Tag: Awards

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.

Funding & Awards

• 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.
• NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants: Support for innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects. Optional draft due: November 14, 2022. Hard deadline: January 12, 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 extended to Monday, November 28, 2022.
• RBS M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources: Two-year fellowship for educators (faculty and librarians). Deadline: Thursday, December 1, 2022 extended to December 11, 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.

Jobs

• Assistant Professor in Critical Feminist Data Studies: In the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) at the University of Washington. Review begins October 1, 2022; still considering applications through November 2022.
• Assistant Rare Books Curator: Durham University (United Kingdom). Deadline: November 6, 2022.
• Special Collections & Archives Instruction & Reference Librarian: Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut). First review of applications: November 7, 2022.
• Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Humanities: Information Studies, University College London (England). Deadline: November 20, 2022.
• Associate Professor of Digital Humanities: San Jose State University (California), College of Humanities & the Arts, Humanities Department. Deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Tenure Track Faculty in Digital Archives, Preservation, and/or Curation: School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preferred start date August 16, 2023. Priority deadline: December 1, 2022.
• Director of Scholarly Programs & Partnerships: American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.). Deadline: December 15, 2022.
• Curator for African American and African Diasporic Collections: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
• Charles Ogletree Papers Assistant Archivist: Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.).
• Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts: Yale Center for British Art, Yale (New Haven, Connecticut).
• Digital Archivist: Caltech Library, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California).
• Special Collections Cataloger: Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
• 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 Professor, Teaching Track in Data Science: Information School, University of Washington. 9-month appointment, start date September 1, 2023.
• Assistant Professor, Teaching Track in Human-Computer Interaction: Information School, University of Washington. 9-month appointment, start date September 1, 2023.