[Air-l] Fwd: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology and Industry

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: Josh Greenberg <jgreenb2 at gmu.edu>
> Date: January 18, 2005 5:34:37 PM EST
> To: stsgrad-l at cornell.edu
> Subject: Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of 
> Science, Technology and Industry
> Reply-To: jgreenb2 at gmu.edu
>
> Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, 
> Technology and Industry
> June 6-10, 2005
>
> The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University 
> invites scholars whose work speaks to the history of science, 
> technology and industry to submit applications for a workshop on the 
> theory and practice of digital history, to be held June 6-10, 2005. 
> Specific topics to be covered include genres of online history, 
> designing a website, creating a site infrastructure, digitizing 
> documents, identifying and building audiences for online history, and 
> issues of copyright and preservation. Participants will leave with a 
> deeper understanding of both the technical and methodological issues 
> raised by the practice of digital history, as well as the ways that 
> digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, writing 
> and presentation of history.
>
> Co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and the National 
> History Center, the workshop will be held at George Mason University’s 
> Arlington campus, conveniently located in metropolitan Washington, DC. 
> With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, there will be no 
> registration fee, and a limited number of scholarships are available 
> to defray the costs of travel and lodging for graduate students and 
> young scholars. 
>
> As spaces and funding are limited, please submit an application form 
> by March 1, 2005 (available at 
> http://echo.gmu.edu/resources/workshops.php).
>
>
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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