Have you encountered job descriptions with requirements like these? Experience with a technical area of digital humanities such as data visualization, text mining, digital pedagogy, spatial humanities, data curation, network analysis, and scholarly communication
Don’t assume that just because you aren’t a computer scientist, you can’t be eligible for these jobs!
Can Digital Humanities Get You A Job?
A Presentation and Discussion of DH Job Descriptions Thursday, February 20, 12:30pm. Dealy 203
Bring a job description to the meeting. We’ll discuss how to read these documents, what the skills involve mean and are, and how to go about gaining some of these skills while a student at Fordham University.
PS: As always, never let “not having done the homework” prevent you from coming to a meeting — can’t find a job description? We know you’re all busy. We’ll have extras to discuss! Please show up anyway: we’ll be delighted to see you and to have another perspective in the discussion.
The HTML Resume Workshop has been postponed: it will not happen tomorrow, Tuesday, February 18th.
Watch this space for updates on when it will take place. We will be asking for RSVPs for this event so that we can reserve the most appropriate room, and have enough food for everyone at this upcoming lunch-time meeting.
We thank you all for your patience as we deal with snow-day- and Presidents’ Day-related scheduling.
The two articles provide quite a contrast: Spiro’s is optimistic and all-embracing, and discusses the usefulness and larger possibilities provided by the process of articulating a values statement for the DH as a field; Kirschenbaum’s article is more pragmatic, and discusses the history of DH and how thinking tactically about the field’s uses, goals, and funding can be not only helpful for getting it implemented, but also for expanding and defining the field.
One criticism the group came up with was that while Spiro’s article does a good job of articulating goals, it is not very ‘digitally’ specific — almost all of her goals and values could be applied to the process of making academia in general, or humanities in general, a friendlier, more inclusive space. And while one attendee pointed out that this may be the goal of DH in the long term (to become the norm for humanities scholarship) in the present, it seems like a little more focus on the digital aspects of DH may be necessary. Kirschenbaum’s more pragmatic approach seemed to have made our readers slightly more comfortable with his points and his overview of the history of the field provided talking points for discussion about the development of the field.
The variety of viewpoints of our attendees, from those who are relatively new to DH to those who have a more library-centric or more academically-centered focus, made for an excellent discussion. We were only sorry not to see more people there!
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting:
HTML Resume Workshop Tuesday February 18th LL 802 (Lincoln Center) 1:30pm
Learn how to use HTML to make your resume more striking online: in the process you will not only learn how to make your resume look better on sites such as WordPress or other blogging platforms, you will also learn the basics of HTML markup language, which has a wide variety of applications, and is the basis of a number of other markup languages used widely in the digital humanities.
Last week, I presented to the Fordham Graduate Student Digital Humanities Group on the course I have been taking during the Fall 2013 semester at the Pratt Institute. While the class is taught in a Library Science Masters program, the professor (Chris Sula) and the bulk of readings and discussion are not library-specific. Below is a link to my presentation, which includes hyperlinks to several of the resources used in the class:My part of the discussion was to show how a graduate level course specifically on Digital Humanities can be structured. The benefit to the way this class was laid out (as well as the assignments required) has been the focus on learning about how this emerging field works socially, theoretically, and practically. This means that we did not focus on learning specific tools, although we were briefly introduced to and encouraged to play with several. Instead, we focused on what Digital Humanities research looks like; how is DH being adopted within/across the humanities; how to start, manage, and preserve projects; and, how to integrate thinking about the user into a project’s development.
After laying out this model, the group discussed whether such a course would be possible or appropriate to initiate at Fordham. Our discussion brought up a variety of concerns and ideas of how DH fits into the Fordham graduate experience – with respect to both research and teaching. There was enthusiasm for creating a Research Methods course for humanists (ex: for English and History students) to teach and discuss both traditional and DH methods of research. The thirst for integrating DH methods and traditional research was a promising result of this meeting.
Thanks to everyone who attended. We look forward to hosting some great events in Spring 2014!
Please join us tomorrow, Dec. 4, from 12:30-2:00pm in Dealy 115. Kristen Mapes willl speak about taking “Digital Humanities” as a graduate level course at the Pratt Institute.
Topics to be discussed: What topics are covered? How are they addressed? What is the value of taking a DH-specific class rather than simply incorporating DH into pre-existing classes?
This will be an informal conversation about Digital Humanities as a course topic and the graduate student perspective on learning about DH in a formal way. Come to hear and discuss (and eat cookies) tomorrow at 12:30 in Dealy 115!
This is a reminder that Yale University is hosting a New Directions for Digital Scholarship event THIS FRIDAY, November 15, 2013 from 3:00-7:00pm, and Fordham GSDH would like to send you to it!
We are happy to provide round-trip Metro-North tickets between Fordham and New Haven.
So, if you have registered and would like to take us up on the offer (or have questions), email kmapes@fordham.edu
The schedule is as follows:
3:00-3:10pm – Welcome, Susan Gibbons (University Librarian at Yale University)
3:10-4:00 – “Making Ourselves Indispensable: The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities at Three Years Old” – Claire Warwick (Prof. of Digital Humanities at University College London)
4:10-5:30 – “Showcasing Yale Projects”
Including: “EliScholar: A Platform for Open Access Scholarly Publishing”; “Teaching Across and With Yale’s Himalayan Collections: An Experiment in Crowd Cataloguing”; “Mining Magazine Archives”; New Image Analysis Tools for Manuscripts”; “Photogrammer: A Yale NEH DH Start-Up Grant Project”
The NYC Digital Humanities Student Group is jointly organizing a meetup with the NYC Museum Educators Roundtable Technology Peer Group. All are welcome! We will discuss the possibilities and challenges of creating educational project sites for the public.
For this first meet up, Grant Wythoff, Ph.D., will join us to talk about his position at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities and as lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Through his work in digital humanities, “Grant is interested in placing theoretical reflection in dynamic conversation with practical innovation.” Read more about Grant’s work on the CU Society of Fellows site and visit his Twitter page to hear from him firsthand.
Yale University is hosting a New Directions for Digital Scholarship event on Friday, November 15, 2013 from 3:00-7:00pm, and Fordham GSDH would like to send you to it!
We are happy to provide round-trip Metro-North tickets between Fordham and New Haven.
The schedule is as follows:
3:00-3:10pm – Welcome, Susan Gibbons (University Librarian at Yale University)
3:10-4:00 – “Making Ourselves Indispensable: The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities at Three Years Old” – Claire Warwick (Prof. of Digital Humanities at University College London)
4:10-5:30 – “Showcasing Yale Projects”
Including: “EliScholar: A Platform for Open Access Scholarly Publishing”; “Teaching Across and With Yale’s Himalayan Collections: An Experiment in Crowd Cataloguing”; “Mining Magazine Archives”; New Image Analysis Tools for Manuscripts”; “Photogrammer: A Yale NEH DH Start-Up Grant Project”
5:30-7:00 – Reception
So, if you have registered and would like to take us up on the offer (or have questions), email kmapes@fordham.edu
Meet people interested in digital humanities from a range of backgrounds and fields.
Swap stories of your experience with DH tools and methods.
Find someone to collaborate with.
Have a drink. Eat shepherd’s pie.
This social is the first event of the NYCDH Student Group. We look forward to organizing other meetings and workshops and socials as desired by you! Come to this event and let us know what you’re working on (or would like to work on) and how we can help you do it (better)!
