Registration Deadline: Friday, April 21

Founded in 2013, the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop is a biannual, online, interdisciplinary workshop for individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The workshop is sponsored by HASTAC and James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication.

Throughout the workshop, participants create and set in motion their own agendas. There is no program for the workshop and there are no presentations. Participants collaborate in small groups to exchange research projects (e.g., articles, webtexts, syllabi, proposals) for feedback and peer review. Small groups are designed to be interdisciplinary and to encourage feminist mentorship by bringing together scholars with varying levels of experience and expertise.

To accommodate diverse schedules and time zones, all peer review activities take place asynchronously, with the exception of keynote talks and online meetings that individual peer review groups elect to set up.

The workshop is designed to:

• Encourage intra- and interdisciplinary research and collaboration
• Discuss feminist research strategies, methodologies/methods, feminist pedagogy
• Promote collaborative learning and professional development
• Foster feminist mentorship across disciplines and professional orientations
• Create a supportive space for feminist scholars to interact and network

2015 Highlights

• Represented 166 participants from over 25 states and 10 countries
• Hosted keynote speaker Amanda Strauss, research librarian at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
• Coordinated workshop activities with 9 volunteers from various institutional, organizational, and disciplinary backgrounds
• Survey results show that over 75% of participants used their workshop experience to publish a refereed project, present at a conference, complete a thesis or dissertation, revise pedagogical materials, and/or complete a multimedia project

 

The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in feminist research, whether they are students, professors, para-academics, or non-academics.

 

This year’s workshop takes place Monday, June 12—Sunday, June 18, 2017. The majority of workshop activities will take place via Slack, although we encourage participants to also share ideas on HASTAC & Twitter (#FSDW17).

What Do I Need for the Workshop?

Ideally, you will bring a work-in-progress project (e.g., journal article, syllabus, dissertation chapter, webtext). However, you are not required to have a project to participate and can instead serve as a reader/respondent for others’ work.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Erin Frost, Assistant Professor at Eastern Carolina University. Dr. Frost’s workshop will be Thursday, June 15, Feminist Credibility: Negotiating Subjectivity in Public Spaces, will examine the ways women’s experiences are often treated as less credible than other perspectives in supposedly “objective” and “neutral” spaces, from research to politics.

Ms. Jenny Ungbha Korn, scholar of Identity & Media at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Korn’s workshop will be Monday, June 12, Intersectional Feminist Solidarity in Networked Practices: Shared Online Experiences and Strategies Involving Feminist Identity and the Digital, will offer participants the opportunity to examine how digital practices influence intersectional feminist work.

For more information, contact FSDW’s Director, Lori Beth De Hertogh, at feministscholarsworkshop@gmail.com (link sends e-mail). You can also access updates via Twitter using #FSDW17.

2017 Conference: BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities

September 22-24, 2017 | Madison, Wisconsin

Often celebrated and criticized as the next big thing in humanist research and teaching, “the digital humanities” get a lot of press for shaking up the way things are done. But is “dh” a continuation of some of the most “traditional” scholarly work in the humanities: bibliography, textual criticism, and book history? This conference, convened by the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to study how digital humanities grows out book history, how “bh” and “dh” continue to be mutually informative and generative, and how also they contradict each other.

The organizers welcome proposals for papers, entire panels, partial panels (to be filled in with individual paper submissions), posters, or other forms of presentations from scholars and practitioners in all fields that have claim to these questions: literature, history, religious studies, librarianship, information studies, area and ethnic studies, computer science, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, digital studies, library and information science, art history, preservation, forensics, curation, archival practice, and more.

Topics may include (but are certainly not limited to):

• Book as technology
• The relationships between and among librarians, technologists, and humanities faculty and students
• The making of digital bibliographies, catalogs, and archives out of analog ones (and librarian, largely women information laborers)
• Histories of digitization (and/or of microfilm, other storage and transmission media)
• What happens to the “traditional humanities” vs. “digital humanities” antagonism when we see the latter as a continuation or inheritor of book history?
• Critical Race Studies in BH and DH and the critiques of both from African American studies, postcolonial studies, and Native American studies
• digital remediation of manuscript, print, and books
• Histories of particular institutions that connect BH and DH such as the American Library Association, the UVA English Dept, the William Blake Archive.
• Printing history and digital humanities (e.g. understanding circumstances of production key to OCR, etc)
• Importance of labor to create metadata, reference books, accumulate information – what kind of labor is acceptable, privileged, valuable?
• Quantitative methods in Book History (esp. Annales school, French/Continental tradition) and continuity with digital humanities methods
• Bibliographical methods in Book History and continuity with digital humanities methods
• How has DH dealt with/expanded what “reading” means and how is this connected to book history’s approach to history of reading?
• BH and DH methods for studying group reading, collaborative reading and writing, institutions of reading, reading “against the grain”, readers as writers, etc.
• Encoding the physical book – how to make computers understand and display what book historians care about
• DH and BH and the collecting/accumulating/”cabinet of curiosities” tradition; media archaeology
• history of information organization/data collection as part of history of science, book history and digital humanities, structures of digital and pre-digital information
• web archiving and preservation of information about readers and texts in the present
• And more. We welcome an expansive, capacious, and argumentative field for this conference!

Other relevant details:

Affordable (below market) accommodations are available in a reserved block of rooms at an on-campus hotel on a first-come first-served basis. We offer a reasonable registration fee on a sliding scale, especially to keep fees very low for graduate students and adjuncts. Information about accommodations and registration will circulate with panel/paper acceptances.

While on campus, attendees will be able to experiment in the CHPDC’s “Text Technologies Press,” a full service hands on letterpress shop, and the iSchool’s “RADD: Recovering Analogue and Digital Data” center, a media archaeology lab for personal archiving of endangered media formats. In the past, conference goers have made productive research use of materials in the Special Collections department in Memorial Library and the vast holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society while on campus.

Participants will be invited to submit edited and expanded papers for possible inclusion in a volume within our series at the UW Press.

Proposals due to printculture@slis.wisc.edu by April 15, 2017

Full Call for Papers

Decision Notification by May 15, 2017

Organizers: Jonathan Senchyne, Heather Wacha, Mark Vareschi
Questions to: printculture@slis.wisc.edu

Keynote Lecture: Matthew Kirschenbaum, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination and Track Changes A Literary History of Word Processing.

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history and society. We explore the production, circulation, appropriation, maintenance and abandonment of technology under specific historical circumstances. And we scrutinize the epistemic, economic, social, cultural and political conditions of this development. Our approaches are informed by a broad concept of technology encompassing knowledge resources, practices, artefacts and biofacts, i.e. artefacts in the realm of the living. Accordingly, the Program Committee invites paper and session proposals on any topic in a broadly defined history of technology, including topics that push the boundaries of the discipline. Submitters are encouraged to propose sessions that include a diverse mix of participants: multinational origins, gender, graduate students and junior scholars with senior scholars, significantly diverse institutional affiliations, etc.

To pay tribute to the venue of the 2017 annual meeting – Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed – we want to encourage proposals that engage topics related to technology, democracy and participation. The birthplace of the oldest participatory democracy is the ideal setting for reflecting on, and interrogating, the overlapping subjects of technology, democracy, and participation. Philadelphia was not only the first capital of the United States, but also an early capital of industrialization and the accompanying transformations of work, skill, creation and maintenance, all of which continue to shape modern participation in the world. Commercial systems, slave economies, and immigration patterns developed locally alongside complex technologies of production and infrastructure in Philadelphia. Industrialization also led to an era of increased human intervention in the environment, now referred to as the Anthropocene. City and region participated in the cyclical expansion and contraction of global trade and supply chains of commodities, labor, and cultures. As other urban and rural, industrialized and agricultural polities have historically contended with similar forces of change, and transnational networks have carried the impacts of modernization agendas to both willing and unwilling communities, the cultural embrace of technology, notions of democracy, and ideologies of participation have played out in myriad ways around the world. These cultural commitments and their interactions, as seen in Philadelphia’s history and across a wide range of other global settings, thus form an appropriate theme for the 2017 SHOT meeting.

For the 2017 meeting the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three types:

• Traditional Sessions of 3 or 4 papers, with a chair and a commentator
• Unconventional Sessions, with formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical 3 or 4 papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions and workshop-style sessions with pre-circulated papers.
• Open Sessions: Individuals interested in finding others to join panel sessions for the Annual Meeting may propose Open Sessions, starting January 15, with a final deadline of March 15.  Open Sessions descriptions, along with organizer contact information, will appear as soon as possible on the SHOT website.  (The earlier the proposal, the earlier it will be posted to the website.)  To join a proposed panel from the Open Sessions list, contact the organizer for that panel, not the Program Committee.  Open Session organizers will then assemble full panel sessions and submit them to SHOT by the end of the regular call for papers on March 31, 2017. The Program Committee will review the resulting fully formed session proposals, whether traditional or unconventional, for quality and adherence to SHOT standards of gender, geographic, and institutional diversity.
• Individual Papers: Preference will be given to organizes sessions – traditional or untraditional. Scholars who might ordinarily propose an individual paper are instead requested to propose Open Sessions themselves or to join an Open Session.

SHOT allows paper presentations at consecutive meetings but rejects submissions of papers that are substantially the same as previous accepted submissions.  Submissions covering the same fundamental topic should explain the difference(s) with the prior presentation.

The SHOT Executive Council is formulating its response to US Presidential measures to restrict access to the United States for select foreign nationals, including to our annual meeting. Please keep an eye open for this statement and, if possible, do not be discouraged from submitting a paper by the current situation.

Deadline: March 31, 2017

Full Call for Papers and Sessions

Any questions please contact the SHOT Secretariat.

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The 2017 Program Committee consists of Ling-Fei Lin (Nanyang Technological Univerisity Singapore; William Storey, Millsaps College; and Karin Zachmann, Technische Universität München (Chair).

Language: English
Abstracts: Title of paper, abstract (350-500 words), 5 keywords, author’s affiliation, e-mail address and short biography (100-150 words)
Format: PDF file – max. 3 pages or 2.00 MB
Full papers: 2000-2500 words (additional guidelines will be provided soon)
E-mail address: all abstracts should be sent to the following e-mail address: postinternetcities@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for submission of abstract: 26 March 2017
  Notification of acceptance: 6 April 2017
  Submission of full papers for publication: 4 May 2017
  Deadline for registration: 12 May 2017

What were the “new media” of the 18th-century, and how might Enlightenment practices of science, artistry, design, communication, surveillance, and fabrication speak to contemporary theories of media ecologies and media technologies? We are especially interested in comparative approaches to technologies of empire in the 18th-century. Possible lines of inquiry include: the relationship between techne and technology; how European scientific and artistic innovations borrowed from indigenous or non-European cultures; types of cross-cultural borrowings that led to intentional or accidental misunderstandings; divergent uses of technological practices.

We invite abstracts from scholars working in and across the history of race and empire, art and material culture, media studies, literary studies, science studies, and history of material texts.

Old Media/New Media: Comparative approaches to technologies of empire in the 18th-century, including scientific and artistic innovations that borrowed from indigenous or non-European cultures. 300-word abstract and one-page c.v. by 15 March 2017: Natania Meeker (nmeeker@usc.edu) and Paul Kelleher (pkelleh@emory.edu).

Fabrications, Old/New: Comparative and transhistorical approaches to 18th-century modes and technologies of fiction and fabrication, design, speculation, utopic projection, falsehood, untruth, libel, and slander. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by March 15 to: Chi-ming Yang (cmyang@english.upenn.edu) and Sunil Agnani, sagnani1@uic.edu.

New Philology, Media Ecology: Papers engage Medienphilologie and/or media ecology in relation/application to 18th-century literary texts. How are these approaches, and their results concerning this period, related or distinct? 1 page abstract by 15 March 2017: Nicholas A. Rennie (nicholas.rennie@rutgers.edu) and Birgit Tautz (btautz@bowdoin.edu).

ALL CFPs

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, fill out an application and join us at AMC2017!

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Submission Deadline:  April 7, 2017

On November 2-4, 2017, we invite you to join us at the University of Central Florida to explore “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities.” This year, we hope to address the unsolved hard problems and explore the new opportunities of the digital humanities, including

• challenges of monolingualism within the digital humanities;
• indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology;
• technology and education–open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education;
• communication of knowledge, publishing, and intellectual property;
• digital cultural heritage and hegemony;
• interdisciplinary goals and conversations in digital humanities;
• digital humanities and gender, race, and other identities;
• simulation, modeling, and visualization;
• games and gaming, including for learning; and
• community development, including the importance of art and culture districts.
• PLUS project demos, digital and/or poster sessions, and a curated media arts show exhibition.

We seek proposals for participant presentations in the following categories:

• 5-8 minute “soapbox” talks
• roundtables (be creative with your format — no reading papers!)
• project demos
• digital and/or print posters
• maker sessions or workshops
• Media arts (new media, games, and electronic literature)

For each submission, we will need the following information:

1) complete contact information including valid phone, email, and institutional affiliation, if any;

2) maximum 500-word abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference themes;

3) any technical requirements or other support (including space requirements) that may be required for the presentation.  For exhibitions or other performances, please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you.  In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your proposal.

Digital and/or Print Posters Wanted!

Print posters (4 x 3’) and electronic posters (to be projected) are solicited for emerging projects, ideas, and scholars. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of your research. Limit the text to about one-fourth of the poster space, and use visuals (graphs, photographs, schematics, maps, etc.) to tell your story.  Use the regular submission form, but indicate that you are proposing a Poster by checking the appropriate box.

Maker Sessions & Workshops

We will provide some room and resources for individuals or groups to create informal maker spaces, where conference participants can share, exchange, and experiment with new online tools, personal fabrication technologies, open source electronics such as Arduino, and other creative and learning devices and gadgets. To propose a maker session or workshop, please use the standard submission form and indicate that yours is a maker session. Please also tell us how long the session requires!

Media Arts Show

The Media Arts Show invites creative works that engage with the show’s theme, “Soft(ware) Solutions / Hard Problems.” Works of new media, including games, electronic literature, and installations that meld physical and digital components, are welcome. Please provide a detailed description of the work, its purpose, and all technical and physical requirements for display.

All proposals will be peer-reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide detailed reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from networks and individuals.

Submit your proposal
Download and Share: HASTAC 2017 Call for Proposals (pdf)

 

We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals.

Pitt-Greensburg’s Center for the Digital Text will host Digital Mitford Project team from Wed. June 28 through Friday June 30, 2017 for the Fifth Annual Workshop Series and Coding School.

As featured on its public website, http://digitalmitford.org, the Digital Mitford project has two major purposes:

1. to produce the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the works and letters of Mary Russell Mitford, and
2. to share knowledge of TEI XML and related humanities computing practices with all serious scholars interested in contributing to the project.

All participants gain experience with navigating and processing editorial markup helpful in managing a digital edition project.

Though we draw our active editors from researchers of 19th-century literature, we hope that all who join the Mitford project (whatever their primary research field) will find good resources for professional scholarly research and publication, and gain beneficial experience for individual projects. Joining our workshop leads for any interested in joining to a free first-year membership in the Text Encoding Initiative, the international consortium establishing best practices for encoding of digital texts.  We anticipate hosting three overlapping groups:

1. beginning coders who wish to learn our methods to apply them to their own projects
2. scholars who wish to join the Mitford project as active editors
3. repeat visitors seeking to review what they learned last year and to learn more about how to process, transform, and publish digital editions and informational graphics from markup.

What will be taught and shared:

• Discussion of best practices for preparing digital scholarly editions as digital databases.
• Textual scholarship and paleography (working primarily with 19th-century manuscript letters and publications)
• Participation in an active “dig site” for important data on networks of women writers, theaters, and publishers from the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Text encoding, including the following:
  • TEI XML encoding and best practices for project sustainability and longevity
  • Autotagging and regular expression matching to “up-convert” plain text, and old word-processed documents and dated formats into XML markup,
  • Hands-on experience with XPath and code schemas to help manage a project
  • For those ready (returning and advanced coders) experience writing XSLT and working with an XML database to publish editions and process data for graphs and charts.
• Perspective on project management and interface development as we work on developing our site interface.
• Individual and Group Instruction, working with our Explanatory Guides and Resources, organized and led by an elected member of the TEI Technical Council. See our instructional materials for a range of coding we are prepared to teach.

To Register: send an email (ebb8@pitt.edu) with the subject line “Digital Mitford Coding School”  by Monday, April 3, 2017, indicating interest, whether you are a new learner or a returning registrant, and whether you seek an introduction to coding and markup or the more advanced training we describe here. (All communities are welcome, and learning the backgrounds of our group will help us to prepare training groups.)

See full posting for full details and registration fees