Monday, September 28, 2009

NEH ODH Update: Tips, Deadlines, JISC Awards, New Summer Institute

1) Important Tip for How to Write Your Application: If you are considering applying for an ODH grant, remember to write your application in a clear fashion that can be understood by a non-technical audience. 2) Three Deadlines Rapidly Approaching: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants due October 6; DFG/NEH Enriching Digital Collections due October 8; DFG/NEH Symposia and Workshops due October 29. 3) The NEH has just announced 3 new awards from the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program. Congratulations to the three awardees: American Museum of Natural History -- New York, NY; Arizona State University -- Tempe, AZ; Yale University --New Haven. 4)Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digial Humanities is now taking applications to attend. With funding from the NEH program, the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics at UCLA is hosting a summer institute entitled "Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities." The institute will be held from August 15 - 27, 2010. The institute will focus on the study of large corpora to see how complex networks enable ideas, language, and texts to move across time and space, for more information on the institute.

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