Time Sensitive – Opportunity for Digital Scholars from CHCI & centerNet
Dear CHCI Members,

We are pleased to announce that CHCI and centerNet have teamed up for a second time to sponsor a New Scholars Seminar (NSS) at DH2016 (http://dh2016.adho.org/) in Kraków, including travel subventions to digital scholars affiliated with CHCI-member centers and institutes. The NSS will take place on July 10, 2016, and the deadline to apply is April 15, 2016.

The NSS is for new scholars to meet and develop research collaborations in the digital humanities, and the agenda for the event will be set by the participants, starting with an online phase of collaboration in advance of the event.

Details and instructions for applying are provided on the CHCI website:

http://chcinetwork.org/news/centernet-and-chci-collaborate-2nd-new-scholars-seminar

Questions and submissions to: kias@ualberta.ca

Best regards,

Sylvia K. Miller

Senior Program Manager
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)

John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute | Duke University
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Box 90403 | Durham, NC

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From: Meenasarani Murugan <meenasaranimurugan2013@u.northwestern.edu> and Debs Cane <deborah.cane@northwestern.edu>

Hello from the Digital Curation and Repository Work Group at Northwestern University Libraries!

Our working group is responsible for the functional development and community adoption of Avalon Media Systems. Our staff has applied for and received generous support from the Mellon Foundation to conduct the following user research:

A study of scholarly use of audio and video collections by researchers in at least two academic disciplines using contextual inquiry methods; we will use these results to guide future feature prioritization and communicate the value of Avalon to institutions supporting humanities scholars. Our methodology for the study is seated in ethnographic inquiry and user experience modeling. The study is being conducted with three different kinds of data collection:

1. Environmental Observations
2. In-person Interviews
3. Diary Study

Mellon has made it possible to offer scholars a stipend of up to $600 for study participation.  We believe that the researchers in the Digital Humanities Working Group, because of their work in time-based media, would be prime candidates for this study. As a study participant you would agree to:

• keeping a private online diary for the length of the study to record when you work with media;
• being observed twice in a setting of your own choosing while using media for your own research;
• and up to three follow-up interviews that would occur during the span of the study.

All data collected during this study will remain confidential and will aid us in better developing the software and understanding the specific needs of researchers who use media. Chances are, if you have used the library to stream your media reserves for your courses, you’ve already been acquainted with our open-source software.  As we further develop the software, we would like to improve its capacities for academic researchers. We are interested in how you use media, you are not in any way required to use Avalon in your own work to be a participant, nor are we asking you to try Avalon.

If this study piques your interest, and you have some time (estimation of time for participants is about 20 hours total over 6 months) to share your research methods with us, please respond to this Google Form by March 22 with your name, e-mail address, and the preferred time that you could attend an info session.

We thank you in advance for considering this project. Please feel free to write back to Repository Community Manager Debs Cane (deborah.cane@northwestern.edu) or Research Assistant Linde Murugan (murugan@u.northwestern.edu) with any additional questions about the study or to suggest any other researchers we should contact.

Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media

micha cárdenas
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Design
University of Washington | Bothell

Wednesday, February 10^th, 12:00 pm
Alvina Krause Studio
Annie May Swift Hall
1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

Lunch will be served

RSVP to ps@northwestern.edu

micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who works in performance, wearable electronics, hacktivism  and critical gender studies. She develops technologies through workshops and collective design processes, inspired by existing networks of horizontal knowledge production in queer, transgender, and diasporic communities. In her talk, cárdenas will discuss her practice-based research projects, including Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets), Redshift and Portalmetal and UNSTOPPABLE, as well as media made by other artists including Zach Blas, Mattie Brice, and Nao Bustamante. Through these examples cárdenas will demonstrate the operations of the shift and the stitch as the basis for a trans of color poetics that offers alternatives to binaries of visibility/invisibility and transparency/opacity.

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The conference presentation. The monograph. The quarter-long course. What else?

Please join the NU Public Humanities Colloquium Dec. 2, 12:30-2 pm at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities for “What can Humanists Make?”—a conversation about the diversity of projects, products, and de/performances humanists located within the academy (can) make. We’ll be joined by Danny Snelson (Ph.D. in English, UPenn), Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, whose 2015 dissertation includes published “deformance” codas for each chapter, and Elizabeth Hunter, PhD student in Theater and Drama, at work on “Something Wicked,” a video game of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Our speakers encourage you to read Lisa Samuels and Jerome McGann, “Deformance and Interpretation” (1999) and The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0* as well as to check out the following deformance texts:

Text: Holly Melgard, The Making of the Americans
Sound: JHave, MUPS
Movies: Danny Snelson, Flash Artifacts

*Regarding the Manifesto’s co-authorship, a note from the blog of Todd Presner (Faculty Chair of the DH lab at UCLA and professor of Germanic languages) highlights an important element of DH: “Parts of the manifesto were written by Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Lunenfeld, and myself [Presner], while other parts were written (and critiqued) by commenters on theCommentpress blog and still other parts of the manifesto were written by authors who participated in the seminars. This document has the hand and words of about 100 people in it.”

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