Digital Humanities

The German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, recently launched a new blog,

The present is characterized by a crisis of the established epistemic-political order. Outdated categories and terms no longer function and representational logics fail to grasp the entanglement of knowledge production in times where the distinction between producers and recipients of knowledge dissolves. Increasingly global societies experience a sharp rise in social complexity, accelerated by digital infrastructures. In this situation, it is necessary to unlearn established modes of referring to the world and to rethink methods of constructing, situating and criticizing reality.

Panel Proposal: Art and Visual Perception 

VIRTUAL VOLUNTEER STUDENTS SOUGHT TO RESEARCH HISTORICAL VETERAN TOPICS.  The National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, seeks up to (5) virtual interns for the 2018-19 academic year.

Game Studies Area: 2019 PCA/ACA National Conference.

Every December issue of the Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is a non-themed collection of papers, welcoming contributions which detail results of conceptual and analytical work, as well as reviews of books published 3 years in advance, the earliest. Would-be contributors are invited to send articles illustrating the complexities of their field of choice, engaging with literary and cultural theory so as to promote reading in a customized framework that privileges interdisciplinarity and self-reflection.

Experiential Learning has been described as an innovative approach to pedagogy in the fields of literature, language, and composition. Proponents argue that integrating Experiential Learning opportunities such as public projects, the production of publications, partnerships with local organizations, volunteering, and field trips into the curriculum enable students to connect what they've learned in the classroom to the wider world. But the significance of the concept of experience in the scholarship on experiential learning, although far from self-evident, remains largely untheorized.

Comments invited on short postings at Brexit and Artificial Intelligence 2018 . These postings appear in verse but are not poetry, please read the About section. These are succinct observations on the title theme which will inform a project on contemporary language usage in the public sphere. So will any comments received.

Conference at George Mason University • November 30, 2018

The second Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Summit aims to highlight the growing number of significant and innovative efforts to conceive and construct digital archives within Virginia.

Call for Chapters (Proposal Deadline August 15, 2018):  Developing Digital Scholarship Services