Call for Applications – Digital Humanities Seminar, Fall 2016

The Digital Humanities seminar is part of a new Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) jointly sponsored by the CAS Dean’s office, BU Center for the Humanities, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Research, and Office of the Associate Provost for Research.

We invite applications for an experimental seminar, meeting weekly during the Fall 2016 semester, devoted to learning about and developing Digital Humanities (DH) project proposals. The seminar will comprise up to 14 participants, including faculty, BU-affiliated post-docs, and graduate students. Meetings will consist of guided discussion with experienced DH practitioners and software engineers; topics will include audience, types of data, interactivity, submission, and sustainability. This is an opportunity to learn about developing a DH project from the ground up, to explore ideas with other seminar participants, and to work towards developing a DH proposal. The two final meetings of the seminar will be devoted to presenting project pitches.

Faculty projects that are sufficiently conceptualized by the end of the seminar will be awarded preliminary development grants for the spring 2016 semester.

The seminar will run weekly from mid-September through early December (precise day and time TBD). Participants must commit to attend all weekly meetings. Faculty and post-doctoral seminar participants will each receive a $1500 supplement. Graduate students will receive up to $1000, specific funding situation permitting.

Applications are available on the Deadlines and Applications page of the BUCH website.

To apply, please send a completed application form and a current curriculum vitae, compiled as a single PDF email attachment, to humdean@bu.edu – subject line DH Seminar.

Proposals are due by Friday, April 15th. Participants will be notified in early May.