Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 221.
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[1] From: Jessica Witte <jessica.witte@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Centre for Data, Culture & Society Annual Lecture: 10 Dec (65)
[2] From: Simone Rebora <simone.rebora81@gmail.com>
Subject: First ICLA Annual Lecture - reminder (25)
[3] From: Eliza Papaki <elizapapaki@gmail.com>
Subject: CfP for DARIAH Annual Event 2026 (40)
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Date: 2025-11-18 17:52:07+00:00
From: Jessica Witte <jessica.witte@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Centre for Data, Culture & Society Annual Lecture: 10 Dec
Dear colleagues,
Please join us on 10 December for the Centre for Data, Culture & Society Annual
Lecture which will be given by Dorothy Berry, Digital Curator at the Smithsonian
National Museum of African American History and Culture.
When: 10 December, 16.00-18.30 GMT
Where: Room 2.55, 1 Lauriston Place, The University of Edinburgh and online
Title: How Users Imagine Archival Research: JPCA Explore and Digital Curation at
the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum
Abstract: In 2021, the National Museum of African American History and Culture
created a first-of-its-kind position at the Smithsonian Institution: a senior
level curator with the wide-ranging portfolio of “digital interpretation.”
Filling this position has called for creative education, especially when working
with curatorial colleagues with a range of experiences and interests in digital
humanities. In the past year, we’ve had a unique opportunity to introduce the
possibilities of digital discoveries internally through the JPCA Explore
project.
The Johnson Publishing Company Archive (JPCA) is the largest collection of 20th
century African American publishing materials, including a core collection of
over 3 million photographs. The JPCA was purchased in 2019 by a consortium of
funders - the Ford Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Smithsonian
Institution. Since 2022, it has been formally co-stewarded by the Smithsonian
National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty.
JPCA Explore is an experimental discovery lens in the larger in-development JPCA
digital eco-system. Based on a hand-selected subset of 3,000 images, Explore
uses a bespoke metadata schema to invite users with zero research experience to
create their own discovery paths by selecting inter-connected images. Explore
was designed with an eye towards how the general public imagines archival
discovery-moving from file to file, noticing connections, discovering the
unknown. It has also served as an internal education tool, demonstrating the
possibilities of digital humanities work as well as the intensive resources that
are required to make those possibilities real.
This talk will focus on the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects
wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects that still represent
the magnitude of larger collections. By creating an interface with a focus on
archival discovery, and at the same time completely ignoring archival
hierarchical structures, this project seeks to implement Black Digital
Humanities concepts to create new avenues into this archive.
Please note that this will be a hybrid event. For those attending in person,
there will be festive refreshments and a chance to network after the event. To
book a place, please follow the EventBrite link
here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-users-imagine-archival-research-
tickets-1905100891049?aff=oddtdtcreator>. We hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Jessica
Dr Jessica Witte
Centre for Data, Culture & Society
Edinburgh Futures Institute | The University of Edinburgh
1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
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Date: 2025-11-18 08:30:21+00:00
From: Simone Rebora <simone.rebora81@gmail.com>
Subject: First ICLA Annual Lecture - reminder
Dear all,
Just a kind reminder that the first Annual Lecture of the International
Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), exceptionally focused on
computational literary studies, will take place this Thursday at 13:00 UTC.
All info below.
All the best,
Simone
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The AILC-ICLA Annual Lecture 2025
20 November 2025 (13:00-14:30 UTC)
Chairs: Yina Cao (Sichuan University) and Fotis Jannidis (University of
Würzburg)
Respondent: Massimo Salgaro (University of Verona)
Marko Juvan (University of Ljubljana), Introductory remarks
Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute KNAW and University of
Amsterdam), Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders
Info: https://www.ailc-icla.org/events/the-ailc-icla-annual-lecture-2025/
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-ailc-icla-annual-
lecture-2025-tickets-1837895437729?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Date: 2025-11-18 09:49:32+00:00
From: Eliza Papaki <elizapapaki@gmail.com>
Subject: CfP for DARIAH Annual Event 2026
Dear colleagues,
We invite submissions to the DARIAH Annual Event. The topic for 2026 is Digital
Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of
Engagement. The event is planned to take place on May 26-29, 2026 in Rome,
Italy.
The theme of DARIAH’s 2026 Annual Event seeks to explore digitally-enabled
research through a public and participatory lens, focusing on who our
research is for, what are its social and public benefits, and how research
can serve to create new dialogues within the public sphere. We seek to
foster exchanges on how digital infrastructures, networks and collaborative
methods can enable and sustain forms of scholarship that are open, flexible
and socially responsive. A way to frame this is through the concept of
hybridity: an intermingling of ‘disciplines, technological and cultural
practices’ which embed within them the goal of connectivity. This may be
connectivity of the university or memory institutions with society through
collaborative and joint engagements, or it might be providing alternative
spaces for/where people can connect and interact through a hybrid network
of physical and technology-mediated encounters to co-construct knowledge.’
Open Call for Papers
Whether through scholarly reflections, concrete case studies, theoretical
contributions, or policy considerations, this year we seek to explore how
digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged
research, and nurture generosity, participation and shared creativity in
the digital arts and humanities.
We welcome contributions in the form of (1) papers, (2) panels and (3)
posters and demos. The deadline for submissions is December 22nd.
Find all information on the event at https://annualevent.dariah.eu/
More information on the Call for Papers at
https://annualevent.dariah.eu/call-for-papers/
With all best wishes,
Eliza Papaki
Outreach and Communications Officer for DARIAH-EU
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