The guidelines for the fifth round of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program are now available! We’re looking for organizations and institutions interested in leading next year’s crop of institutes. This year's application deadline is March 6, 2012.

 With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, in the fall 2011 SUNY’s Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) will be hosting a series of workshops for teams of humanities faculty and administrators on methods and approaches to creating internationally-connected humanities courses that use digital technology to bring together students and teachers across international classrooms. Drawing from their experience in this area, the SUNY team will address not only the technical issues of bringing the classes together, but the pedagogical ones as well. How can bringing in the perspectives of internationally-based students add to the learning environment?

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, in summer 2011 the University of Southern California will be hosting a four-week summer institute to explore the use of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities scholarship within the context of American Studies. The institute will be held July 18-August 12, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
 

The moment that you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. Yes, the guidelines for the fourth round of the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program are now available! We’re looking for organizations interested in leading next year’s crop of institutes. This year's application deadline is February 16, 2011.

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, in summer 2011 the University of Virginia and NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) will be hosting the first of two summer institutes on evaluating digital scholarship. The institute will be held May 30 to June 3, 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the College of Liberal Arts and the Complex Systems Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are pleased to announce their summer 2011 institute on Computer Simulations in the Humanities. The institute will be held June 1-17, 2011 with a follow-up event June 1-3, 2012.

With funding from the NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities,  the Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Denver is pleased to announce their 2011-2012 Institute for the Digital Humanities. This is a non-residential fellowship program, although participation is required in two on-campus events at the beginning (June 2011) and end (September 2012) of the 18-month project period, as well as in one video teleconference at the project's midpoint (December 2011).

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced six new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.  These grants support national or regional training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. These awards are part of a larger group of 120 awards announced today by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release. Awards in the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program (click on each for more details): Colorado Seminary -- Denver, CO University of Denver's Institute for the Digital Humanities Adrienne Russell, Project Director Outright: $249,983 To support: A series of three workshops held over 18 months for twenty humanities faculty and advanced graduate students on the use of digital media in scholarship and teaching. SUNY Research Foundation, Albany -- Albany, NY Institute for Globally Networked Learning...

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