MITH is very pleased to welcome the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium to College Park next week for its 20th Anniversary Members' Meeting. Registration is now closed, but the program is jam-packed with talks, poster sessions, meetings, and social…continue reading
It is with great sadness that MITH notes the passing of Roy Rosenzweig, founding director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (chnm.gmu.edu), as well as professor of history at GMU. Roy's achievements and…continue reading
Rice University's Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center, in partnership with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, was awarded a 2007 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of…continue reading
The Fall 2007 MITH Digital Dialogues schedule is now available (PDF). As always, Digital Dialogues are Tuesdays at 12:30 in the MITH conference room (McKeldin Library). We especially like seeing visitors from our neighboring campuses around town. We…continue reading
The program for the Second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has been set. MITH Associate Director MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM will deliver a keynote entitled "The Remaking of Reading." The University of Maryland's WAYNE McINTOSH…continue reading
The Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to announce two (2) full-time graduate assistantships for the 2007-2008 academic year. We require Web programmers with extensive experience in PHP and JavaScript. Knowledge of…continue reading
MITH is delighted to announce we have received a Digital Humanities Start-Up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities's Digital Humanities Initiative. The $30,000 award will support development of a tool called the Ajax XML Encoder (AXE…continue reading
MITH Associate Director and Associate Professor of English MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM has the cover story in this week's edition of the Chronicle Review in the Chronicle of Higher Education with an essay entitled "Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is delighted to announce we are partnering with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab (creators of…continue reading
The fledgling Web site for centerNet, a new international network of digital humanities centers, is now open. If you know of centers that are not already part of the network, we would appreciate it if you could point them to the Web site and…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is privileged to announce it will be hosting Digital Humanities 2009, the joint annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, encompassing three different…continue reading
The annual Digital Humanities 2007 conference, held this year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has now concluded, and as usual MITH and the University of Maryland community were well-represented, with papers, posters, and/or sessions…continue reading
Dr. Angel David Nieves, assistant professor in the Historic Preservation Program in the School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and Director of Graduate Research and Training in the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity was recently named…continue reading
At the 32nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, to be held in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, MITH Fellow Merle Collins (Professor of English and Comparative Literature) will present on "Africa to the Caribbean: Saraka and Nation in…continue reading
Respond to centernet-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in the world, we are interested in including you in a developing network of such centers. The purpose of…continue reading
On Tuesday, April 24 at 12:30 (MITH's usual Digital Dialogues slot) Stan Ruecker (Humanities Computing, Alberta) will present "The Research Potential of Transferability" as part of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab's Seminar Series, in A.V. Williams…continue reading
MITH Program Associate12-month GA positionMaryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) MITH will be filling at least one twelve-month GA position that reports directly to MITH's Director, Neil Fraistat. Responsibilities include…continue reading
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2007) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a summit meeting to plan a national coalition of…continue reading
*** BRAD PALEY at MARYLAND *** The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland are jointly sponsoring two events by BRAD PALEY, the innovative information…continue reading
MITH is currently inviting applications from the University of Maryland's College of Arts & Humanities and from the University Libraries for a MITH Resident Fellowship during the 2007-2008 academic year. Resident Fellowships offer customized…continue reading
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraskaâ€"Lincoln will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007. Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will…continue reading
MITH Fellow Silvia Mejia's documentary film Just a Click Away (part of her dissertation work) has been selected as one of the official screenings at the upcoming Society for Cinema and Media Studies national conference in Chicago, March 8-1…continue reading
Registration is now open for the Electronic Literature Organization and MITH's May 3rd public symposium on The Future of Electronic Literature. Keynotes are N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA) and Kenneth Thibodeau (National Archives), but that's just the…continue reading
The University of Maryland is part of an international and multi-institutional research team recently awarded a two-year $1,000,000 grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a humanities text-mining project called "Metadata Offer New Knowledge…continue reading