Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2013

Call for Participation and Proposals
Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2013
The University of Victoria
June 6-10, 2013

Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Simpson Center is a sponsor of the University of Victoria’s renowned five-day Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which will be held June 6-10, 2013 (a Thursday through a Monday). As a sponsor, the Simpson Center plans to support at least three teams, or clusters, of people; they may be composed of two individuals and have as many as four people participating. Faculty, professional staff, and doctoral students are eligible.

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides a vital environment for learning about and discussing how the new computing and communication technologies are transforming teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. During a five-day period of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, participants share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies. The institute brings together faculty, staff, and students from the arts, humanities, library, and archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from industry and government sectors. Described by one participant as an event that “combines the best aspects of a skills workshop, international conference, and summer camp,” the DHSI prides itself on its friendly, informal, and collegial atmosphere. Read more about the DHSI via its homepage.

Each team, or cluster, from the University of Washington should select one course (along with one or two backup courses) from the list of some twenty courses that will be offered in June 2013; all people in the team will attend that course. Topics for courses include Digital Editions; Digital Humanities Databases; Versioning and Collation in the Digital Environment; and Visual Design for Digital Humanists. Departmental and cross-departmental teams may have worked together before or may plan to work together subsequent to the DHSI; members of a team should submit only one proposal, with a point person selected. Priority will be given to those in a position to put aspects of their DHSI learning into practice—in coursework (the classes they are teaching or are taking), for example, or in developing a research project. We especially encourage teams in the cultural disciplines—literary and textual studies, cinema and new media studies, and histories of art, music, and theater and performance—to apply. Grants will be in the range of $1000-$1250 and will help underwrite the registration fees, travel, and accommodation expenses. People who participated last year are eligible to apply this year.

Those interested should email a two-paragraph statement of interest and description of their project (no longer than one page), along with short bios of each participant, to the Simpson Center’s Administrative Coordinator, Fernando Gonzalez. The deadline is Thursday, November 1, 2012.

Please be in touch with Miriam Bartha, Simpson Center Associate Director, if you have questions (543-3920 or mbartha@uw.edu). You may want to be in touch with people from the University of Washington who participated in the DHSI last year; if so, please contact Fernando Gonzalez, who has a list of those who attended the DHSI in June 2012.

Note: The reason for the rapid turnaround is that the DHSI has already opening registration and their courses tend to fill up fast.