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Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC) is a summer institute for graduate students and faculty who are conducting scholarship in the digital humanities. HpC offers two five-day workshops, one with the University of Illinois’ Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), and the other at the University of South Carolina’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH). Attendees will 1) receive a comprehensive education in four computational concentrations: computer vision, augmented reality, game design, and mobile app development; 2) receive instruction in digital humanities project design and management; 3) obtain hands on experience with a variety of technical platforms; 4) work with technical staff to outline pilot explorations in at least one area of computational concentrations; and 5) join a year long virtual community where scholars will support their peers in authoring digital humanities projects.

The first workshop will take place in Champaign, IL on June 10-14, 2012. The second will take place in Columbia, SC on August 5-9, 2012. There will be a two-day concluding conference to be hosted by CDH August 25-26. From June 10 2012 to June 10, 2013, participants will be linked by an online collaboratory where they can discuss, plan, and develop new projects in the digital humanities.

Because the goal of HpC is to familiarize scholars in the humanities with the crucial technologies and methods of advanced computing, applicants need not have any technical background or expertise.

To apply, please send a letter of interest that outlines your current technical and intellectual investment in digital humanities and C.V. to Michael Simeone, mpsimeon@illinois.edu. Please submit your application before January 15th, 2012. HpC will select a total of 25 applicants for participation in the institute.

For more information visit www.dhhpc.org

The text below is from Hypercities: NEH Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, June 18-July 3, 2012 @ University of California Los Angeles.

The purpose of the Institute is to bring together a cohort of 12 Humanities scholars and advanced graduate students across various disciplines to learn how to develop innovative publications and courses that harness the theoretical and practical approaches of the “geospatial Humanities.”  By geospatial Humanities, we mean the centrality of place, geo-temporal analysis, and mapping for conceptualizing, investigating, and visualizing research problems in fields such as history, architecture, classics, literary studies, art history, as well as the humanistic social sciences (archaeology, anthropology, and political science). Situated at the intersection of critical cartography and information visualization, the Institute will combine a survey of the “state of the art” in interoperable geospatial tools and publication models, with hands-on, studio-based training in integrating GIS data into Humanities scholarship, developing spatial visualizations, and deploying a suite of mapping tools in the service of creating publication-ready research articles and short monographs with robust digital components.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2012

Institute Dates: June 18-July 3, 2012, with option to stay through July 6 @ UCLA

Note:

Given the extraordinary growth of the “Spatial Humanities” and the need to address the complexity of the technologies, methods, and research questions from multiple disciplinary angles, the NEH is supporting two Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities during the summer of 2012. Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities will take place at UCLA, under the direction of Todd Presner, Diane Favro, and Chris Johanson.  This website describes the Institute and application process.  The second Institute, Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities, will meet in Indianapolis, June 18-29, in conjunction with the Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities. This Institute will be co-directed by David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor Harris and will include leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK.  While the Institutes have distinct curricula and deliverables, they will coordinate the selection process, and participants will have the opportunity to learn from one another through video-conferencing, project blogs, and digital publications. More information can be found on the NEH website.

Call For Papers: Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation, DHKV (formerly Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation, CHKV – now expanded to include the Digital Humanities)

A symposium in the 16th International Conference Information Visualisation, 10, 11 – 13 July 2012, LIRMM CNRS Univ, Montpellier II, Montpellier, France.

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/

Important Dates:

01 March 2012: Submission of papers
22 April 2011: Notification of Peer Review Result
05 May 2011: Submission of camera-ready
15 May 2011: Early registration closes

Paper Format Guide: (Not more than 6 pages – excess pages at 30 GBP per page.) http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/INSTRUCTION.htm

The Humanities has enjoyed a renaissance in the last two decades. This has been largely facilitated by the acceptance of digital media as a tool for the critical analysis of scholarly works. This new field, the Digital Humanities, includes applied and theoretical use of digital media. Increasingly, large collections of data are being investigated using digital tools. These tools assist in visualising the information contained in ways that expose new meanings and interpretations of scholarly knowledge.

Our host, the International Information Visualisation Conference, provides a uniquely propitious environment for a Digital Humanities symposium. With other symposia spanning Information Visualisation Theory & Practice to Visualisation in Software Engineering, attendees of the Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation symposium are well placed to make serendipitous connections with technologists in similar fields.

This symposium seeks short and long papers on original and unpublished work addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Culture and Heritage Knowledge Visualisation

* Art and Design

* Visualization techniques for text corpora

* Cartographics

* Virtual and built environments

* Interactive systems

* Infographic design and its associated process

* Data mining in the humanities

* Information design and modelling

* Social Networks

* Network graph visualisation of historical precedents

* Digital media enabled humanities research

* Digital media assisted linguistics research

* The digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas

Symposium Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualization Liaison:

Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia

Symposium Committee

Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia (Chair) Sarah Kenderdine, City University of Hong Kong (co-Chair) Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA (co-Chair)

Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:

Theodor G Wyeld (Flinders University, Aust) Sarah Kenderdine (Museum Victoria, Aust) Francis T. Marchese (Pace University, NY, USA) Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (NTNU, Trondheim, Norg) Teng-Wen Chang (NYUST, Taiwan) Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming, Aust) Malcolm Pumpa (QUT, Aust) Marinos Ioannides (HTI, Cyprus) Giovanni Issini (DFI, Italy)

Special Journal Edition for selected papers: TBA.

Supporting Bodies:

Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, Flinders University, Australia

HOST: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/

All enquiries about Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualization should be addressed to:

Theodor Wyeld
Screen and Media
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide 5001
South Australia
ph: +06 8 8201 3264
fx: +06 8 8201 3635
em: theodor.wyeld@flinders.edu.au
wb: www.flinders.edu.au/people/theodor.wyeld
URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/DHKV.htm

Instructions for Authors

All submitted papers are peer reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Authors are invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission system by March 01, 2012, https://www.conftool.net/IV2012. Electronic submissions (PDF) are recommended and should be formatted according to the instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/PAPERS.htm. The final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages – up to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 30 GBP per page.

Call for Papers:
1st Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience
Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 30th – June 1st, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The recent increase in the number of formal institutes and conferences dedicated to complexity theory and its application is evidence that complexity science has arrived and is realizing its potential to cut across almost every academic discipline. Research projects centered on complex adaptive systems in the natural (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) and social sciences (economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.), along with novel applications in engineering, computer science, robotics, and, more recently, the arts and the humanities (archaeology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, performance art, religion, etc.), have already earned some recognition in the field of complexity science.

In light of these developments, the Complex Systems Institute and the Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities at UNC Charlotte will inaugurate an annual conference series, beginning in 2012, dedicated to complexity with particular application to understanding the intricacies of human experience across all domains. The goal of the series is to provide a trans-disciplinary venue for scholars from the humanities and the social sciences, as well as some aspects of the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, pharmacology, etc.). Since matters of life and death pertain to human experience in profound and important ways, the conference hopes to attract representatives from the allied health sciences as well.

The conference series will be dedicated to a particular topic each year. The initial 2012 conference will be based on an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute this past year that was dedicated to computer modeling in the humanities and social sciences. In keeping with the theme of the IATDH, the topic for our first conference will be: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Submissions are invited on any specific topic that falls within the parameters described above. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, studies on:

• The development and transmission of language
• The propagation of beliefs, ideas, and ideologies
• The nature of historical and political change
• The analysis of literary texts and their circulation
• The effect of individual action on global economies
• Social structure among pre-historic peoples
• Archaeological settlement patterns in early cities
• The role of architecture in facilitating public traffic patterns
• The relationship between productivity, creativity, and happiness
• Element and measures of creativity
• Discovery of early trends and indicators of social and economic change
• The role of science and technology in enhancing human experience
• Defining and measuring indicators of the quality of human experience
• The relationship between organizational/societal structure and the flow of energy and information
• Defining utility and efficacy in the context of human experience
• Simulation and modeling tools and paradigms
• Verification and validation of models and simulated systems
• The relationship between healthcare providers, patients, Internet, and social media
• Defining ontologies in the context of modeling and simulation
• Language and tools for promoting trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration
• Human-technology interaction
• Data-driven wellness initiatives

Submissions should be in the form of 5000-word papers, each of which will be reviewed by the program committee. The committee is particularly interested in papers that show novel applications of Complexity Theory to enhance research in the areas here specified. Thus, preliminary work in progress or plans for a research program are welcomed and encouraged.

Submission details will be posted here on the conference website in due time.

Theorizing the Web 2012; #TtW12; Saturday, April 14th; University of Maryland

Keynote Session:  “Social & Social Movements” – Andy Carvin (NPR; @acarvin) in conversation with Zeynep Tufekci (UNC; @techsoc)

Deadline for Abstracts: February 5th
Registration Opens: February 1st

Call for Papers:

The goal of the second annual Theorizing the Web conference is to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the ways humans live. We hope to bring together researchers from a range of
disciplines, including sociology, communications, philosophy, economics, English, history, political science, information science, the performing arts and many more. In addition, we invite session and other proposals by tech-industry professionals, journalists, and other
figures outside of academia. Submit abstracts online at http://tinyurl.com/TtW12.

Topics include:

• Citizen/participant journalism and media curation
• Identity, self-documentation and self-presentation
• Privacy and publicity on the Web
• Cyborgism and the technologically-mediated body (e.g., body modification)
• Political mobilization, uprisings, revolutions and riots on social media (including the Arab Spring/Fall, Occupy)
• Repression and the Web: Surveillance, wire-tapping, anonymity, pseudonymity
• Code, values and design
• Epistemology of the Web: Wikipedia, Global Voices, “filter bubbles” and the prosumption of information
• Theorizing whose Web? How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web
• Mobile computing, online/offline space
• Digital dualism and “augmented reality”
• What art/literature can offer research and theory of the Web
• Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics

We plan to curate 7 open submission panels, 4 presenters each as well as a couple invited panels and a keynote session on social media and social movements with Andy Carvin (NPR) and Zeynep Tufekci (UNC). Other events may be added before April.

The first Theorizing the Web conference happened last year. We decided to do this because there often is not a place for scholars who are theorizing about the Internet and society to gather and share their work. The 2011 program consisted of 14 panels, two workshops, two symposia (one on social media’s role in the Arab revolutions, the other, on social media and street art), two plenaries (by Saskia Sassen on “Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless” and George Ritzer on “Why the Web Needs Post-Modern Theory”), and a keynote by danah boyd from Microsoft Research and NYU on “Privacy, Publicity Intertwined.” Presenters traveled from around the world (including Hong Kong and New Zealand). The archive is available at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2011

There will be a new website with much more information coming January 2012. For further inquiries, email theorizingtheweb@gmail.com.

Call for Artists:

In addition to traditional presentations, the conference will feature a variety of artistic and multimedia events. As such, we invite proposals from artists for relevant works or performances in any medium as well as for discussion of such pieces. We seek to display
art of all forms during the conference and after at a reception. This could include, but is not limited to, paintings, sculpture, poetry, fiction writing, digital art, and performance art.

THATCamp Florida 2012

Saturday, February 18, 2012 – Sunday, February 19, 2012

Location: UCF Center for Emerging Media (Orlando, FL)

The History Department and the RICHES program at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) will be hosting a regional THATCamp on the weekend of February 18-19, 2012.  The gathering will involve about 75 people drawn broadly from the humanities and will include professors, librarians, graduate students and interested parties (writers, musicians, etc.) who are engaged in the many, various ways that their broadly shared disciplines intersect with emerging technologies.

Please visit THATCamp Florida 2012′s website for more information about the event.

Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities
June 18-29, 2012
Call for Proposals:  Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012

The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a multidisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for summer 2012 designed to advance exploration of key topics in the spatial humanities. The institute will offer scholars the opportunity to discover the benefits of a spatial-analytical approach to humanities scholarship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial technologies, including GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the humanities.  Two areas of emphasis will be spatial narratives and deep maps.  Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of a prototype project in collaboration with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an opportunity to present their own work and to contribute to scholarly and Web products that result from the institute.

The institute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI’s Polis Center. It will draw upon a multidisciplinary faculty from the three collaborating institutions, as well as leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK, and will be supported technically by the advanced technology group of the Polis Center. The institute schedule will allow time for fellows to interact with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the primary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial technologies to enhance the narrative and analytical traditions of the humanities. The fellows will work with project staff to develop a prototype deep map to support multi-scalar and contingent analysis of problems of interests to humanists. To focus this work, the institute will explore the spatial contexts of American religion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evidence from the Polis Center’s six-year study of the intersection of religion and urban culture in a mid-sized American city.

About the fellowships: 
Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams who demonstrate serious interest in the application of geo-spatial technologies to problems in the humanities. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who have experience in one or more geo-spatial technologies as well as scholars who have thought about the spatial dimensions of American religion.

During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the spatial humanities, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, interactive design, and collaborative research, while situating these concerns within the fields of American history and religious studies. Guest lecturers during the summer include Ian Gregory (historical GIS and digital humanities, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (historical geography, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (informatics and advanced visualization, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (sociology of religion, IUPUI), among others. Institute leaders are David Bodenhamer (history, IUPUI), John Corrigan (religious studies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geography, West Virginia University).

All fellows will participate in a two-week residency June 18-29 at IUPUI. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions in which participants collectively will develop project foundations and address relevant issues in spatial humanities. Fellows also will be provided the opportunity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be proficient with geo-spatial technologies but must demonstrate some level of engagement with them as well as with spatial questions and analyses. Evidence of the capacity for successful collaboration and for scholarly innovation is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each participant, as well as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the responsibility of each fellow, but the institute will seek to arrange low-cost housing for participants. We welcome scholars from all career levels, from advanced graduate student to full professor.

About the proposals: 

Proposals should include the following:

• Two to three-page statement of how participation in the institute will fit the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant.
• One-page description of the applicant’s experience with geo-spatial technologies and spatial analysis.
• Brief CV (maximum of three pages).
• Letter of support from department chair for non-tenured faculty or from dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates.

Projects that articulate a clear understanding of the potential of spatial humanities and the problems associated with the use of geo-spatial technologies in humanities scholarship will be regarded favorably.

Electronic applications are required.  Submit to ddearth@iupui.edu.

Deadline for applications: Friday, February 3, 2012. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid April, 2012. 

Questions may be directed to ddearth@iupui.edu.

SIG-AH and SIG-VIS (Arts & Humanities, Visualization-Images-Sound) of ASIST are joining forces to examine the digital humanities and information visualization with a group of papers to be published in an upcoming special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Geotags, participatory content, automatic classification methods, statistical analyses, visualization techniques and other technological methods have enhanced the pedagogy and scholarship within the humanities in recent years. With this in mind papers are being sought which present an overview of the digital humanities and information visualization, or which address the current and potential future intersection of the two topics. Special topics for your consideration include: the development of digital technologies and digital humanities tools, data mining applications in the humanities, visualization techniques, the use and re-use of historical data sets, and innovative practices and definitions within the digital humanities and information visualization. We also eagerly invite topics of your choosing which address any aspect of technology within humanities.

Papers should be approximately 1000-2000 words in length and submitted by December 31, 2011 to: Sarah Buchanan <sarahab@ucla.edu> and Joan Beaudoin <Joan.Beaudoin@wayne.edu>. We welcome you to contact either of us in the interim to discuss potential papers and we look forward to hearing from you.

Call for Papers, Panels and Posters

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DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting

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The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012

Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference

CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011 (extended until Wednesday 16 November, 2011)

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011

REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 March, 2012. The conference will feature papers, panels, posters and associated workshops. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference theme of ‘Building, Mapping, Connecting’.

Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to:

- Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration

- Measuring and valuing digital research

- Publication and dissemination

- Research applications and interfaces for digital collections

- Designing and curating online resources

- Digital textuality and literacy

- Curriculum and pedagogy

- Culture, creativity, arts, music, performance

- Electronic critical editions

- Digitisation, text encoding and analysis

- Communities and crowdsourcing

- Infrastructure, virtual research environments, workflows

- Information mining, modelling, GIS and visualisation

- Critical reflections on digital humanities futures

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INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS

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Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA)

Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Harold Short (King’s College London, UK and University of Western Sydney, Australia)

John Unsworth (University of Illinois, USA)

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SUBMISSIONS

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Abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 11 November, 2011. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://conference.aa-dh.org. Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins), a long paper (20 mins) or a panel. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 30 November, 2011.

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TRAVEL BURSARIES

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities has provided funding for travel bursaries. These will be available on a competitive basis for postgraduate students and early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to present at the conference and participate in associated workshops. Staff from cultural institutions are also encouraged to apply. When submitting your proposal please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary.

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PROPOSAL TYPES

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1. Poster presentations

Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on display at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs.

2. Short papers

Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development.

3. Long papers

Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies.

4. Panels

Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either:

(a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of no more than 300 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or

(b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organiser should submit a 300-word outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate.

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CONVENORS

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Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University

Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University

Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University

Prof Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, Australia

Prof Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Humanities Grant Proposal Review Opportunity, Fall 2011
UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Grant Proposal Review Opportunity

Faculty members in the humanities are invited to submit complete draft proposals (minus reference letters) by December 16^th for single-blind review by three UF referees with experience serving on grant review panels at the national level. Feedback will be returned by February 5^th, to enable revision and submission of proposals for spring 2012 deadlines. This opportunity is limited to 15 faculty members; in the case of over-subscription, preference will be given to those who did not participate in the Spring/Summer 2011 opportunity.

To participate, please RSVP by Dec. 9^th to Sophia Acord (skacord@ufl.edu)

Humanities Grant Support and Databases

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere grants resource pages have been reorganized and revamped, with new information on UF grant-writing resources, digital humanities, public humanities, and many more listings for internal and external funding opportunities for graduate students and faculty.

These activities are made possible with support from the CLAS Dean’s Office and the UF Office of Research.