Surfacing: 2nd Biannual Digital Humanities Week

Featured Speakers: Professor Nicole Starosielski (New York University), EricaZimmer (Boston University), Ari Epstein (Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology), and Anne Goodyear (Bowdoin Art Museum). The second biannual Digital Humanities Week takes place across the UMaine campus the second week of October. Entitled Surfacíng, this year\u27s program calls for the arts and letters to step up their influence in a world convulsed by rapid change. An MIT oceanographer, a Smithsonian curator, and distinguished scholars from NYU and the University of Virginia will examine a variety of methods for bringing to the surface what was previously hidden, from word correlations in Emily Dickinson to the geopolitics of transatlantic Internet cables. Consistent with the theme of emergence, the conference follows a bottom-up dynamic as Maine\u27s first THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp). A1l visitors are invited to register their interests online or in person at the numerous workshops spread throughout the week. During each workshop, the participants break into self-determined groups to learn more about the topic of their choice, be it how to curate a digital exhibition, fight global warming, or code a mobile app. Many of the workshops take place at IMÅC, the just-opened Innovative Media Research and Commercialization center, where participants can take advantage of cutting-edge tools like 3d printers

Overview of International Household Panel Studies. Statement of the German Council of Science and Humanities on the Status and Future Development of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). November 13, 2009. Appendix 6

In July 2007, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) requested that the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) develop recommendations on improving Germany’s scientific infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Before the publication of the responsible working group’s report, as a first step, the German Council of Science and Humanities called upon its evaluation committee to conduct an appraisal of the current status and future prospects of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). This Panel is an integral part of Germany’s scientific infrastructure. Accordingly, over the course of 2009, the German Council of Science and Humanities evaluated the SOEP. This assessment, which was released in November 2009 as a report containing recommendations (see http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/texte/9503-09.pdf), was partly based on an international comparison of household panel studies. The German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) believes that the overview of these international household panel studies produced by the German Council of Science and Humanities is of such a high standard that it is deserving of being published as a document in itself. The RatSWD is thus delighted that the German Council of Science and Humanities has agreed to allow publication of this overview as part of the RatSWD Working Paper Series.