What are your summer plans?

Lazing by the beach? Sleep...much needed sleep?

Sounds lovely!

What are your plans for next summer? Not certain? Well...let me take a moment to share with you two programs in Digital Humanities taking place this summer that you might want to participate in next summer.

Our first option is the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. This year, this "week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures.." in which "participants share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies" will take place from June 4-8, and it will bring together "faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from industry and government sectors" in what has been "described by one participant as an event that 'combines the best aspects of a skills workshop, international conference, and summer camp.'"

Courses offered this summer cover a wide range of topics from introductory subjects such as "Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application" to advanced courses "Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR) Analytics"  and "Issues in Large Project Planning and Management."

Interested? DHSI 2013 will take place June 10-14, and registration beginning July of 2012. For more info, you can join their email list or follow them on Twitter.

Another summer option is the European Summer School in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. This program, taking place across nine days from July 23-30th, consists of workshops, lectures, and project presentations in addition to two round table discussions in order to "offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in Libraries and Archives everywhere."

You can view the call for applications here. If you have an hour or two to spare, you might even be able to apply before the May 31 deadline.

And, should you wish to apply next year, you can contact the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing at esu-ct@uni-leipzig.de and request to be informed about forthcoming summers.

If you'd prefer to keep your summer free for the pool, then perhaps the recently announced Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is more your cup of tea. This program, a sister program to the aforementioned Digital Humanities Summer Institute, "provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, and lectures during an intensive, week-long event." It is scheduled for January 7-11, 2013, at the University of Maryland.

A listing of courses can be found here, and registration information can be found here. Early registration is until September first, so you still have time ;-)

These are just a smattering of the many options available for intense intercession study in the Digital Humanities. If you know of more, please let us know in the comments.