This Thursday, March 20, dean’s speaker Amaranth Borsuk will read selections from her digital pop-up book, Between Page and Screen, and give a talk, “Material Poetics Between Page and Screen.” The presentation will take place at 7:45 p.m. in the Turman Room of Preston Library.
For further information see http://www.vmi.edu/Content.aspx?id=10737428334
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. These two-year fellowships are open to candidates who earned their Ph.D.s in Spring 2012 or later. Fellows will play an active role in helping to demonstrate innovative methods of teaching, making interdisciplinary connections and teaching new courses in neglected areas of the curriculum. Fellows will have a reduced teaching load to allow time for their own scholarly development.
The Department of History seeks a specialist in digital history with a concentration in ancient or any field in pre-1800 global or non-Western history. Applicants should have experience with digital humanities pedagogies and using digital humanities tools in their scholarly research.
Apply electronically at our portal: https://jobs.wlu.edu/postings/1907. After filling out a cover sheet, you will be prompted to upload a letter of application, a CV, a sample of recent scholarly work, and enter contact information for two providers of letters of recommendation (or a credentials file). Review of applications will begin April 7, 2014. Address your application letter (and any questions) to Professor Sarah Horowitz (horowitzs@wlu.edu), Chair, Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in Digital History Search Committee, Department of History, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450. Washington and Lee and the Department of History are interested in candidates committed to high standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
read the full article at http://www.davidson.edu/news/news-stories/131213-mellon-foundation-digital-studies-award
Check out this discussion about digital pedagogy: http://historyinthecity.blogspot.com/2014/01/doing-digital-history-with-undergrads.html
Professor of History, Sarah Horowitz, recently published a book through Penn State University Press. The following description and more information is available on their blog at http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06192-4.html
In Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France, Sarah Horowitz brings together the political and cultural history of post-revolutionary France to illuminate how French society responded to and recovered from the upheaval of the French Revolution. The Revolution led to a heightened sense of distrust and divided the nation along ideological lines. In the wake of the Terror, many began to express concerns about the atomization of French society. Friendship, though, was regarded as one bond that could restore trust and cohesion. Friends relied on each other to serve as confidants; men and women described friendship as a site of both pleasure and connection. Because trust and cohesion were necessary to the functioning of post-revolutionary parliamentary life, politicians turned to friends and ideas about friendship to create this solidarity. Relying on detailed analyses of politicians’ social networks, new tools arising from the digital humanities, and examinations of behind-the-scenes political transactions, Horowitz makes clear the connection between politics and emotions in the early nineteenth century, and she reevaluates the role of women in political life by showing the ways in which the personal was the political in the post-revolutionary era.
Join the National Endowment for the Humanities on a special Google+ Hangout on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 at 2pm ET—watch live from humanitiesinsights.wordpress.com.
Watch live (here) as Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s Science Friday, interviews University of Richmond President Dr. Edward L. Ayers and his colleagues in the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, Dr. Robert K. Nelson and Dr. Scott Nesbit. The Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) develops innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond. It seeks to reach a wide audience by developing projects that integrate thoughtful interpretation in the humanities and social sciences with innovations in new media. Explore DSL projects here, including the NEH-funded website, Visualizing Emancipation.Live tweet with #DigHum.
Through the Dean’s call for cohorts, we are able to offer a fantastic digital humanities program on Wednesday, December 11 during Winter Faculty Academy. It will be held in the IQ Center, Science Addition 202A.
Digital Humanities 101: DH in the Classroom
You can sign up for this event at https://managementtools2.wlu.edu/EventManager/pages/Page1.aspx?EventID=57
The W&L Digital Humanities Working Group is excited to announce our Winter 2013 Faculty Academy: DH in the Classroom. We hope you can come for some or all of the events!
The Digital Humanities Working Group was inspired by the number, variety, depth, and breadth of the submissions to the incentive grant proposals. The group had a lively discussion about the relative merits and impact of all the proposals. In the end, we chose the following awardees:
We look forwarding to hearing about the awardees’ and their students’ experiences in these courses. The awardees will be presenting their DH course projects–challenges, successes, failures, and lessons learned–in a Fall 2014 Faculty Academy session.
See the story on the W&L news blog.