Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018)

Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).

I am developing an online database on the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka).  I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility (intuitive navigation is my motto)  for…[Read more]

The Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is delighted to announce winner of the 2017 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.  The 2017 winner is the distinguished narrative theorist and independent scholar, Marie-Laure Ryan.  She will be receive her award during the Awards Luncheon at the 2017 a…[Read more]

The official blurb is below, and I’m asking for brief proposals/bios by March 25. This could certainly be a forum, so 20 minute talks are not strictly necessary. Email me for more info. steven.syrek@gmail.com.

Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit

The “open source” movement’s potential for literary studies. Literature as source code? Criticism as…[Read more]

The past few years I’ve been assembling a list of digitally-oriented sessions at the MLA (e.g. 2015’s list). Let’s do something different this year. Let’s crowdsource that list. I’ve started a Google Doc anyone can edit. Please add your DH session to the list!

Unofficial MLA 2016 List of Digital Humanities Sessions

Submissions welcome for panel at NEMLA 2016 (March 17-20, Hartford, CT) on the topic: Digital Humanities in the Modern Language Curriculum: Beyond the Language vs. Content Divide (See description below). Deadline: 9/30

This session seeks to expand scholarly dialogues about digital humanities beyond so-called content courses to include all levels…[Read more]

We invite submission for the seminar “What Do Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities Have To Say To Each Other?: A Critical Approach” at ACLA 2016, which will be held at Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016.
Organizer: Sayan Bhattacharyya, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Co-Organizer: Fatma Tarlaci, University of Texas, Austin
As…[Read more]

Submissions due 09/23.

The NEH’s recently launched Public Scholar program, a burgeoning number of public humanities initiatives and centers all over the country, and the increasing requirement of grant and job seekers that their work have a public component all indicate a redefinition of the public intellectual. Many of the products of such i…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to consider participating in the panel “Digital Humanities in the Global North and South: Trends, Debates, Initiatives” that I am co-organizing for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2016 in Connecticut. You can access the Call for Papers by opening the following link:…[Read more]

THATCamp – digital pedagogy – is coming to Austin, TX right before MLA 2016!

for questions, contact Fatma Tarlaci at ftarlaci@utexas.edu

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users 

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once entwined with li…[Read more]

Proposals invited for MLA Special Session on digital humanities and comparative literature. Topics include, but are not limited to, a critical reading of DH, its use, challenges, and opportunities in the practice and teaching of comparative literature. 250-300 word abstract and brief bio to ftarlaci@utexas.edu by 15 March 2015.