Vanderbilt University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in TEI/MEI as part of the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster situated within the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities. Applicants are invited from any relevant discipline including the humanities, library science, museum studies, or data science. We are looking for a talented scholar who will train and foster the growing … Continue reading
Academy Colloquium: Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities? Analytics, Tools, Corpora International Conference Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam (NLD), 13-15 December 2018 Funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & the Netherlands eScience Center Hosted by the “Bridging the Gap” project, Utrecht University (NLD), and the Digital Islamic Humanities Project, Brown … Continue reading
Ghent University (Belgium) is starting up a digital humanities project for the development of a data-infrastructure for the study of late medieval Syro-Egyptian elites, their networks, and their social and cultural practices, including their textual production and consumption (13th-15th century). This Mamluk Prosopography Project (MPP), which will build on the achievements of preceding prosopographical projects, … Continue reading
The Digital Islamic Humanities Project, a signature initiative of Middle East Studies at Brown University, is pleased to announce its annual scholarly gathering, a workshop on the topic of print culture in the early modern and modern Middle East. The event is organized in partnership with Gale Publishers, which will present its new digital text … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new edited volume from De Gruyter entitled The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies. Many of the articles in this volume were given as papers at the 2013 conference of the same name, organized by Middle East Studies at Brown University. Table of Contents Elias … Continue reading
On October 16, 2015, the Digital Islamic Humanities Program at Brown University held its third annual scholarly gathering, a symposium on the subject “Distant Reading & the Islamic Archive.” Paper abstracts are available here, and some photos of the event are posted below. The symposium was recorded in its entirety and may be accessed at … Continue reading
Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School, Director of Islamic Legal Studies Program, creator of SHARIAsource) is convening a conference at Harvard next year (May 6 2016) on courts and judicial procedure in Islamic law. The SHARIAsource project recently received a $425,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation, and I imagine that the project may be unveiled publicly around the time … Continue reading
The Digital Islamic Humanities Project at Brown University is pleased to announce its third annual conference, titled “Distant Reading and the Islamic Archive,” which will be held on Friday, October 16, 2015. Speaker biographies, paper abstracts, and the conference program may be found here. Please note that the event is fully subscribed. A live webcast … Continue reading
Vanderbilt University and Syriaca.org invite applications for the open position of Visiting Research Assistant Professor in Syriac Studies and Digital Humanities. The term of appointment is one full year, beginning in fall 2015, with the possibility of renewal for one further year. The Visiting Research Assistant Professor will work full time under the direction of Prof. David … Continue reading
On Thursday, April 23, Prof Elias Muhanna will lead a Digital Resources Workshop for Islamic Studies, with Professor Roy Mottahedeh and András Riedlmayer. This workshop introduces various digital tools and methodologies that may be of interest to scholars of Islamic civilization. The topics discussed will include online text repositories, social network analysis, mapping tools, text … Continue reading
Each year, the number of digitized books, inscriptions, images, documents, and other artifacts from the Islamic world continues to grow. As this archive expands, so too does the repertoire of digital tools for navigating and interpreting its diffuse and varied contents. Drawing upon such tools as topic modeling, context-based search, social network maps, and text … Continue reading
The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities. We welcome applications from recent PhDs in any humanities fields who have expertise in digital approaches to scholarship, especially data mining, mapping and GIS, and/or visualization. The DH Fellow will teach one class per semester, will … Continue reading
If you’re based in the Middle East and have an interest in the digital humanities, there’s a promising new initiative being organized at the American University of Beirut: Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut American University of Beirut 2-6 March 2015 #DHatAUB The humanities in the twenty-first century have taken a decidedly digital turn. In some cases this … Continue reading
On October 17-18, 2014, the Digital Islamic Humanities Project at Brown University organized a workshop on “Textual Corpora” in the Digital Scholarship Lab at Rockefeller Library. We had around forty participants from various universities and institutions from around the world, and we spent a couple of days engaged in fruitful discussions and hands-on tutorial sessions. One of … Continue reading
I’m very grateful to Maxim Romanov for putting together this very helpful program complete with timestamps for each presentation of our 2013 conference. Click the links below to watch each day of presentations in its entirety, and navigate to the talk or discussion section you’re interested in via the slider. Thursday, October 24, 2013 – … Continue reading
Here’s a great Watson Institute write-up about our 2013 conference, by Samuel Adler-Bell. Thanks to Sarah Baldwin-Beneich. Digital Humanities and Middle East Studies New Methodologies for Old Texts Raise Eyebrows Last month “The Digital Humanities and Islamic and Middle East Studies” conference at the Watson Institute brought together scholars from a range of disciplines to … Continue reading
Here’s a write-up by the good folks at the British Library about our 2013 Conference on the Digital Humanities and Islamic + Middle East Studies. Check out the original post for lots of beautiful images accompanying the write-up. Thanks to Nur Sobers-Khan and Daniel Lowe. Two representatives from the British Library attended the recent conference, … Continue reading
Given the challenges Arabic and Islamic studies are facing in the increasingly culturally diverse contexts of contemporary societies, meaningful new methodologies and tools of research need to be explored. The Göttingen Database and Handbook of Classical Islamic Pedagogy is devoted to addressing some of these issues in a three-year research project conducted at the University of … Continue reading
The epistemological basis for the modern critical edition is fundamentally taxonomic: it assumes the notion of prior simplicity, whereby in a vertical fashion the proliferation of textual variants, which are naturally distributed across manuscripts, and are inherent in the very idiosyncratic nature of manuscript production, all descend from an original common source. Also generally assumed is a monogenetic origin … Continue reading
Scholarship on the Arab world, as in other regions, is always haunted by the absent voices of those who cannot be heard. Our understanding of events, our perspective on times and places are always skewed by the uneven record that comes to us for interpretation. At first blush it may appear that the spread of … Continue reading
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