When the NEH first launched our Digital Humanities Initiative (now known as the Office of Digital Humanities) nearly three years ago, one of our goals was to help spur more work in the wide range of scholarly activities that might fall under the banner of "digital humanities."  It is great to see [...]

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I'm happy to say that the guidelines for the DFG/NEH Symposia and Workshops Program are now available.  This program, funded by the NEH and the DFG in Germany, is designed to fund joint workshops between American and German scholars and scientists who are working together on digital humanities projects or discussing issues related to the field.  Deadline for applications is November 4, 2008.
 
I should note that this is the second of two joint programs we have with the DFG.  The earlier program is called DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Projects and has a deadline of October 15, 2008.
 
If you are working with (or are considering working with) colleagues in Germany, I urge you to check out these ... Read More »

As regular readers know, the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities has an ongoing Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) Initiative.  I wanted to let you know about two upcoming HHPC-related events. 
 
On Monday, October 6, NEH staff will present at a workshop here in Washington, D.C., entitled "Humanities Applications for the World Community Grid." This full-day workshop will feature IBM computer scientists who will conduct a hands-on session describing how high performance computer systems can be used for humanities research.  [...]

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