundtables)
  4. contact information
  5. For Joint Proposals: send only one application that includes collective biographical and contact information.

Keynote Speaker: David Rokeby is an installation artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has been creating and exhibiting since 1982. For the first part of his career he focused on interactive pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems. In the last decade, his practice has expanded to included video, kinetic and static sculpture. His work has been performed / exhibited in shows across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

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Visual Communication Professor, Rice University

Rice University’s Program in Writing and Communication seeks applicants for a two-year, nonrenewable instructor position in Visual Communication. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position. The primary focus of this position is to collaborate with the faculty and staff of the Program in Writing and Communication (PWC) and its partners to advance visual communication across the various schools, departments, and programs at Rice. The PWC was established in 2012 and includes the Center for Written, Oral and Visual Communication and the First-Year Writing-Intensive Seminar Program.

Position Details: We are launching a sustainable visual communication initiative to enhance our programming in this area, and the person hired for this inaugural position will have a major role in helping the PWC achieve this goal.

  • teach 2-3 upper or lower-division courses on visual and multimodal communication per year
  • develop workshops for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students
  • plan and oversee a symposium on visual and multimodal communication pedagogy in second year of the appointment
  • launch a collaboration with the Center for Written, Oral, and Visual Communication
  • the instructor is expected to continue her/his disciplinary research and professional activities

Required Qualifications:

  • A PhD awarded, or all PhD requirements fulfilled, between 2012- June 1, 2017.  The degree should be earned in visual or mult-imodal communication or a related discipline that strongly emphasizes one of these areas.
  • Successful teaching experience at the university level
  • Demonstrated commitment to research and scholarship
  • Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with faculty and students
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
  • Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills

Desired Qualifications:

  • Commitment to developing serious, critical, and theoretical programs in visual and multimodal communication
  • Experience creating training materials for different academic audiences
  • Experience producing multi-modal scholarship
  • Experience visualizing experiments and producing graphs
  • Experience leveraging interactive multimedia in scholarly pedagogy
  • Proficiency with quantitative and visualization tools such as R, Tableau, GIS, D3.js
  • Knowledge of computer-aided drawing tools (CAD)

Applications accepted through February 28, 2017

Full position posting and application details

Applications: submit the following online:

  1. cover letter
  2. C.V.
  3. research statement
  4. teaching philosophy
  5. academic writing sample
  6. media sample (portfolio of 4-5 examples of visuals/visual projects)
  7. two letters of reference

Any questions, contact: Elaine Chang, PWC Program Coordinator (ElaineChang@rice.edu)

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Faculty Position in Data Science, George Washington University

The GW Data Science program seeks one or more contract faculty members at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor with a specialty in Data Science with a start date as early as Aug 1, 2017. The duration of the appointment is three years renewable up to five years. The position is pending final budget authority.

Position open until filled

Full position posting and application details

Position Responsibilities:

  • teach up to three courses each semester, including possible capstone research courses
  • student advising, mentoring students doing research and applied projects
  • participation in committee work, helping build relationships with industry and government Big Data professionals
  • applied research in data science is encouraged

Qualifications:

  • Ph.D. in a data-intensive discipline by the date of appointment
  • documented experience in the application of data science to Big Data problems in the natural and social sciences.

Application Process: submit the following online:

  1. letter containing a brief statement of interest
  2. curriculum vitae
  3. statement of research and teaching interest.

The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.