The Call for Proposals has been announced for the 2013 Chicago Colloquium for Digital Humanities and Computer Science, December 6-8:

http://chicagocolloquium.org/2013-dhcs-cfp/

This is a prominent and FREE digital humanities conference just down the road that is worth attending if you can!

Scalar/ Digital Scholarship Brownbag Information Session

More information at:  http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/news/iprhevents/#scalar

Session 1:
Date: September 9th, 2013
Time: 12:00-12:50 noon
Location: 1090 Lincoln Hall (702 South Wright Street, Urbana)

Session 2:
Date: September 10th, 2013
Time: 12:30-1:20 p.m.
Location: 319 Gregory Hall (810 South Wright Street, Urbana)

This event is free and open to the public.

About this event:
Faculty and Graduate Students, bring your lunch to these short sessions for an overview of Scalar and the larger field of experimentation and critique around the future of scholarly authorship and publishing.
Scalar, an open source software platform, is alternately a presentation program akin to PowerPoint, an archiving tool useful for annotating and organizing media collections, a multi-author text composition tool with rich embedded media capabilities, or a web-based authoring environment for creating multi-linear arguments. Scalar grew out of a collaborative design process that included leading interaction designers, scholars, archivists, publishers and editors. The “look” of a Scalar book derives either from templates (as in the blogging platform WordPress) or from custom style parameters. Among the software’s most striking capacities are a rich suite of visualization tools to allow authors to see the shape of their collections and writing.
Scalar was developed by the Alliance for Visual Networking Culture (ANVC), led by Professor Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. IPRH has become a partner in the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. The ANVC seeks to enrich the intellectual potential of the humanities to inform understandings of an expanding array of visual practices as they are reshaped within digital culture, while also creating scholarly contexts for the use of digital media in film, media and visual studies. By working with humanities centers, scholarly societies, and key library, archive, and university press partners, the ANVC is investigating and developing sustainable platforms for publishing interactive and rich media scholarship, including Scalar.

About the speaker:
Kevin Hamilton is Associate Professor of New Media and Painting in the School of Art and Design, a Dean’s Fellow in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Co-Director of the Center for People and Infrastructures in the Coordinated Science Lab. Working largely in collaborative and cross-disciplinary settings, Kevin produces artworks, archives, and scholarship on such subjects as place and memory, history of technology, and state-mediated violence. Recent work has included research and production on cybernetics, race, and the role of film in America’s rise to nuclear power. His self-published graphic novel A Place in Time is currently in distribution at Champaign and Urbana area libraries, and he is currently at work on an NEH-funded digital archive for nuclear test films. IPRH welcomes Professor Hamilton in his new role as IPRH Coordinator for Digital Scholarly Communication.

A number of digital humanities events will be happening here at UIUC, including TEI workshops, a Digital Humanities symposium, and much more!  To see the full slate of workshops and events, check out the calendar page of this blog.

If you have questions or suggestions for event listings, contact Harriett Green at green19[at]illinois.edu.

The Digital Humanities Working Group at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities
has secured Steven E. Jones as its inaugural speaker.

Steven E. Jones<http://stevenejones.org/>  is Professor of English and Co-Director
of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities<http://ctsdh.luc.edu/>
at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Romantic-period
literature, textual studies – which is concerned with the production,
transmission, and reception of texts of all kinds in multiple media – and
digital humanities, the intersection of humanities research and computing.

Based on his book-in-progress, his talk, entitled “The Emergence of the
Digital Humanities,” will be presented on Wednesday, November 28th from 3-5 p.m.
at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities (basement of Stevenson Hall).

More details will be forthcoming closer to the date.

Benn E. Williams
Secretary, Digital Humanities Working Group
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7106
Email: bwilli7@uic.edu

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first Digital Humanities Symposium!  We’d love to get your feedback to make sure that future events can be even better, so please take a couple minutes to complete the survey here:

https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/7034631

We’ll also be posting the presenters’ slides to this site soon, as well as regular updates on upcoming DH activities and events at UIUC and beyond.  Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or comments, and keep an eye on this website for more brownbag talks and activities to keep up the exciting DH dialogue here at UIUC!

Registration is now closed for the Digital Humanities Symposium due to space constraints.  There will be more space during the break out sessions from 10:15 to 11:45 in rooms 314 Library and 323c Library, and the final schedule can viewed under the Schedule tab.  Contact us with questions!