HI All,
Please see below
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From: Posner, Miriam <mposner@humnet.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:05 AM
Dear Matt,
I’m writing to let you know about an opportunity that may interest
your program’s faculty and staff. Beyond the Digitized Slide Library
is an eight-day summer institute to be held at the University of
California, Los Angeles, July 5-15, 2015. Participants will learn
about debates and key concepts in the digital humanities and gain
hands-on experience with tools and techniques for art historical
research (including data visualization, network graphs, and digital
mapping). More fundamentally, the Institute will be an opportunity for
participants to imagine what digital art history can be: What
constitutes art historical “data”? How shall we name and classify this
data? Which aspects of art historical knowledge are amenable to
digitization, and which aspects resist it?
With major support for the program provided by the Getty Foundation,
participants will receive travel and lodging in Los Angeles for the
duration of the Institute. UCLA’s team of leading digital humanities
technologists will be joined by faculty members Johanna Drucker
(Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, Information
Studies), Todd Presner (Chair, Digital Humanities Program, and
Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature), and
Miriam Posner (Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Institute
Director).
Participants will be selected on the basis of their ability to
formulate compelling research questions about the conjunction of
digital humanities and art history, as well as their potential to
disperse the material they glean to colleagues at their home
institutions and to the field at large.
Applicants must possess an advanced degree in art history or a related
field. The application is open to faculty members, curators,
independent scholars, and other professionals who conduct art
historical research. We define “art history” broadly to include the
study of art objects and monuments of all times and places. Current
graduate students are not eligible to apply. If you have questions
about eligibility, please contact Institute Director Miriam Posner at
mposner@humnet.ucla.edu.
Please apply online at http://www.humanities.ucla.edu/getty.
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. PST on March 1, 2015.
Thank you for helping us spread the word about this opportunity.
Please do let me know if I can provide further information.
Sincerely,
Miriam Posner
Institute Director
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Miriam Posner, Ph.D. | UCLA | Coordinator and Core Faculty, Digital
Humanities Program
Public Affairs 1070 | (310) 206-7575 | @miriamkp