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CFP: 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Michael J. Kramer

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) aims to bring together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

This year, the 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will take place December 6-8, 2013, on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. The conference will consist of a plenary address by a significant Digital Humanist, as well as panels, roundtables, or other kinds of sessions proposed by scholars relating to recent issues and advances in the digital humanities.

Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers, entire panels or roundtable sessions by September 15, 2013. Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of the session as a whole (300 words or less), along with paper titles and abstracts (300 words or less) of all panelists. Short-form CVs (1-2 pages, including institutional affiliation and contact information) should also be attached. Proposals for individual papers will also be considered and are encouraged.

All proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Professor Robin Burke (rburke@cs.depaul.edu), and Professor Paul B. Jaskot (pjaskot@depaul.edu). Applicants will be informed regarding inclusion on the conference program by September 30, 2013.

Registration will be free. Participants and other interested scholars may register beginning in Fall 2013. At that point, information on the venue, detailed program, local arrangements for hotels and other pertinent information will also be available at the DHCS website: http://chicagocolloquium.org/.

 

CFP: Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age

Michael J. Kramer

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Digital Death collection
(10/1/13; 12/1/13)

We invite proposals for a collection of essays on the subject of
Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age. This proposed
book, co-edited by Christopher M. Moreman and A. David Lewis, will
consist of 12-15 chapters representing a diversity of perspectives and
approaches to the subject. We are seeking submissions for new writing
from scholars across a spectrum of fields, including religious
studies, theology, media studies, digital humanities, and any other
area that explores the topic of death and dying in a digital
environment, with reference to religion and/or the study of religion.

Digital Death includes analyses of mortality, remembrances, grieving,
posthumous existence, and afterlife experience via a variety of
digital media (e.g. Facebook & social media, World of Warcraft & video
games, YouTube & video services, internet memorials, etc.). We invite
proposals for papers of excellent academic merit on any topic and from
any academic perspective or discipline.

Proposals should include a 200-300 word abstract, a one-page C.V., and
potential titles for the chapter, submitted to cmoreman@gmail.com by
Oct. 1, 2013; complete 5000-7000-word drafts in Chicago format of
accepted abstracts will be due by December 1st, 2013.

—
Christopher Moreman
<cmoreman@gmail.com>

CFP: American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration

Michael J. Kramer

Call for Papers

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration

November 15-16, 2013, Washington, DC

The Archives of American Art announces an upcoming symposium, American
Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration, to be
held at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and
Portraiture, in Washington, DC, on Friday, November 15, followed by a
one-day workshop at the Archives of American Art on Saturday, November
16.  We seek proposals for Friday’s presentations and applications for
participation in Saturday’s moderated workshop.

The purpose of the symposium is to convene scholars, archivists,
librarians, graduate students, technical experts, and the public to
consider American art history in a digital world. The symposium will
examine ways to integrate digital tools and/or resources into the
study of American art and to encourage collaboration.

Conference organizers seek original, innovative scholarship from a
variety of disciplines, institutions, and research centers. The
symposium will assess the potential values and limitations of
technical tools in digital humanities including crowdsourcing,
high-resolution imaging and dynamic image presentation, mapping,
visual recognition software, network analysis, topic modeling, and
data mining. Are there particular digital tools and methods that will
transform research? What new knowledge can be gained? The symposium
will also consider future directions in the fields of art history and
digital humanities so that research centers and archives can prepare
for emerging research trends and questions. Additionally, the
symposium may consider the creative potential of online publishing for
presenting peer-reviewed scholarship in American art.

Day One symposium will feature talks and panels by key thinkers and
innovative practitioners who are currently using digital approaches to
advance the study of American art.  Papers may address the following
topics: research practices and trends, tools and methods, pedagogy,
publishing, and outreach.

Proposals should include a 300-word abstract and a short CV and be
sent via email to AAAsymposium@si.edu Deadline for submissions: August
15, 2013

Day Two workshop will be a moderated discussion on developing
partnerships and projects in the field of American art. The success of
new ventures in digital research depends on collaborations among
archivists, scholars, teachers, students, and IT specialists. What can
we learn from each other? Participants should apply via email at
AAAsymposium@si.edu and submit a brief statement of interest about
potential applications of digital research for American art history.
Please include in your statement particular subject areas, methods,
and/or projects that you would like to develop.  Organizers may screen
applications for Day Two to ensure a wide representation of
specialties, subject areas, and institutions.
Deadline for registration: September 30, 2013

Confirmed speakers will be required to submit a revised abstract by
October 30, 2013. The symposium will be free and open to the public,
webcast, and archived for later viewing. Schedule and materials will
be posted to www.aaa.si.edu/symposium

Funds for travel and accommodations are available for accepted speakers.

This symposium is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

For more information about the symposium, please contact Kelly Quinn,
Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly and
Educational Initiatives quinnk@si.edu.

For more information about the Archives of American Art visit aaa.si.edu.

Mary Savig

Curator of Manuscripts
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Phone: 202.633.7959 | Fax: 202.633.7994
SavigM@si.edu

Design and the Digital Humanities CFP

Michael J. Kramer

Co-organized by our own mighty NUDHL contributor Josh Honn!
Topic: Design and the Digital Humanities

With this year’s M/MLA topic of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design. Digital humanities (DH) is often equated with tool-oriented, procedural tasks like text analysis and data gathering. For example, the recent MLA open access publication Literary Studies in the Digital Age, focuses on textual databases, mining, analysis, and modeling. However, Johanna Drucker, Anne Burdick, Bethany Nowviskie, Tara McPherson, and others have argued that interface and systems design, visual narrative, and graphical display are not peripheral concerns, but rather important “intellectual methods” (Burdick et al. 2012). Likewise, DH projects and publications often segment (content first, design last) and/or outsource (hire a firm, select a template) the design process, overlooking the powerful and important dialectic of design and argument, at times to the great detriment of the project itself. In an effort to further the conversation, we invite papers related to any aspect of design and the digital humanities. Possible topics/questions may include, but are certainly not limited to:

  • design of interactive fiction, hypertext fiction, and electronic literature
  • games and virtual spaces
  • hybrid digital/analog fabrication practices and the ethos of hacking, making, and crafting that surrounds them
  • tensions between original designs and prefabricated templates and visualizations
  • the relationship between content and design in a scholarly edition, web archive, course website, or other digital content management project
  • design and affect, design and imagination
  • the tendency of DH project groups to separate designers and programmers on a team; tendency to divide design concerns from “technical” concerns
  • design standards, web standards, responsive & participatory design, and issues of accessibility of online publications and projects
  • skeuomorphism vs. born-digital design?
  • design and code as language art, code poetry, etc.?

Please send 250-word abstracts by May 31st to both Josh Honn (josh.honn@gmail.com) and Rachael Sullivan (sullivan.rachael@gmail.com).
Co-chairs: Josh Honn (Northwestern University) and Rachael Sullivan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

MediaCommons CFR: Media Studies vs. Digital Humanities

Michael J. Kramer

The MediaCommons Front Page Collective is looking for responses to the survey question: What are the differentiations and intersections of media studies and the digital humanities?

The term Digital Humanities is notoriously difficult to define. Often, it is conflated with media studies, especially new media studies. But, is this the best way to think about the digital humanities? What is the difference between the umbrella term digital humanities where media studies often falls and what is referred to as the capital DH, which deals with using new tools and archives? With this survey, we want to extend opportunities to scholars to discuss how media studies and the digital humanities do and do not intersect. This project will run on the front page of the site from April 15 to May 10.

Responses may include but are not limited to:

  • – Textual studies and the Digital Humanities
  • – Whether new media studies necessarily intersect with digital humanities
  • – How definitions of digital humanities determine its intersections with media studies
  • – Whether or no digital humanities purely a reflexive field that talks about itself or is it one that discusses content as well as form

Responses are 300-400 words and typically focus on introducing an idea. Proposals may be brief (a few sentences) and should state your topic and approach. Submit proposals to <mediacommons.odu@gmail.com> by *April 5* to be considered for inclusion into this project.

In case you are unfamiliar with *MediaCommons*, we are an experimental project created in 2006 by Drs. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo, seeking to envision how a born-digital scholarly press might re-conceptualize both the processes and end-products of scholarship. MediaCommons was initially developed in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book through a grant from the MacArthur Foundation and is currently supported by New York University’s Digital Library Technology Services through funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/

Digital Humanities 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) – Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

Michael J. Kramer

Reminder: Deadline Upcoming!

 

Digital Humanities 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) – Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Hosted by the University of Nebraska

16-19 July 2013

http://dh2013.unl.edu/

 

Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 November 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 February 2013

 

Call for Papers

 

I. General Information

 

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to:

 

* humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling;

* computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship;

* the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas;

* the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

* social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities;

* and the role of digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula.

 

We particularly welcome submissions on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field, and encourage proposals relating to the theme of the conference.

 

Presentations may include:

* posters (abstract max of 750 words);

* short papers (abstract max of 1500 words);

* long papers (abstract max of 1500 words);

* multiple paper sessions, including panels (regular abstracts + approximately 500-word overview);

* and pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal max of 1500 words)

 

The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the international Program Committee is midnight GMT, 1 November 2012. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 1 February 2013. Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are due at midnight GMT on 15 February 2013, with notice of acceptance by 15 March 2013. An electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2012: http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Previous DH conference participants and reviewers should use their existing accounts rather than setting up new ones. If you have forgotten your user name or password, please contact Program Committee chair Bethany Nowviskie at bethany@virginia.edu.

 

II. Types of Proposals

 

Proposals may be of five types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; (4) three-paper or full panel sessions; and (5) proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials. Based on peer review and its mandate to create a balanced and varied program, the Program Committee may offer acceptance in a different category from the one initially proposed, and will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

 

1) Poster Presentations

 

Poster proposals (500 to 750 words) may describe work on any topic of the call for papers or offer project and software demonstrations. Posters and demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees. In addition to a dedicated session, when presenters will explain their work and answer questions, posters will be on display at various times during the conference.

 

2) Short Papers

 

Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting on experiments or work in progress, or for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. This category of presentation allows for up to five short papers in a single session, with the length held to a strict 10 minutes each in order to allow time for questions.

 

3) Long Papers

 

Proposals for long papers (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for: substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; reports on the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions.

 

Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methods are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing research questions, and should include critical assessment of their application in the humanities. Papers that concentrate on a particular tool or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature.

 

4) Multiple Paper Sessions

 

These consist of one 90-minute panel of four to six speakers, or three long papers on a single theme. Panel organizers should submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Paper session organizers should submit a statement of approximately 500 words describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750 to 1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session. Papers that are submitted as part of a special session may not be submitted individually for consideration in another category.

 

5) Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials

 

Participants in pre-conference workshops or tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well as pay a small additional fee.

 

Proposals should provide the following information:

 

* a title and brief description of the content or topic and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words);

* full contact information for all tutorial instructors or workshop leaders, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise;

* a description of target audience and expected number of participants (based, if possible, on past experience);

* and any special requirements for technical support.

 

Additionally, tutorial proposals should include:

 

* a brief outline showing that the core content can be covered in a half day (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well.

 

And workshop proposals must include:

 

* the intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days);

* a proposed budget (as DH workshops are expected to be self-financing);

* and, if the workshop is to have its own CFP, a deadline and date for notification of acceptances, and a list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop’s program committee.

 

III. Information about the Conference Venue and Theme

 

DH 2013 (“Freedom to Explore”) will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska, a capitol city of 258,000 people on the Great Plains of the United States. Lincoln is known for its artistic treasures, live music scene, fabulous trails, and friendly Midwestern attitude. It is also the home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, chartered in 1869 as both a land-grant and a research university. UNL’s approximately 25,000 students come from about 120 different countries. Among its many degree offerings is an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in digital humanities. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is this year’s local organizer: http://cdrh.unl.edu

 

IV. Bursaries for young scholars

 

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations will offer a limited number of bursaries for early-career scholars presenting at the conference. Application guidelines will appear on the ADHO website later this year: http://www.digitalhumanities.org

 

V. International Program Committee

 

Craig Bellamy (ACH)

John Bradley (ALLC)

Paul Caton (ACH)

Carolyn Guertain (CSDH/SCHN)

Ian Johnson (aaDH)

Bethany Nowviskie (ACH, chair)

Sarah Potvin (cN)

Jon Saklofske (CSDH/SCHN)

Sydney Shep (aaDH)

Melissa Terras (ALLC, vice-chair)

Tomoji Tabata (ALLC)

Deb Verhoeven (aaDH)

Ethan Watrall (cN)

 

[Please circulate widely!]

 

 

 

 

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