Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
This program supports major training institutes that enable digital humanities experts to share their knowledge with colleagues from around the country. The training events must be regional or national in scope. Funded institutes train participants to use new technologies and methodologies that can be applied to enhance humanities research, education, preservation, access, or public programming.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html

HT-50010, University of Southern California:
Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship.
This 2009 institute is aimed at humanities scholars who are interested in learning to use new modes of scholarly communication. Participants will learn how to publish their work in multimedia formats, making use, for example, of audio, video, computer simulations, and interactive maps. The institute will include guest lecturers as well as hands-on collaborations between scholars and technologists.
Project URL: vectorsjournal.org/journal/blog/announcements/cfp-announced-for-vectors-iml-summer-2009-neh-institute/

HT-50013, University of Illinois, Urbana:
Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory.
In 2009 the University of Illinois, Urbana, is organizing nine institutes and one joint conference for humanities scholars, to be hosted by three high-performance computing centers: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. These institutes will bring together humanities scholars and scientists who work with high-performance computers. Participants will learn how to make use of fast computation to further their humanities research. Through this program the high-performance computing centers, which generally work with scientists, will learn how humanities scholars can benefit from their facilities.
Project URL: www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/08/0905Institutefor.html