Submission deadline: February 21, 2025 DH Showcase: March 27, 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET (Register) The interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) aims to bring together humanistic inquiry and digital technologies, organizing new modes of archival research, developing computer-aided methodologies for answering humanistic questions, curating digitized collections of all kinds, bringing digital platforms into the classroom in creative ways, and engaging critically with the culture of digital media. In order to encourage collaboration and community at Rutgers, and regionally in the state of New Jersey, the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative invites contributions to a Digital Humanities Showcase, to be held at Alexander LibraryRead More →

Introduction to Zotero Thursday, January 23, 2025, 10:00-11:00 a.m., online (registration link) Slides, handout, and video available at libguides.rutgers.edu/zotero/tutorials Zotero is a free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. In this introductory, hands-on workshop, we’ll learn how to create collections for different projects, attach PDFs and notes to references, tag references for easy searching, and generate citations and bibliographies. Please download Zotero 7.0 for your OS and the connector for your favorite browser. Finding and Creating Textual Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences Thursday, February 13, 2025, 2:00-3:00 p.m., online (registration link) Just because the Libraries subscribe doesn’t necessarily mean thatRead More →

Overview Deadline: February 1, 2025 Award: up to $1,000 Funding/Project Period: April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026 Download CFP The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) invites proposals from graduate students in any Rutgers–New Brunswick humanities department or program for seed grants of up to $1,000 to support digital humanities projects in research and/or public outreach. These projects may, but need not, be related to the applicant’s dissertation research. Grants will support projects conducted during the 12 months from the date of award (i.e. April 1, 2025–March 30, 2026). Digital humanities encompasses scholarship that applies computing technologies in humanistic inquiry or studies computing technology humanistically. Examples of digitalRead More →

As part of its Graduate Specialist program, the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries seek a Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist to investigate issues of diversity relating to data science and statistical data and present on their findings to the Rutgers Community. It is expected that the Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist will develop and deliver presentations and workshops and be available for consultation on their areas of expertise. For Fall 2024, this work will be primarily online.  It is anticipated that the specialist will work approximately five hours per week on their topics with the aim of presenting open presentations and workshops on their findings and make availableRead More →

Welcome to our Fall 2024 digital humanities programming! Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to explore a wider range of offerings, including data science and qualitative data streams. Reserve your spot to receive Zoom links and do-ahead software downloads and workshop materials. Events RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI: A Public Symposium for Design Justice Thinkers Thursday, September 12, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library Register (virtual attendance only) Join us in person or virtually for a one-day hybrid symposium on design justice and critical AI literacies perspectives on the future of research,Read More →