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March Opportunities

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published February 28, 2023, latest revision March 8, 2023.

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

Events

  • Coffee with a Codex
    Theme, “Commentary on Aristotle,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), March 2, 2023.
  • “Book History in Bits”
    Christopher Ohge, “Book History in Bits: Digital Textual Scholarship, Hypertext, and Creative-Critical Possibilities,” Oxford Bibliographical Society. Hybrid (Zoom), 9:15a Pacific (5:15p GMT), March 2, 2023.
  • Digital History and Theory: An Open Conversation on the Future of Digital Scholarship
    Hybrid – Brown University and online. March 3-4, 2023.
  • Documenting Social Movement: Bibliography, Archives, and Protest
    Cosponsored by Bibliographical Societies (UK, America, Canada), panel discussion. Online (Zoom). 10a Pacific, March 6, 2023.
  • “Item Not Found” Conference
    “Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations,” UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Virtual, 9a-1p Pacific, March 8-9, 2023.
  • Coffee with a Codex
    Theme, “Glossed Psalter,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), March 9, 2023.
  • SIMS Online Lecture Series
    Meagan Allen (Science History Institute), “Paleographical Approaches to Determining the Authenticity of Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts.” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12-1:30p Eastern), Friday, March 10, 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.
  • Coffee with a Codex
    Theme, “Medical Encyclopedia,” Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Online (Zoom), 9a Pacific (12p Eastern), March 16, 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.
  • New Directions in Indigenous Book History
    Virtual symposium sponsored by the Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Bibliographical Society of America. March 23-24, 2023.
  • CIFNAL Speaker Series
    Aurélie Gadrat (Amalivre), “Collecting Francophone comic books : illustrated reasons to collect Bande dessinées.” Virtual (Zoom), 9a Pacific, March 24, 2023.
  • Virtual Symposium: Pattern & Flow
    Grolier Club virtual symposium, “Pattern & Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper.” Online, 6a-2:30p Pacific (9a-5:30p Eastern), March 24, 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

  • 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).

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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.

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January Opportunities

This post will be expanded as new opportunities are found. First published December 28, 2022. Latest revision January 25, 2023.

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

Events

Calls for Proposals

  • DHNB Conference Workshop
    “Cross-university collaboration in Digital Humanities & Social Science (DHSS) and Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage (DHCH) Education,” workshop as part of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Annual Conference, online (Zoom), March 7, 2023. Deadline: January 15, 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 January 31, 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.
  • 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 extended to January 31, 2023.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).

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