digital humanities

For those of you in the NY/NJ/PA area, I encourage you to come participate/attend a conference on "Digital Humanities and the Disciplines," which begins the afternoon of Thurs. Oct. 2 and continues for most of the day on Friday, Oct. 3. 

http://cca.rutgers.edu/events/conferences/

I'll be attending and will most likely be posting up some stuff that I gather from it here come this weekend as it seems right up our alley.

DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: 2008 Call for Bilateral Symposia and Workshops
These grants provide funding for one bilateral symposium or workshop (or a series of two bilateral symposia or workshops taking place within the duration of one year) in the area of digital humanities.  The goal of this call is to promote stronger bilateral cooperation between the digital humanities communities in the two countries (Germany and the United States) by initiating or intensifying contact between scholars in one particular field.

Reblog of a NY Times article on restoring the great library of Timbuktu and digitizing its archives before they turn completely to dust

http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ODHHome/tabid/36/Default.aspx This week, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the creation of a new Office of Digital Humanities, a permanent new division within NEH, and headed by Brett Bobley.

Tomorrow, at the Folger Library, NEH will be announcing $600,000 in transAtlantic digital humanities offices plus a new Office of Digital Humanities.

When I descend into cold murky water looking for a shipwreck for historical and archaeological research the quiet and darkness can often make me feel very much alone. But being an underwater archaeologist and the director of an online museum I know I can never do either of those jobs by myself. There is always a team from various sciences there to help raise up the stories of our past from their watery graves.

At the last MacArthur-sponsored forum on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age," we talked about historian Pat Seed's digital projects that began in 1991 (the official birthyear of the internet). Her most recent on early Arabic maps of Africa made me rethink the religious-basis for early intraAfrican slavery . . . and that made me think about the religious persecutions in Europe. A new paradigm always generates new paradigms. The Inquisition as "tribal warfare."