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DHSI Scholarships Open

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute is fortunate to be able to offer tuition scholarships this year, thanks to the generosity of the SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology program. Applications close February 14th. See our scholarships page for more details.

More information about the DHSI is available on our website, http://www.dhsi.org.

The ETCL Welcomes Hugh Craig

Hugh is from the University of Newcastle, Australia and is in Victoria on sabbatical leave until the end of June, attached to the ETCL. He works in computational stylistics, and with collaborators at UMass, Amherst he recently published Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge, 2009).

While in Victoria he plans to do more work on authorship problems in Early Modern English drama, especially in the period 1580-99, and explore some other questions like linguistic drift and vocabulary richness using a broad-based corpus. He is especially interested in potential collaborations with the computing humanists at UVic in areas such as visualisation and distant reading.

We look forward to having Hugh in the ETCL!

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)

[Note: This position is now closed]

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.