Harvard University

Position Description: The Department of History seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in modern Middle East history, with an emphasis on the Arab world from the late Ottoman to the contemporary era. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2018. The appointee will teach and advise at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Basic … Continue reading DUE: Tenure-Track Professor in Modern Middle East History, Harvard University

October 19 and 20, 9:30am-4:30pm Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript is a 2-day workshop for graduate students which covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts. Participants will collaboratively transcribe, annotate, and encode (with TEI P5) the text and images of Houghton Lat. 159, a late medieval … Continue reading Workshop: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript, Harvard University

October 30-31, 10am-2pm Mapping is an effective tool for reconstructing the past, which reveals the spatial relationships that stimulated cultural, social and political change over time. In this workshop, we will introduce digital tools and workflows for visualizing and interpreting historical data. We will cover the basics of QGIS, web mapping with Leaflet, georeferencing historical … Continue reading Workshop: Mapping History, Harvard University