Third Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop

October 10 & 11, 2008

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the third annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 10 & 11, 2008.  Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities.

Senior Scholars

Every year, the Center 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 2008, the two digital humanists who are invited to participate on the faculty of the Workshop are:

• Greg Crane, Professor of Classics, Tufts University, and Editor, Perseus Project. Crane has published extensively on Greek and Latin literature as well as in digital humanities. (Read Crane's C.V. )
• Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts, UCLA. Hayles's publications include Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (forthcoming, 2008), and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, 2005. (Read Hayles's Bio)

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

Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before April 25, 2008 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100.