Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute Applications Open!
RTC Recruitment Drive, CDSsi Applications Open + more
Here are some items of interest as Create Caribbean and our partners settle into the new year. There are so many opportunities and activities planned for the first quarter of 2023! Stay tuned for our upcoming newsletters for more information and how to participate!
RTC Recruitment Drive
Create Caribbean will begin its Research Technology and Community Internship Program recruitment on the 23rd of January! The team will be visiting high schools in Dominica with a focus on students in 4th Form and 5th Form.
Visit our official Intern Commons website for more information about our internship program. Meet our team of interns and explore the work they have done on the website!
Dear Members of the Caribbean Writers’ Room
Please stay alert for a post on the Activity page during the week.
The Caribbean Writer’s Room is an online platform to support emerging writers in Dominica and the wider Caribbean with resources and information on upcoming events. This site will engage writers in learning and sharing works that can bring them and their art to spaces within and beyond the region!
If you participated in one of our writing events and would like to join the CWR please send us an email! We will create a profile for you on the platform.
Reach us at info@createcaribbean.org.
The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute (CDSsi)
The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective invites applications for its inaugural week-long residential digital humanities institute, to be held at the University of Miami in June 2023. The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute (CDSsi) is generously supported by a Mellon Foundation grant and will be held annually for three summers.
Key facts
Dates: 11-17 June 2023
Venue: University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Application deadline: 31 January 2023
Acceptance notification: by 31 March 2023
In this first year of the CDSsi, the course offerings will be:
Minimal Computing for Caribbean Scholars
With Alexander Gil, Yale University, and Andreina Soto, Barnard CollegeCritical Digital Pedagogy
With Halcyon M. Lawrence, Towson UniversityBuilding Caribbean Digital Archives
With Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University, and Sonya Donaldson, Colby College
For more information on the program, visit https://cdscollective.org/summer-school/cfp2022/
Information session
For more information about the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute, attend the virtual open house session. There will be an hour-long informational session on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 at 12pm EST, via Zoom. Click here to register: https://miami.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdOysqTIpGtM1BXEWTR1rperosNWgn43N
dLOC-Call for Participation: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) invites proposals from individuals and groups seeking to develop open educational resources (OER) that build upon, enhance, or complement dLOC collections. This is brought to you by the generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
There will be three open calls for proposals awarding over $100,000 over the course of the program period. In this first round, proposals will be due on March 15, 2023.
Please view the following links to the CFP for information on the application process:
Call for Proposals 2022-2023 (English) Link to PDF
Convocatoria de propuestas 2022-2023 (Español) Enlace a PDF
Appel à projets 2022-2023 (Français) Lien vers le PDF
Journal of Folklore and Education Vol. 10: Teaching with Ethnographic and Folk Arts Collections: Challenging History
The Journal of Folklore and Education is seeking submissions for their 2023 issue, to be released in Fall 2023. Submissions are due on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The Guest Editor for this special issue is Alexandra Antohin.
See past issues at: https://jfepublications.org/
About:
Primary sources from ethnographic and folk art collections go beyond historical
documents, and include photographs, recorded interviews, artifacts, recipes, music, maps, and more. This special issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education offers a deep dive into ethnographic primary source materials, organized around the theme “Challenging History.” The 2023 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education invites submissions that call upon ethnographic archives with their documentation of diverse life experiences, perspectives, and vantage points as teaching tools for learning.
Submissions may show that folk collections:
Provide vital entry points for teaching across disciplines through ideas such as memory, meaning, and identity;
Inspire research and new documentation through inquiry-based methodologies;
Offer opportunities for vital engagement—and greater awareness and understanding–of culture, race, religion, and class.
For this JFE issue, submissions that explore learning activities, framework articles, case studies, and research that demonstrate the value of folklore, oral history, and other ethnographic primary source materials in K12 classrooms, higher education, and museums are invited. They seek submissions of articles, model projects, multimedia products, teaching applications, and student work accompanied by critical writing that connects to the larger frameworks of this theme.
For more information, visit https://jfepublications.org/for-authors/call-for-submissions/.
UWI at 75, Rooted, Ready, Rising
Create Caribbean congratulates The University of the West Indies on its 75th Anniversary! The university marks 75 years since the official opening of its first Campus in Mona, Jamaica and Saturday, January 7, 2023, has been declared “UWI Day”. Anniversary celebrations continue under the theme: UWI at 75. Rooted. Ready. Rising.
The UWI’s 75th anniversary year will feature initiatives which speak to a reflection on its past, confrontation of the present, and plans for the future across all five campuses as well as internationally, through partner associations and affiliates.
Visit their anniversary website, www.uwi.edu/75 for the anniversary calendar and more information about this milestone.
Create Caribbean extends its gratitude to all partners for being a part of our work last year and we look forward to continuing to build community with you this year!
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