Month: February 2014

Grant Writing in the (Digital) Humanities Workshop: 2/26

Grant Writing in the (Digital) Humanities
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
12 p.m.
Digital Media Commons, 129 Herring Hall

How might humanities scholars secure funding for their projects, particularly in the digital humanities? This workshop will explore where to look for funding, how to prepare a grant application, and what distinguishes successful applications. Panelists include Jason Rhody, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (via desktop videoconferencing); Phyllis McBride, ‎Director, Office of Proposal Development at Rice University; and Katie Carpenter, Director, Foundation Relations. Bring your questions and funding ideas.

Lunch will be provided. Please register (and make your lunch choice) at http://bit.ly/1kHMhtF by Monday, February 24.

Upcoming Events: Talks, Grant Funding Workshop and TX DH Conference

February features a few exciting digital humanities events in the Houston area:

  • Monday, February 10, 2014, 4:30 PM  to 6:00 PM:  Peter Bol, Ephemera Lecture III – “Digital Humanities Projects for China Studies” (117  Humanities Building). Bol, the Charles H. Carswell Professor East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, was the director of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis and directs both the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project and the China Biographical Database project. As Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, he is responsible for HarvardX.
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2014, noon to 1 p.m. “Securing Grant Funding for Digital Humanities Projects.” This panel discussion features Jason Rhody from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (via desktop video conferencing), Phyllis McBride from Rice’s Office of Proposal Development, and Katie Carpenter from the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Room TBA. Please sign up by February 24 so we can make sure you get a lunch.
  • Friday, February 28, 3:00-5:00 PM: Fred Gibbs, “Processes and Products in the Digital Humanities,”  University of Houston, AH 106. Gibbs, who is Assistant Professor of History University of New Mexico, studies the  intersection of natural philosophy, medicine, and the human body throughout the medieval and early modern periods.  His publications include “Critical Discourse in the Digital Humanities,” “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing,” and “A Conversation with Data: Prospecting Victorian Words and Ideas” (with Dan Cohen).

Also, abstracts for the Inaugural Texas Digital Humanities Conference are due on February 15. The conference will take place on April 10-12, 2014 at the University of Houston, Main Campus and features some great keynote speakers: Erez Lieberman Aiden (of Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and Google Labs), Geoffrey Rockwell (Alberta), Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin), and Elijah Meeks (Stanford).

If you’d like to participate in the Rice Digital Humanities group, please fill out a survey to help define the group’s mission.

Finally, please sign up for the Rice Digital Humanities mailing list: https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/ricedh