Brown University

  • Workshop Date: April 4-5, 2019
  • Workshop Location: Patrick Ma Digital Studio, Room 137, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect St.  Providence RI
  • Call for Regional Participation Released: February 7, 2019
  • Deadline for Applications: February 28, 2019
  • Date of Notification of Acceptance: March 7, 2019
  • Bursaries: Up to $1,000 available to cover travel and lodging for each out-of-town participant.

For this convening of the Sustaining DH Institute, we will be actively recruiting participants from the Northeastern United States. The day-by-day schedule planned for all workshops may be found at this link, or by using the “Daily Workshop Schedule” entry in the main menu. All additional site-specific information about the convening hosted by Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island will be posted by January 24, 2019.

For a more general description of the Sustaining DH Institute (an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities), please see our project’s homepage. A list of all five of the sites chosen for the Sustaining DH Institute, as well as the dates scheduled for their workshops, may be found on the homepage as well as the main menu.

To Apply

All applicants are to submit two brief statements in order to be considered for participation in this “Sustaining DH” workshop. First, applicants must produce an abstract of 500-750 words describing the digital project that they wish to bring to the workshop at Brown University (April 4-5, 2019), including a statement of their commitment to its sustainability. This brief description should address:

  1. The project’s intellectual goals,
  2. A description of the project’s current use of digital technologies,
  3. The size of its team (although no preference will be given to larger or smaller teams),
  4. The audience the project aims to reach,
  5. How long it has been in existence (although no preference will be given to newer or more mature projects), and
  6. The scope of any current sustainability plans and the team’s commitment to the project’s ongoing sustainability.

In addition to this abstract, applicants are to offer a brief (250-500 word) logistical description of:

  1. The nature and extent of the project’s local digital sustainability resources,
  2. Its current institutional support (if any),
  3. The number of project team members who wish to attend as well as those team members’ role(s) on the project, and
  4. The distance the project team members will need to travel to attend.

Participants will be selected for inclusion in the workshops based on the robustness of their project description, including their commitment to attend to its sustainability. The recipients of the travel bursaries will be selected on the basis of the distance the participant(s) need to travel in order to attend the workshop as well as the fragility of their local digital sustainability infrastructure. We will also prioritize those applicants who currently work with, or who are currently training to work with, underrepresented communities or who are being trained to work with diverse, expansive publics.

These two statements (project abstract and logistical description) should be combined into a single PDF file along with brief (two-page) CVs for those team members who wish to participate in the workshop. This PDF should then be sent to the Institute’s organizers, Alison Langmead, Aisling Quigley, and Chelsea Gunn, at vmwshop@pitt.edu. The application deadline for the Sustaining DH Workshop at Brown University is February 28, 2019.

All self-recognized digital humanities practitioners are welcome to apply, including (but not limited to) those who call themselves librarians, archivists, museum professionals, information professionals, university faculty, staff, and independent scholars.

Should you have any questions about the workshops or the application process, please do not hesitate to be in touch with this workshop’s facilitators, Alison Langmead and Chelsea Gunn, at vmwshop@pitt.edu. We are also holding weekly “virtual office hours” Tuesdays from 10am-12pm and Wednesdays from 10am-12pm (EST) during which we will be available to answer questions about both this NEH-funded Institute and also any digital-humanities-focused sustainability questions you might have.

Site-Specific Logistics

Accommodation

The following link, provided by Jim McGrath, Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Public Humanities and Elli Mylonas, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship will direct you to a list of local hotels that offer special rates for visitors of Brown University:

https://www.campustravel.com/university/brown/visit_brown.html

Parking

For information on visitor parking at Brown, see the University’s visitor parking page:

https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/transportation/parking/visitor-parking

Food

Close to Campus:

Den Den Korean Fried Chicken
182 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906

East Side Pockets
278 Thayer St, Providence, RI 02906

Flatbread Company
161 Cushing St, Providence, RI 02906

Ganko Ittetsu Ramen
215 Thayer St., Providence, RI 02906

Kabob and Curry
261 Thayer St, Providence, RI 02906

Downtown:

AS220
115 Empire St, Providence, RI 02903

Ken’s Ramen
69 Washington St, Providence, RI 02903

North
122 Fountain St, Providence, RI 02903

For more suggestions, see this map of restaurants in Providence.