Humanities + digital insights is HyperStudio's weekly mailing about news in digital humanities. Every week we provide you with summaries on innovative digital projects and current discussions in the field, with pointers to conferences and innovative digital tools, as well as information on new publications and digital library initiatives.
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The HyperStudio Team
Focus: Activism and Indigenous Texts in the Archives
First, Zita Cristina Nunes writes for AHA'S Perspectives on History in remembrance of Dorothy Porter, a Black librarian and collector who created an alternative to the Dewey Decimal System, and redefined historical scholarship from a Black perspective throughout her 40+ year career.
Next, the Community Education Project's Andy Eisen tweets about a project in public history wherein incarcerated students recovered the names of hundreds of enslaved people and records on Indian Removal in East Florida, in order to address failures in local archives.
Finally, we would like to highlight two recent digitization projects that bring colonial histories into digital archives: first, the US National Archives' effort to digitize treaties signed between the government and Native American nations; and second, UC Berkeley's release of the digitized Códice Fernández Leal, a 16th century manuscript from indigenous Mexico depicting colonial conflict.
Digital Humanities Digest
Amanda Visconti publishes a series of blog posts on the process of designing a DH initiative at Purdue University, covering everything from navigating infrastructure to hiring best practices.
Videos from the National Digital Forum 2018 in New Zealand are now available on YouTube.
British architect Thomas Wing-Evans blogs about research for his 80Hz project to digitally transform library collections into sound at The State Library of New South Wales, Australia.
Community network scholars Kira Allmann and Nic Bidwell discuss the downsides of universal Internet access and the importance of community knowledge production in an informal audio conversation.
The New Yorker's Sam Knight discusses new "proteomics" methods in the scientific analysis of historical documents.
Routledge launches a new book series, Routledge Studies in Archives, edited by James Lowry and accepting proposals related to current research in records and archives studies.
American Studies scholar Adam Golub blogs about the relationship between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram Live Stories and Benedict Anderson's "imagined community."
Chinese multinational corporation Tencent has partnered with the Brazilian government to establish an online museum and use AI and AR "to assist in the conservation of damaged cultural relics" in the National Museum of Brazil's fire-damaged collection.
Conferences, Fellowships + Publications
Submissions are due today for ADHO's 2019 Digital Humanities conference in Utrecht (8 - 12 July 2019) for papers, posters, and panels. Workshop and tutorial submissions are due January 10. This year's theme is "Complexity."
Submissions are due December 3 for participation in the Archives Unleashed Datathon in Washington, DC (21 - 22 March 2019).
Submissions are due December 16 for the 2019 Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH) conference in Brussels (8 - 10 May 2019).
Submissions are due December 17 for the Roy Rosenzweig Center and the Journal of Social History's 2019 and 2020 article development workshop series for a special issue on digital history.
Submissions are due December 31 for a special issue of Open Theology on "Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology."
Submissions are due December 31 for a special online edition of Big Data & Society focused on "Data Politics."
Applications are due January 15 for the Black Book Interactive Project Scholars Program, which aims to increase the number and metadata quality of black-authored texts in the digital humanities.
Applications are due January 15 for the National Endowment of the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG).
Submissions are due January 15 for David Ramirez Plascencia and David Dalton's edited book, Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants, a part of Brill's Critical Latin America series.
Submissions are due January 16 for the Time in Space: Geohistorical Applications, Methods, and Theories in GIScience conference in Pisa (26 - 28 June 2019).
* Submissions are due January 31 for the special issue of Open Archeology titled "Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space."
* Applications are due January 31 for the National Endowment of the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Grant.
* Submissions are due February 1 for Vector Festival 2019, an experimental new media art festival in Toronto (11 - 14 July 2019).
Submissions are due March 15 for the special issue of Computers and Composition titled "Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, & Critical Digital Literacies."
Registration is now open for the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference in Indianapolis (3 - 7 June 2019).
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