February Opportunities

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published January 27, 2023. Latest revision February 24, 2023.

Sources: Bibliographic Society of America newsletter, Penn Workshop in the History of Material Texts listserv, Twitter, TXTDS-affiliated faculty.

Events

• Dirty Books 2.0
  Professor Kathryn M. Rudy (FBA FRSE, University of St. Andrews, SIMS Visiting Research Fellow), Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Hybrid (available on Zoom), 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), February 1, 2023.
• Virtual Exhibition Tour: “Animated Advertising”
  Virtual exhibit tour and Q&A, the Grolier Club. Online (Zoom), 2:30p Pacific (5:30p Eastern), February 1, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “Secretum Secretorum,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), February 2, 2023.
• Queer Bibliography Symposium
  “Queer Bibliography: Tools, Methods, Practices, Approaches,” Institute of English Studies, University of London. Online (Zoom), 4-10a Pacific (12-6p London time), February 3-4, 2023.
• “Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World”
  UCLA, hybrid (Zoom), February 3-4, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “Book of Hours,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), February 9, 2023.
• NCFS Unbound 3.4: Melanie Conroy with Anne O’Neil Henry
  Discussion of Melanie Conroy’s new book Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust. Online (Zoom). 11a Pacific (1p Central), February 10, 2023.
• Oxford Bibliographical Society Lecture
  Paul Babinski, “An Orientalist’s Library in Seventeenth-Century Oxford: Thomas Marshall’s Annotated Books.” Hybrid, Lincoln College and Zoom (contact info in flier for link). 9:15a Pacific (5:15p Oxford time), Thursday, February 26, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme “Armenian Calendars,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), February 16, 2023.
• Rare Book School
  Online and in-person summer courses at a variety of East US locations. Application deadline: February 19, 2023 (“before February 20”).
• UW Special Collections Book Club
  “Invisible Cities” exhibit tour and book club discussion of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, hosted by Assistant Book Arts Librarian Kat Lewis. 4-5p Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
• UW Libraries Fair Use Workshop
  Hosted by the Open Scholarship Commons. Online, 10-11a, Thursday, February 23, 2023.
• Coffee with a Codex
  Theme, “Medieval Augustine,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), February 23, 2023.
• Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation Info Session
  Information session on the 2023 summer workshop at UCLA. Online (Zoom), 12p, Thursday, February 23, 2023.
• Transkribus for Beginners
  Workshop hosted by READ-COOP. 7-9a Pacific (4-6p Central European time), February 28, 2023.
• Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation 2023 Summer Workshop
  UCLA and Getty-hosted workshop in cultural heritage conservation for current students and recent grads from historically underrepresented communities. Applications due: 5p, Friday, March 10, 2023.
• University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Exhibit
  In-person exhibit in UW Special Collections, “Invisible Cities: The Prints of Giovanni Battisti Piranesi and the Art of the Built Environment.” On display through March 18, 2023.
• California Rare Book School
  Multiple courses available in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles (CA); Washington DC; Italy; and online, June 21-August 18. Deadlines vary.

Calls for Proposals

• Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium
  CFP for symposium from the University of Florida and the University of North Florida to be held in Gainesville (FL) on Friday, March 3, 2023. Submission deadline: February 5, 2023.
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute
  Multiple CFPs for the fully-online second week programming for DHSI. See link for themes. Deadline: February 10, 2023.
• International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
  “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis,” special issue. Deadline: February 15, 2023.
• UW Data Science for Social Good Projects
  CFP for project proposals from prospective Project Leads for the UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program. Deadline: February 17, 2023.
• Women’s Writing in History
  “Digital Approaches to Women’s Historical Book Culture,” essays for a volume in Brill peer-reviewed series “Women Writers in History.” Deadline: March 1, 2023.
• “Digital Humanities Against Dark Times” Conference
  Hosted by the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, April 14-15, 2023. Abstracts due March 5, 2023.
• Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
  jTEI 2022 Conference edition – for authors of any presentation at the recent conference and members meeting. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
• ACM Hypertext 2023
  CFP for papers, workshops (deadline 1); late breaking, blue sky, demos, traversals, and doctoral consortium (deadline 2). Conference at Bibliotheca Hertziana (Rome, Italy), September 4-8, 2023. Deadlines: March 31 and May 26, 2023.
• Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
  Theme “touch.” Full submissions due: May 1, 2023.
• Manuscript Studies Journal
  CFP for Spring 2024 issue and beyond of Manuscript Studies from SIMS at University of Pennsylvania. Submissions accepted continuously. Deadline for next issue: June 30, 2023 (peer reviewed articles) or August 31, 2023 (non-peer reviewed annotations).
• European Society of Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference
  Registration now open for April 13-14, 2023 conference, “Authorship, Identity, and Textual Scholarship.” University of Kent (England).

Funding & Awards

• NEH: “Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities”
  Supports projects led by individual researchers or collaborative teams. Deadline: February 2, 2023.
• DARIAH-EU Conference
  CFP for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) in Europe annual conference, “Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?” Budapest, Hungary, June 6-9, 2023. Deadline: February 8, 2023.
• PhD Studentship
  “Experimental Book Formats Before the Printing Press,” fully-funded PhD studentship at Coventry University (UK). Deadline: February 15, 2023.
• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference
  CFP for virtual conference, June 29-July 1, 2023. Deadline: February 15, 2023.
• NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
  Supports national or regional training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Deadline: February 15, 2023.
• National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship
  Supports three-month fellowship doing research in the National Library of Scotland’s data collections (can be remote with some travel). Deadline: February 20, 2023.
• Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) Essay Prize
  Rare Book School SoFCB award to a scholarly article that advances the society’s mission. Deadline: March 1, 2023.
• Book Art Research Fellowship
  2-3 week research fellowship at Center for Book Arts (New York, NY). Deadline: February 26, 2023 extended to March 3, 2023.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Fellowship in Digital World History with the World History Center and the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (Penn.). Deadline: March 20, 2023.
• Physical Accessibility in Book Arts Project Researcher
  Term research position with stipend. Center for Book Arts (New York, NY). Deadline: March 30, 2023.
• PhD Studentships
  Funding for PhD study in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University (UK). Deadline: March 31, 2023.

Jobs, Internships & Fellowships

• Digital Archivist
  Wallace Center – Archives, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY). Initial review begins: February 2, 2023.
• UW Data Science for Social Good Student Fellowships
  10-week, full-time summer program with the UW eScience Institute. Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Sustainable Digital Scholarship Service Manager
  Centre for Digital Scholarship & Digital Humanities Support, Humanities Division, University of Oxford (England). Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Special Collections Librarian
  Florida Atlantic University Libraries (Boca Raton, FL). Deadline: February 13, 2023.
• Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellow
  12-week fellowship with the UW Libraries Southeast Asian Studies collections. Priority deadline: February 15, 2023.
• Post-doctoral Researcher in Knowledge Graphs
  1.5 year postdoctoral researcher within the research project “Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models.” University of Groningen (Netherlands). Deadline: February 19, 2023.
• Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies
  School of Art History, University of St Andrews (Scotland). Deadline: February 20, 2023.
• Professorship, “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory”
  University of Ruhr Bochum (Germany). Deadline: February 23, 2023.
• NEH Pathways Interns Summer 2023
  Summer internships with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), open to current students (high school to graduate). Remote. Deadline: February 23, 2023.
• Assistant Professor Media, Citizenship & Public Engagement
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required. Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Assistant Professor Media Literacy & Education
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required (assistance available). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Assistant Professor Media & Arts Curation
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required (assistance available). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Assistant Professor Interactive Media & Interfaces
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required (assistance available). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Assistant Professor in Digital Heritage
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required (assistance available). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Assistant Professor Cultural AI & Computational Methods
  Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands). Dutch language required (assistance available). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Lecturer for Data Science in Society
  Department of Information Studies, University College London (UK). Deadline: February 26, 2023.
• Special Collections Summer Fellowships
  For current or recent graduate students interested in pursuing a career in special collections or archives. Special Collections, Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ). Deadline: March 1, 2023.
• Anne Belk Distinguished Fellow for Distinctive Collections (Curator)
  Special Collections Research Center, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC). Deadline: March 26, 2023.
• Program Assistant
  Mellon Foundation (New York, NY).
• Cataloging and Systems Librarian
  Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA).
• Digital Scholarship Specialist
  Two positions, Princeton University Libraries (Princeton, NJ).
• Curatorial Fellowship in Rare Books
  Two-year position. Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology (Kansas City, MO).
• Digital Content Services Librarian
  Beinecke Library, Yale (New Haven, Connecticut).
• Curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections
  Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
• Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
  Yale Center for British Art, Yale (New Haven, Connecticut).
• Head, Rare Books Program
  Head of the Rare Books Program in the Special Collections and University Archives division at Rutgers New Brunswick (New Jersey). Review begins immediately, open until filled.
• Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts
  Director for auction consignment company Heritage Auctions in Irving, Texas.
• Assistant Curator of Rare Books
  Special Collections & Public Services, Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, Missouri).