Margaret Konkol

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Post-Doc in Digital Storytelling at McMaster University

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, located in Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, invites qualified candidates to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Application Deadline: April 30, 2019 Position Start Date: August 1, 2019 Position End Date: July 31, 2021 Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Zeffiro Remuneration: $50,000/year This position is included within the Canadian …

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Videogames, Glitches, and the Narrative of Malfunction

Greetings all, Join us on Tuesday March 26 at 12:30 pm at MITH for Andrew Ferguson’s talk in our Spring 2019 Digital Dialogue series. Andrew Ferguson Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland Videogames, Glitches, and the Narrative of Malfunction Tuesday March 26 2019 at 12:30 pm MITH Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library North or via livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZEQG0HnqGI …

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Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships

Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships   Named for the founder of our journal, Richard “Dale” Mullen (1915-1998), the Mullen fellowships are awarded by Science Fiction Studies to support archival research in science fiction.  We have three categories of awards:  1.    Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Amount: Up to $3000 Number: 2 awards each year Qualifications: Candidates must have received …

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Participate in a NEH Summer Seminar Deadline: March 1, 2019

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Participate in a NEH Summer Seminar & Institute Program Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities by supporting professional development programs, specifically designed for a national audience of college and university …

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Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) ninth annual conference

Dear Think Factory Workers, If you are already headed to the Pacific Rim this summer (I wish I were!), then this Global DH conference in Japan would be pretty sweet. I send this on to you mostly so that you can see that the conversation we’ll have next Wednesday about global DH is part of a lively and current global process. …

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Critical Analysis as Modeling and Prototyping

Through exploration, debate, enthusiasm, skepticism, engagement, and, importantly––making and doing things­­–– this iteration of 730/830 “Digital Humanities” engages the theory and practice of modeling and prototyping. Our focus will be on recently published work that reflects the ways in which literary critics and practitioners of DH address the entanglement of technology with society & culture, ways …

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