Patricia Hswe

Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

Very excited to be a part of CNI's steering committee!

Mine, too. Those cards also mapped the places in the stacks where I'd find the books I needed to read to do research for my papers—and, eventually, for my dissertation. The tactile (catalog cards and books) led to the cerebral.

Nice to see there'll be a part 2 for "Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium" — libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/laac-...

The Library of Congress seeks applications for the Archie Green Cultural Documentation program for "projects focused on the contemporary documentation of cultural activities, traditions, and practices of cultural communities and social groups." See: guides.loc.gov/american-fol... Deadline: 5/28.

We are now accepting submissions for Mapping Indigenous Literatures, a special issue of PMLA. The issue seeks to center Indigenous authors and communities, asking how Indigenous humanities criticism has influenced the broader field of Indigenous studies. www.mla.org/Publications...

Looking forward to attending SAA in person since, I think, 2022, when it was in Boston? Great program this year: whova.com/embedded/eve...

What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The vast majority of archival documents are neither digitized nor searchable online. 🗃️

FINALLY, the person—Mierle Laderman Ukeles—whose work has been instrumental to my (and others') thinking about maintenance in the context of infrastructure and technology is the subject of a new documentary! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/n...

*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.

To @brettbobley.bsky.social‬ - Massive thanks to you for everything you have done to foster an innovative, thoughtful, and vibrant DH community! NEH's ODH was where I cut my teeth as a peer reviewer for grant proposals & I'll ever be grateful for those experiences. #ThanksBrett

.@brettbobley.bsky.social‬ Massive thanks to you for everything you have done to foster an innovative, thoughtful, and vibrant DH community! NEH's ODH was where I cut my teeth as a peer reviewer for grant proposals & I'll ever be grateful for those experiences. #ThanksBrett

This week was bookended by deadlines - one for an essay draft due on Monday & the other for a keynote presentation today. Glad to be surrendering to the weekend!

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.

Salem State's Center for Teaching Innovation (where I work!) is hiring an Assistant Director. $80-85K salary range, hybrid position. More info: salem-state-university.career-pages.com/jobs/assista...

Incredibly proud to be supporting this work! mauinow.com/2025/01/28/3...

On a day like today, a saving grace and comfort: a playlist I'd completely forgotten about is momentarily blunting the despair. Music IS joy.

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

One of the best things about it is the focus on spoken-word recordings, such as of poetry. Because we all need more poetry love. Always.

@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...

Grateful for the work that Archiving the Black Web is doing!

Warmest thanks to @roopikarisam.bsky.social, @jenguiliano.bsky.social, each of the reviewers, and (particularly) Stacy Reardon for all their work on this issue. Astrid and myself had very little heavy lifting to do; #ReviewsInDH is an incredibly well-oiled machine! 👏👏 #DigitalHumanities

. @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are pleased to wrap up our FIFTH year publishing #ReviewsInDH with a special issue, “Games and DH,” edited by James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social and Astrid Ensslin. It’s a great look at intersections of DH and Game Studies! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n12

We’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

ICYMI: “A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.” apnews.com/article/arka...

Is it just me, or is there really a bunch of movies that ARE NOT TO BE MISSED this season? Emilia Pérez, September 5, Brutalist, Nosferatu, Babygirl, Nickel Boys, Queer. (Have seen Gladiator II, Conclave, and The Return—each compelling in its own way.)

I thank Nikki Giovanni for teaching us so much, and tonight, for this poem, which is never not relevant.

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Librarians ... from five institutions conducted research and analysis of peer institutional metadata policies, vendor agreements, and U.S. law ... Based on our analysis, we assert that the vast majority of bibliographic metadata is simply not copyrightable." nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...

Excited to see this news out - "Developing a public-interest training commons of books," www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...

The 2025 ARL President's Institute, to take place in Chicago, IL, is open for registration! The timely theme: “Ignite Collaboration: Thriving Multigenerational Libraries.” Register by January 10 - www.arl.org/news/registe... (Full disclosure: I sit on the task force—I hope to see you there!)

Any STS work on how the term "attention" is used in ML (esp transformers)?

8/ In "“Go to the Attics, the Closets, and the Basements”: Black Women’s Intergenerational Practices of Memory Keeping in Oxford, Ohio," Jazma Sutton examines Descendant Archival Practices and women's historical knowledge. www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/...

I know it's been several weeks since this exemption was renewed and expanded, but I am still chuffed: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/25/t...