UO Open Access Week 10/15-22

Open Access Week 2010 Join the University of Oregon Libraries as we participate in an international celebration of Open Access, Oct 14-22, 2010. We’re highlighting a series of new services provided by the UO Libraries that support Open Access.  For more details of UO initiatives to support Open Access see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.html. Week at a Glance [...]

Matt Villeneuve: 2010-2011 HASTAC scholar

UO undergraduate Matthew Villeneuve  has been appointed a 2010-2011 HASTAC scholar. HASTAC  Scholars blog about their department/institution, share their own work and the work of their colleagues, participate in the forums, write reviews and interviews, and help build HASTAC’s national community of digital scholars. Matt was nominated by UO Archivist Heather Briston, Associate University Librarian [...]

David Silver, Green Media Studies Talk 5/28 12-1:30

David Silver Creating a Campus Farmstand: the Landscape of Green Media Studies Arts & Administration Friday Forum 12-1:30 pm 249 Lawrence Hall David Silver is an associate professor of media studies and environmental studies at the University of San Francisco where he teaches classes on media history, digital media production, and green media. David co-directs [...]

New Voices for New Media: UO Student Conference 6/2

Wednesday 6/2 2-5 pm, Lawrence Hall 241 • ACCESS, INFORMATION, AND BOUNDARIES: HEATH BUNTING AND NEW MEDIA ART John Bogaard, Art History • THE PUBLIC SPACE OF TELEVISION – UTOPIAN IDEALS OF VIDEO ART AND THE INFLUENCE OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Ashley Gibson, Art History • AT-HOME 3D PRINTING AND THE RETURN OF A CRAFT [...]

5/28/10 deadline to crowdsource “Hacking the Academy”

Can submissions for an edited volume on digital scholarship be compiled in 7 days, relying on a Twitter hashtag? We’re in the middle of that week now, and the hashtag is #hackacad. This project is being organized (unsurprisingly) by the savvy and effervescent Center for History and New Media. If you have anything to contribute [...]

Wired Humanities Project “Virtual Oaxaca” recognized by NEH & NMC

The Wired Humanities Project, in collaboration with Dr. Jonathon Richter (Center for Learning in Virtual Environments), Professor Gabriela Martínez, and graduate students Alina Padilla Miller and Yasmin Acosta-Myers, has received news from NEH that WHP has won a Digital Dissemination and Impact supplemental grant to underwrite the creation of “Virtual Oaxaca” — a map-based, three-dimensional [...]

MLA Promotion & Tenure Guidelines for Digital Work

Just in from HASTAC: The MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) invites faculty, administrators, and graduate students to join a discussion about the evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion. The MLA CIT is proposing revisions to the MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages, which are designed to help departments and faculty [...]

Mellon funds regional THATcamp coordination/training

In 2008, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason created THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp—a yearly user-generated “unconference.” Organized on a shoestring and driven by participant interests, the new style of academic conference attracted a wide range of interest, and it spawned numerous locally-organized regional THATCamps in 2009, including recent events in [...]

“Bridging Cultures:” new NEH initiative for 2011-2012

UO humanities scholars who want to be ahead of the curve in planning research activities that the NEH might fund should be aware that the agency’s next big push is themed “Bridging Cultures.” NEH Chairman Jim Leach announced the initiative last week during his 2011-2012 budget presentation to the House Appropriations Committee. The Bridging Cultures [...]

NHA Data Shows Decline In Funding for Humanities Researchers

From the National Humanities Alliance News, 2/26/10 “The humanities continue to play a core role in higher education and student interest is strong, but to meet the demand, four-year colleges and universities are increasingly relying on a part-time, untenured workforce. Those are among the findings from the Humanities Departmental Survey, conducted by the American Academy of [...]