CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University has issued a Call for Proposals for its 6^th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, which will take place virtually on April 12-15, 2021. The symposium offers the opportunity to expand the conversation about “disruption, connection, virtuality, surveillance, algorithmic bias, data and resistance, the digital divide, and digital accountabilities” – narratives common in DH that are particularly relevant today. “Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome.”

From the call:

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

• Global DH during a global pandemic
• Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context
• DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
• Equity in digital access
• DH as a tool of political empowerment

We are always interested to hear about the following topics:

• Productive failure; failure as a part of DH praxis
• Critical cultural studies and analytics
• Cultural heritage in a range of contexts, particularly non-Western
• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context
• How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work
• Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
• Global research dialogues and collaborations within the digital humanities community
• Global digital pedagogies
• Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
• Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
• Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
• Digital and global languages and literatures
• Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies
• Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context

Presentation formats:

• 5-minute lightning talk (300 word proposal)
• 15-minute presentation (300 word proposal)
• 90-minute panel (100 word proposal describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 word description for each presentation within the panel)
• Project showcase (300 word proposal)
  • There will be a session similar to a poster presentation fair, in which presenters will share their work with small groups or individuals. Rather than a set presentation length, this project showcase will enable one-on-one feedback and ask presenters to share about their work in a more conversational and extemporaneous way.

Proposals are due by Tuesday, December 1, 2020.