Digital Humanities at Berkeley is pleased to announce the Crowdsourcing and the Academy symposium is accepting proposals through August 16, 2015. Though crowdsourcing is commonly associated with citizen science, the digital humanities are rich with examples of crowdsourcing projects. The Transcribe Bentham project, which began in 2010, serves as an early example of crowdsourcing efforts in DH.

The New Deal, that constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift Americans out of the Great Depression, was about more than building post offices and bringing electricity to rural folk. Asking for the participation of millions of Americans effected a conceptual shift in how the nation thought of itself. Indeed, the New Deal promoted a sense that our past, present, and future were best understood by drawing together multiple voices and experiences.