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Nikolina Ivanova-Bell, Fatme Charafeddine, Evi Tramantza · 25 June 2019

Call for nominations for AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee (2019–2021) now open

Colorful hands raised up.
We are delighted to announce that we’re looking for dynamic and enthusiastic individuals from across AMICAL to join the Coordinating Committee. The first step is to nominate candidates who wish to advance the consortium’s mission through their work in the committee. We will…
19 June 2019

Small Grants: June 2019 update

AMICAL’s grant committee recently reviewed the 6 Small Grant applications submitted for the current cycle and accepted the following 5: Title Applicant Institution Category Activity…
28 May 2019

Save the date! AMICAL 2020 will take place 15–18 January 2020

A night view of the American University of Kuwait and Kuwait City in the background.
We’re excited to announce that AMICAL 2020, the consortium’s 17th annual meeting and conference, will take place 15–18 January 2020 at the American University of Kuwait. The conference is open to all interested staff and faculty from AMICAL member institutions, as well as…
Jeff Gima · 19 May 2019

Small Grants: revised guidelines, deadlines, Rep roles, and live Q&A

Dandelions in the sunset.
AMICAL Full and Affiliate members: AMICAL’s Small Grants program for training, staff exchanges and projects is now open for a new application cycle with a deadline of 2 June. We’ve made a few changes to the Small Grants guidelines, so potential applicants, as well as AMICAL…
Jeff Gima · 15 March 2019

Supporting individuals to DHI-Beirut (and other AMICAL support for DH)

The Raouché rocks in Beirut, Lebanon.
Are you interested in the Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut, but you did not have a team and project to propose for the AMICAL cohort to DHI-B? Given the large number of applications we’ve received from project teams, we are unable to accept applications for the cohort…
15 March 2019

Small Grants: March 2019 update on recent awards and reopening of program

Update 15 March 2019: n earlier version of this post misidentified the awarded Small Grants. This has now been corrected. Recent Small Grants awarded AMICAL’s grant committee recently reviewed and accepted 3 Small Grant applications (including 1 revision of an earlier…
Alex Armstrong, Jeff Gima, Najla Jarkas · 13 February 2019

AMICAL cohort to the Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut (3-5 May 2019)

The Raouché rocks in Beirut, Lebanon.
As part of AMICAL’s 2018-2021 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for “Building Leadership and Capacity for Digital Liberal Arts across AMICAL”, a cohort of approximately 15 colleagues from member institutions will be given project support over a period of months…
Alex Armstrong · 21 January 2019

Registration for AMICAL 2019 is open

Openness in teaching and research: Broadeing our horizons for the digital future Registration for AMICAL 2019, the consortium’s 16th annual meeting and conference, has officially opened. The Conference will take place 29 March – 1 April at the beautiful campus…
Nadine Aboulmagd & Jeff Gima · 17 December 2018

Survey of AMICAL members’ institutional approaches to digital literacies

What do “digital literacies” mean in your institution-level conversations about student learning outcomes? What kind of human resources are in place at your institution to work toward digital literacy-related outcomes? AMICAL invites member institutions to participate…
Jeff Gima · 23 October 2018

Small Grants for training: consortially strategic professional development

Dandelions in the sunset.
New Small Grants program guidelines have now been posted, launching the training-focused piece of this program. Applications are now open for these Small Grants for Professional Development (externally organized / staff exchanges / peer training) . The last day to…
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