Apply for the Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute 

Applications are due by February 1, 2019

Thanks to generous funding from the NEH, the Institute is pleased to be able to cover travel costs and offer a small stipend for participants. Participation includes 5 phases, with required attendance at the in-person session (May 20-24, 2019) and for virtual sessions (July-December 2019), along with creation of teaching materials (January-August 2020). Please see For Participants for more information on the Institute phases and funding.

Call for Applications

Call for Applications: “Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute,” a 2019-2020 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Deadline: Applications are due Friday, February 1, 2019

Application Information: http://dloc.com/teach/apply

Partners in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) are pleased to invite applications to an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities entitled “Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute.” This Institute is designed for anyone who teaches or supports Caribbean Studies courses or sections dealing with Caribbean Studies in courses. This Institute is also aimed at people who are interested in learning ways to utilize digital collections and implement digital tools and methods into their teaching and collaborative practices. We seek participants who are looking to create new resources for teaching Caribbean Studies in multiple fields and varying types of institutions, as well as enhance the community of practice for engaging with DH. We welcome applications from professors, instructors, graduate students, and library faculty and staff.

Participants will gain DH teaching experience and in-depth knowledge of how to utilize digital collections in teaching. The Institute will provide training in tools (Scalar, TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, Mapping), processes, and resources for developing lessons, modules, and/or courses. Twenty-six participants will acquire concrete digital skills and DH approaches for teaching and research utilizing Open Access digital collections. Through participation in an enhanced community of practice for DH, they will also learn to create Open Access course and teaching materials that blend DH and Caribbean Studies.

Program:

Comprised of introductory readings, a week-long in-person session (held May 20-24, 2019 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida), and virtual sessions and online communication in the year following through August 2020, the Institute is structured to give participants the time and space to learn new approaches as well as integrate them into research and teaching. The overall goals of the Institute include gaining expertise in digital tools, with digital collections, and as part of a community of practice. Over the course of the program, participants will be supported in collaborating together and in developing teaching materials to be shared as Open Access.

See the Institute website for a more detailed schedule: http://dloc.com/teach/schedule

Institute Directors and Faculty:

Please see the Institute website for details on the directors and faculty: http://dloc.com/teach/faculty

Application Details:

The Institute will select 26 participants who regularly teach Caribbean Studies courses or sections dealing with Caribbean Studies in courses in related fields (e.g., history, literature, cultural studies, Black Studies, Global Studies). The classes can be at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and instructors, librarians, staff, and graduate students can apply. As we mentioned earlier, we are interested in recruiting participants who are looking to create new resources for teaching Caribbean Studies in multiple fields and varying types of institutions, as well as enhance the community of practice for engaging with DH.

Please see the Institute website for more details about stipends and conditions of award for participants: http://dloc.com/l/teach/forparticipants

Application to the Institute should include:

• An up-to-date CV (short version, preferred).
• A statement of interest (1-2 pages) that provides:
  • description of current teaching assignments and responsibilities
• Optional:
  • description of a course, proposed course, or sample syllabus that engages with the Caribbean through the themes of migration, mobility, or sustainability.

Please send materials by February 1, 2019 to laurien@ufl.edu.

Applications will be reviewed by the selection committee (Taylor, Huet, Ortiz, Rosenberg, Asencio, and Felima).

The team will notify participants of acceptance by March 15, 2019.

The Institute’s priority will be to select a diverse mix of participants from institutions across the US, including specifically recruiting from Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, HBCUs, and HSIs given the rich collections, communities, and teaching connections related to Caribbean Studies. Priority also will be given to select participants from various humanities fields. Additionally, while Florida is the third most populous state, Caribbean Studies spans the whole of the US as a home to the diaspora. For those selected from Florida, priority will be given to those from institutions not represented on the project team.

More Information and Questions:

Please see the Institute website (http://dloc.com/l/teach/dhinstitute) for further details. Questions may be directed to laurien@ufl.edu

Final Acceptance

For final acceptance starting in March, participants will confirm:

1. Attendance for the in-person Institute and virtual sessions
2. That by June 2020 they will submit two DH assignments, developed by taking part in the Institute, for inclusion in dLOC’s Teaching Guides & Materials Collection for use by others. As with all materials in dLOC, participants retain all rights and may elect to share their materials via other repositories and websites.

Please contact the project director, Laurie Taylor, with any questions: laurien@ufl.edu

This Institute has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Institute, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.

FLDH Inaugural Conference
March 29-30, 2019
University of North Florida

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) will be hosting its inaugural statewide conference at the University of North Florida (UNF) on March 29-30, 2019.

Conference Schedule

Friday, March 29 will be a formal research conference, with concurrent sessions and poster presentations, followed by a plenary talk and dinner. For this portion of our program, we invite proposals for individual papers or panels on any topic related to the Digital Humanities. Proposals for individual papers require an abstract of 200-250 words. Panel proposals should include an abstract of 150-250 words for the panel itself, accompanied by abstracts for the 3-5 individual papers that comprise the panel. Panels proposals must also indicate the name of the organizer(s) and chair(s). We welcome proposals from students, faculty and staff from any institution of higher learning, as well as representatives of cultural institutions, from throughout Florida. Guests from outside of Florida are also encouraged to participate. While we may have more informal events in the morning on Friday, March 29, panels and poster session will not begin before 1 PM, in order to allow same-day travel time for those who may be coming from longer distances.

Submit a proposal for the research conference here. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2018. Presenters will be notified by January 31, 2019.

Saturday, March 30 will follow a more spontaneous THATCamp format. Faculty and staff from the Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida will play a key role in coordinating events on this day. As is typical at THATCamp events, the schedule of sessions will primarily be coordinated the morning of the event. Anyone interested in being part of the organization of this portion of the conference should contact Hélène Huet, European studies librarian, University of Florida.

For additional information, visit the conference homepage.

UCF students, faculty and staff interested in carpooling to the conference should contact riches@ucf.edu by Friday, March 22. 

Follow us on Twitter with #FLDH19

The University of Florida hosted THATCamp Gainesville, on the morning of 4/17, attached to the IFLA News conference which was held on 4/18-19. UF welcomed folks to the THATCamp-News planning process, and introduced many new folks to THATCamps!

Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age is a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice.

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Please join us for an upcoming event, Digitization Training for dLOC Partners, April 2, 2018, 11:30am-12:30pm (Miami Time). Presenter: Laura Perry

Click here to participate in the online event: https://zoom.us/j/3982941835

About the Presentation:

The Digitization Training for dLOC contributors will provide a broad overview of the digitization process. At the end of this webinar, users will have a better understanding of metadata creation, digitization using a flatbed scanner, dSLR camera set-up, file editing and naming, folder structure, serial hierarchy creation and file delivery.

About the Speaker:

Laura Perry, Manager of Digital Production Services. Laura manages the team that conducts digitization and ingests content into the UF Digital Collections (UFDC) and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).  She serves as a resource for providing information on best practices for digitization and digital preservation.

About the Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series:

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico, the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives roundtable (LACCHA) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), has organized a series of online events, Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age, a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice.

Webinars in the 2018 series are:

• April 2, 11:30-12:30pm: Digitization Training for dLOC Contributors (English)
  • Presented by Laura Perry, University of Florida
• April 9, 11am-12pm: Demystifying Digital History (English)
  • Presented by Dr. Debbie McCollin, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
• May 7, 11am-12pm: Ramble Bahamas (English)
  • Presented by Dr. Tracey Thompson and Jessica Dawson, University of The Bahamas (Facilitator: Crystal Felima)
• May 16, 11am-12pm: Présentation du projet British Library (French)
  • Presenter: Marie-France Guillaume, Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrètienne (Facilitator: Dr. Hélène Huet)

Please join us for next stage conversations at ACURIL’s 2018 annual conference, focusing on Interdisciplinary Research in the Caribbean: http://libguides.uwi.edu/acurilconference2018

Twitter: #digcaribbeanscholarship

Over the past several years, UF has collaborated with others in Gainesville to host a THATCamp-Gainesville event. “THATCamp” is The Humanities And Technology Camp, and it is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists, technologists, educators, archivists, and folks from many different backgrounds and fields come together to learn together, and to make connections for future collaborations. We have changed the format for THATCamp-Gainesville over the years in terms of duration, location, and structure. THATCamp-Gainesville also began as a different event, Digital Humanities Day.

THATCamp is an opportunity for anyone  in the UF and Gainesville communities with an interest in culture and digital technologies to come together, share their work, and learn new skills for building and analyzing digital projects across the humanities.  It is also a chance to build connections between digital humanities projects across North Florida.  And, if you don’t know what the ‘digital humanities’ are, then come find out. Please visit the conference website to register, suggest a session proposal, comment on the session proposals made by others, and generally learn more about this event.

This year the format of THATCamp has evolved. Organizers hope that THATCamp will become a thematic event connected to and cross-promoting another conference. THATCamp-News will be 9:30am-12pm on 17 April (Tuesday), the morning before the IFLA International News Media Conference, a separate event which THATCamp-News participants are encouraged to also engage with.

Schedule:

• 9:15-9:30am: Registration, Welcome and opening remarks
• 9:30-10:30am: Lightning talks (6-7 minutes each)
  • #NoLaIBCita
  • #NoNazisAtUF organizers
  • Patrick Daglaris: Digital preservation through oral history.
  • April Hines on methods/uses of UF’s digital newspaper databases by students, challenges, barriers, usability, etc.
  • Melissa Jerome: Digitization of the Alligator
  • Patrick Reakes on the implications of copyright on news digitization
• 10:30-11am: Breakout discussion
• 11am-11:15am: Break
• 11:15am-12pm: TEI Workshop, with Dr. Megan Daly
• 12pm: Event ends. Time is open for lunch in groups, find friends and meetup!

All presenters will share on topics related to news and preservation. We expect several presentations to be on digital/digitization of newspaper projects, including on research using digitized news.

• To register, visit: http://news2018.thatcamp.org/
• Questions about THATCamp in general for the formats and varieties? See the main THATCamp.org site and post questions on the THATCamp forums and someone from the community will reply within a couple of days.
• This event is free and open to members of the public who work in cultural heritage institutions or the technology sector.
• THATCamp Gainesville is organized by a planning committee of the UF Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG), a group of academic and library faculty, staff, and graduate students who meet monthly to discuss current topics at the intersection of digital technologies and the humanities and support each other in project development. For more information on the Digital Humanities at UF and to join the DHWG, visit https://digitalhumanities.group.ufl.edu/

The University of North Florida will host the International Studies/Digital Symposium on March 9, 2018. Sessions include a panel discussion on the Intersections between International Studies and Digital Humanities, a Digital Projects Showcase, as well as informational tables highlighting the Texts and Technology PhD Program at the University of Central Florida, and the University of North Florida’s Center for Instruction and Research Technology and the Minor in Digital Humanities.

You’re invited! We are pleased to announce that Geoffrey Rockwell–one of the inventors of Voyant–is coming to USF Tampa on February 27 and will be holding a public lecture at 6:30pm in MSC 4200 in the Marshall Student Center. Hope you can make it! Flyer attached.

TALK. MAKE. TEACH. PLAY

The University of Central Florida will host THATCamp Florida 2018 on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the UCF Teaching Academy.

Sessions will be held from 9:30am-4:30pm, with a kick-off session beginning at 9:00am.  Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be provided. There is no registration fee, although donations of $10-$20 are suggested.

Register and propose your session now, space is limited.

http://florida2018.thatcamp.org/