Job Vacancies at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce vacancies for three posts at UCL, in the new Centre for Digital Humanities. We are looking for a centre co-ordinator, teaching fellow, and postdoc researcher.

These are all part time but we are happy to consider applications to combine two of them into one full time post. Please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/ for details.

Please note that ideally we would like people to start in January, but are willing to be flexible for the right candidate/s if necessary. If you’d like any more information about any of these, please do contact myself or Claire Warwick.

Best wishes,

Melissa

Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication
Department of Information Studies
Henry Morley Building
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT

Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/
Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/

Pre-conference Workshops at DH2010: expressions of interest and proposals

As in previous years, the days 3-6 July, before the DH2010 conference (7-11 July at King’s College London ) have been set aside for community-run workshops. One can reach a diverse and committed body of participants in the Digital Humanities at DH2010. Do you or your project have a workshop up your sleeve that would interest this Digital Humanities community?

Half- or one-day slots are available for workshops, which need to be self-organized and self-funding. KCL can provide space for the workshop at no or low cost, so it is likely that the costs per participant would be low.

We would like to receive proposals for such workshops.

In your full proposal (total 500-800 words), please include:

(1) a brief description of the workshop programme, the project or community out of which it arises, the trainers who will run the workshop, and its proposed length;

(2) what is the demand for this workshop, and who do you expect the audience to be? What minimum number of attendees would be needed for you to do the workshop?

(3) what funding is available or will you seek to help to support the costs of this workshop (for instance, travel for trainers, lunch or refreshments for participants, as applicable)?

A few groups have already expressed interest in running workshops, and we have been talking informally with them. If you have ideas that is not yet fully formed, we would be delighted to e-speak to you about them before you submit a proposal.

The closing date for full proposals will be 31 December 2009. Please send them via email to both John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) and Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England web site

British History Online at the Institute of Historical Research (http://www.british-history.ac.uk) would like to announce an important new addition to its premium content section: the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/prome). This source consists of scholarly descriptions of every parliament held in England between 1275 and 1504. It covers 10 monarchs, from Edward I to Henry VII (since no parliament was held in the reign of Edward V, he is not included). The rolls for some of these parliaments, particularly the earlier ones, do not survive, but where they are extant have been fully transcribed; supplementary material about the business of the parliament is given in an appendix. Opposite the original text, which may be in Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English, is a modern English translation. To make PROME easier to use, the text and translation have been put into tables, so that the corresponding paragraphs are simple to locate.

This new content is available to current subscribers at no extra cost. Subscription details can be found at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/subscribe.aspx.

Emily Morrell
Publications Manager
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House (Rm 265)
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
emily.morrell@sas.ac.uk
Tel 020 7862 8655
Fax 020 7862 8657

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

DM Facebook Group and Twitter Feed

Due to public demand (well, discussion on the mailing list) Digital Medievalist now has a Facebook group and a Twitter feed. We already had the Facebook group to be honest, but there is no harm in re-advertising it at the same time.

The Facebook group is at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 and is available for all your digital medieval social networking needs.

The Twitter feed of our news articles is now available at: http://www.twitter.com/digitalmedieval for those of you who like to consume tweets. Currently this is just fed from the RSS feed of our newsfeed, but who knows, maybe we’ll add something extra to it during conferences.

Neither of these, of course, are meant in any way to replace: the DM-L mailing list, the DM Website, the DM Open Access Journal, the DM Wiki, or the DM News Posting Form. They are just another form of outreach and dissemination for you, the DM community, to make what you will of them.

Socially networked and twitterly yours,

James Cummings
Director, Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

Posted by: James Cummings (James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org).