The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2024 virtual conference will take place November 6-8 of this year.
ACH 2024 “underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond,” inviting participants to join them in “navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.”
From the call:
Areas of digital humanities scholarship that are relevant to the conference include but are not limited to:
- AI and its consequences
- Digital and computational approaches to humanistic research and pedagogy
- Digital cultural heritage
- Digital surveillance
- Digital humanities tools and infrastructures
- Digital librarianship
- Digital media, art, literature, history, music, film, and games
- Digital public humanities
- Environmental humanities & climate justice
- Humanistic and ethical approaches to data science and data visualization
- Humanistic research on digital objects and cultures
- Humanities knowledge infrastructures
- Labor and organization in digital humanities
- Multilingualism in digital humanities
- Physical computing
- Resource creation, curation, and engagement
- Use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship
As a conference committed to cross-disciplinary engagement, ACH 2024 welcomes interdisciplinary proposals. We are also especially interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and a variety of roles, including alt-ac positions, employment outside of higher education, and graduate and undergraduate students. We further invite proposals from participants who are newcomers to digital humanities.
The deadline to submit a proposal is May 20th, by midnight GMT. Prospective participants are invited to contact the conference committee at conference@ach.org with questions are concerns about the call, program, submissions, or accessibility.
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