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CFP: DHSI 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium [New Deadline: Dec. 11, 2009]

[Deadline has been extended to December 11, 2009.]

Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010
Graduate Student Colloquium
June 8-11, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities."

Abstracts are now being accepted for presentations focusing on all aspects of graduate student research in the digital humanities, including, but not limited to, the graduate student’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for their own research and pedagogy, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Award for Research Excellence

On November 3rd, Ray was awarded the University of Victoria Faculty of Humanities’ Annual Award for Research Excellence 2009. He delivered a talk about that research, titled “Research Foundations Toward a Future for the History of the Book.”

For more information, see the UVic Faculty Awards website. Congratulations, Ray!

Lecture: University of Victoria

Ray gave a talk for the Collaborative Arts and Humanities Department of Computer Science here at UVic on October 26th. It was called “A Humanistic View of A/Synchronous Communication in Print and Electronic Media.”

Conference: INKE 2009

The University of Victoria hosted the First Annual INKE Conference in October, 2009. The ETCL was there in full force, chairing sessions and providing tech support, and we had a great group of presenters, with some excellent discussion as well!

Presentations by ETCL members included:

• “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations”  by Ray,
• “Creating a Virtual Library Classroom Tool for Digital Age Youth” by Serina, and
• “‘Mark the Play’: Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and Video Content,” by Brett, along with Stewart Arneil and Greg Newton from the HCMC

Thank you to everyone who came out for INKE 2009, and we hope to see you again next fall!

For more information, including our full program, please visit our website. Twitter tag: #inke09.

Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2010-11)

The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory  (ETCL <http://etcl.uvic.ca/>) at the University of Victoria has an exciting postdoctoral opportunity for a candidate with a background in early modern literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an interest in the digital humanities field.

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Seminar: Digital Text and Scholarship (London)

Ray was in London at the Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. He delivered a talk titled “Imagining a History for the Future of the Book.”

For more information, see the London Seminar website.

Colloquium Talk: Sheffield Hallam University

Ray attended a “Digital Editing Colloquium” at Sheffield Hallam University, where he gave a presentation titled “Contexts for Electronic Scholarly Editing, with Examples from the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add Ms 17492).”

For more information, see Sheffield Hallam’s website: http://www.shu.ac.uk/.

Workshop: ECDL BooksOnline 2009

Ray was in Corfu, Greece to attend a workshop at the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). During the BooksOnline session titled “Design, new interaction models, and user experience,” Ray, along with Richard Cunningham, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, and Claire Warwick, gave a presentation called “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.”

After the Breakout Session, they gave another presentation in response to the workshop, titled “How Do I Know What to Trust <professionally> in the Electronic Medium?: A group response to the BooksOnline 2009 Workshop.”

Sounds like a busy day! For more information, see the conference website: http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/ws_booksonline.php.

Conference Presentation: Adonis Group

Ray was in Paris for a conference hosted by the Adonis group, titled “Enjeux des infrastructures numeriques.” He gave a presentation titled “Understanding and Implementing New Knowledge Machines in an Appropriate Infrastructural Context: A Discussion of the INKE Project.”

Keynote Address: University of Waterloo

On September 25th, Ray received an alumnus award from the University of Waterloo for “success and accomplishments in academic pursuits.” He was also a Keynote Speaker at the awards ceremony, where he talked about “Modeling ‘Reading’ Content and Process in the Devonshire MS.” More information is available via the U Waterloo website: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts/alumni/past_events.html.

Congratulations, Ray!