consult and collaborate:

NINES sponsors summer workshops to promote the development of computerized scholarly projects in 19th-century British and American literature and cultural studies. NINES workshops will bring a dozen or more scholars together to work on their individual projects in an environment where they can interact with other scholars who are also doing digital projects in closely related historical and cultural areas. NINES will make available to these scholars the tools and development expertise that have become a major part of the culture of digital humanities during the past 10+ years, and may offer financial aid to applicants.

NINES is no longer accepting applications to the Summer '08 workshop at Miami University in Ohio. For more information on its agenda and attendees, please visit the workshop wiki, including useful readings for those interested in digital scholarship in the humanities.

past workshops

The following scholars and projects attended the first annual NINES workshop, held in June 2005 at the University of Virginia:

• Stephanie Browner (Berea College): The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive: Vision, Shape and Update
• Gavin Budge (University of Central England): The Romantic Periodicals Project
• Dennis Denisoff & Lorraine Janzen (Ryerson University & Nipissing University): The Yellow Book Project
• Amy Earhart (Texas A&M University): 19th Century Concord: A Historical and Literary Center Website
• Neil Fraistat & Steve Jones (University of Maryland & Loyola University): Romantic Circles
• Susan Garfinkel & Jurretta Jordan Heckscher (Library of Congress): "American Memory" Re-Imagined: Alternative Interfaces for Online Historical Collections
• David Hanson (Southeastern Louisiana University): The Early Ruskin Manuscripts, 1826-1842
• David Latané (Virginia Commonwealth University): Digitization of Victorian Institute Journal
• Laura Mandell (Miami University): Early-Nineteenth-Century Popular Literature in Britain and America
• Suzanne Paylor & James Mussell (Birkbeck, University of London): Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition Project (NCSE)
• Julia Thomas & Tim Killick (Cardiff University): A Web-Mounted Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustrations
• Edward Whitley (Lehigh University): The Vault at Pfaff's: An Online Archive of Works by American Bohemian Writers and Artists of the Nineteenth Century

The agenda for this workshop (including important readings for scholars considering digital work) is available.

The second workshop (Summer 2007, UVA) was by invitation only and dealt with supporting and sustaining NINES itself, as a technological and institutional entity.

future workshops:

Future summer workshops will be held at MITH (contact: Neil Fraistat) and at U of Nebraska's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (contact: Ken Price).

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