ETCL is accepting nominations of leading figures and emerging leaders in the digital humanities to its visiting speaker series for the 2012-13 academic year.
To nominate a visiting speaker, before 15 April 2012 please send a proposal to etcl.discussion@gmail.com of no more than one page that includes [1] the name, affiliation, and chief accomplishments in the digital humanities of the nominated visitor, [2] a listing of their chief publications (including digital), [3] a suggestion of their proposed activities, including the groups to which they will speak, and [4] the proposed timing of their visit to campus. Resources are available for travel, lodging for up to 5 days, and a modest honorarium. Preference will be given to those whose work is team- and community-oriented, speaking to a wide, interdisciplinary digital humanities audience.
About the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab @ UVic
The ETCL engages in cross-disciplinary study of the past, present, and future of textual communication, and is a hub for digital humanities activities across the University of Victoria campus, from coast-to-coast, and around the world. ETCL acts as an intellectual centre for the activities of some twenty local faculty, staff, and students as well as visiting scholars who work closely with research centres, libraries, academic departments, and projects locally and in the larger community. Through a series of highly collaborative relationships, ETCL’s international research community comprises over 300 researchers. Our teaching and training initiatives like the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; http://dhsi.org) bring together faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from industry and government sectors; in its tenth year, the DHSI has welcomed more than 1200 people from around the world to its warm, collegial training environment. Our conferences and speaker series have brought more than 200 faculty and graduate student speakers to our campus. Researchers, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate student assistants affiliated with the ETCL have gone on to further positions in industry and academia, including: tenure track faculty member, post-doctoral fellow, doctoral student, software developer, solution architect, director of technology, academic librarian, project manager, professional writer, multimedia consultant, web designer, and research director.
For more information, please contact Ray Siemens, ETCL Director, at siemens@uvic.ca / https://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.
Past and Current ETCL-sponsored Visiting Speakers
2012: Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State U), Laura Mandel (Texas A&M), Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden), Sydney Shep (U Wellington), Andrew Stauffer (U Virginia).
2011: Pierre Levy (U Ottawa), Malte Rehbein (U Wurzburg), Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH), Corina Koolen (Leiden).
2010: Hugh Craig (Newcastle U), Susan Brown (U Guelph / U Alberta), Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster U), John Unsworth (U Illinois, Urbana Champagne), Katherine Walter (CDRH, U Nebraska-Lincoln).
2009: Robert Blake (U California, Davis), Donald Bruce (U Guelph), Daniel O’Donnell (U Lethbridge), Dot Porter (Dublin, DHO), Melissa Terras (University College, London).
2008: Alan Liu (U California Santa Barbara), Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick) , Lisa Snyder (UCLA), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U Montréal), Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U).
2007: Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa, SSHRC), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle, NSW), France Martineau (U Ottawa), Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen), David Hoover (New York U), William Bowen (U Toronto), Bertrand Gervais (UQAM), Ollivier Dyens (Concordia U).
2006: Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Edrex Fontanilla (Brown U), Dominic Forest (UQAM), Alan Galey (Western U), David Gants (U New Brunswick), Sheila Petty (Regina U), Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa).
2005: Greg Crane (Tufts U), David Hoover (New York U), Lorna Hughes (King’s College, London), Willard McCarty (King’s College, London), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Claire Warwick (University College, London).
2004: Julia Flanders (Brown U), Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo), John Willinsky (U British Columbia), William Winder (U British Columbia).
About ETCL-sponsored Events and Groups
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) is pleased to sponsor and support a number of events and discussion group activities. For more information, please contact Ray Siemens, ETCL Director, at siemens@uvic.ca / https://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/. For general updates about ETCL-sponsored events please subscribe to the ETCL mailing list at https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/etcl.
1. Digital Humanities Summer Institute (dhsi.org). Lead: Ray Siemens (English and Computer Science). Members: various, year by year; for 2012, instructional team of 35, and total attendees ca. 400; alumni group in excess of 1200.
2. ETCL Brown Bag Lunch Sessions. Lead: Jentery Sayers (English). Members: various, session by session, several per term; now in its third year.
3. Nuts and Bolts of DH Discussions. Lead: Constance Crompton (ETCL, English). Members: various, session by session, several per term; now entering its second year.
4. ETCL-sponsored Discussion Groups, 2012
4.1. 21st Century Literacies. Lead: James Nahachewsky (Education). Members: KathySanford (Education), Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Daphne Churchill (Westshore Learning Centre), Devon Stokes-Bennett (Westshore Learning Centre).
4.2. Digital Geohumanities Working Group. Lead: Janelle Jenstad (English). Members: Laurel Bowman (Greek and Roman Studies), John Lutz (History/Office of Community Based Research), Greg Newton (HCMC), Reuben Rose-Redwood (Geography), Stephen Ross (English), Jordan Stanger-Ross (History), Patrick Dunae (History), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), Megan Harvey (History), Joel Legassie (History), Mitchell Lewis Hammond (History), Derek Murray (History), Ian O’Connell (Geography), Chris Petter (Library), Eric Sager (History), Michael Stevens (English).
4.3. DH-Theory Intersections Group. Lead: Richard J. Lane (MeTA Digital Humanities Lab & VIU Digital Humanities Research Group, Vancouver Island U). Members: EmileFromet de Rosnay (French), Stephen Ross (English), Jentery Sayers (English), Sally Carpentier (English, VIU), Ian Whitehouse (English, VIU).
4.4. Humanities Physical Computing. Lead: Jentery Sayers (English). Members: Alyssa Arbuckle (English), Ted Hiebert (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, U Washington Bothell), Doug Jarvis (Artist), Alyssa McLeod (English), Daniel Powel (English), Emily Smith (English), Michael Stevens (English).
4.5. Issues in Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Collaborative Versioning. Lead: Stephen Ross (English). Members: Jentery Sayers (English), Alison Chapman (English), Janelle Jenstad (English), Constance Crompton (ETCL, English), Brendan Gibb (Britec Computer Systems).
4.6. TRUTH (Teaching and Research Using Technology in the Humanities). Co-leads: Catherine Caws (French) and Ulf Schuetze (Germanic & Slavic Studies). Members: Ray Siemens (English, Computer Science), Elizabeth Grove-White (English), John Lutz (History), Claire Carlin (French), Emile Fromet de Rosnay (French), Helga Thorson (Germanic & Slavic), Alex D’Arcy (Linguistics), Li-Shi Huang (Linguistics), Karen Tang (Pacific & Asia Studies), Martin Holmes (HCMC), Stewart Arneil (HCMC), and Erik Fleischer (Systems).