Cindy Anh Nguyen

Would love to think though this and hear how you’re framing lbraries work. Tried a version of this here for an mlis course on decolonial libraries yet am thinking of a doctoral seminar for the spring! (Slow website need to migrate…) decolonial.humspace.ucla.edu/2024s_inform...

Thank you so much for your work and kind words! (Apparently my copy is still in transit so happy that it’s in good company!)

Two books on a wood table, on the left: Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and Mastery of Subjects and Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam.

HUGE mail week for critical library histories. @cindyanguyen.bsky.social @murmz.bsky.social

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Aw thanks so much for connecting us! Looking forward!

Poster with Suzzallo Library in background that reads: CALMA Round Table: Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance. Wednesday, December 3, 2025. 1-2:30pm PT Online via Zoom.

Event poster that shows bio photos for speakers: Temi Odumosu, Cindy Anh Nguyen, Karen E. Fisher, Renee Lynch.

I'm looking forward to this roundtable next Wednesday (December 3) on "Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance."

There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!

RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...

#libsky

DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …

⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching!
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025

23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)

Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!

www.conftool.pro/dh2026/

Bibliotactics events coming to your city! East coast folks--if there is a community org/library/university interested let me know. Or if other folks would like to batch on another event while I'm in your city. First up is a zoom roundtable on colonial libraries calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."

This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology

Congratulations what a wonderful effort!

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉

Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

Wonderful to spend time with @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @cindyanguyen.bsky.social talking data and empire and history. Mark your calendars for these two amazing books--BIBLIOTACTICS and DATA EMPIRE--which, I can attest, will be terrific!

Awww it was such a joy, truly to be in conversation and community! Ahhh thanks for the shoutout, it’s finally happening!

Tina Campt in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa, "My approach to language is that theory doesn’t need to be a weapon."

"What’s teacherly abt me... is that I love giving people a concept they can use as a tool to open up the world. That’s what theory is to me: a can opener. Or a key to a vast kingdom. Using things as 🔑s, instead of as 🔨s, is to me one of the most beautiful thing abt being an academic + a theorist."

The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...

Front page of the bookseller with four author photos and announcements. Mine says "Torva wins seven-way auction for 'breathtakingly ambitious' human history of data"

Torva, an imprint of Transworld, has signed the first trade book by Roopika Risam, associate professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth, in a seven- way auction. Publishing director Alex Christofi acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule from Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn. North American rights were pre-empted for six figures by Sarah Haugen at Harper. Recommended by the publisher for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Data Empire shows how data gathering has been "fundamental" to the human species' success, driving advancements throughout history as well as enabling the exercise of power. The blurb states: "From ancient cave markings and knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern surveillance, data has always been used to shape civilisations, uphold empires and control lives. The story of empire is the story of data - and knowing this history is the first step to breaking its grip on the future." Christofi said: "It is breathtakingly ambitious to read data back into the whole span of human history, from the first clay tokens to the era of surveillance drones - but it becomes impossible to unsee. Professor Risam has written a paradigm-shifting book that is going to change how we understand the struggle to keep control of our own data in the present."

Risam's academic research explores how histories of race, empire and technology shape the modern world. She is the author of New Digital Worlds, taught in over 150 universities worldwide, and past president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

"I'm fortunate to be working with Sarah Haugen at Harper and Alex Christofi at Torva, who understand the urgency and scale of this project and have shaped it with shared editorial vision, and with Emma Bal at the Madeleine Milburn Agency, who challenged me to think more daringly about what this book could be." Torva will publish Data Empire in hardback and trade paperback on 9th July 2026.

It's UK official! DATA EMPIRE, coming July 9, 2026 🤩

Will attach this to the dept proposal going through…and maybe also pass this info over for some endowed chairs and donor celebrities too

Aw, coming from you, this means so much. Honestly bringing the right mix of thoughtful brilliant honest folks together and the intellectual effervescent sparks just fly. Thank you for rejuvenating this fall amidst the darkness and rain !

DH as critical praxis and worldbuilding with @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @roopikarisam.bsky.social. An intellectual-pedagogical-feminist dream symposia come true through, hosted through my Critical Data Lab at UCLA Data X. datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).

Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬.

Submission deadline: 31 August.

2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/

#HKADH

For Alec Figuracion the sequence, rhythm, and pacing of a film is akin to that of a book Treading the line between publication design and moving image, the designer has found more to the two mediums than that which keeps them apart.

“'I see the page, the spread, or the book as another medium where I could transpose what I have learned and known about film—sequence, rhythm, and pacing,' he says. In publishing projects like Tenderness Montage he has attempted to translate the filmic montage into a sequence of printed pages."

Join me for the bibliotactics book talk today zoom and in person in Singapore 16:00 – 17:30 (SGT) ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20250...

A post describing some common ways to structure DH-y syllabi for those about to rough one out - "Frameworks for DH Course Design"

walshbr.com/blog/framewo...

Empowering Cambodian Libraries: Building Sustainable Digital Futures - CKS - Center for Khmer Studies ដើម្បីអានជាភាសាខ្មែរ សូមចុចទីនេះ

Today! Digital libraries, Cambodia and Vietnam, sustainable development, digital humanities and digital preservation and access. Will be streamed on Facebook live and can join via zoom! khmerstudies.org/2025-cks-lib...

Saigon Experimental “Book Talks”: Art, Community, Women’s Reading, August 8-9, 2025 Join us in Saigon for experimental community talks around reading, feminism, and art. It's an honor and dream to "start" my book tour in Saigon (where the intellectual/personal/political journey began) alongside feminist cothinkers Minh and Yen. August 8, 2025: "Library History as Data-Art-Life: Fabulating the Vietnamese Past" August 9, 2025: "Women's Reading: Theory and Practice" Roundtable with Cindy Anh Nguyễn, Yến Vũ và Nguyễn Thị Minh…

Saigon Experimental “Book Talks”: Art, Community, Women’s Reading, August 8-9, 2025

Join us in Saigon for experimental community talks around reading, feminism, and art. It's an honor and dream to "start" my book tour in Saigon (where the intellectual/personal/political journey began) alongside…

Screenshot of first page of paper. It is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00828 Abstract: Topic model and document-clustering evaluations either use automated metrics that align poorly with human preferences or require expert labels that are intractable to scale. We design a scalable human evaluation protocol and a corresponding automated approximation that reflect practitioners' real-world usage of models. Annotators -- or an LLM-based proxy -- review text items assigned to a topic or cluster, infer a category for the group, then apply that category to other documents. Using this protocol, we collect extensive crowdworker annotations of outputs from a diverse set of topic models on two datasets. We then use these annotations to validate automated proxies, finding that the best LLM proxies are statistically indistinguishable from a human annotator and can therefore serve as a reasonable substitute in automated evaluations

Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric

That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵

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Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...