[Digital_humanities] News and Information from the UCLA Digital Humanities Program

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What's New with DH?
2021 Digital Humanities Newsletter
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You can also connect with the Digital Humanities program on Twitter<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=55bb47e751&e=9fe8fa18ad>,
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Special Announcements:

Student Winner

Congratulations to Michelle Lee, DH Minor, for winning the Dean's Prize for her research presentation during Undergraduate Research Week!


UCLA DH Project Showcase
June 7 @ 12:30pm

You are cordially invited to join UCLA's Digital Humanities Year-End Celebration and Project Showcase on Monday, June 7th @ 12:30pm PST via Zoom. Each undergraduate research team will present a 3-minute lightning talk about their project. This event is open to the wider DH community. Please join us to see what our amazing students have been up to this spring! Register for the showcase here<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=b5a483b35d&e=9fe8fa18ad>. If you have any questions, please contact Anthony Caldwell<mailto:acaldwell at humnet.ucla.edu>.
UCLA NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

UCLA Learning Management System Transition
Student Job Opportunities
The LMS Transformation Team is looking for undergraduate and graduate student employees to work with the Program Team on the campus transition to Canvas. Attached are the job descriptions and below are links to Handshake for students to apply. Please share these opportunities widely.

Course Migration / QA Testers will help evaluate and test course sites and Graduate Teaching & Learning Assistants will assist in the development of courses and support faculty and students in the use of the new platform

Title: Course Migration QA/ Testers <https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=21c9dc5715&e=9fe8fa18ad> (UCLA IT Services)
Posting# 4859468

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Posting# 4871072


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Summer Graduate Student Internships with LA County Parks & Recreation <https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=8cec5a5bc5&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: June 4, 2021

The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will be partnering with LA County Parks and Recreation in the summer of 2021 to research and design public narratives about LA County's Parks as essential social and natural infrastructure for a diverse urban audience.

LENS is seeking to recruit two graduate students who will work with LENS faculty and LA County Parks and Recreation staff to create texts and images about Los Angeles parks. An interest in environmental communication and storytelling is the main prerequisite for these internships. Some background or experience in environmental writing, filmmaking, photography, or website creation is desirable. One of the internships will be filled with a graduate student who is fluent in Spanish. Each of the interns will be paid a $6,000 stipend. Interns will gain valuable professional experience linking their academic research to hands-on applications in the context of regional governance and creating connections to LA's diverse communities. To apply, please send your CV and a one-page profile of your interests and background/experience to uheise at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:uheise at humnet.ucla.edu> by Friday, 28 May 2021. Internship holders will be notified by 4 June 2021.


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Bruin Entrepreneurs - BruinLabs<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=06e6a47124&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: June 13th, 11:59PM PST

Bruin Entrepreneurs is excited to announce that BruinLabs 2021 Applications are now open! BruinLabs is an 8-week product and business plan development summer program wherein participants will design their own project with their teams, while also engaging in a series of specialized workshops and panels on product development. Each group will consist of 3-5 college students supported by a Project Manager who will help the participants and act as the team’s guide throughout the 8-week entrepreneurial process. We are looking for participants with a keen interest in entrepreneurship from all majors, years, and schools. Our program begins on June 21st and ends on August 14th with a Demo Day.
Application: tinyurl.com/bruinlabsapplication<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=05279fe2a8&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Please email us at uclabruinlabs at gmail.com<mailto:uclabruinlabs at gmail.com> or reach out on Instagram/Facebook (@bruinlabs) with any questions. More information can be found on our website bruinlabs.com<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=bbe1eb3809&e=9fe8fa18ad>. We look forward to reading your applications!


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Paid DH Summer Research Internships<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=b48239a18f&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: June 14, 2021

Professor Todd Presner (Chair, DH program) is looking to hire 3-4 paid DH research interns for the summer (and possibly beyond). Starting pay: $17/hour (anywhere from 10-20 hours/week, possibly more). The work is primarily on a series of interrelated projects using computational tools to study the Holocaust and other genocides, mostly using first-person, spoken testimonies.

Any of the following skills and/or interests are needed: 1. Data visualization: Experience working with tools like tableau as well as javascript code libraries like d3; front-end web development for dynamically interacting with large databases and developing scalable, customizable visualizations; experience with python, javascript, R, CSS, HTML5; 2. Machine Leaning: using supervised and unsupervised ML methods to analyze large datasets; 3. Experimental interface design: experience developing wireframes, website design, CSS, HTML5, app development; advanced knowledge of design tools like Adobe Illustrator for graphic design; 4. Sound analysis/voice analysis: Use of digital tools for analyzing sound/voice/speech;
5. Natural language processing/computational linguistics – experience with text analysis (in this case, spoken narratives). To apply, please include a current CV/resume (with relevant project experience) AND a portfolio of projects that you’ve worked on. Starting date: June 14 (or so) – all work will be remote and require participation in regular team meetings via zoom. Send to: presner at ucla.edu<mailto:presner at ucla.edu>


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Deadline: June 21, 2021

The Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) is directed through the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education and administered by the Undergraduate Research Center–Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The URSP scholarship is awarded to juniors and seniors who have a strong commitment to research and who are completing a comprehensive independent research or creative project, capstone project, or a departmental honors thesis under the mentorship of a UCLA faculty member. URSP recipients receive a $4,500 scholarship (juniors) or $6,000 scholarship (seniors), conduct a research or creative project for 3 quarters (fall, winter, and spring) and enroll in an upper-division research contract course for at least 2 of the 3 quarters, complete and submit a departmental honors thesis, capstone project, or comprehensive independent research or creative project, and present their project at Undergraduate Research Week<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=7ba050cdfc&e=9fe8fa18ad>.
GENERAL DH NEWS & EVENTS
Full-Time Jobs For Grads


Visiting Assistant Professor in Film Studies, area of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights | The University of Texas at Dallas, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=a8b0113e6c&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: June 4, 2021

The School of Arts and Humanities is seeking to recruit a Visiting Assistant Professor in Film Studies to start in the Fall 2021 semester. Specialization areas can include Holocaust cinema, human rights film, and/or documentary film. This position will focus more widely on trauma and violence portrayed in film and uses of film to both propagate and record violations of human rights. In addition to meeting the needs in the area of Holocaust, genocide and Human Rights studies this position will serve demands in our Visual and Performing Arts undergraduate and graduate programs. The Visiting Assistant Professor will be part of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.
Calls for Proposals

CFP: JADH2021: “Digital Humanities and COVID-19” | Japanese Association for Digital Humanities<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=163536d086&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: June 7, 2021

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) is pleased to announce its 11th annual conference, to be hosted virtually by the Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo on September 6-8, 2021, around 9am to 6pm in Japanese Standard Time. We invite proposals on all aspects of Digital Humanities, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with practices that cross borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages, cultures, organizations, and so on, as related to the field of Digital Humanities. During the pandemic, researchers have also been affected in various aspects. However, the digital environment has been instrumental in alleviating some of the hardships. Overall the contribution to DH has been positive, since much of the digital research environment was in place before the pandemic. Moreover, DH-related research may help to improve this difficult situation. Therefore, we welcome presentations related to the theme of Digital Humanities and COVID-19. Although this is one suggested focus, we nonetheless welcome papers on a broad range of DH topics, detailed on our website. Abstracts submitted should be of 500-1000 words in length in English, including the title.
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Events

UCLA DH Project Showcase<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=c8e2f419dd&e=9fe8fa18ad>
June 7 @ 12:30pm

You are cordially invited to join UCLA's Digital Humanities Year-End Celebration and Project Showcase on Monday, June 7th @ 12:30pm PST via Zoom. Each undergraduate research team will present a 3-minute lightning talk about their project. This event is open to the wider DH community. Please join us to see what our amazing students have been up to this spring! Register for the showcase here<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=c78776e998&e=9fe8fa18ad>. If you have any questions, please contact Anthony Caldwell<mailto:acaldwell at humnet.ucla.edu>.


DHSI 2021 — Online Edition – Digital Humanities Summer Institute<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=198fae563c&e=9fe8fa18ad>
June 7-11, 14-18, 2021

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital scholarship training institute that takes place at the University of Victoria. Around 800-900 participants attend DHSI, and its extended pedagogical partnership includes some 30 institutions and academic organizations plus an expanding international training network. DHSI is a community-based environment for discussing and learning about new technologies and how they influence teaching, research, creation, and preservation in different disciplines. To register for DHSI 2021—Online Edition, please complete the form available at the following link: events.eply.com/dhsi-2021-online-edition-registration<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=2aed4ef006&e=9fe8fa18ad>. Note that some offerings have a registration deadline of 1 April 2021, others 7 June 2021. Please see the registration form for more details.


Iron Viz Competition | Tableau<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=117cb39afa&e=9fe8fa18ad>
July 2, 2021

Iron Viz—the world’s largest virtual data visualization competition—ignites and showcases the power of the Tableau Community, giving you the opportunity to interact with data rockstars worldwide. Three finalists will advance to the 2021 Iron Viz Championship this November. Win or learn—you can’t lose https://ift.tt/3w5J0MR<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=219d0c4a49&e=9fe8fa18ad> or 2021 -- your mission is clear. Viz what you love. Movies? Sports? Music? Anything is open and on the table. We want you to focus on vizzing the topics that bring you joy. Similar to 2020 - we will have ONE global qualifier contest with a deadline of July 2nd to submit your visualizations.


Workshop: Employing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Institutions<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=7e3c00ae5b&e=9fe8fa18ad>
July 7, 2021 @ 12:00-5:30 GMT

New digital humanities project, AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations). The project is funded by the New Directions for Digital Scholarship grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). AEOLIAN is designed to investigate the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play to make born-digital and digitised cultural records more accessible to users. The project will make a ground-breaking contribution to this field through carefully-structured online workshops, innovative research outputs, and the creation of an international network of theorists and practitioners working with born-digital and digitised archives. Please visit https://www.aeolian-network.net<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=fd084ec028&e=9fe8fa18ad> for more information. Keynote Speaker: Thomas Padilla, Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy at the Center for Research Libraries


Conference: Digital Pedagogy Institute 2021<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=29d65232a3&e=9fe8fa18ad>
August 10-11, 2021

In light of ongoing concerns related to COVID-19, the 2021 Digital Pedagogy Institute will be hosted virtually by the University of Toronto Scarborough Library (UTSC), in collaboration with our partners (Brock University, Ryerson University Library and Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the University of Waterloo, and UTSC’s Centre for Teaching and Learning). The two-day virtual conference will take place on Tuesday August 10th and Wednesday August 11th, 2021. The conference will feature keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. While broadly focused on Digital Pedagogy, the conference themes include: digital pedagogy best practices in STEM, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences; digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students; digital pedagogy collaborations with organizations outside the academy; the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education; digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations; innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.

Other Opportunities


Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | The National Endowment for the Humanities<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=f675a70952&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: July 15, 2021

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting grant proposals for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources. Grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as rare books, manuscript and archival materials, born-digital records, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. Eligible activities are wide-ranging.

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Resources


Data Feminism by Lauren Klein and <https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=952c67bb95&e=9fe8fa18ad> Catherine D'Ignazio<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=b193baba27&e=9fe8fa18ad> | Open Access, Available Online<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=a4a864bce2&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Delighted to announce the open access edition of Data Feminism, by Lauren Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio. They give thanks to Catherine Ahearn and all of the folks at PubPub and MIT Press for their help in getting the book online.

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The Collective Wisdom Handbook: perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage | Digital Scholarship at the British Library<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=788a3f85f3&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Welcome to the early access and community review site for The Collective Wisdom Handbook: perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, written through the Collective Wisdom project and shared here to provide access to our first version as we consider options for formal publication. We have published this first version of our collaborative text to provide early access to our work, and to invite comment and discussion from anyone interested in crowdsourcing, citizen science, citizen history, digital / online volunteer projects, programmes, tools or platforms with cultural heritage collections. This book was written in two week-long book sprints by 16 collaborators from the US and the UK, brought together with funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. We are aware that geographic, language and other factors limited those able to attend and thereby limited the range of examples, case studies and literature from practitioners and theorists we were able to draw upon, and wrote a period of open review into our initial proposal.

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TOOL: Observable Plot / Observable / Observable<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=53d62af3e9&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Observable Plot is a free, open-source JavaScript library to help you quickly visualize tabular data. It has a concise and (hopefully) memorable API to foster fluency — and plenty of examples to learn from and copy-paste.

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Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data | FlowingData<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=8cb0965d17&e=9fe8fa18ad>

A lot of the time (most of the time?), the data you work with is not complete. There is missing data. Available values can be sparse across time and space the farther out you stretch. What do you do when this happens? The easy way out is to ignore the gaps completely and just work with what you have. But maybe you’ll find something interesting if you look into the void. Sometimes the missing data can lead you to something more complete.

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Archive of Healing | Building Together The Largest Digital Archive About Healing Methods<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=2e26dfba64&e=9fe8fa18ad>

A project more than forty years in the making, The Archive of Healing™ is one of the largest databases of medicinal folklore from around the world. On March 21, 2021, UCLA professor Dr. David Shorter launched an interactive, searchable website featuring hundreds of thousands of entries that span over 200 years, and draws from seven continents, six university archives, 3,200 published sources, and both first and second-hand information from folkloric field notes. The entries address a broad range of health-related topics including everything from midwifery and menopause to common colds and flus. The site aims to preserve indigenous knowledge about healing practices, while preventing that data from being exploited for profit. The site, The Archive of Healing™, will be able to accept new data submissions, enable users to connect with each other, and eventually will  provide local recommendations for service providers. In order to protect communities from a resource-extraction model of knowledge sharing, not all the data that was originally collected can be seen. Licensing and accessibility rights remain in the hands of the archive’s director. The archive has already been a useful pedagogical tool, helping students learn how various cultures understand the body, wellness, and community health. To learn more, visit the archive at www.archiveofhealing.com<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=0a728f58c3&e=9fe8fa18ad>.
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