The Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice University seeks to appoint one postdoctoral fellow with a PhD in the humanities, interpretive social sciences, or the arts for AY 2024-25, to participate in our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, “Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice.” The Medical Humanities Research Institute includes Continue Reading »
DECODINGSSociety for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2023, Vol. 34, No.1 (December 1 edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate (Dallas) *Executive & Business Meeting Notes*SLSA Awards: Essay, Book, Lifetime and Travel Stipends*Social Media Liaisons* Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *AnthropoScene Book Series *European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Continue Reading »
This book investigates the future of digital imaging and human perception in the age of AI, while trying to imagine ways of rendering a better future. THE PERCEPTION MACHINE: OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC FUTURE BETWEEN THE EYE AND AI by Joanna Zylinska Thanks to MIT Press’s Direct to Open program, The Perception Machine is freely available to download: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5687/The-Perception-MachineOur-Photographic-Future Paper copies are Continue Reading »
I am reaching out to share our position announcement for an Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies with expertise in Environmental Humanities and Sustainability. The focus of the position, broadly construed, is on urban environmental/sustainability within larger structures of unequal economic, political, social, and/or ideological relations. We especially welcome approaches to the environmental humanities that address poverty, health, education, LGBTQ equity, Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Fall 2023, Vol. 33, No.41 (October 31 edition) *SLSA 2023: Alien, Arizona State University *Election Results: Incoming Members-at-Large *Executive & Business Meeting Notes*SLSA Awards: Essay, Book, Lifetime and Travel Stipends*Social Media Liaisons* Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments Continue Reading »
RECONFIGURING THE PORTRAIT Edited by Abraham Geil and Tomáš Jirsa Edinburgh University Press | 312 pages | October 2023ISBN 9781399525077 | Hardback | $125.00 As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation. Continue Reading »
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts Continue Reading »
We are happy to announce that our English Department at University of California, Santa Barbara, is hiring for the following position in digital humanities. Applications due Nov 10:Assistant Professor, Digital HumanitiesPosted: October 11, 2023 Position Title: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) The English Department is seeking a candidate for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track position) in digital humanities. Continue Reading »
The Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington is hiring for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on equity & engineering to provide excellence in teaching and research programs in our dynamic, interdisciplinary intellectual community in Autumn 2024. https://apply.interfolio.com/132363 HCDE is a vibrant, welcoming, and engaged interdisciplinary community Continue Reading »
Northwestern University invites applications for a full time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Environmental Literatures and Humanities. Possible areas of specialization might include environmental racism and justice, human and nonhuman relations, the literature of climate crisis, catastrophe studies, ecopoetics, or the energy humanities. The tenure home for this position will be in the Continue Reading »
