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Proposals are now being accepted for the 10th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, being held virtually and in-person April 2-8, 2025 at Michigan State University. From the CFP:

Digital Humanities (DH) at Michigan State University (MSU) is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events over the course of April 2-8, 2025.*

For the past ten years, the Global Digital Humanities Symposium has brought together a diverse range of presenters to spark cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and ethically engaged conversations. We will celebrate our decade in this space by reflecting on global digital humanities as a field as well as our impact on this rich area of scholarship. We therefore invite presenters from previous Symposia to return to the conference and share how their work has developed since their presentation.

As we mark this historic anniversary, our commitment to digital humanities scholarship and practice as a key site for interrogating narratives about disruption, connection, identity, resistance, ethics, and accountability continues. In a world shaped by multiple catastrophes and crises, these conversations are as urgent as ever.

We invite work at the intersections of critical DH, that engages with anti-colonial and post-colonial frameworks, that supports feminist and anti-racist praxis, and that crosses political and disciplinary borders. We define the term “humanities” expansively to open up space for a range of issues that encourages interdisciplinary understandings of the humanities.

*The virtual symposium supports presentation and attendance in English and Spanish through live interpretation. The in-person symposium will be in English. We are interested in supporting participation and presentation in additional languages as much as possible within our capacity. Please reach out if you would prefer to submit a proposal or present at the conference in another language. We will do our best to accommodate you.

This Symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes proposals by the end of the day Wednesday, October 16, midnight in your timezone.

This year we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics:

• Reflections on the Symposium itself–what has been our effect on the field?
• Considerations of the “global” in DH
• Trial, error, process, preservation, and project conclusion as part of DH praxis
• DH approaches to misinformation, media, and rhetoric in a global election year
• Labs, support networks, streams/variations, and infrastructure for Global Digital Humanities

We are always interested to hear about the following topics, and their connections to the digital, as reflected in global research conversations and ethical DH practices across disciplines:

• Public and community-engaged digital humanities in times of crises
• Indigeneity, anti-colonialism, and digital cultural heritage
• Humanist critiques and interventions in artificial intelligence
• Digital humanities approaches to climate and healthcare
• Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context
• Disability justice and accessibility
• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
• Student-centered practices in global digital pedagogy
• Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
• Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict
• Multilingualism and language justice

One of the imperatives of digital humanities as a field is to seize knowledge production and decolonize the cultural record. As digital humanities practitioners in libraries and archives, this is especially the case given the proliferation of disinformation, censorship, and hegemonic narratives that aim to erase the destruction of peoples and their heritage by their colonizers, which may be our own institutions. Digital humanities, whether through DIY archiving and feminist data practices, offers methods to resist colonial narratives in the digital cultural record. As such, we’re sharing a call for submissions to the special issue of Comma: International Journal on Archives. From the email call:

We invite submissions in any language to a special issue of the International Council on Archives’ journal, Comma, on fighting colonial erasure and archiving against genocide for liberation, decolonization, resurgence, and return in the Global South. In this urgent moment for the Palestinian people, over 300 days into what the International Court of Justice has deemed a plausible genocide in Gaza, we focus in particular on the Palestinian case in comparative, regional, and/or global perspective. Hence, we especially welcome submissions on Palestinian archives and heritage anywhere in the world, that provide a comparative perspective between the Palestinian case and other Global South cases, and/or think through dilemmas and issues in any context related to the theme of “archiving against genocide”. All submissions will be translated into Arabic and English.

Curated by a international Guest Editorial Collective led by Palestinian, Lebanese and racialized scholars and practitioners, this special issue seeks to address questions that are as pressing today as they have ever been over the last centuries of western colonialism and racial domination, with their attendant archival erasures and epistemic violences:

• How can we archive against genocide in Gaza, elsewhere in Palestine, and across the Global South?
• How can we archive for native sovereignty, liberation, return, landback, healing, and resurgence in Palestine, and elsewhere in the region and across the Global South?
• How can we do liberatory memory work under the conditions of neoliberalism, globalisation, and late capital? How can we draw on anticolonial, antiracist, feminist, and community-centred models to avoid the pitfalls of First World guilt and racist, paternalistic benevolence?
• How can we archive and activate the history of Palestine as a celebration of sacrifice and resistance in defiance of racist, self-serving settler colonial frameworks?
• How can we produce a counter-narrative based on documentary heritage and archives?
• In what ways can models and practices of South-South and South-North solidarity and collaboration help us articulate a deeper, more meaningful decolonial archival praxis?
• How can we draw on key international, regional and national texts, documents, conventions, calls, statements, and laws to address these complex issues and conundrums?

We welcome articles that examine a range of models, solutions, and frameworks, including key international instruments and conventions, such as:

• Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (UN 1954)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN 1948)
• IV Geneva Convention (UN 1949), and its two protocols 1997
• Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives & Debt (UN 1983)
• Ownership, Control, Access & Possession (First Nations Governance Center 1998)
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007)
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (UN 1998)
• Truth & Reconciliation Commissions’ Calls to Action (Truth & Reconciliation Commission in Canada 2015)
• CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (Global Indigenous Data Alliance 2019)
• Call to Action: Archiving State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black People (2020)
• Tandanya, the Adelaide Declaration (International Council on Archives 2020)
• Position Statement on the Right of Reply to Indigenous Knowledges and Information Held in Archives (Association of Canadian Archivists 2021)
• A Call to Archive Against Genocide: Archivists & Memory Workers in Solidarity with Palestine & Palestinian Colleagues (Documentary Nakba Reading Group 2024)

As archivists and memory workers worldwide continue to sign a call to archive against genocide in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian Archives, this special issue similarly calls for an international conversation grounded in solidarity and directed towards liberation. At its core, this special issue seeks to address the fundamental question of how we can centre the right of colonised people to deconstruct and decolonise their archives; to create their counter narrative; to realise their right to a liberated epistemology about their history and truth; and to regather their fragmented archives and documentary heritage. It centres the importance of affirming the right of colonised people to self-determination and self-representation in the design, implementation, and management of archival and heritage interventions as community members, allies, and co-conspirators

In the lead up to the special issue, the Guest Editorial Collective is working with local and global partners to host a virtual symposium related to the theme. Join the Archives & Digital Media Lab mailing list at (info[at]archiveslab.org) for updates.

Submission formats include but are not limited to:

• Academic articles (~6,000 words)
• Opinion pieces (~2,000-3,500 words)
• Legal briefs on specific cases of disputed archives
• Interviews
• Calls to Action
• Manifestos
• Open letters
• Petitions
• Standards, guidelines, and schemas
• Edited transcripts of academic, professional or public events, including (paper presentations, roundtables, panels, keynote addresses, etc.
• Reviews of books and relevant documents/instruments on archival decolonization and repatriation, including standards, declarations, position statements, etc.
• Artistic or creative pieces — contact us at director@archiveslab.org with your ideas
• Other format proposals are welcome — contact us at director@archiveslab.org with your ideas

Submissions in all languages are welcome, and they will be translated into English and Arabic, as relevant. For more information, contact Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University (director[at]archiveslab.org), or Dr. James Lowry, Professor, City University of New York, (james.lowry[at]qc.cuny.edu).

The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2025 with publication expected for Fall 2025.

Digital Humanities practitioners and librarians are increasingly engaging in data embodiment and visceralization. Towards this, “Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data” is a special issue of dh+lib that will explore ways of integrating critical making and data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities, including workshops, course-related instruction, and more.

Methods and topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Crafting (knitting, sewing, crocheting, weaving, etc.) visualizations
• Data physicalization as accessible/tactile data visualizations
• Teaching technological concepts through making
• Digital humanities data objects
• Supporting creative approaches to data and technology

Proposals (~250 words) should describe the topic and/or method being explored, and introduce a tentative idea for a pattern that readers can use to make a similar physical object (see the zine from our earlier special issue). You do not have to be a librarian or work in a library to submit, but the main audience of your piece should be library workers. We also understand these proposals might not represent work already done, and will be flexible if your topic shifts as you do the work.

Inspired by cooking blogs, each piece will have a written narrative + a pattern tied to the theme of the narrative. Narratives can be formal or informal and the recipes will also be gathered into a standalone zine that will be freely available to print/download/share. For inspiration and examples of this work please see part one of this series “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities” (2024).

Submit proposals by September 27, 2024.

Code4Lib 2025 is soliciting proposals for prepared talks! From the call:

Code4Lib 2025 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge
collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit the Code4Lib website.

The conference will be held at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, from Monday, March 10, 2025 to Thursday, March 13, 2025. Remote attendance via YouTube and remote presentations will be supported. More information on the 2025 conference is coming soon.

We encourage all members of the library, archives, museums, cultural heritage organizations, and technology community to submit proposals for prepared talks. Prepared talks should focus on one or more of the following
areas:

• Projects you’ve worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of
  existing technologies and/or development of new software
• Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools,
  standards, and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
• Technical issues – Big issues in library technology that are worthy of
  community attention or development
• Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib
  community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration,
  diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

We will be soliciting 10, 15, and 20 minute talks. You’ll be asked to indicate which talk lengths you would be willing to accommodate for your proposal. To ensure diversity of presenters, no speaker should be included on more than two presentation submissions.

Submit a presentation proposal for Code4Lib 2025.

A separate call for poster proposals will be offered at a later date. There will also be sign-up opportunities to present 5-minute lightning talks at the event.

As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. In order to provide increased opportunities for a diversity of speakers and topics, all presentations
will be listed by title, institution, and description only during the voting period. Speaker names will not be included until the program is posted.

The top 10 proposals are guaranteed a slot of their preferred length at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will weigh heavily in these decisions.

Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will have conference registration slots held for them (up to 2 speakers per talk). The standard conference registration fee will apply.

Proposals can be submitted through Friday, October 11, 2024 at 11:59pm Pacific time.

Voting will start Friday, October 18, 2024 and continue through Thursday, November 7, 2024. The committee plans to contact selected presenters by mid-November and announce the program to the Code4Lib community by early
December 2024.