Humanities

English Majors Practicing Criticism: A Digital Approach

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Faculty at SUNY Geneseo are using wiki technology to foster communities of practice among English majors studying literary interpretation and critical analysis. Through these online discussion fora, students from different course sections have a common space to explore multiple critical approaches and engage fundamental questions about their own roles as critics and students of English. Paul Schacht, Caroline Woidat, Rob Doggett, and Gillian Paku document their successes and challenges with teaching and learning in the digital realm.

NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Beyond"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's February 1st workshop: "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Beyond." For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5932

Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

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In conjunction with the launch of the UM Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) announce the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a critical and rigorous engagement in the field of Digital Humanities.

GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching

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 In preparation for a free Dec 16th workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching to be held in the UK, the University of Leicester has a brief survey it is asking the GIS constituency to complete at http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint/. For more info on the workshop, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis

NEH Launches New Online Database

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) unveiled a new Funded Projects Query Form that allows visitors to search online for information on all projects funded by NEH since 1980. The form is accessible from the NEH homepage or directly at https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx.

Join the HASTAC Discussion Forum on Mapping the Digital Humanities

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Join the HASTAC Scholars for a discussion on: Mapping the Digital Humanities, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-06-09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities

NERCOMP Review: Supporting Digital Humanities Research

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Gail Matthews-DeNatale blogs the digital humanities research (DHR) session at the  2008 NERCOMP Conference. Project leaders from Brown, the University of Vermont and Wheaton talk about DHR and student and faculty engagement, how to achieve sustainability and scale, and perhaps most important: how to get these fascinating projects done in the first place. 

From Data to Wisdom: Humanities Research and Online Content

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This computer-scientist champion of digital libraries and humanities computing provides an overview of paradigm changes in the sciences; a similar review of humanities achievements show that they still stop short of developing a new kind of scholarship.

The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative

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Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.
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