Grossartige Nachrichten: «Der Filmwissenschaftler @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social übernimmt ab Januar 2026 die Leitung des Schweizer Filmarchivs (Cinémathèque suisse) mit Sitz in Lausanne – einer Institution, die das nationale Filmerbe sammelt, konserviert und zugänglich macht.» Gratulation!
🎬Our interview series "Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History" is out now! 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
Wie sichtbar sind #Filmpionierinnen in digitalen Datenbanken?📽️ In unserer #BMFTR Forschungsgruppe #DAVIF haben wir die #Metadaten unserer Kooperationspartner*innen #DFF und #WFPP mittels #Datenvisualisierungen analysiert.
🎯 Die Ergebnisse stehen nun online: davif-datavis.online.uni-marburg.de ✨
Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:
Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position
Please share widely!
#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
📯 Julianne Nyhan at #DigitalHistoryOFK: "Mixed-methods Digital Oral History" - exploring AI transcription, Semantic Web tech & multimodal approaches to oral history data
📅 9 July, 4-6 pm CET, hybrid
ℹ️ dhistory.hypotheses....
#DigitalHistory #4memory #OralHistory #AIinHumanities
#DigitalHumanities PhD position
TONIGHT! For those of you who want to join online, here's the live stream: youtube.com/live/54i0VSo...
CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community,"
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
✨ Thrilled to give a keynote at this year's RMeS Summer School "Media Transformations"! I'll be speaking about cultural heritage metadata & data visualizations. Looking forward to connecting with media studies students and colleagues - many thanks to @timvanderheijden.bsky.social for the invitation!
Such a great panel! It was so much fun to be the respondent — amazing insights into the challenges of preserving and studying amateur film using digital tools. Grateful to be part of it! 💬🎬❤️
✨ Such a delight to officially launch our new book "Doing Digital Film History. Concepts, Tools, Practices" at #NECS2025 in Lisbon! 📕Thanks to my co-editors, the contributors, and the team at De Gruyter! 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#DigitalFilmHistory #MediaStudies #DH #DataPractices
Nothing like holding an actual book! Congrats @sarahmaidang.bsky.social @timvanderheijden.bsky.social and Christian Olesen on the open access Doing Digital Film History! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Excited to be part of two panels on #historicalgaps and #metadata at the #NECS Conference in Lisbon this week (18-21 June): "Feminist Interventions in Film and Media Historiographical Narratives” & “Digital Approaches to Archival Collections”. If you’re in town, come join us! 🔗 necs.org/conference
⏰ The clock is ticking!
@dariaheu.bsky.social - HR's #CFP is closing soon!
Get ready to share your ideas at the 5th DARIAH-HR Conference on Digital Humanities & Heritage.
📅 October 22–24
📌Osijek, Croatia
Submit your abstract by ⏳ 15 June here↩️
shorturl.at/pttNi
More ℹ️: dhh.dariah.hr/2025/home/
Wer die Wissenschaft schützen will, muss die AfD verbieten
Warum Zeit zum Handeln ist und welche Verantwortung die Wissenschaft jetzt hat. Ein Gastbeitrag von Andreas Fischer-Lescano.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/05/27/w...
#KI wirft ethische Fragen auf, die neue Antworten verlangen. Unser #weizenbaumforum im Mai bringt feministische und dekoloniale Perspektiven zusammen, um Verantwortung, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit im Einsatz von KI zu beleuchten.
📅 Jetzt anmelden: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
#Heute und #Morgen finden vier Workshops der FernUniversität Hagen zu Begriffen wie »Berührung«, »Roboter«, »Feed«, »Kollektivität«, »Algorithmische Ungleichheit« und »Digitaler Faschismus« statt.
➡️ www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/wo...
Conference poster: Online Conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality". 23 - 24 June 2025. Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Ethan Zuckerman, Ramesh Srinivasan. Program and registration: Scan QR-Code ReDICo is a project of the University of Jena sponsored by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
The Institute for Digital Humanities in Göttingen is hiring!
Lecturer in Digital Humanities (50%, permanent) starting July 1, 2025.
A second 50% position is available in the ForContext project.
Apply by May 9!
Details: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html
#DigitalHumanities #DHJobs […]
The “Alternatives to Detention” program, overseen by a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, highlights tech’s “growing role in guarding borders...opening lucrative avenues for private industry while expanding government authority.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
Triff dieses hübsche Buch morgen auf der #lbm25!
@kathrinyacavone.bsky.social & ich stellen es am Fr. 28. März um 10:30 - 11:00 Uhr im Forum Sachbuch (Halle 5, Stand E700) vor.
Eine herzliche Einladung!
@kwi-essen.bsky.social
#reimer #kwiontour
📎
www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pco/de/buchm...
If you’re interested in Restoring Truth and Sanity™️ to history, consider submitting a proposal to the special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social that I’m editing on “Reproductive Politics and Media Histories.” Due APRIL 1.
A memorial image of Linda Williams (1946–2025). She is pictured wearing glasses and a black blazer, smiling. The text 'IN MEMORIAM' appears at the bottom.
1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.
"White House officials informed the Navajo Nation that an artificial intelligence-powered automated review process looking for content with DEI initiatives led to the elimination of anything mentioning 'Navajo,' according to a statement from Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren."
Liebes Bluesky,
für einen Artikel brauche ich Beispiele für Datenbanken/Infrastrukturen/Beobachtungssysteme/wiss. Austauschforen, die für die internationale Wissenschaft wichtig sind und bislang mit US-Bundesmitteln finanziert werden. Danke für Tipps! Gern reposten.
Wer möchte etwas zum Thema "Arbeit an Hochschulen" auf dem Symposium an der @tuberlin.bsky.social am 3./4. November 2025 beitragen? Anbei ein #CFP. Bis 15.6. kann man Vorschläge einreichen!
#IchBinHanna
This is a very helpful list from my colleagues at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/03/19/t...
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
