Fourth Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop
October 2 & 3, 2009
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the fourth annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 2 & 3, 2009. Through a competitive process, selected early career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities.
The presenters for 2009 are:
- Amy E. Earhart: 19th Century Concord Digital Archive - Abstract; CV
- Angel David Nieves: Digital History and Virtual Heritage in the New South Africa: The Soweto ’76 Archive - Abstract; CV
- Heather Raikes: Corpus Corvus: Exploring Contemporary Mythos Through Immersive Media Poetics - Abstract; CV
- Matthew Wilkens: Revolutions and Large Literary Corpora, or What is a Period? - Abstract/CV
The Workshop supplements its roster by bringing two nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to Lincoln to participate and work with the scholars whose work is selected for presentation. In 2009, the two digital humanists who are invited to participate on the faculty of the Workshop were:
- Johanna Drucker, Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. (Read Drucker's C.V.)
- Matt Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park (Read Kirschenbaum's C.V.)
Workshop Goal
The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early-career scholars (pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students) in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased.
Under the auspices of the CDRH faculty and staff—a group that includes CDRH co-directors Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth M. Price, Brett Barney, Andrew Jewell, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Stephen Ramsay, Douglas Seefeldt, William G. Thomas, III, and Judellen Thornton-Järinge—the Nebraska Digital Workshop will offer opportunities to discuss the potential of humanities computing, present examples of successful projects created at the CDRH, share strategies for developing administrative and institutional support for digital humanities scholarship at the applicants’ home institutions, and discuss external funding options. The Workshop ultimately endeavors to foster a network of digital scholars who will come together across disciplinary boundaries at the Workshop, and who in the future will advance humanities computing and help define the state of the field. For information about the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and faculty biographies, see http://cdrh.unl.edu. For information about our past digital workshops, please see our Nebraska Digital Workshop archive page.
The Workshop will supplement its roster by bringing nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to Lincoln to participate and work with the scholars whose work is selected for presentation.
Benefits for selected scholars
The CDRH will pay for travel and lodging expenses, and scholars will receive an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop.
Selection Criteria
Applicants are asked to submit a three-page narrative abstract for an approximately 30 minute presentation of their digital project along with files of, or links to, any digital elements, electronic text, analytical tools, or multimedia visualizations already created.
Selection criteria include: the significance of the project in the scholar’s primary disciplinary field, elements of technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach to the subject.
Applications
Applications are no longer being accepted for the 2009 workshop. A call for proposals for the 2010 workshop will be posted in early 2010.
