In conjunction with the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHCM) at Texas A & M, the Digital Humanities Caucus is planning THATCamp ASECS on March 21, 2012. It will be an opportunity to discuss and debate issues in the digital humanities related to eighteenth-century studies in an informal and open environment. For anyone [...]
The 2012 meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in San Antonio, Texas from March 22 to March 25. Information about hotel reservations is available at this page. The call for papers has been uploaded to the ASECS website (as a Microsoft Word file). Below is a selected list of CFPs [...]
The Digital Humanities Caucus of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks session topics and organizers for next year’s ASECS conference, to be held March 22-25, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas. Session proposals are due to ASECS by MAY 1; forms are at the ASECS site. The caucus has no officers or official meetings. It [...]
“Evaluating Digital Projects: A Roundtable Discussion of New Forms of Grading and Peer Review” (Digital Humanities Caucus Roundtable) Lisa Maruca, 5057 Woodward, Dept. of English, Wayne State U., Detroit, MI 48202; Tel: (248) 890-5177 E-mail: lisa.maruca@wayne.edu AND gwilliams@uscupstate.edu As new media projects begin to supplement or in some cases replace the print essay, research paper, [...]
“The Eighteenth Century in the Twenty-First: The Impact of the Digital Humanities” (Digital Humanities Caucus Roundtable) George Williams, LLC Dept., USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 29303; Tel: (864) 503-5285. E-mail: lisa.maruca@wayne.edu AND gwilliams@uscupstate.edu “The digital humanities comprise the study of what happens at the intersection of computing tools with cultural artifacts of all kinds. This study [...]
From Cathy Davidson’s HASTAC-hosted blog comes the news that “the Academic Council at Duke University unanimously adopted an Open Access policy for scholarly articles written by the Duke faculty.” In a post at Scholarly Communications @ Duke, Kevin Smith writes One thing that librarians often believe is that faculty will only be motivated for open [...]
We wish to remind you that both of the Digital Eighteenth-Century 2.0 panels (which we consider one project spread across two sessions) are roundtables. In other words, we expect that presentations will be kept short, leaving most of our time available for questions & answers, discussion, and audience participation. We encourage you to use EighteenthCentury.org [...]
The following information is drawn from the tentative schedule circulated in October 2009. ECCO, EEBO, and the Burney Collection: Some ‘Noisy Feedback’ Session 17 — Thursday, 18 March — 9:45-11:15am Chair: Anna BATTIGELLI, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Participants: Sayre GREENFIELD, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Stephen KARIAN, Marquette University James E. MAY, Pennsylvania State [...]
“Texting, Tweeting, Tagging: The Digital Eighteenth Century 2.0” (Roundtable) George H. Williams, English, U.of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 29303 AND Lisa Maruca, English, Wayne State U., Detroit, MI 48202; E-mail: gwilliams@uscupstate.edu AND lisa.maruca@wayne.edu (Please email both organizers) Since the early 1990s, eighteenth-century studies scholars have used Internet-based resources for research and scholarly communication [...]
EighteenthCentury.org was launched by George H Williams on December 14, 2008.