Symposium: Textualities in the Digital Age 4/14/12

April 14, 2012         Room 101, Knight Library       University of Oregon Textualities in the Digital Age Download Schedule (PDF) Session I: Projects I 9:00-10:00 Oregon Petrarch Open Book Project Massimo Lollini, Romance Languages, UO Carolingian Canon Law Project Abigail Firey, History, University of Kentucky Break 10:00-10:15 Session II: Projects II 10:15-11:15 Manuscript Studies and the Nahuatl [...]

Lollini and Tice: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellows

Longtime UODS supporters and faculty Massimo Lollini and James Tice have been named Digital Innovation Fellows by the American Council of Learned Societies. UODS is very happy that their perseverance in establishing digital scholarship at UO is receiving this richly deserved recognition. Together Tice and Lollini represent over one fifth of the total ACLS Digital [...]

UODS book discussion on Davidson’s Now You See It

UO Digital Scholars, faculty and graduate students are invited  to pack in their lunch to discuss Cathy Davidson’s Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn on Friday February 17th, noon-1:30pm in the Jane Grant room on the third floor of Hendricks Hall.

Oregon Humanities public program grants: 10/31/11

Once a year, Oregon Humanities awards Public Program Grants between $1,000 and $10,000 to nonprofit organizations in Oregon to support programs that are timely, relevant, accessible, and interactive. Oregon Humanities welcomes proposals for programs that use the humanities in the public sphere to meet our core mission of connecting Oregonians to ideas that change lives [...]

George Lakoff: The Neuroscience of Thought and Language” Friday 5/27 4pm Lawrence 177

Oregon Undergraduate Research (OUR) Journal: New for 2011

OUR Journal Editorial Board Application Submit via email* by 5pm Friday, May 20 http://journals.oregondigital.org/OURJ/  OUR Journal is a new student-run, peer-reviewed publication showcasing the scholarly work of senior-status UO undergraduates in all academic disciplines including the sciences, humanities, and creative arts. Applications are now being accepted to serve on the OUR Journal editorial board from [...]

Recent/Relevant Reports

From UODS member and Wired Humanities Project director Stephanie Wood, some recent reports and articles relevant to digital scholarship: The New (In)visible College: Emergent Scholarly Communication Environment and the Liberal Arts http://www.nitle.org/live/files/34-the-new-invisible-college Digital Librarian Initiatives at Emory (where Brian Croxall and Miriam Posner are fellows): http://diglib.clairmontheights.org/DLI Academic Commons, “Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate,” (April 2011): [...]

Ed Madison: “Tween TV” 4/15 12-1:30, MCC

Friday 4/15 12-1:30pm, 175 McKenzie (Collaboration Center) Ed Madison (School of Journalism and Communications) Tween TV: Engaging 5th Graders in Critical Thinking with Digital Video Production and Mobile Media Affordable handheld video cameras and mobile media devices are flooding the marketplace, sparking intrigue as well as debate about their prospective pedagogical benefits. Students are using [...]

UODS Roundtable 4/1 1pm: UO graduate certificate in New Media

Digital Scholars Roundtable: UO Graduate Certificate in New Media Friday April 1 1:00-2:30 McKenzie Collaboration Center 175 McKenzie The worlds in which scholars now live and work are undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. In the humanities and social sciences, scholarship on new media and culture continues to proliferate, myriad efforts to digitize texts and artifacts [...]

3/18/11 Day of Digital Humanities: sign on now

The general invitation to participate in the 3rd annual Day of Digital Humanities is out!  Though the ‘official’ deadline to apply appears to be 3/14/11, you may join up to the last moment to add your voice, images, and critique to this international collaborative event. Willing and interested in documenting what you do DH-wise that [...]