Uszkalo launches new journal
Posted on | May 10, 2012 | No Comments
CIRCA is happy to announce that the first issue of Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural has been delivered to university libraries and to individual subscribers. Preternature is edited by CIRCA Scholar Dr. Kirsten Uszkalo.
A thin thread pulls the the witch, the demon, the monster, the magician through history. Some of these figures are found in single archival references, some are part of the canon, but there seems to be no end of these intellectual curiosities and, as such, these topics continue to fascinate. Some scholars work exclusively in these fields, others are enthralled in hunting down one sensational reference, but there are few venues dedicated to giving voice to their interrogation. Preternature fills an important scholarly niche, embracing the advantages of a broad geographic scope and interdisciplinarity to explore some of the dark corners of scholarly and popular discourses.
GRAND 2012
Posted on | May 10, 2012 | No Comments
CIRCA members Rockwell, Gouglas and Stroulia all attended the GRAND 2012 conference. This conference brings together the researchers across Canada in the GRAND Networks of Centres of Excellence. Rockwell has posted his conference report here.
Planning Digital Projects Workshop
Posted on | April 17, 2012 | No Comments
CIRCA is running a full day workshop on planning digital projects. Geoffrey Rockwell’s slides are available online. This is supported by the Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore.
Digitization Day is Today
Posted on | April 16, 2012 | No Comments
Today is Digitization Day. DD is organized by CIRCA and is taking place in Telus 134. Check out the programme (PDF). This event brings together projects and support groups interested in digital arts and humanities research at the University of Alberta.
Nelson and Imes: The Scholarly Edition as Knowledge Environment
Posted on | April 10, 2012 | No Comments
Brent Nelson and Robert Imes from the University of Saskatchewan will be our last Humanities Computing Research Colloquium speakers for this term. They will be speaking on “The Scholarly Edition as Knowledge Environment: Where Do We Go From Here?” For an abstract see the Colloquium site.
Day of DH a Success
Posted on | March 29, 2012 | No Comments
This year’s Day of Digital Humanities 2012, organized by CIRCA, was a great success with 332 people registered. You can see the activity of the day (March 27th) here. And for more on the annual Day of DH project see our wiki.
Others have been reporting on the Day of DH including:
- The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
- Lee Bessette on Insider Higher Ed writes Calling all Academics: April 2 as the Day for Higher Ed
- Katherine D. Harris on her blog
- Stéfan Sinclair used storify
- See the #dayofdh twitter feed
Day of DH 2012
Posted on | March 26, 2012 | No Comments
Tomorrow, March 27th, is the fourth annual Day of Digital Humanities 2012. On the Day of DH people from around the world blog what they are doing and thinking about. This project is supported by CIRCA and the Arts Resource Centre. You can still join and blog your day!
For more information see the wiki page about the project.
Humanities Computing Research Colloquium
Posted on | March 6, 2012 | No Comments
Announcing a talk by George Tzanetakis on Virtual bowing, religious chants and robotic musicianship: unconventional music information retrieval on Friday, March 30th, at 4pm in Old Arts 112. This talk is part of the CIRCA/TAPoR supported Humanities Computing Research Colloquium.
Rockwell Fellow at Long Room Hub: Trinity College Dublin
Posted on | March 2, 2012 | No Comments
CIRCA Director Geoffrey Rockwell is spending the month of March as a Visiting Research Fellow of the Long Room Hub: Trinity College Dublin where he will be working on a book about hermeneutical things. During the stay he will be meeting with students in the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture and Digital Arts & Humanities PhD.
HuCon 2012
Posted on | February 22, 2012 | No Comments
HuCon 2012, the Humanities Computing Graduate Student Conference of the University of Alberta is coming on March 23rd, 2012. The conference programme is now up as are the abstracts.
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