UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:09:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Promotion and Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=38 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=38#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:04:20 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=38 Dear centerNet,

FYI, using survey responses and interviews, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a brief document for promotion and tenure committees and non-tenured faculty preparing tenure folders entitled “P&T Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities.” It is located at http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php.

We hope that this information is useful to other university-affiliated centers with tenure-track faculty positions, and if you have comments or suggestions for improving the document, please email the chair of the committee, Russell Ganim, Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures, UNL, at rganim1@unl.edu. Special thanks to Geoff Rockwell for his thoughts relating to this subject.

Best,

Katherine L. Walter
Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
319 Love Library
Lincoln NE 68588-4100
voice: (402) 472-3939
kwalter1@unl.edu
http://cdrh.unl.edu

]]> Dear centerNet,

FYI, using survey responses and interviews, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a brief document for promotion and tenure committees and non-tenured faculty preparing tenure folders entitled “P&T Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities.” It is located at http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/promotion_and_tenure.php.

We hope that this information is useful to other university-affiliated centers with tenure-track faculty positions, and if you have comments or suggestions for improving the document, please email the chair of the committee, Russell Ganim, Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures, UNL, at rganim1@unl.edu. Special thanks to Geoff Rockwell for his thoughts relating to this subject.

Best,

Katherine L. Walter
Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
319 Love Library
Lincoln NE 68588-4100
voice: (402) 472-3939
kwalter1@unl.edu
http://cdrh.unl.edu

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]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=36 Call for proposals for Sawyer Seminars http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=33 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=33#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:47:51 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=33 To: College Faculty
From: Tim Stowell, Dean of Humanities
Re: Call for proposals for Sawyer Seminars

Below is an announcement regarding the 2008-2009 competition for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars Program. As part of a select group of universities, UCLA has been invited to submit proposals for two seminars. These nominations must be submitted by the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office in coordination with the College Deans and since only two proposals will be accepted there will be an internal review of all proposals by the College leadership to select the two that will be submitted to Mellon.

To be considered, proposals must be submitted by January 18, 2008 to Jennifer Drake, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the College, at jdrake@support.ucla.edu or 1309 Murphy Hall Box 951413. All proposals must be accompanied by a nomination letter from your department chair or director. Jennifer is coordinating the nomination process and works with the Mellon Foundation on a regular basis so any questions regarding the fellowship or this process can be directed to her.

Application Details:

Grants will not exceed $150,000 for each seminar that is approved.
Budgets should provide for a postdoctoral fellowship to be awarded for the year the seminar meets
Two dissertation fellowships for graduate students should be awarded for the seminar year or the year that follows
The amount for postdoctoral fellowship awards and dissertation fellowship stipends should follow institutional practices
Travel and living expenses for short stays by visiting scholars and the costs of coordinating the seminar, including those incurred for speakers and their travel, may be included
The grants may not be used for the costs of released time for regular faculty participants
Interested faculty should submit a 3-5 page narrative proposal that addresses:

The scholarly importance of the subject to be examined
The central questions to be addressed
The cases to be compared (e.g., nations, regions, social aggregates, time periods) and the rationale for the comparisons that are selected
The thematic “threads” that will run through the seminar
The institution’s resources and suitability for the proposed seminar the procedures to be used in selecting graduate and postdoctoral fellows
The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program was established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars provide an opportunity for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. Named in honor of the Foundation’s long-serving third president, John E. Sawyer, they have brought together faculty members, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the humanities and social sciences. The Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies was awarded funding for the last UCLA Sawyer Seminar Series for Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University. The seminar is being held in 2007-2008 and is a series of conversations on the topic of disputation from philosophical, literary, and social perspectives.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
JOHN E. SAWYER SEMINARS
ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CULTURES

Purpose: The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program was established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars, named in honor of the Foundation’s long-serving third president, John E. Sawyer, have brought together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the humanities and social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. This program aims to engage productive scholars in comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs.

Program Activities: To date, 90 seminars have been funded. Their subjects have ranged widely, as suggested by the following examples:

the public power exerted by oligarchs, tycoons, and magnates
foreign languages and literatures of North America
autobiography and the forging of identities
genocide
“retroactive justice”
transitions from dictatorships to democracies
the transmission of European national identities to other peoples and countries
the role of the military in political and social change
how particular illnesses and disabilities come to be defined as public health issues
the effects of mass media structures on the maintenance of civil society
violence and state power in the Byzantine, Frankish and Islamic empires
the connections between domestic urban problems and global economic developments
millennialism
the circulation of poetry
the effects of scientific and technological innovation on rural culture
world English and global literary culture
contact and cultural transmission in the “axial age” Mediterranean
local labor markets in globalizing economies.
The maximum grant award for each Sawyer Seminar is $150,000 (see budget section below for further details).

Each seminar normally meets for one year (though some have continued for longer periods). Faculty participants have largely come from the humanities and social sciences, although some of the most successful and provocative seminars have also drawn on faculty members from professional schools. Seminar leaders are encouraged also to invite participants from nearby institutions. As the Foundation reviews proposals, preference will be given to those that include concrete plans for engaging participants with diverse affiliations.

Sawyer Seminar awards provide support for one postdoctoral fellow to be recruited through a national competition, and for the dissertation research of two graduate students. It is expected that the graduate students will be active participants in the seminars, and the seminars’ contribution to graduate education in the humanities and social sciences will be carefully considered even though they are not intended to be organized as official credit-bearing courses.

Seminars are not expected to produce a written product.

Selection and Award Process: Institutions will be invited to submit proposals for a specified number of Sawyer Seminars (usually one or two depending on the number of institutions being invited to participate in a given round). It is expected that university administrators and others will communicate the Foundation’s invitation and the particulars of the program broadly to the faculty. Institutions will decide through an internal process which proposals they will submit to the Foundation for consideration.

Proposals should describe: (1) the scholarly importance of the subject to be examined; (2) the central questions to be addressed; (3) the cases to be compared (e.g., nations, regions, social aggregates, time periods) and the rationale for the comparisons that are selected; (4) the thematic “threads” that will run through the seminar; (5) the institution’s resources and suitability for the proposed seminar; and (6) the procedures to be used in selecting graduate and postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, proposals should include a budget and a well developed preliminary plan for the seminar that outlines the specific topics to be addressed in each session and provides the names and qualifications of the scholars who would ideally participate.

After they are submitted to the Foundation, proposals will be reviewed by an advisory committee of distinguished scholars. In recent competitions, approximately one-third of proposals have been recommended for funding with only minor revisions requested. (In a very small number of cases the committee has recommended that a substantially revised proposal be resubmitted for later consideration, but with no guarantee that it will ultimately be approved.) The committee’s recommendations are then put before the Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees for its approval.

Following approval by the Foundation’s Trustees, funds will be disbursed to the host institution. Past experience suggests that it can take a year or more to organize the seminars.

Budget: Funding requests should not exceed $150,000 for each seminar. It is expected that each seminar’s budget will provide for a postdoctoral fellowship to be awarded for the year the seminar meets, and two dissertation fellowships for graduate students to be awarded for the seminar year or the year that follows. The amount for postdoctoral fellowship awards and dissertation fellowship stipends should follow institutional practices. Travel and living expenses for short stays by visiting scholars and the costs of coordinating the seminar, including those incurred for speakers and their travel, may be included. The grants may not, however, be used for the costs of released time for regular faculty participants, or for indirect costs.

]]> To: College Faculty
From: Tim Stowell, Dean of Humanities
Re: Call for proposals for Sawyer Seminars

Below is an announcement regarding the 2008-2009 competition for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars Program. As part of a select group of universities, UCLA has been invited to submit proposals for two seminars. These nominations must be submitted by the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office in coordination with the College Deans and since only two proposals will be accepted there will be an internal review of all proposals by the College leadership to select the two that will be submitted to Mellon.

To be considered, proposals must be submitted by January 18, 2008 to Jennifer Drake, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the College, at jdrake@support.ucla.edu or 1309 Murphy Hall Box 951413. All proposals must be accompanied by a nomination letter from your department chair or director. Jennifer is coordinating the nomination process and works with the Mellon Foundation on a regular basis so any questions regarding the fellowship or this process can be directed to her.

Application Details:

Grants will not exceed $150,000 for each seminar that is approved.
Budgets should provide for a postdoctoral fellowship to be awarded for the year the seminar meets
Two dissertation fellowships for graduate students should be awarded for the seminar year or the year that follows
The amount for postdoctoral fellowship awards and dissertation fellowship stipends should follow institutional practices
Travel and living expenses for short stays by visiting scholars and the costs of coordinating the seminar, including those incurred for speakers and their travel, may be included
The grants may not be used for the costs of released time for regular faculty participants
Interested faculty should submit a 3-5 page narrative proposal that addresses:

The scholarly importance of the subject to be examined
The central questions to be addressed
The cases to be compared (e.g., nations, regions, social aggregates, time periods) and the rationale for the comparisons that are selected
The thematic “threads” that will run through the seminar
The institution’s resources and suitability for the proposed seminar the procedures to be used in selecting graduate and postdoctoral fellows
The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program was established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars provide an opportunity for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. Named in honor of the Foundation’s long-serving third president, John E. Sawyer, they have brought together faculty members, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the humanities and social sciences. The Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies was awarded funding for the last UCLA Sawyer Seminar Series for Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University. The seminar is being held in 2007-2008 and is a series of conversations on the topic of disputation from philosophical, literary, and social perspectives.

——————————————————————————–

——————————————————————————–

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
JOHN E. SAWYER SEMINARS
ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CULTURES

Purpose: The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program was established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars, named in honor of the Foundation’s long-serving third president, John E. Sawyer, have brought together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the humanities and social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. This program aims to engage productive scholars in comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs.

Program Activities: To date, 90 seminars have been funded. Their subjects have ranged widely, as suggested by the following examples:

the public power exerted by oligarchs, tycoons, and magnates
foreign languages and literatures of North America
autobiography and the forging of identities
genocide
“retroactive justice”
transitions from dictatorships to democracies
the transmission of European national identities to other peoples and countries
the role of the military in political and social change
how particular illnesses and disabilities come to be defined as public health issues
the effects of mass media structures on the maintenance of civil society
violence and state power in the Byzantine, Frankish and Islamic empires
the connections between domestic urban problems and global economic developments
millennialism
the circulation of poetry
the effects of scientific and technological innovation on rural culture
world English and global literary culture
contact and cultural transmission in the “axial age” Mediterranean
local labor markets in globalizing economies.
The maximum grant award for each Sawyer Seminar is $150,000 (see budget section below for further details).

Each seminar normally meets for one year (though some have continued for longer periods). Faculty participants have largely come from the humanities and social sciences, although some of the most successful and provocative seminars have also drawn on faculty members from professional schools. Seminar leaders are encouraged also to invite participants from nearby institutions. As the Foundation reviews proposals, preference will be given to those that include concrete plans for engaging participants with diverse affiliations.

Sawyer Seminar awards provide support for one postdoctoral fellow to be recruited through a national competition, and for the dissertation research of two graduate students. It is expected that the graduate students will be active participants in the seminars, and the seminars’ contribution to graduate education in the humanities and social sciences will be carefully considered even though they are not intended to be organized as official credit-bearing courses.

Seminars are not expected to produce a written product.

Selection and Award Process: Institutions will be invited to submit proposals for a specified number of Sawyer Seminars (usually one or two depending on the number of institutions being invited to participate in a given round). It is expected that university administrators and others will communicate the Foundation’s invitation and the particulars of the program broadly to the faculty. Institutions will decide through an internal process which proposals they will submit to the Foundation for consideration.

Proposals should describe: (1) the scholarly importance of the subject to be examined; (2) the central questions to be addressed; (3) the cases to be compared (e.g., nations, regions, social aggregates, time periods) and the rationale for the comparisons that are selected; (4) the thematic “threads” that will run through the seminar; (5) the institution’s resources and suitability for the proposed seminar; and (6) the procedures to be used in selecting graduate and postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, proposals should include a budget and a well developed preliminary plan for the seminar that outlines the specific topics to be addressed in each session and provides the names and qualifications of the scholars who would ideally participate.

After they are submitted to the Foundation, proposals will be reviewed by an advisory committee of distinguished scholars. In recent competitions, approximately one-third of proposals have been recommended for funding with only minor revisions requested. (In a very small number of cases the committee has recommended that a substantially revised proposal be resubmitted for later consideration, but with no guarantee that it will ultimately be approved.) The committee’s recommendations are then put before the Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees for its approval.

Following approval by the Foundation’s Trustees, funds will be disbursed to the host institution. Past experience suggests that it can take a year or more to organize the seminars.

Budget: Funding requests should not exceed $150,000 for each seminar. It is expected that each seminar’s budget will provide for a postdoctoral fellowship to be awarded for the year the seminar meets, and two dissertation fellowships for graduate students to be awarded for the seminar year or the year that follows. The amount for postdoctoral fellowship awards and dissertation fellowship stipends should follow institutional practices. Travel and living expenses for short stays by visiting scholars and the costs of coordinating the seminar, including those incurred for speakers and their travel, may be included. The grants may not, however, be used for the costs of released time for regular faculty participants, or for indirect costs.

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]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=32 UDHIG update http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=31 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=31#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:46:57 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=31 We are in for an exciting year, with speakers invited for the Mellon Seminar (Media Technology, Culture), EXP’s lecture series, and CDH roundtables. I am organizing my calendar far in advance, and thought I would do my best to provide a comprehensive list:

• Monday, Nov. 5th: JULIA HELL (U. Michigan) on “The Ruins of Modernity” at 5:00 p.m., in 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Wednesday, Nov. 7th, VIRGINIA KUHN (USC) gives a CDH roundtable on “Resistances to the Digital” in, 12-1:00 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP

• Wednesday, Nov. 14th, JOHN LYNCH, (doctoral candidate from NELC) will present an informal discussion of bibliographic tools, such as Zotero. 12-1:00 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP . CDH roundtable.

• Thursday, Nov. 15th, MARK POSTER (UCI) on “McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media,” 5:00 p.m., 306 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Thursday Nov. 15th, MARK HAYWARD, Creative Lead, BRC Imagination Arts. http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/ 7:00 p.m., UCLA Visualization Portal (5628 Math Sciences). RSVP Reception starts at 6:30 p.m. EXP.

• CANCELLEDWednesday, Nov. 28th, HIJOO SON (Digital Humanities Junior Fellow 06-07, Dept of Asian Languages and Cultures) 1-2 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) . CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, Dec. 5th, MATTHEW FISHER (English) 12-1p.m. CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP. CDH Roundtable.)

• Thursday, Jan. 31st, BERNHARD SIEGERT (Bauhaus Universität Weimar & UC Santa Barbara), “(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History,” 5:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Wednesday, Feb. 13th, WILLEKE WENDRICH (NELC) 12-1p.m. CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP . CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, March 12th, MARCUS KRACHT (Linguistics). 12-1p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP. CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, April 9th, SUSAN LEWAK (doctoral candidate in English) and SHISH AIKAT (Rhythm and Blues), CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP. CDH Roundtable.)

• Thursday, April 10th, JOHN UNSWORTH (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm 7:00 p.m., UCLA Visualization Portal (Room 5628 Math Sciences). EXP

• Thursday, April 17th, STEFAN ADRIOPOULOS (Columbia University), “Phantasmagoria and German Idealism: An Archaelogy of Modern Media Theory,” 4:30 p.m., 306 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Tuesday, April 29th, HELMUT MUELLER-SIEVERS (Northwestern University), “Torque: Machines and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century,” 4:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Thursday, May 8th, Michael Goodchild: EXP.)

• Wednesday, May 21st, WOLF KITTLER (UC-Santa Barbara), “Telegraphy in Charles Dickens and Henry James,” 4:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

  • Conferences at UCLA:

• Nov 5-9th: Social Data Mining and Knowledge Building. (IPAM) http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sews3/ Registration

• Dec 6-8th: At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment. (The Getty Center and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.) See especially: December 6th, 1: 00 PM, “Digital Picart” at the Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall. Registration Deadline: November 26:

  • Exhibitions at UCLA: (at the fowler)

• Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (October 14, until Feb 17, 2008)

  • Funding opportunities:

• Nov 23rd: Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources:
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

• Nov 30th: NSF: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation. http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

• Feb 1st IMLS: National Leadership Grants http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm

From Jennifer Drake (jdrake@support.ucla.edu), Director of Development, Corporate and Foundation Relations for UCLA College:

  • MICROSOFT ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR A. RICHARD NEWTON BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH AWARD
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 25, 2007
    DEADLINE: DECEMBER 3, 2007
    Microsoft Research is accepting proposals for the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award.
    Successful breakthrough research applications will demonstrate: problem solutions with potentially profound impact for the sciences and human society; innovative computational approaches providing unique advantages for the problem solution; highly creative problem solving strategies, which may also integrate knowledge and expertise from several domains to solve otherwise intractable problems; and the PI’s successful history of leveraging diverse, specialized expertise, novel approaches, and collaboration with other researchers.
    The proposing institution must be either: an accredited degree-granting college or university (or international equivalent) with nonprofit status and awarding degrees at the baccalaureate level or above; or a research institution with nonprofit status. All qualifying institutions are eligible without regard for geographic location.
    The total amount available under this Request for Proposals is $1 million. Microsoft Research anticipates making approximately ten to twelve awards, with a maximum of $100,000 for any single award. Awards are made as unrestricted gifts to the institution. Awards are made for the purpose of seed-funding larger initiatives, proofs of concept, or demonstrations of feasibility.
    Visit the Web site of Microsoft Research for complete program information.
    Contact:
    http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/ARichardNewtonAward.aspx
    Primary Subject: Science/Technology
    Secondary Subject(s): Education
    Geographic Funding Area: National
  • COMPETITION OPENS FOR FORD FOUNDATION DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2007
    DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2007; NOVEMBER 29, 2007
    Administered by the National Research Council, the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of U.S. college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
    To facilitate these goals, NRC awards fellowships at the pre- doctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.
    The program makes the following annual awards: approximately sixty pre-doctoral awards of $20,000 per year for up to three years (Deadline: November 15, 2007); approximately thirty-five dissertation awards of $21,000 for one year (Deadline: November 29, 2007); and approximately twenty postdoctoral awards of $40,000 each for one year (Deadline: November 29, 2007).
    All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation are eligible to apply. Applicants should have evidence of superior academic achievement; be committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; be enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution; and have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
    For complete program information and application procedures, visit the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Home Page.
    Contact: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html
    Primary Subject: Education
    Geographic Funding Area: National
  • OLYMPUS LAUNCHES NATIONAL INNOVATION AWARD PROGRAM
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2007
    DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 16, 2007
    Technology and consumer electronics company Olympus has announced the Olympus Innovation Award Program for 2008. The program, executed by Olympus in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, recognizes individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.
    The awards will be given to faculty nominees chosen from among the nearly two hundred member institutions of NCIIA, a national alliance of colleges and universities fostering invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in U.S. higher education.
    The Olympus Innovation Award Program includes three awards:
    The Olympus Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who fosters an environment of innovative thinking among students through inventive teaching methods and hands-on educational opportunities. The winner will receive a $10,000 award.
    The Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated a sustained contribution throughout his or her career to stimulating innovative thinking in students in their own universities and throughout academia. The winner will receive a $2,500 award.
    The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award recognizes an individual who has inspired innovative thinking in students in a discrete area and who has the potential to make even greater contributions to the field in the future. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
    Students, faculty, and others at NCIIA institutions of higher learning in the U.S. may nominate qualified educators through the NCIIA Web site. Program information and a list of NCIIA member institutions are also available at the site.
    Contact: http://www.nciia.org/olympus/index.html
    Primary Subject: Science/Technology
    Geographic Funding Area: National
]]> We are in for an exciting year, with speakers invited for the Mellon Seminar (Media Technology, Culture), EXP’s lecture series, and CDH roundtables. I am organizing my calendar far in advance, and thought I would do my best to provide a comprehensive list:

• Monday, Nov. 5th: JULIA HELL (U. Michigan) on “The Ruins of Modernity” at 5:00 p.m., in 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Wednesday, Nov. 7th, VIRGINIA KUHN (USC) gives a CDH roundtable on “Resistances to the Digital” in, 12-1:00 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP

• Wednesday, Nov. 14th, JOHN LYNCH, (doctoral candidate from NELC) will present an informal discussion of bibliographic tools, such as Zotero. 12-1:00 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP . CDH roundtable.

• Thursday, Nov. 15th, MARK POSTER (UCI) on “McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media,” 5:00 p.m., 306 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Thursday Nov. 15th, MARK HAYWARD, Creative Lead, BRC Imagination Arts. http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/ 7:00 p.m., UCLA Visualization Portal (5628 Math Sciences). RSVP Reception starts at 6:30 p.m. EXP.

• CANCELLEDWednesday, Nov. 28th, HIJOO SON (Digital Humanities Junior Fellow 06-07, Dept of Asian Languages and Cultures) 1-2 p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) . CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, Dec. 5th, MATTHEW FISHER (English) 12-1p.m. CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023). RSVP. CDH Roundtable.)

• Thursday, Jan. 31st, BERNHARD SIEGERT (Bauhaus Universität Weimar & UC Santa Barbara), “(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History,” 5:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Wednesday, Feb. 13th, WILLEKE WENDRICH (NELC) 12-1p.m. CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP . CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, March 12th, MARCUS KRACHT (Linguistics). 12-1p.m., CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP. CDH Roundtable.

• Wednesday, April 9th, SUSAN LEWAK (doctoral candidate in English) and SHISH AIKAT (Rhythm and Blues), CDH Conference Room (PPB 1023) RSVP. CDH Roundtable.)

• Thursday, April 10th, JOHN UNSWORTH (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) http://remap.ucla.edu/exp/unsworth.htm 7:00 p.m., UCLA Visualization Portal (Room 5628 Math Sciences). EXP

• Thursday, April 17th, STEFAN ADRIOPOULOS (Columbia University), “Phantasmagoria and German Idealism: An Archaelogy of Modern Media Theory,” 4:30 p.m., 306 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Tuesday, April 29th, HELMUT MUELLER-SIEVERS (Northwestern University), “Torque: Machines and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century,” 4:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

• Thursday, May 8th, Michael Goodchild: EXP.)

• Wednesday, May 21st, WOLF KITTLER (UC-Santa Barbara), “Telegraphy in Charles Dickens and Henry James,” 4:30 p.m., 314 Royce Hall. Mellon Seminar.

  • Conferences at UCLA:

• Nov 5-9th: Social Data Mining and Knowledge Building. (IPAM) http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sews3/ Registration

• Dec 6-8th: At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment. (The Getty Center and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.) See especially: December 6th, 1: 00 PM, “Digital Picart” at the Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall. Registration Deadline: November 26:

  • Exhibitions at UCLA: (at the fowler)

• Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (October 14, until Feb 17, 2008)

  • Funding opportunities:

• Nov 23rd: Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources:
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

• Nov 30th: NSF: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation. http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

• Feb 1st IMLS: National Leadership Grants http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm

From Jennifer Drake (jdrake@support.ucla.edu), Director of Development, Corporate and Foundation Relations for UCLA College:

  • MICROSOFT ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR A. RICHARD NEWTON BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH AWARD
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 25, 2007
    DEADLINE: DECEMBER 3, 2007
    Microsoft Research is accepting proposals for the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award.
    Successful breakthrough research applications will demonstrate: problem solutions with potentially profound impact for the sciences and human society; innovative computational approaches providing unique advantages for the problem solution; highly creative problem solving strategies, which may also integrate knowledge and expertise from several domains to solve otherwise intractable problems; and the PI’s successful history of leveraging diverse, specialized expertise, novel approaches, and collaboration with other researchers.
    The proposing institution must be either: an accredited degree-granting college or university (or international equivalent) with nonprofit status and awarding degrees at the baccalaureate level or above; or a research institution with nonprofit status. All qualifying institutions are eligible without regard for geographic location.
    The total amount available under this Request for Proposals is $1 million. Microsoft Research anticipates making approximately ten to twelve awards, with a maximum of $100,000 for any single award. Awards are made as unrestricted gifts to the institution. Awards are made for the purpose of seed-funding larger initiatives, proofs of concept, or demonstrations of feasibility.
    Visit the Web site of Microsoft Research for complete program information.
    Contact:
    http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/ARichardNewtonAward.aspx
    Primary Subject: Science/Technology
    Secondary Subject(s): Education
    Geographic Funding Area: National
  • COMPETITION OPENS FOR FORD FOUNDATION DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2007
    DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2007; NOVEMBER 29, 2007
    Administered by the National Research Council, the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of U.S. college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
    To facilitate these goals, NRC awards fellowships at the pre- doctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.
    The program makes the following annual awards: approximately sixty pre-doctoral awards of $20,000 per year for up to three years (Deadline: November 15, 2007); approximately thirty-five dissertation awards of $21,000 for one year (Deadline: November 29, 2007); and approximately twenty postdoctoral awards of $40,000 each for one year (Deadline: November 29, 2007).
    All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation are eligible to apply. Applicants should have evidence of superior academic achievement; be committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; be enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution; and have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
    For complete program information and application procedures, visit the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Home Page.
    Contact: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/index.html
    Primary Subject: Education
    Geographic Funding Area: National
  • OLYMPUS LAUNCHES NATIONAL INNOVATION AWARD PROGRAM
    POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2007
    DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 16, 2007
    Technology and consumer electronics company Olympus has announced the Olympus Innovation Award Program for 2008. The program, executed by Olympus in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, recognizes individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.
    The awards will be given to faculty nominees chosen from among the nearly two hundred member institutions of NCIIA, a national alliance of colleges and universities fostering invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in U.S. higher education.
    The Olympus Innovation Award Program includes three awards:
    The Olympus Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who fosters an environment of innovative thinking among students through inventive teaching methods and hands-on educational opportunities. The winner will receive a $10,000 award.
    The Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated a sustained contribution throughout his or her career to stimulating innovative thinking in students in their own universities and throughout academia. The winner will receive a $2,500 award.
    The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award recognizes an individual who has inspired innovative thinking in students in a discrete area and who has the potential to make even greater contributions to the field in the future. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
    Students, faculty, and others at NCIIA institutions of higher learning in the U.S. may nominate qualified educators through the NCIIA Web site. Program information and a list of NCIIA member institutions are also available at the site.
    Contact: http://www.nciia.org/olympus/index.html
    Primary Subject: Science/Technology
    Geographic Funding Area: National
]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=31 Foundations http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=30 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=30#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:59:10 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=30 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program to Fund Education Research – Deadline: November 2nd

The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained. The fellowships are intended to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation. The 2008 dissertation fellowship instructions will be available at the Spencer Foundation Web site.

http://www.spencer.org/programs/fellows/dissertation.htm

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Accepting Applications for Research Grants – Deadline: February 1st

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Typically, the range for research grants is $15,000 to $30,000 a year, for a period of one to two years. The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Ten or more dissertation fellowships of $10,000 each are awarded annually to individuals who plan to complete their dissertations by the end of the year. The fellowships are designed to contribute to the support of doctoral candidates in the final year of Ph.D. work so that they can complete their theses in a timely manner. Visit the foundation’s Web site for specific program details and application guidelines.

http://www.hfg.org/

]]> Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program to Fund Education Research – Deadline: November 2nd

The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained. The fellowships are intended to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation. The 2008 dissertation fellowship instructions will be available at the Spencer Foundation Web site.

http://www.spencer.org/programs/fellows/dissertation.htm

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Accepting Applications for Research Grants – Deadline: February 1st

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Typically, the range for research grants is $15,000 to $30,000 a year, for a period of one to two years. The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Ten or more dissertation fellowships of $10,000 each are awarded annually to individuals who plan to complete their dissertations by the end of the year. The fellowships are designed to contribute to the support of doctoral candidates in the final year of Ph.D. work so that they can complete their theses in a timely manner. Visit the foundation’s Web site for specific program details and application guidelines.

http://www.hfg.org/

]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=30 Digital Odyssey http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=29 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=29#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:46:46 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=29 Digital Odyssey
The Digital Odyssey, from UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities, has been re-launched! You will find there an announcement of the 2007-08 Digital Humanities Fellows.

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The Digital Odyssey, from UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities, has been re-launched! You will find there an announcement of the 2007-08 Digital Humanities Fellows.

]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=29 UCLA Litbrarian: blog http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=28 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=28#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:43:45 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=28 UCLA Litbrarian

A blog maintained by Marta Brunner, Librarian for English and American Literature and Comparative Literature. Marta was chosen as one of the recipient’s of this year’s Digital Humanities Fellows. She’ll work with fellow recipient, Teresa Barnett, (Head, Center for Oral History Research) on a project entitled: Putting Los Angeles Social Movements History on the Map: Automated Tagging of Oral History Transcripts

]]> UCLA Litbrarian

A blog maintained by Marta Brunner, Librarian for English and American Literature and Comparative Literature. Marta was chosen as one of the recipient’s of this year’s Digital Humanities Fellows. She’ll work with fellow recipient, Teresa Barnett, (Head, Center for Oral History Research) on a project entitled: Putting Los Angeles Social Movements History on the Map: Automated Tagging of Oral History Transcripts

]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=28 New (Fifth) Issue of Vectors is now online! http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=25 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=25#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:43:19 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=25 Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is
pleased to announce the launch of its new issue devoted to the theme of
Difference:

Our fifth issue of Vectors stages multiple examinations of the notion of
difference as it plays out in a variety of spheres, discourses and
practices, while also privileging race and ethnicity as a central
through-line of digital culture, a recurring ghost in our networked
machines.. Featured scholars include David Theo Goldberg/Stefka Hristova,
Wendy Chun, Mark Kann, Jon Ippolito, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry and
Christian Sandvig. Vectors is produced by editors Tara McPherson and Steve
Anderson, co-creative directors Erik Loyer and Raegan Kelly, and
programmer Craig Dietrich with additional design by Alex Ceglia.

Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to
expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and
transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with
cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking
of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research,
focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social
and cultural relations. We only publish works that exceed the boundaries
of print.

Please also explore previous issues in the Vectors Archive and contribute
to an ongoing dialogue with the project creators via the Vectors Forums.
Feel free to share this announcement widely.

]]> Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is
pleased to announce the launch of its new issue devoted to the theme of
Difference:

Our fifth issue of Vectors stages multiple examinations of the notion of
difference as it plays out in a variety of spheres, discourses and
practices, while also privileging race and ethnicity as a central
through-line of digital culture, a recurring ghost in our networked
machines.. Featured scholars include David Theo Goldberg/Stefka Hristova,
Wendy Chun, Mark Kann, Jon Ippolito, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry and
Christian Sandvig. Vectors is produced by editors Tara McPherson and Steve
Anderson, co-creative directors Erik Loyer and Raegan Kelly, and
programmer Craig Dietrich with additional design by Alex Ceglia.

Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to
expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and
transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with
cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking
of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research,
focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social
and cultural relations. We only publish works that exceed the boundaries
of print.

Please also explore previous issues in the Vectors Archive and contribute
to an ongoing dialogue with the project creators via the Vectors Forums.
Feel free to share this announcement widely.

]]> http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?feed=rss2&p=25 update: 10.16.07 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=22 http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=22#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:24:40 +0000 zoe http://udhig.cdh.ucla.edu/?p=22 Workshops at YRL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/service/6362.cfm

  • October 17: 11am. EndNote training. (no registration required) Research Library East Electronic Classroom (room 21536) 90 minutes. (EndNote has added new functionality making it easier to share bibliographies—with other EndNote users—on the web. See: http://www.endnoteweb.com/enwebinfo.asp)
  • October 17: 3pm. Finding Journal Articles Online—special session for the Humanities. (no registration required). Research Library East Electronic Classroom, (room 21536). 50 minutes.
  • October 19: What is ARTstor?

    ARTstor is a digital library containing nearly 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities and social sciences. Thousands of additional images covering a wide range of cultures and time periods are added each month.

    How Can I Find Out More?

    Friday October 19, 2007

    1:00 – 2:30 PM

    West Electronic Classroom, YRL (2nd floor)

    RSVP: 310-206-4587 or jhenri@library.ucla.edu

Conference at the Clark Library, Openings still available!

Funding Opportunities:

ACLS: http://www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm

  • December 12th 2007: Mellon/ACLS Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients

NEH: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html

  • October 16th. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: If you can’t make the deadline (!), consider submitting on April 2, 2008.
  • November 29, 2007. JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
  • January 17th, 2008. Digital Humanities Workshops.
  • May 1, 2008. Digital Humanities Fellowships. Guidelines for 2008 will be appearing soon.

Technology watch:

  • Zotero, a free Firefox plug-in for managing bibliography, http://www.zotero.org/, has impressive functionality for academics. Stay tuned for a comparison of features and functionalities.
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