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Summer Seed Grant Recipients
We were very pleased to support 6 digital humanities projects during the summer! They are listed below, and the project leaders will present about their projects during the Fall DH Colloquium series. The Weeping Season, film by Alexandra Hidalgo (see the trailer here) Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) project (formerly, Connected Bhakti Bibliographies Database), led by Jon Keune Digital & Community Publishing Collective (DCPC), led by Kate Birdsall Theme and Word Analysis in the Corrido from the Frontera Collection project, led by Miguel Cabañas Level 101 – A Video Game about Video Games, led by Justin Wigard and Elizabeth LaPensée The…
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Job Opportunity: Specialist in Literature, Cognitive Science, and Digital Humanities
The College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University seeks a continuing system specialist in Literature, Cognitive Science, and Digital Humanities (DH) to participate in ongoing initiatives in history of the mind, literary cognition, and digital humanities as manager of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and academic specialist in digital humanities. Please see the full listing at http://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/499309/specialist-teachercontinuing for more information. Review of applications will begin July 2, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be submitted electronically to the Michigan State University Human Resources website, http://careers.msu.edu/. For more information contact…
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2018 Global DH Symposium Videos are up!
Videos from the 2018 Global Digital Humanities Symposium are now available on YouTube. Check them out here!
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DH@MSU Summer Seed Grants
Deadline: May 10, 2018 Total funding available: $2,000 DH@MSU invites proposals for seed grants to support digital humanities projects in research, teaching, and public outreach, in any humanistic or related discipline of the university during summer 2018. DH@MSU summer seed grants are designed to support collaborative projects that might include Textual analysis: digital editions; websites that invite linguistic, social, and historical analysis of texts; text aggregation sites; the development of tools for digital analysis. Geospatial approaches to literary texts and historical problems. Network analysis of literary texts and historical problems. Data-mining of large corpora for insights into genres, discourses, and…
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Learn about MSU DH on the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast!
On Monday, February 22, 2018, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Kristen Mapes went on the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast to talk about the world of DH at MSU. You can listen to the podcast below and on Soundcloud here:
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Scholarship Opportunity for Summer Study Abroad in DH
Students in the Digital Humanities Minor have the opportunity to apply for a $2000 scholarship to attend the Technology, Humanities, and the Arts in London study abroad program in Summer 2018! If a student is interested in the scholarship and not yet enrolled in the minor, they are welcome to add the minor immediately before applying for the scholarship. With this scholarship, the program fee for this study abroad program is only $1500! In order to apply for the scholarship, the student must be enrolled in the DH minor and have filled out the study abroad application form. The scholarship…
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State-of-the-Art Digital Scholarship Lab Opening Week: Feb 5-9
Grand Opening February 5th – 8th, 2018 Please join us for a week of digital scholarship events and programming, designed for users from beginner to advanced. Come see what the lab has to offer, meet potential collaborators, and enter for a chance to win a 3D-printed Sparty! About the Lab A partnership between the Michigan State University Libraries and the College of Arts & Letters, the Digital Scholarship Lab is an 8,000-square-foot space in the Main Library, featuring a 360-degree immersive visualization room that accommodates up to 20 students along with a Virtual Reality room for experimentation with VR headsets.…
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium – Registration Open & Keynotes Announced!
Join us on March 22-23 for this FREE symposium! We are thrilled to announce that our two keynote speakers are Schuyler Esprit (Dominica State College) and Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)! Registration is now open! Please register by: Friday, March 9 Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The…
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Study Abroad: Technology, Humanities, & the Arts in London (Summer 2018)
25 May – 23 June 2018 Technology Humanities, and the Arts in London dh.cal.msu.edu/studyabroad In this program, students will explore changes in arts and humanities through hands-on workshops, attend plays and performances, visit museums and galleries, converse with guest speakers, go on a day trip outside the city, and immerse themselves in the culture of London, one of the creative capitals of the world! The program is open to students from any major and has the option to fulfill and IAH requirement. For a four week program in London, the program fee is also low, at $3500, which includes apartment…
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We are on Slack!
Join MSUDH on Slack – just sign up using your @msu.edu email address at msudh.slack.com. It’s a great way to keep up on DH resources, events, and amusing cat emojis. Once you’re signed up, join the channels #events and #dhresources.
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium Call for Proposals (Due Dec 15)
Join us March 22-23, 2018 for our third annual symposium! Find out more at msuglobaldh.org Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that which MSU champions, values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and diverse…
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Locus Talks Mini-Symposium Program on Social Media & Social Media Analysis Announced – Attend on Dec 7, 3-5pm
December 7th, 2017 3:00-5:00pm REAL Classroom, 3W Instruction Room, Main Library (3rd Floor) Join us for a series of presentations and discussion around social media analysis as well as the study of social media as a rhetorical form! Anyone is welcome to attend – no registration required. Just drop in! (Also, there will be coffee.) Analyzing Political Memes on Instagram: Insights, Challenges, and Possibilities Julia DeCook, Information and Media As a social media platform, Instagram is monumental in its influence of youth culture, identity, and perceptions of the world, with the application serving not only for youth to follow accounts…
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MSUDH Hiring! Assistant Professor, Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Digital Rhetorics
Join the team of scholars at MSU Digital Humanities! Find the full posting here. This is an academic-year, tenure-system faculty appointment to begin August 16, 2018. Applicants are expected to hold a Ph.D. in rhetoric & writing or in a closely related field or discipline. The successful candidate will demonstrate a promising scholarly trajectory anchored by culturally-engaged research in digital humanities/digital rhetorics (including digital publishing), experience or interest in grant-seeking, engagement in culturally-sustaining teaching practices, and evidence of promise or interest in local and national service and/or leadership. We favor candidates whose work engages with issues of rhetoric, culture, and…
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Virtual Reality (VR) Brown Bag Sessions
Come one, come all! If you’re hearing a lot about VR (virtual reality) lately and wondering how you might incorporate it meaningfully into your teaching, or you’re already using it in your teaching or research, this is for you. The Libraries and CAL will host demonstrations of our VR headsets (Vive and Oculus), and provide the snacks! The focus of the events will be on conversation between participants; the equipment will be used for illustration and to spur discussion. We are hoping to facilitate an academic community of practice around the uses of VR for teaching and learning. The first…
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MSUDH Hiring! Associate/Full Professor, Literary Studies & Digital Humanities
Join the team of scholars at MSU Digital Humanities! Find the full posting here. The Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College’s Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will facilitate research programs, develop new curricula, and seek external funding for scholarship at the intersections of digital theory and practice with issues of social justice and human difference, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and religion.…
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Join the MSUDH Email List
Join the MSUDH Listserv for email updates about events and announcements on campus and beyond. Join the list at list.matrix.msu.edu/listinfo/msudh. Visit the listserv archive here.
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Fall 2017 Digital Humanities Workshops
We have some exciting workshops set up for this fall. We hope to see you there! September 7, 3:00-4:30pm, Getting Started in the Digital Humanities: Beginner Tools, find out more here September 28, October 19, 3:00-4:30pm, Experimental Design in the Digital Humanities, find out more here October 11, 3:00-4:30pm, Preparing and Exploring Local Public Data with Tableau, find out more here November 1, 3:00-4:30pm, Getting Started with Content Management Systems and Web Publishing, find out more here November 9, 3:00-4:30pm, Security and Privacy in Online Scholarship, find out more here November 15, 3:00-4:30pm, Crash Course in Research Data Management, find…
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Open Consultation Every Tuesday and Wednesday 2pm-3pm
Not sure where to get started on a digital scholarship project? Need help troubleshooting a new technology you’re using in your research? Wondering how you can use digital scholarship in your classroom? Join MSU Library experts at Open Consultation, every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1pm to 2pm, in the Main Library’s Make Central (2nd Floor West). This hour is perfect for folks just starting out on digital scholarship projects, as well as those that may have more advanced technical questions. We can help with GIS, data visualization, scanning and digitizing questions, content management and web design, and much more! We’re…
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DH Pizza Meetup for Undergrad Students
This is a monthly gathering for undergraduate students who are doing or interested in digital humanities. Anyone is welcome to join once or regularly. We will start with one undergrad student sharing informally about something they are interested in relating to digital humanities. After about 10 minutes, then the rest of the time will be left to the group to share their interests and work, and/or talk about the field and MSU DH generally. There will be soda and pizza provided. This gathering is meant to be informal, so even if you can only stop by for a few minutes,…
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Distant Reading/Graphesis Research Workshops, led by the English Department
Distant Reading/Graphesis Coordinators: Dr. Steve Rachman and Laura McGrath Find out more: english.msu.edu/graduate/research-workshops This workshop is for faculty and graduate students who wish to learn more about two important turns in literary studies and digital humanities: distant reading and graphesis. Over the two semesters of this academic year we will engage the techniques and theories operating behind these analytical approaches. This workshop will 1.) discuss current work in the fields of distant reading and graphical analysis, 2.) share examples of works-in-progress by scholars on and off campus, and 3.) introduce relevant technologies and programs (Voyant, Gephi, etc., tailored to the interests…