Call for Papers: Irish Women, Religion, and the Diaspora

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Saturday 18th January 2014, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

call-for-papersThe Women on Ireland Research Network invite paper proposals for a symposium on Irish Women, Religion and the Diaspora. This Symposium seeks to understand not only the shifting role that religion has played in the lives of Irish women but the role that Irish women themselves have undertaken in religious institutions and organisations and how this role has changed over time. Although the idea of diaspora assumes a shared experience, Irish migrants were of different social, economic, political and even religious backgrounds. Their experiences were coloured by their end destinations which included the United Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, India and continental Europe. This symposium aims to tease out the significance of religion to Irish women at home and abroad.

Within this framework of Irish women, Religion and Diaspora, topics could include, but are not limited to:

· Religious and social networks and the significance of place · Religion and cultural transfer
· Material culture and Irishness
· Experiences of religion expressed through literature
· Irish women’s religious institutes and diaspora
· Irish lay women and faith-based organisations
· Irish women and global religious dynamics
· Diaspora, place and missions
· National and transnational religious networks

Each paper should be no longer than 20 minutes and 300 word proposals should be send to both Dr Maria Power (m.c.power@liv.ac.uk) and Dr Carmen Mangion (c.mangion@bbk.ac.uk) by 30th June 2013.

Call For Chapter Proposals: Women in Asia: Images and Challenges

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call-for-papersThe emergences of independent states in Asia in the Post-World War II era not only underlined the existence of a cultural infrastructure prior to the advent of multiculturalism, but also highlight the caste system in India and the declining importance of women in this region.

As a region, Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. The book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of Asian Women. The collaborative work of Social Scientists conceptually and methodologically challenges the regional divides and proposes new dimensions within a wider context of intersecting groups. Violence against women is a violation of women’s human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This book addresses the structural and interpersonal violence’s to which women are subject, both under conditions of conflict and disruption, and where civil society is relatively ordered. It explores women activisms in Asia, and accounts for the so-called cultural’ practices in favor of nuanced challenges of equilibrium society of disparity’s as experienced in Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and India.

Collectively, the authors propose new themes, new comparative frameworks, and new methodologies for considering vastly different degrees of social support and political activism, and the varied meanings of “Gender equality “in different societies in Asia. In exploring the progress made by Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) in what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender? And (c) How have women’s concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters would provide an analysis of the broad trends – including changes and continuities – in the experiences, interests and concerns of Asian women. The chapters would examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: patriarchal society, political and economic participation, the gender gap, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women’s progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception. This is an innovative work that provides coverage of a complex topic that has often been neglected. It gives more than just an analysis of Asian women, demonstrating the central importance of gender in the modernizing and globalizing of Asia.

In the treatment of a region like Asia, with its diverse ethnic groups and units, and the historical development of gender issues over the decades, there are bound to be gaps in information. What is attempted here is a broad survey of trends in the historical and contemporary panorama of the region, combining thematic and chronological approaches.
This Call for Chapters looks for scholarship that focuses on women’s roles in Asian Society, government and other aspects related to “Gender Equality and Development”. Questions for consideration may include, but are not limited to:

1. How do women in Asian countries perceive equality conflicts? What approaches do they use to handle equality in the context of varying economic, political, cultural and social/family situations?

2. How religion has been taken, changed and altered to suit the patriarchal ideology in Asian countries in regards to “Women’s role” in such an ideology?

3. The questions the relationship between women and economic development in this region. It challenges the prevailing role of Asian women as passive and uninterested in political and economic participation, and has there been an increase in women movements around this region affecting all facets of development?

Women in Asia: Images and Challenges: is under contract with University of Indianapolis Press. I am now accepting abstracts of chapters. A 500 word proposal should be sent to the editor, Dr. Himanshi Raizada: hraizada27@gmail.com. Please include a CV or brief biography with your proposal. The deadline for proposals is July 31, 2013. Contributors will be notified by August 31, 2013. Final drafts (5,000-7,000 words) will be due to the book editor by November 15, 2013.

Dr. Himanshi Raizada
Professor
Lamar University, TX
(409) 880-8110
Email: himanshi2@hotmail.com

Call For Proposals: 2013 Digital Libray Federation Forum

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call-for-papersAustin, Texas, November 3-6, 2013

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions. The Digital Library Federation is a robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, teaching, and learning through the application of digital library research, technology, and services. The Forum is a working meeting where DLF members come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst for collaboration among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues.

Participation is open to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museums, and archives services and collections. In that spirit, and to maximize the Forum’s benefit and better facilitate the community’s work, the Forum’s schedule will provide many opportunities to actively engage and network.

For the 2013 DLF Forum, the Program Planning Committee is requesting proposals within the broad framework of digital collections and their effect on libraries, museums and archives services, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. Proposals should strive to contribute to the following topics:
• Digital technology design
• Management and assessment
• Data
• Collaboration

We welcome proposals on these and other areas from current community members and non-members who are interested in joining the DLF community. For more detailed examples, please see the 2012 DLF Forum schedule:  http://www.diglib.org/forums/2012forum/2012-dlf-forum-schedule/.

Session genres include:
• Presentations and Panels
Traditional lecture format with question-and-answer sessions. Speakers are requested to use only half of the allocated time for the presentation, including how they wish to engage the DLF c community in their work. The second half of the session should focus
on conversations about next steps, engagement with the community, and clarification of points raised during the presentation.

• Workshops
In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise.

• Research Updates
An opportunity for those working in digital collections research to present their preliminary findings for community feedback and discussion.

• Working Sessions
Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach
can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach.

• Community Idea Exchange
A modified poster session. Presenters will have the opportunity to interact with Forum participants to discuss their current research projects, and/or demonstrate tools or services they have
developed or are using in their digital library environment. Demos must include a poster element.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures
Complete proposals should be submitted using the online submission form (http://www.diglib.org/forums/2013forum/proposals/) by 11:59 PM on June 28, 2013.
Proposals must include a title, session leader, session genre, proposal description (maximum 300 words), and proposal abstract (maximum 100 words).

After an initial review by the Program Planning Committee, all proposals will be posted on the DLF website for community polling. The community vote will be taken into consideration, and the Program Planning Committee will make the final decisions. Those that submitted complete proposals will be notified of their status by August 9, 2013. Presenters will be guaranteed a registration place.

The 2013 DLF Forum will be held in Austin, TX at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, November 3–6, 2013. More information about the 2013 DLF Forum can be found at http://www.diglib.org/forums/2013forum.

Louisa Kwasigroch
Digital Library Federation
Council on Library and Information Resources
lkwasigroch@clir.org www.clir.org | www.diglib.org

Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Game Studies

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Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Game Studies

A book collection edited by: Jennifer Malkowski (Miami University) and TreaAndrea M. Russworm (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Due Dates: 7/15/2013 (abstracts); 10/15/2013 (full essays)

Of what significance are questions about identity (race, gender, sexual orientation) to the evolution of video game studies?  Has the trend toward code analysis and platform studies worked to silence, marginalize, or dismiss representational analysis in game studies? Are we at a moment when “representation” has become a dirty word in game studies?

While questions about identity in video games in the popular press are often reduced to divisive debates about violence, hypersexualization, and stereotypes, discussions in scholarly communities about ?representation” in games have been limited both in methodological and analytical scope. Recent scholarship largely frames both mainstream and independently produced video games as reproducing ideologies of oppression that have historically dominated more traditional media. This collection seeks a broader range of critical perspectives on representation in game studies. We assert that there is much to say about culture, identity, experience, and representation in games and gaming culture that goes beyond flat assessments of good and bad objects, code vs. image, and form vs. content. In fact, it is our understanding that a focus on race, gender, and/or sexuality need not exclude other factors of production, and it is our belief that such analysis must be accountable to the medium-specificity of video games.

Fans have been active and visible in creating websites and online communities hosted by female, Black, Latino, and queer gamers, and companies like Ubisoft, Bioware, Rockstar, and Bethesda have produced content–including mainstream titles–that seems responsive to the demand for more diversity in digital games. Yet our academic discourse about some of these issues has continued to lag behind.

For this collection, we welcome essays that reinvigorate questions about representation and identity in digital games and game culture. We hope these essays will also contribute new perspectives on conversations in game studies that have often excluded representational analysis (e.g., hardware and programming, historicizing technological transformations, studies of mechanics, form, and game industry studies). We especially encourage submissions on game studies as a discipline and how the various interdisciplinary approaches to studying games have engaged issues related to identity, politics, and representation.

Suggested essay topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • Representation and identity in digital games (including mainstream games, indie and art games, educational games and ?gamification? efforts, casual games, etc.)
  • Individual games or franchises such as Tomb Raider, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Sims, Afro Samurai, and Grand Theft AutoCompanies and studios such as Rockstar and Bioware
  • Online gaming environments
  • Hazing and policing game communities (e.g., Anita Sarkeesian videos and Kickstarter campaign)
  • Fandom and fan communities
  • Character customization mechanics and role playing
  • Code studies
  • Machinima

Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum) along with an academic bio and CV to racesexgames@gmail.com by July 15, 2013.  Final essays will be 6000-7000 words and should be submitted no later than October 15, 2013.  Please address any questions to Jennifer Malkowski and TreaAndrea Russworm to the e-mail listed above.

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Jennifer Malkowski
Assistant Professor of Communication
Miami University of Ohio

Call For Papers: Women of Appalachia

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After the success of 2012 Women of Appalachia: Sisters in Science conference, the planning committee is moving forward in organizing this year’s conference around the theme of “Sisters in STEM” scheduled on October 17-18, with the possibility of extension to October 19, 2013.

library imageThe Keynote
speaker for this year’s conference is Dr. Sharon Denham, Professor of Nursing at Ohio University. Dr. Denham is a renowned and dedicated scientist, nurse scholar and educator leading research and community efforts to promote and advocate for family health in Appalachian Ohio. Over the years she has led and conducted a number of research studies with Appalachian populations about topics related to family health issues including, bereavement, abuse and violence, tobacco use, and family routines. Her current work focuses on diabetes prevention in Appalachia.

We are now calling for proposals/abstract submissions for consideration for the October conference. Proposals can be submitted for paper presentations, full panel presentations, and/or roundtable discussions. Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to “Communicating information to educate about a topic, issue or concept, with focus on not only formal classroom learning, but also community education in and outside the classroom”. This could take the form of (or a combination of) the following categories:

Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Math Education Community Education (environment, health, biodiversity, conservation) Music and/or Visual Arts Education Language Arts Education (poetry, song lyrics, screen plays)

Please submit a 250- to 300-word abstract to Dr. Mawadda Al-Naeeli al-naeel@ohio.edu or Ms. Chris Shaw shaw@ohio.edu by Monday, July 15, 2013. Presentations should run only 20 minutes in length for each presenter.You will be asked to provide your audiovisual needs upon acceptance of your proposal. If you have any questions, email Mawadda or Chris.

Dr. Mawadda Al-Naeeli
Email: al-naeel@ohio.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ohio.edu/zanesville/womenofappalachia/callforpaper.cfm

Call For Papers: They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood

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CALL FOR PAPERS
“They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

call-for-papersAn area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on
Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013
Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI)
www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013

AREA: “They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

Work and the workplace serve as the context and the focus of countless film and television narratives.  In some, who makes money – and how – seems to be taken for granted, while in others it is the central problem.  This area seeks submissions that consider the ways in which money, and the work done to earn it, are – or are not – gendered in cinematic and televisual representations.

On television, comic working-class figures such as Laverne and Shirley, complex crime fighters such as Mary Shannon (In Plain Sight) and Grace Hanadarko (Saving Grace), and post-divorce professionals such as Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife) or Dani Santino (Necessary Roughness) create a robust definition of “working girl.” Those images are reinforced and amplified on the silver screen in Cinderella stories such as Maid in America, family dramas such as Baby Boom, and even action films such as Salt and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  Do these characters, as wage earners and career women, face challenges and concerns that are different or similar from those of generations past? In what ways does their status as women inform their orientation to work and money?

Similarly, what are the taken-for-granted norms for male workers on the big and small screen?  Do Don Draper of Mad Men and Harvey Spector of Suits respond differently to the pressures to succeed than did their television predecessors in series such as The Dick Van Dyke Show or L.A. Law?  Has the era of the land/oil/big money patriarch passed (Dallas), or is it experiencing a revival?  Is the disaffected working class in television (Movin’ On) and film (Swing Shift) portrayed as predominantly male?  How do cinematic and televisual narratives portray those who earn no money at all (Mr. Mom)?
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes proposals on the subject of gender, class, and wealth in films and television programs. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•        Rags to Riches (Maid in Manhattan; The Pursuit of Happyness)
•        It’s a Man’s World (Mad Men, Suits,)
•        (Un)equal Partnerships (Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Moonlighting)
•        Patriarchs and Powerbrokers (Dynasty; Dallas; Citizen Kane)
•        The Glass Ceiling (9-to-5, Remington Steele)
•        Gender and the Dissatisfied Worker (Working Girl; Norma Rae; Tootsie)
•        Just Another (Doctor, Executive, Cop, Lawyer) Looking for Love (The Proposal; Saving Grace; Necessary Roughness)
•        She’s Such a B—-: Women On Top (The Devil Wears Prada; Network; Mildred Pierce)

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the Area Chair by July 1, 2013:

Dr. Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Area Chair
They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Class and Wealth
Roger Williams University
Email: ldamore@rwu.edu

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

2013 Women in Technological History Travel Award

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Women in Technological History
a SHOT Special Interest Group

WITH TRAVEL AWARD – A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History
The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2013. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT as well as from individuals who can contribute to the annual meeting’s geographic and cultural diversity.

The SHOT 2013 meeting will be held in Portland, Maine, October 10-13, 2013. For meeting details, see http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual_meeting.html.

Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals whose papers have been formally accepted for presentation at the SHOT annual meeting. Applicants should include a copy of the message received from the SHOT Program Committee confirming the acceptance of their paper proposal. Priorities for the WITH award will go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

The Travel Award is designed to help defray some of the costs associated attending the SHOT annual meeting. Up to two awards may be offered. Awardees will receive a check for $250, with the possibility of a small amount of additional funds depending on the awardee’s stated need and WITH’s resources. The winner(s) will also be honoured as our guest(s) at the annual WITH breakfast or lunch.

Application deadline for the WITH Travel Award is July 5, 2013. A completed application consists of a brief covering message outlining travel budget and anticipated sources of funding, along with the following:
1) A ONE-PAGE CURRICULUM VITAE;
2) THE ABSTRACT OF YOUR PAPER; AND,
3) CONFIRMATION OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PAPER, as e-mail attachments (PDF or Word). Be sure to include your last name in the file attachment (ex: Jones WITH Travel Award.doc). Application materials should be sent to Aaron Alcorn, chair of the award committee, at aalcorn1@gmail.com.

Aaron Alcorn, Ph.D.
Chair, WITH Travel Award Committee
Email: aalcorn1@gmail.com

London Summer School in Intellectual History September 2013

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The London Summer School in Intellectual History is a rare opportunity for graduate students to acquire further training in the discipline and its different methodologies. Running from 9 to 12 September, the summer school will include:

 

• Special workshops
• Masterclasses
• Feedback on current research
• Advice on writing and publishing
• Discussion of newly published work in intellectual history

Applications are welcome from doctoral students in intellectual history and related disciplines (the history of philosophy, literature, politics, and science) and from MA students intending to conduct future research in this area.

London is now one of the international centres of research and teaching in the history of political thought and intellectual history with a dedicated graduate programme and year-round research seminars, conferences, and workshops. Members of staff from the different branches of the University of London will lead the discussions. The Summer School, now in its second year, is run jointly by University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). It is convened by Avi Lifschitz of the UCL History Department and Georgios Varouxakis of the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Dates and fees: The event starts on 9 September 2013 in the evening and ends in the early afternoon on 12 September 2013. Participants are required to contribute £385, which covers three nights’ accommodation in central London, tuition, lunches, and a reception on the first evening.

How to apply: Please send a CV and a brief abstract of current or future research to history.intellectual@ucl.ac.uk until 25 June 2013.

 
Mr Jonathan Chandler
History Department
University College London
Email: history.intellectual@ucl.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.historyofpoliticalthought.org/

Blogs, Exhibits and Tweets: Summer at The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education

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Marion Park, President of Bryn Mawr directly after M. Carey Thomas. Park was a Bryn Mawr College alum and is the subject of a new exhibit to be developed over the summer for the website

The summer is here and we thought we’d share our plans for developing the Center’s site with you. We will be working hard over the next few months on developing new content, and continuing to reach out to you on social media (if you don’t follow us already, get to it @GreenfieldHWE or find our facebook updates on the Friends of Bryn Mawr College Library page).

Omeka

See http://omeka.org/ for further details on the platform we use to power our site

We are excited to be making two significant improvements to the site. The first of these is to make the site mobile compatible, so all of you who like to browse on your tablet or phone will be able to do so more easily once the changes come into effect around July. The second improvement is something that more directly affects our experience – we are in the process of upgrading to the new Omeka 2.0 platform, a huge improvement on the previous version from our initial poking around! If you are using the new platform and would like to share your experiences, be sure to get in touch (greenfieldhwe@brynmawr.edu). The biggest change on the user end will be the search functionality, which will be greatly enhanced from its present version. Aside from the search, users will not notice differences or disruptions (we hope!) but the streamlined back end is definitely an improvement and will help us in our mission to digitize and display in the best way the resources we hold in the history of women’s education.

Marian Edwards Park was President of Bryn Mawr from 1922 until 1942 when she retired. When she came to Bryn Mawr as a student she was among the early generations of women who enjoyed higher education for the first time. A member of the class of 1898, she won the European Fellowship upon graduation, the college’s highest honor at the time. She returned to complete her PhD in classics in 1918. She therefore experienced life at Bryn Mawr from all perspectives: undergraduate, graduate and administrator. She oversaw the school through some dramatic times, namely the Depression and the beginning of World War II, and she was also president during the period in which it first allowed African American students to attend as undergraduates and as members of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. Park also led the celebration of the College’s 50th anniversary, a major milestone of achievement in the ‘experiment’ of education for women. Because she  followed in the rather intimidating shadow of M. Carey Thomas, her contributions have not loomed as large in the historical record. However, Park will be the subject of a new exhibition this summer, examining in particular her condemnation of the increasingly horrifying events in Europe that led up to World War II. The exhibit will include evidence on her efforts to host Jewish scholars fleeing the Nazi regime. Keep an eye on the site for the exhibit and make sure to let us know what you think.

We hope to continue work on digitizing primary sources, particularly the rich collection of oral histories that we have been engaged in translating from cassette tapes to digitized recordings for over a year. This is slow, meticulous work, but we hope to be able to share them with you eventually on the Tri-College digital collections site, Triptych. If you haven’t seen them already, there are a few examples from the collection that were digitized as part of the Taking Her Place exhibition, available on our site here. This is a fascinating collection, including narratives from student, staff, faculty and alumnae, with memories stretching back to the first decades of the college’s existence. Work will be ongoing for the next year and more, but we will be releasing recordings to celebrate special events or for use in digital exhibits as appropriate when we can do so. There have been a few reflections from students working on this collection over the past while which you may have seen already, the last of which was by our most recent student helper on the project, Lianna Reed ’14.

Special Collections is also hosting a number of interns for the summer, two of which have been awarded brand new internships through the Pensby Center to focus on tracing histories of diversity at Bryn Mawr College. Lauren Footman ’14 will be examining the experiences of the African diaspora on campus, including sourcing participants to create new oral histories to add to our collection, a most welcome addition to our work at the Center in trying to uncover stories from that past for which we have little or no documentary evidence. Her fellow intern, Alexis de la Rosa ’15, is looking at Latina histories and will be surveying current students and alums later in the summer. Alexis and Lauren’s work will be available as a digital exhibit on our site at the end of the summer, and they will also be writing blogs about their experiences doing this important research. Both Alexis and Lauren are also jointly engaged in cataloging the papers of Evelyn Rich, class of 1952. Evelyn Rich was one of the first African American students to live on campus, and her extraordinary achievements span education, the labor movement and politics. We are lucky to have acquired her papers.

WHDW home pageThe popularity of the Women’s History in the Digital World conference repository continues – there have been over 300 full-text downloads from the repository so far. We are so proud of our wonderful contributors for sharing their work and hope anyone who hasn’t done so already will be inspired to. Plans for the next conference will be going into gear in the fall, so keep an eye out for updates and think about submitting an individual paper or a panel if you have been working on a collective project. You can also follow the recording of the conference by visiting our blog post which detailed the Twitter archive, Storify and blog posts on the conference and you can listen to Professor Laura Mandell’s inspiring keynote here.

As some of you know, I will be going on maternity leave for this summer, so if you wish to get in touch with someone about the work, please contact the Center’s Research Assistant, Evan McGonagill, who will be managing communications throughout the summer (you can contact her through the general email address: greenfieldhwe@brynmawr.edu).  There will be more blog posts and updates so don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and to visit the Educating Women blog. You can comment on any blog post you see, and we always look forward to hearing your comments so stay in touch, and happy summer!

 

Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013

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*Only nine days left to book!*

Places for this year’s Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School
are filling up already, so book your place soon! Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

If you are awaiting the results of local funding and want to to
see whether your chosen workshop is almost full, email
courses@it.ox.ac.uk to find out!

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The Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an
annual event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. This
year’s Summer School will be held on 8 – 12 July, at the
University of Oxford. If you are a researcher, project manager,
research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an
opportunity for you to learn about the tools and methodology of
digital humanities, and to make contact with others in your
field. You will be introduced to topics spanning from creating,
managing, analysing, modelling, visualizing, to publication of
digital data for the Humanities. Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

With the DHOxSS’s customisable schedule, you book on one of our
five-day workshops, and supplement this by booking several guest
lectures from experts in their fields.

The main five-day training workshops this year are:

1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening
participation in the Humanities
2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and
Collaboration
3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on
the semantic web.
4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative
5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists

There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed
poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their
work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening
sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at
historic Queen’s College, Oxford! (Well worth it!)

DHOxSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities @ Oxford between
the University of Oxford’s IT Services, the Oxford e-Research
Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research
Centre in the Humanities.

If you have questions, then email us at courses@it.ox.ac.uk for
answers.
More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/