Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts
DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice

University of Cambridge, Sunday 14th September to Wednesday 17th September 2008
http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/

*Registration Open and Programme Announced*

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice
http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08

• http://www.dho.ie

Funded under PRTLI 4, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and its partners in the Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium (HSIS) will build a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The key infrastructural element of the consortium will be the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). The DHO will be an electronic access portal and research resource for the humanities, designed, hosted and operated by the RIA. RIA now invites applications for the following 3-year fixed term contract positions with the DHO:

Digital Humanities Specialists
(3-year fixed term contracts x 2)

DEADLINE: 31st MARCH 2008

2nd International Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts and umanities: "On Interaction/ Interactivity in Music, Design, Visual and Performing Arts"

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008

A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

from https://ocs.usask.ca/ocs/index.php/casta/casta08/schedConf/cfp 

The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century.

Academic Commons released its December 2007 special issue devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS (www.academiccommons.org/). Edited by David L. Green (Principal at Knowledge Culture), the issue is dedicated to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities and new technologies (http://thanksroy.org/).

Cyberinfrastructure offers the liberal arts new resources and new ways of working - with revolutionary computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise. How will students, scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals and others connect, use and contribute to these new capabilities? Will humanists work collaboratively and produce new forms of scholarship "more interesting than the book"? How will institutions change the way they do business in putting cyberinfrastructure to work?

This collection of essays, interviews and reviews captures the perspectives of scholars, scientists, information technologists and administrators on the challenges and opportunities cyberinfrastructure presents for the liberal arts and liberal arts colleges. What difference will cyberinfrastructure make and how should we prepare?

Table of Contents:
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/table-of-contents