Blog-based scholarship….a public notebook?

Hello, all- I’ve revamped a blog I started over the summer that focuses on material culture. I’m trying to use it as a ‘public notebook’ of sorts for research-related ideas, as well as a spot to craft my perspectives & writing on aspects (interesting, at least to me) of material culture. You can find it here.

On a related note, this blog is part of a WPMU intallation over at A&AA that we are piloting this year. In order to streamline admin and support, it’s not open to a large number of users at this point. We’ll be sure to keep everyone posted, however, as the work we are doing in terms of customizing the system in order to integrate curriculum, research, and collaborative communication might just end up benefiting everyone on campus in the near future…

UO librarians attending 11/09 ATDH Institute

Congrats to UO Libraries’ Karen Estlund and Jon Jablonski on being chosen to attend the NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library in November 2009.

UO will probably send at least one other representative to the May 2010 institute on Space & Place in Next-Generation Digital Humanities Scholarship.

2009 Humanities Conference UCLA

EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
29 June – 2 July 2010

http://www.HumanitiesConference.com/

FIRST ANNUAL DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING CONFERENCE

CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
FIRST ANNUAL DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE THEME:DIVERSIFYING PARTICIPATION

February 18 – 20, 2010

Cal IT2
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

We are pleased to announce the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice.

Dropbox

Some of you probably know about this tool for syncing files across multiple computers, but I bet some of you who have confronted the 2+ computer problem do not: 
https://www.getdropbox.com/home#/.

UO Digital Scholars Retreat Notes

Notes from 8/24/09 Retreat, McKenzie Collaboration Center

Our retreat had two parts: a presentation on services available to UO digital scholars, and breakout sessions/group reports addressing the following 4 issues:

What would you describe as the main challenges facing digital scholars at the University of Oregon?

What might we do to overcome those challenges?

As scholars, what do you want from this group?

Discuss the draft description of group and its mission.

To learn what we talked about, read on! The four breakout issues come first, then the digital services available to UO scholars.

The Past’s Digital Presence: Graduate Student Symposium at Yale, Feb 19-20, 2010

Here’s an interesting conference and call for papers forwarded by Taylor Spence at Yale; please share with graduate students in your areas. Note September 30 deadline.
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**CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION: SEPTEMBER 30TH**

THE PAST’S DIGITAL PRESENCE: DATABASE, ARCHIVE, AND KNOWLEDGE WORK IN THE HUMANITIES
A GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AT YALE UNIVERSITY
FEBRUARY 19TH AND 20TH, 2010

THATCamp PNW update

Thanks to John Russell for this update/reminder about the upcoming Pacific NW THATCamp. See below for details.

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Subject: Call for Participants: THATCamp Pacific Northwest (10/17/09)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 07:06:12 -0700
From: THATCamp PNW
To: THATCamp PNW

Hello!

Thank you again for completing the THATCamp PNW planning survey.
Using the information you all provided, we have been able to schedule
a wonderful day of discussion and collaboration: Saturday, October
17th, 2009. You will soon see a more formal call for participants on
various mailing lists, and please feel free to forward that along to
anyone and everyone.

The application can be found at
http://bit.ly/TCPNWApp