[Jobs] nebraska workshop

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Third Annual Nebraska Digital WorkshopOctober 10 & 11, 2008
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the  
University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the third annual Nebraska  
Digital Workshop on October 10 & 11, 2008.  Through a competitive  
process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present  
their work in digital humanities.

Senior Scholars
Every year, the Center supplements its roster by bringing two  
nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to Lincoln  
to participate and work with the scholars whose work is selected for  
presentation.  In 2008, the two digital humanists who are invited to  
participate on the faculty of the Workshop are:

	• Greg Crane, Professor of Classics, Tufts University, and Editor,  
Perseus Project. Crane has published extensively on Greek and Latin  
literature as well as in digital humanities. (Read Crane's C.V. )
	• Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Professor of Literature in English  
and Media Arts, UCLA. Hayles's publications include Electronic  
Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (forthcoming, 2008), and My  
Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, 2005.  
(Read Hayles's Bio)
Workshop Goal
The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early-career scholars  
(pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate  
students) in the field of digital humanities to present their work in  
a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased.

Under the auspices of the CDRH faculty and staff—a group that includes  
CDRH co-directors Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth M. Price, Brett  
Barney, Andrew Jewell, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Stephen Ramsay, Douglas  
Seefeldt, William G. Thomas, III, and Judellen Thornton-Järinge—the  
Nebraska Digital Workshop will offer opportunities to discuss the  
potential of humanities computing, present examples of successful  
projects created at the CDRH, share strategies for developing  
administrative and institutional support for digital humanities  
scholarship at the applicants’ home institutions, and discuss external  
funding options.  The Workshop ultimately endeavors to foster a  
network of digital scholars who will come together across disciplinary  
boundaries at the Workshop, and who in the future will advance  
humanities computing and help define the state of the field.  For  
information about the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities  
and faculty biographies, see http://cdrh.unl.edu. For information  
about our past digital workshops, please see our Nebraska Digital  
Workshop archive page.

The Workshop will supplement its roster by bringing nationally  
recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to Lincoln to  
participate and work with the scholars whose work is selected for  
presentation.

Benefits for selected scholars
The CDRH will pay for travel and lodging expenses, and scholars will  
receive an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska  
Digital Workshop.

Selection Criteria
Applicants are asked to submit a three-page narrative abstract for an  
approximately 30 minute presentation of their digital project along  
with files of, or links to, any digital elements, electronic text,  
analytical tools, or multimedia visualizations already created.

Selection criteria include:  the significance of the project in the  
scholar’s primary disciplinary field, elements of technical  
innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and  
creativity of approach to the subject.

Applications
Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a  
representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before  
April 25, 2008 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for  
Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1 at unl.edu or 319 Love  
Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.  
--Byron