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Humanities Data Science Summer Institute

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The Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at UW is organizing a “Humanities Data Science Summer Institute,” which will pair undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty or staff who are engaged in humanities data science research during term A of Summer 2023 (June 20–July 19, 2023).

Please see below for individual calls for applications from faculty/staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students and descriptions of each group’s role in this institute.

Call for applications for faculty/staff to lead a student group

Applications are invited from UW faculty and staff to participate in the HDSSI and to lead a small team of students (ideally 2 undergraduate students and 1 graduate student) in work on their own humanities data science research project. The graduate student will primarily serve as a mentor and project manager for the undergraduate students, and they will also be expected to contribute to the project.

The topic of the research project is up to the faculty or staff member. The project could be part of new or existing research, or it could involve work to support a future undergraduate class that could be part of the Minor in Data Science. The ideal HDSSI project will include the following elements: collaborative work that is suitable for undergraduate students; a clearly defined research question drawn from humanities scholarship; data-intensive analysis; use of an open source programming language; and key findings that can be communicated through a combination of data visualization and narrative text. Each HDSSI project will result in a group-authored poster presentation (led by the undergraduate students) at the UW undergraduate research symposium in the following Spring.

The lead faculty or staff member will be expected to manage and direct their team for a minimum of 5-10 hours per week during term A of Summer 2023. Additionally, they will be expected to conduct the majority of this work onsite and in-person (ideally at the WRF Data Science Studio on UW’s Seattle campus). Graduate students will be expected to work a minimum of 15-20 hours per week, and undergraduate students will be expected to work 20 hours per week.

The successful faculty or staff applicant will receive one month of salary and benefits.

Please submit the following to bmarwick@uw.edu by 15 Jan 2022:

  • One page proposal of a humanities data science project they intend to lead a group of undergraduates to complete in the fellowship period
  • Current CV
  • Letter of support from Department chair or supervisor 

Call for applications for graduate student RAs

Applications are invited from UW graduate students to collaborate with a faculty or staff member on their research project and to serve as a mentor and project manager for a small team of 2-3 undergraduate students who will also be working on the project. The topic of the research projects will be determined by the faculty/staff supervisor for the research group. Projects will answer a clearly defined research question drawn from humanities scholarship, involve data-intensive analysis, use an open source programming language, and include key findings that can be communicated through a combination of data visualization and narrative text. Given the nature of this work, experience with a widely used programming language like Python or R is preferred. The successful applicant is expected to contribute to a group-authored poster presentation (led by the undergraduate students) at the UW undergraduate research symposium in the following Spring. 

Graduate students will be expected to manage their teams and contribute to the project for a minimum of 15-20 hours per week during term A of Summer 2023. Additionally, they will be expected to conduct the majority of this work onsite, in-person, and during regular business hours (ideally at the WRF Data Science Studio on UW’s Seattle campus).

Successful graduate student applicants will receive a Research Assistant appointment and supervision from a faculty/staff mentor.

Please submit the following to bmarwick@uw.edu by 15 Jan 2022: 

  • One page summary of the student’s activities and accomplishments relevant to humanities data science, e.g. coursework completed, workshops attended, research outputs, etc. 
  • Current CV
  • Letter of support from the student’s faculty advisor

Call for applications for undergraduate students 

Applications are invited from UW undergraduate students who are keen to learn humanities data science in a project-based, small group experience. Students will work in small teams (ideally 2-3 students) under faculty/staff supervision and with direct assistance from a graduate student mentor. Students will participate in hands-on training workshops to acquire technical skills in working with humanities data, and they will also work in a group and independently to complete the research objectives determined by their faculty/staff project leader.

The topic of the research projects will be determined by the faculty/staff supervisor for the research group. Projects will answer a clearly defined research question drawn from humanities scholarship, involve data-intensive analysis, use an open source programming language, and include  key findings that can be communicated through a combination of data visualization and narrative text. Successful applicants are expected to contribute to a group-authored poster presentation at the UW undergraduate research symposium in the following Spring.

Undergraduate students will be expected to work for a minimum of 20 hours per week during term A of Summer 2023. Additionally, they will be expected to conduct the majority of this work onsite, in-person, and during regular business hours (ideally at the WRF Data Science Studio on UW’s Seattle campus).

Successful undergraduate student applicants will receive a $2000 fellowship—half at the beginning of the program and half on completion. Students will also register for independent study credits, which will count towards the Data Science Minor. Priority will be given to students who have declared, or plan to declare, the Data Science Minor. 

Please submit the following to bmarwick@uw.edu by 15 Jan 2022:

  • One page summary of your interests, skills, activities, accomplishments, and future plans relevant to humanities data science, e.g. coursework completed, workshops attended, future plans for taking courses in the Data Science Minor, etc. 
  • Current CV
  • Letter of recommendation from one faculty with whom you have recently taken a class
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Sarah Faulkner Hosts Book Talk

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If you recall our post in August 2022 about Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni, TXTDS graduate certificate alum Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was invited to write the introduction to Flame Tree Publishing’s Collector’s Edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus in 2020. In her introduction, Faulkner highlights the historical and literary context for the novel as well as its multimedia afterlife. She concludes with a new reading of the monster as a touchstone for conversations about sexual violence, the climate crisis, and other current issues.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 7, 2022, the UW Alumni Book Club is sponsoring a virtual conversation about Frankenstein with Faulkner. For more information and to sign up for the event, see the UW Alumni Association event page.

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December Opportunities

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This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published November 29, 2022, latest revision December 21, 2022.

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

Events

  • AAS Book Talk
    “Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture,” Jeffrey Makala. Online, 11a Pacific (2p Eastern), December 1, 2022.
  • Python Introductory Workshop
    Naomi Alterman of the UW eScience Institute will lead an intro workshop to the Python programming language as a tool for qualitative humanities work. In person, 9a-12p Pacific, MGH 076, Friday, December 2, 2022.
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts
    Chi-ming Yang (Penn), “Finding Octavia E. Butler in the Archives and around Black Pasadena,” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program. 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), December 5, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex
    “In the Stars” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Aeromoto Library webinar
    “Activing Aeromoto Library: Cultivating Community-Based Curation Curiosity, and Imagination,” sponsored by BSA. Online via Zoom, 12p Pacific (1p CDMX), December 7, 2022.
  • SIMS Online Lecture Series
    Federico Botana (Institute of English Studies, University of London & 2022-23 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Visiting Research Fellow), “The Card Index of Leo Olschki and the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts in the Early 20th Century.” Online, 9a Pacific (12-1:30p Eastern), December 9, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex
    “Genealogical Roll” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • 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.

Calls for Proposals

  • AI and Archives Symposium
    CFP for Full Stack Feminism, Women in Focus, and the Sussex Humanities Lab symposium at University of Sussex (UK) / hybrid, April 27-28, 2023. Deadline: Monday, January 9, 2023.
  • Humanities Data Science Summer Institute
    Calls for applications for faculty/staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students for an institute hosted by the UW Data Science Minor. Deadline: January 15, 2023.
  • SHARP 2023 Conference
    CFP for the online conference for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), “Affordances and Interfaces: Textual Interactions Past, Present, and Future.” Conference dates: June 26-29, 2023. Deadline: January 15, 2023.
  • RBMS 2023 Conference
    CFP for the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (of the American Library Association) annual meeting. Submission portal to open in November, deadline: January 20, 2023.
  • Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute
    Call for applications to week-long residential DH institute at University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) June 11-17, 2023 from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective. Information session: January 17, 2023. Application deadline: January 31, 2023.
  • BSC Annual Conference
    CFP for the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 29-30, 2023. Theme: “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.
  • International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
    CFP for special issue, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.
  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute
    Multiple CFPs for the fully-online second week programming for DHSI. See link for themes. Deadline: February 10, 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).

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Beginner Python Workshop

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University of Washington students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in the workshop, “Python, Your Personal Research Assistant” this Friday, December 2 at 9 am to 12 pm on the Seattle campus.

The workshop, led by Naomi Alterman from the UW eScience Institute, offers an introduction to the Python programming language as a tool to aid in qualitative humanities work. Together, we will learn how to read and make use of Python code to perform repetitive tasks and free ourselves to do the meaningfully human parts of our research. Attendees will leave the workshop with tools to sort Twitter tweets by tone, create random project groups from lists of names, and resources for further learning. No prior technological experience is assumed–this is a workshop for everybody! Sign up here. 

The workshop will take place in the new Humanities Data Lab (MGH 076) and is hosted in collaboration with the UW Libraries’ Open Scholarship Commons and the eScience Institute.

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November Opportunities

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This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published October 28, 2022. Latest revision November 23, 2022.

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

Events

  • Coffee with a Codex: “Antiphonary” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Informational Session: RBS Lang Fellowship: Info session for the Rare Book School’s M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources. Zoom, 4p Pacific (7-8p Eastern), November 1, 2022.
  • “Maps as Text and Text as Maps”: Talk by Katie McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) followed by a tutorial with Ludovic Moncla (National Institute of Applied Sciences & LIRIS Laboratory). In-person at UW campus, 2:30-4:30p Pacific, Wednesday, November 2, 2022.
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Peter Stallybrass (Penn), “The Ten Commandments and/as Erasable Wax Tablets,” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program. Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), November 7, 2022.
  • Building Digital Humanities Symposium: Digital Humanities Research Initiative open online symposium (free). East Australia Time. November 7-25, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex: “Poetry and Prose” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Center for Book Arts online workshop: “Zines! Zines! Zines!” with Beth Sheehan. Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 3p Pacific (6-8 Eastern). Registration deadline: November 2, 2022.
  • Center for the History of Print & Digital Culture book talk: University of Wisconsin at Madison hosts a talk for Christine Pawley on her new book, Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America. Zoom, 11:30a Pacific (1:30p Central), Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
    Canceled, will be rescheduled.
  • CDHI Speaker Series talk: Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Visiting Speaker Series, Prof. Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), “New Directions in Manuscript Studies: The Digital and Manual Future.” Online via Zoom, 1p Pacific (4p Eastern), November 9, 2022.
  • Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: “Translating Science,” hybrid symposium from the University of Pennsylvania. Zoom, November 10-12, 2022.
  • “Victor Hammer, The Man from Uncial”: BSA and University of Kentucky Libraries’ King Library Press sponsored lecture from type designer and independent scholar Richard Kegler. Hybrid event 4p Pacific (7p Eastern), November 11, 2022.
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Marcy Norton (Penn), “Indigenous Epistemology and Early Modern Science: The Creation of ‘De historia animalium Novae Hispaniae’ (1571-1577),” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program and Department of History. Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), November 14, 2022.
  • BSA/Grolier Club book talk: Dr. Denise Gigante (Stanford University) speaking about her new book Book Madness. Hybrid event, 3p Pacific (6p Eastern), November 14, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex: “Persian Herbal” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Center for Book Arts online workshop: “Colors by Nature” with Iviva Olenick. Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 3p Pacific (6-8 Eastern). Registration deadline: November 9, 2022.
  • 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.
    • Exhibit Tour and Book Club Discussion: Exhibit co-curator Kat Lewis will lead tour of the exhibit and discussion of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. Allen Library North, Basement, Special Collections Classroom, 5-6:30p, November 16, 2022.
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Margaret McAleer (Library of Congress), “Paper + Digital: No Longer Format Agnostic,” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program. Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), November 21, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex: “Italian Herbal” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Julie Davis (Penn), “Learning with the Tress Collection,” “Partnership in the Studio: Reconsidering Ōi and Hokusai,” hybrid event from University of Pennsylvania Material Texts program. Zoom, 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), November 28, 2022.
  • Coffee with a Codex: “Gradual” online show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Zoom, Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).

Calls for Proposals

  • “Item Not Found” Virtual Conference: CFP for “Item not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Institutions. Organized by UCLA Clark Library & Oakland University Libraries, March 8-9, 2023. Abstract deadline: Friday, November 4, 2022.
  • RBMS 2023 Conference: CFP for the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (of the American Library Association) annual meeting. Submission portal to open in November, deadline: January 20, 2023.
  • BSC Annual Conference: CFP for the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 29-30, 2023. Theme: “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.
  • International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: CFP for special issue, “Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis.” Deadline: January 31, 2023.

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Upcoming Event in Geospatial Humanities

Maps of the United Kingdom

Join the Textual Studies Program at two events related to geospatial humanities here on the Seattle campus:

Maps as Text and Text as Maps
2:30-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 2, 2022
University of Washington (Seattle campus), Communications Building CMU 202

Talk by Katie McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) followed by a tutorial with Ludovic Moncla (National Institute of Applied Sciences & LIRIS Laboratory).

Talk: Maps as Humanities Data
Katie McDonough, The Alan Turing Institute, London UK

We’ve had several years to consider what it means to have computational access to 1 million books. But what about maps? With so many images being scanned around the world, researchers can imagine using very large collections of digitized maps as primary sources. How can computational methods and the data they create transform the ways we search for and interpret information from the past? What does it mean to turn images into structured text data? In this talk, I explore how creating humanistic data from maps allows us to pursue creative spatial analysis.

Image showing map and geospatial data from historic French texts

Katie McDonough is a Senior Research Associate on the Living with Machines project at The Alan Turing Institute in London, UK, and, from January 2023, a Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of History at the University of Lancaster. She completed her PhD in History at Stanford University and has held teaching and research positions in the US, Australia, and UK. Katie is a specialist of eighteenth-century France and works broadly on computational spatial approaches to early modern and modern history, including the GEODE project. Most recently, she has been PI of Machines Reading Maps, a transatlantic, interdisciplinary project developing methods to make text on maps useful data for humanities research.

Tutorial: Creating Geospatial Data from Historical Texts in French
Ludovic Moncla, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) & LIRIS Laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS), Lyon, France

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to use a custom version of the Perdido geoparser python library. Using texts in French from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie as a case study for querying a corpus and wrangling geoparsed data, you will be able to compare Perdido’s Named Entity Recognition (NER) output to the results of other well-known NER libraries. In addition to the core elements below, we’ll discuss why text and spatial analysis can be difficult, but ultimately very rewarding with historical, non-English languages.

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to:

  • Load data from TEI-XML files into a Python dataframe;
  • Use a dataframe for simple data analysis;
  • Test the Perdido Python library for geoparsing (geotagging + geocoding);
  • Display geotagging results;
  • And explore geocoding results on a map.
Page from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie

Ludovic Moncla is an Associate Professor at INSA Lyon since 2018 and is a member of the Data Mining & Machine Learning team at LIRIS Laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS). He obtained a PhD in Computer Science in 2015 from University of Pau (France) and University of Zaragoza (Spain). His research interests include pluri-disciplinary aspects of Natural Language Processing, information retrieval, data mining, digital humanities and geographical information science. He is currently scientific manager on the interdisciplinary GEODE project (funded by LabEx CNRS ALSAN, 2020-2024) on the development of methods for diachronic study of geographical discourse within French encyclopedias.

Both speakers will be in Seattle for the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems and the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities.

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October Opportunities

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This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Latest revision Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

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

Events

  • 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.
  • Grolier Club Aubrey Beardsley online exhibit: The Grolier Club’s current exhibit “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young” includes an online component.
  • RBMS 2023 Collaboration Sessions: Opportunity to discuss potential panel ideas and connect with other attendees interested in submitting proposals for the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Conference in 2023. October 19, 2022, 11a Pacific (1p Central); October 26, 2022, 1p Pacific (3p Central).
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Event series from the University of Pennsylvania’s Material Texts program, available in hybrid format. Elly Truitt (Penn), “Why Are Clocks?” Monday, October 24, 2022 at 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern).
  • Coffee with a Codex: “Human Anatomy” show and tell event from University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies with Curator Dot Porter. Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 9a Pacific (12p Eastern).
  • Digital Humanities Online Workshop: “Concepts of Digital Humanities” with Christopher Ohge and Caio Mello at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 7:30a Pacific (3:30-5p London time), October 27, 2022.
  • Center for Book Arts online workshop: Online course, “Handcarved Blockprints on Fabric and Paper: More Ideas and Techniques” with Elaine G. Chu on Saturday, October 29, 2022, 12p Pacific (3-5p Eastern). Registration deadline: October 22, 2022.
  • Workshop in the History of Material Texts: Jamal Elias (Penn), “Writing Commentaries on Non-Existent Texts: The Mystery of Ismail Ankaravi’s Commentary on the 7th Volume of Rumi’s Masnavi,” 2:15p Pacific (5:15p Eastern), October 31, 2022.
  • Center for Book Arts online workshop: “Book Ornamentation: Theory and Practice” with Mirko Velimirovic. Fridays, November 4-18, 2022, 3-5p Eastern. Registration deadline: October 27, 2022.

Calls for Proposals

  • ASECS Annual Meeting Roundtable CFP: Benjamin Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University) is seeking panel participants for a roundtable on “Technologies of Bibliography and Book History” for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. Deadline: Monday, October 24, 2022.

Funding & Awards

  • APHA Awards 2022: Call for nominations for the American Printing History Association Individual Laureate and Institutional Awards. Deadline: Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
  • BSA Event Funding: Application open for event funding from the Bibliographic Society of America for events happening December 2022-June 2023. Deadline: Friday, November 4, 2022.
  • Rare Book School Scholarships: Multiple scholarships for attending Rare Book School; single application process. Deadline: Tuesday, November 1, 2022.
  • SHARP Book History Book Prize: Call for nominations of books in or related to the field of book history, in English and copyrighted in 2022 for award from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). Deadline: Friday, January 13, 2023.
  • RBS-Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography: Rare Book School fellowship program, 2023-2025 Junior Fellows Program cohort applications are open. Deadline: Friday, November 18, 2022.
  • Antiquarian Book Seminars Diverse Voices Fellowship: Fellowship for individuals interested in learning about selling use and rare books and who have found themselves isolated in or distanced from the bookselling trade by reason of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, and/or income. Deadline: November 6, 2022.

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Dawg Daze with the Textual Studies Program

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We are pleased to announce that the Textual Studies Program will be hosting an event with the UW Libraries Special Collections to promote the new minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities for Dawg Daze, new students’ week-long introduction to all things University of Washington!

Old Books, New Technologies: UW Special Collections and the new minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
10-11:30 am Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Allen Library South, Basement
Maps/Special Collections Classroom (B069)

Are you interested in the history and future of books, texts, reading and information, from the scrolls of antiquity to medieval manuscripts and handprinted books to today’s e-books and massive book databases like Google Books? Are you thinking about a career in libraries, archives, publishing and editing, and in fields devoted to preserving and making accessible cultural materials? Come discover UW Libraries Special Collections and its extraordinary resources: medieval manuscripts; 15th-century books; an iron handpress, to name only a few items. And learn about the new minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. Meet faculty, students and librarians who will talk about their experiences in the TS & DH minor. Courses in the minor emphasize hands-on, project-oriented work with historical materials, archival sources and artists’ books; and with techniques, skills, and tools for developing and publishing digital editions and exhibits, and for building, analyzing, and understanding text-oriented databases.

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Call for Submissions: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

The 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Seattle, WA in November 2022.

The workshop is concerned with the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies in humanities research and seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from computer science, geographical information sciences, and the humanities. Suggested topics include:

  • Gazetteer development (e.g., models, data conflation, semantic technologies, etc.)
  • Ontologies and linked data for modeling geohistorical data
  • Historical and literary geographical information systems
  • Spatio-temporal network analysis in the humanities
  • Text geo-parsing and other NLP techniques for geographical text analysis
  • Deep learning techniques for the spatial humanities
  • Novel approaches for the analysis of vague and imaginary place
  • Spatial simulation in the humanities (e.g., cellular automata and agent-based models)
  • Spatial and spatio-temporal analysis of humanities data
  • Visualization and cartographic representations
  • Handling vague and imprecise historical spatio-temporal data
  • Creating new spatial datasets from historical materials (maps, aerial photography, postal or other directories, newspapers, etc.) using state-of-the art methods
  • Novel approaches for the analysis of humanistic spatial data at scale
  • Applications of the aforementioned techniques

Submissions are due September 2, 2022. For more information on the workshop, paper formats, and how to submit, see the Call for Papers.

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Recent Publications by Textual Studies Students & Alumni

Books in UW Suzzallo Library
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We recently checked in with our Textual Studies graduate certificate alumni and are pleased to share news of several publications over the past year.

Cover of Frankenstein

Following her work co-organizing the bicentenary of Frankenstein at UW in 2018, Sarah Faulkner (English PhD, 2020) was approached by Flame Tree Publishing (London) in 2020 to write an introduction to their Collector’s Edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. In her introduction, Faulkner highlights the historical and literary context for the novel as well as its multimedia afterlife. She concludes with a new reading of the monster as a touchstone for conversations about sexual violence, the climate crisis, and other current issues. You can find the edition at most bookstores, including the Lake Forest Park Third Place Books.

Cover of George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies

Three Textual Studies students contributed to the most recent volume of George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (vol. 73, no. 2), published in late 2021, a special issue containing the proceedings from the Middlemarch 150th Anniversary Symposium at the University of Washington.

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos and Francesca Colonnese (English PhD candidates) wrote “Coreading Middlemarch in Pandemic Times: Using Digital Humanities to Build Community at a Distance.” This article, written in the context of remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, defines the practice of ‘coreading,’ a collective form of reading that uses Manifold digital annotation tools. In doing so, they explore decentering traditional forms of knowledge production in favor of crowd-sourcing to build connection and community from a distance.

Matthew Poland (English PhD, 2022) contributed the article “Middlemarch in Melbourne,” which examined the underexplored serialization of George Eliot’s Middlemarch in Melbourne’s Australasian newspaper using a global media history approach anchored by a southern-hemispherical perspective. This approach permits the canonical British novel to be recontextualized within the flows of transnational circulation, and decenters Eurocentric forms of thinking about imperial literary culture and realist aesthetics.

Cover of Journal of Victorian Culture

Matthew Poland also wrote “Commemorative Print: Serialized Monuments during the Shakespeare Tercentenary Debates,” published in the Journal of Victorian Culture. The article concerns Victorian debates about how best to commemorate the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth in 1864, comparing the success of Staunton’s serialized facsimile of the First Folio and the National Shakespeare Committee’s failed proposal for a Shakespeare statue. Both the statue’s controversy and its potential resolution in Staunton’s Folio are revealed in essays published in the Reader, a short-lived literary weekly. Staunton’s facsimile came to be regarded by the Reader and commentators in other periodicals as the most apposite of tercentenary monuments.

Are you a program alum and have news to share with us? We would love to highlight your accomplishments! Email us at text@uw.edu.