JOB ALERT! ๐๐
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) โ & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
apply.workable.com/middleburyco...
Probably not based on a true story
I feel heard.
Calling all #DigitalHumanities folks, esp in the U.S. I'm repping @ach.bsky.social on an ADHO ad hoc committee that's looking into recommending a standard peer review protocol for future DH conferences. Please take a few moments to complete this anonymous survey, even if you're not a member of ACH
Fellowship: The Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies to utilize digital methods, the Libraryโs large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
Digital Classicist London 2026 Call for Papers #cfp
blog.stoa.org/archives/4370
I'm told that one or two spaces have just become available on the ICS Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you're interested in learning photogrammetry, RTI, 3D design, 3D printing, paradata and heritage ethics, join us!
Having just seen *The Winter's Tale* at ASC last summer, this is hilarious.
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
Reminder that the SCS2027 Digital Classics Association panel CFP on "Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics" is out!
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
I gave a presentation on Digital Humanities and Ancient History this afternoon. My slides (which I didn't get all the way through, because I only had two hours [including lots of discussion], not four!) are here: tinyurl.com/DHandAH2026
A white background with an orange ring and the green IIPC log sitting on the right side of the ring. In the the centre of the ring in green text reads - IIPC Collaborative Collections #IIPC-CDG
IIPC CDG won the Celebrating Digital Innovation in Sporting Heritage Award 2025 for their preservation of Olympic & Paralympic Games. @sportingheritage.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vyu
#WebArchiving #SportingHeritage #IIPC-CDG #Olympics #Paralympics
Not the _first_ run, but saw Tarkovsky's Solaris at the Brattle in Cambridge, MA during its 1991 release tour.
My wife nearly bought it for me for my birthday, based on the cover, not realizing I had finished it weeks earlier in the ebook.
Critiquing a programming language, I said it was "simultaneously too prolix and not expressive enough," and now I'm worried that could be my own epitaph.
What is a Digital Humanities PhD?
Seminar with DH colleagues from Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Manchester, open to all students or others considering a DH PhD at some point. Monday 9th March 2026, 16:30 GMT. Online only.
Register at: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Quote with 5 jobs you've had:
1. Janitor at a state mental hospital
2. Substitute teacher
3. Production assistant at an academic journal
4. Technical typist at a small lab
5. Software developer at a large library
A lot of people with classics degrees will say "ancient Greek and Latin" out of habit to avoid the kind of exchange my advisor once had on a plane: "What do you do?" "I'm a professor of Classics." "Oh, I adore Shakespeare!"
Coming up in the #SunoikisisDC programmeโฆ
3D Modelling and Visualisation, with @archaeobruja.bsky.social and Katrine Haydock, Thursday 29th January at 16:00 GMT ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Photo of a group of people gathered around a table leaning over to examine the details of a historic map laid out on it. One of the women in the picture is pointing to a detail on the map while the others look on. From 2026โs H-65: Material Foundations of Map History, 1450โ1900 (Photo by Andrew Shurtleff). Text above and below the image reads, โRare Book School 2026. Apply Today! rarebookschool.org/schedule. FIRST-ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 FEBRUARY.โ
Rare Book School is accepting applications for our summer 2026 coursesโincluding new course offerings & partner locations!
Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule
The first-round deadline is ๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
My take: AI can enhance expertise but cannot replace it. You have to know what good looks like.
Just started, flurry, big flakes, Aspen Hill
Congratulations!
Free event at the British Library on Monday 9 Feb (18.30 GMT): โWeb archive research in an age of Smart Dataโ
Heads up, DC neighbors. Scheduled between midnight and 2:00AM. Will likely wake us all.
Join ACH leadership! We're looking for 3 new Executive Council members to serve a 4-year term (2026-2030), 1 new member to serve for 2 years on the Executive Council (2026-2028), and a (co)Vice President(s)/President(s) Elect. Nominations due by 2/13/2026. buff.ly/fEp0SVf
๐ฅ Dr Caroline Barron (Durham) and Dr Gabriel Bodard (University of London) are organising an online are organising a โจ free and onlineโจ EpiDoc workshop!
๐ 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'
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20 Feb, 2โ3:30pm
๐ Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Could be "Much Ado About Nothing," could be "The Trojan Women."
A screenshot of a Merriam-Webster post of a gif, that says "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go." There is an animated GIF image on the post which shows a sequence of words almost too fast to read, and this screenshot shows the GIF stopped on the word "theatrical."
Could be good, good be ... bad.
