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Brown University's digital scholarship hub, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), provides inspiration, expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication to Brown faculty, staff, and students
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Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library @browncds.bsky.social · Oct 8
No #DigitalHumanities Salon this Friday, but check out our full Fall schedule below!
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🗣 The call for papers for the international conference ‘Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue’ has been extended until 26 January 2026.
📍 It will take place at the University of Évora (and online) on 26 and 27 February 2026.
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Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue | Conference | IHC
This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social in the history of the “information age,” cybernetics, computing, digital technology, artificial intelligence, and/or the emergence of data-driven methods in the sciences and beyond. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69559/b...
Brown University - Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Computational Technology | H-Net
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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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brettbobley.bsky.social
On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...
NEH Award Search
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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openhistoricalmap.org
Props to @timetravel628.bsky.social for a gorgeous new way to explore the OpenHistoricalMap’s coverage of #HistoricBoundaries!
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 AM
browncds.bsky.social
See you at noon next WEDNESDAY, 12/10 in the Rockefeller Library Digital Scholarship Lab (rm 137) for our next #DigitalHumanities Salon! The Brown University Digital Publications team will present their portfolio, and current practices + concerns. Register here: tinyurl.com/yc2nrcrb
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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ecds-emory.bsky.social
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month by revisiting our Southern Spaces interview with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery on the making of Lumbeeland.

A powerful conversation on Indigenous storytelling, collaboration, and Lumbee experiences today.

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November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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historians.org
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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lauraestill.bsky.social
Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly

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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.

This event is online only. All are welcome!

Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The image contains the cover of Schmitt's book (which shows the title, author and a drawing of an island) and the JCB logo.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Grateful for the good work of @ctpublic.bsky.social in airing this segment, which features the voices of regional tribal members and also mentions the @stolenrelations.bsky.social project. www.ctpublic.org/2025-11-14/i...
The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond
It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous slavery. As colonial powers took over Native land, white settlers were enslavin...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Annotated editions are such a treat. Martin Gardner's annotated Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass is a classic for a reason.
drbibliomane.bsky.social Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20d
If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen — Harvard University Press
Celebrate with six gorgeous annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics. “A sumptuous reading experience…richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A ...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The Mapping Deportations project has an animated timeline of who gets deported in the US. In the 1910s the US starts deporting more Mexicans than any other group & doesn't let up through the present day. You can follow which groups are the targets of immigrant panics pretty clearly.
Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
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November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
kawulf.bsky.social Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 20d
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Providence, RI: reminder! TOMORROW, November 14, Riffraff Bookstore will host the launch event for David O'Connell's new book of poetry, At Some Point! David will be in conversation with Julie Danho. Details: riffraffpvd.com/events/
At the top, text reads "launch event and signing: David O'Connell in conversation with Julie Danho, November 14, 2025, @ 6 p.m., Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, RI." At the bottom, a photo of the cover of At Some Point, which is mostly blue, looking into a window lit up with orange light, with a staircase visible
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
browncds.bsky.social
See you at noon this Friday in the Digital Scholarship Lab (rm 137) for our next #DigitalHumanitiesSalon! Patsy Lewis and Tarika Sankar will present their digital project that documents 2025 federal initiatives on communities of color in RI & community responses. Register here: tinyurl.com/d76v7xtf
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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READ this multi-authored piece in Katina Magazine on how university presses & libraries can collaborate to advance #openaccess scholarly communication, foster #diversity & broaden access to knowledge. @aupresses.bsky.social #digitalpublishing #collaboration
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University Presses and Libraries, Teaming Up to Innovate
Stories from three institutions show how university presses and libraries can collaborate to advance open access scholarly communication, foster diversity, and broaden access to knowledge.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Today in person and online!

Join the Brown Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern U.) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America (Oxford UP, 2025).

Details:
events.brown.edu/event/321221...
The image shows the book cover, which features documents and other historical items and the title: Lineage: Genealogoy and the Power of Connection in Early America.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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aupresses.bsky.social
With higher ed funding under threat, university presses are tuning out the noise & sticking to their values, reports @publisherswkly.bsky.social. University presses remain committed to publishing works that will build a better society. Read more: https://bit.ly/43pEj33
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cannot wait to share this with all of you!
chronictanvi.bsky.social tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · Nov 6
Lula Iola Mack, a student of W.E.B. Du Bois who contributed to the making of the phenomenal Data Portraits visualizing black america.

Here she is visualized amongst 3,856 other black graduates Du Bois surveyed. #DataByDesign #DataViz
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Taster Session: Introduction to Responsible AI
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"This is partially a story of my own cowardice and partially a cautionary tale about employee retention, but perhaps more importantly, it is a story of institutional cultural ineptitude."
libraryleadpipe.bsky.social In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · Nov 5
"This article speaks to the cultural context of the harm that racism and colonialism cause for Indigenous peoples that they encounter in institutions of higher education, including libraries."
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/more-th...
More Than Sage Smoke and Mascots: How Well Do You Know Your Indigenous Patrons and Employees? – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025! (via Digital Preservation Council) www.dpconline.org/news/start-o... #dpc
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
browncds.bsky.social
Join us this THURSDAY, 10/30 at noon in the Digital Scholarship Lab (rm 137) for our next #DigitalHumanities Salon! Renee Ater and Khanh Vo will present on their digital repository Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past. Register here: tinyurl.com/mp8k3v3e
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We now have @allisonlevy.bsky.social from Brown University Digital Publications @browncds.bsky.social presenting on 'New Approaches to Collaboration'.

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#OpenAccess #OAWeek
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM