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EMAILThe NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funds workshops and institutes on various topics in the digital humanities. For most institutes, attendance is free and includes reimbursement for travel and lodging. To sign up for an institute, please see below
Attend An ODH Funded Institute
Current Opportunities
Early Modern Digital Agendas
Early Modern Digital Agendas is a three-week summer institute to be hosted by the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in July 2013. Jonathan Hope, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, will direct a survey of the most current resources and methods in digital research in early modern studies.
Project Director: Owen Williams
Location:
Dates: July 8, 2013 - July 26, 2013
To be held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
Application Information: Website
Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice
A training institute in practical and theoretical approaches to 3D real-time visualization of cultural heritage sites for twenty humanities scholars jointed hosted by Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas.
Project Director: Alyson Gill and David Frederick
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Dates: June 17, 2013 - July 6, 2013
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro campus in northeast Arkansas in the Mississippi Delta region, and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF), located in northwest Arkansas
Application Information: Website
Linked Ancient World Data Institute
A two-year series of summer seminars, hosted by New York University and Drew University, for humanities scholars, library and museum professionals, and advanced graduate students on the possibilities of the Linked Open Data model for use in humanities scholarship with a particular focus on Ancient Mediterranean and Near East studies.
Project Director: Tom Elliott
Location:
Dates: May 30, 2013 - June 1, 2013
The 2013 opportunity will be held at the Drew University campus in New Jersey
Application Information: Website
Digital Humanities Data Curation
As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science- which come together in the research, and practice of data curation - will become more vital to humanists.
The three-day workshop will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the digital humanities. Learning will be largely case-based, supplemented by short lectures, guest presentations, and practical exercises.
Project Director: Trevor Muñoz
Location:
Dates: Various dates in 2013 and 2014. The first one will be June 24-26, 2013.
The first workshop will be held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Additional institutes will be hosted by Brown University and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Application Information: Website
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS)
A four-day institute at the University of Texas, Austin's School of Information, with a follow-up workshop for humanities scholars, librarians, archivists, and advanced graduate students on the use of analytical tools to study digital audio collections of spoken word, such as oral histories, poetry, and Native American oral traditions.
Project Director: Tanya Clement
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Dates: The institute will be held May 29-June 1, 2013 with a follow-up meeting in May 2014.
The first institute (the "A-Side") will be hosted by the University of Texas, Austin's School of Information with a follow-up (the "B-Side") meeting in May 2014.
Application Information: Website
Taking TEI Further: Teaching and Publication
A series of workshops to be held at Brown University for humanities faculty, related staff, and graduate students to explore advanced uses of digital text encoding for use in humanities scholarship and teaching.
Project Director: Julia Flanders
Location:
Dates: Various Dates in 2012 - 2015
To be held at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Application Information: Website
One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising
A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered tool design, development, and implementation, followed by a year of development support and evaluation.
Project Director: Tom Scheinfeldt
Location:
Dates: July 28, 2013 - August 3, 2013
George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Application Information: Website
Past Opportunities
Working with Text in a Digital Age
A three-week institute with follow-up activities at Tufts University on the use of computational and corpus linguistics methodologies for scholarly research for humanities scholars, library professionals, and graduate students.
Project Director: Greg Crane, Monica Berti, Anke Lüdeling
Location:
Dates: July 23, 2012 - August 10, 2012
To be held at Tufts University in Medford, MA.
Application Information: Website
Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in Advanced Geo-spatial Technologies and the Spatial Humanities
A two-week institute and follow-up activities for humanities scholars to consider the potential for incorporating geospatial theories, methodologies and technologies into humanities research and teaching, with a particular focus on the history of religion in the United States.
Project Director: David Bodenhamer
Location:
Dates: June 18, 2012 - June 29, 2012
To be held in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI’s Polis Center.
Application Information: Website
Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities
A three-week summer institute hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles to explore how geospatial technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used for teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.
Project Director: Todd Presner
Location:
Dates: June 18, 2012 - July 3, 2012
To be held in Los Angeles on the campus of UCLA.
Application Information: Website
High Performance Computing Collaboratory
A series of workshops to be held at the University of South Carolina and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to consider uses of high-performance computing applications in humanities research and teaching.
Project Director: Jijun Tang (University of South Carolina) and Michael Simeone (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Location:
Dates: Meets various dates in summer 2012
To be held in Champaign, IL and Columbia, SC.
Application Information: Website