Category: CFPs

Digitorium, the annual Digital Humanities conference hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at University of Alabama Libraries, is now accepting proposals. They specifically “encourage submissions that ask big questions, present puzzles for problem-solving, and share outside of the box ideas.”

Presentation formats include:

Papers: 15 minute presentations (max 2000 words). Papers are an opportunity for solo presenters to submit a presentation on their project or idea and can describe theoretical or conceptual ideas or can focus on in progress or completed projects.  Sessions for papers will be scheduled in groups of three.

Panels: a presentation for collaborators or scholars who are working on related or similar projects. Panels are 45 minutes long and have a minimum of 2 co-presenters. This presentation format can be a collaborative presentation or a discussion-based presentation with a moderator.

Roundtables: facilitated conversation about a DH tool or concept. Presenters will pose a short discussion prompt and a short list of questions that participants can engage with.

Lightening Talks (students only):  solo presentation of a small project or an aspect of a project (<10 minutes, max 1000 words). Lightening talks are bite size presentations of materials and are not intended to go into great depth.

Poster Sessions (students only): a poster session is a visual representation of a research project. Posters will include title, research questions, methodology, data, findings, and a bibliography. Posters are a way to visually engage participants and are a great place to showcase data visualization and graphics. Posters will be uploaded into a conference gallery and presenters will show their posters at a designated time during the conference.

The conference will be held September 12-14. View the full call for additional information.

Proposals are now being accepted for Cultures of Scale: Discipline, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities book series from The University of Minnesota Press. From the call:

This volume is designed for a wide array of perspectives. We have much to gain from the complex and critical debates on scale within rapidly growing fields such as Black DH, Indigenous DH and digital Knowledge Making, Latinx DH, Queer DH, and multilingual DH. Along with these and other disciplines represented in digital humanities and cultural heritage, we invite contributions from creative writers, visual artists, educators, students, computer scientists, and information professionals and knowledge creators, particularly those whose work has moved them beyond formal disciplinary training.

Essays and a wide variety of other contributions, such as short sample documents with critical analyses and critical arguments that speak to conceptual and practical aspects of ongoing efforts, are invited. The deadline to submit 500-word abstracts for consideration is May 15, 2024.

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London seeks proposals for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, to be held April 2-4, 2025. From the call:

Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally focused on digitised objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials that originate and circulate across a range of formats and platforms are rapidly expanding and raising new opportunities and challenges for research, archiving and collecting communities. Collecting, accessing and sharing born-digital objects and data presents a range of complex technical, legal and ethical challenges that, if unaddressed, threaten the archival and research futures of these vital cultural materials and records of the 21st century. Moreover, the environments, contexts and formats through which born-digital records are mediated necessitate reconceptualising the materials and practices we associate with cultural heritage and memory.

Research and practitioner communities working with born-digital materials are growing and their interests are varied, from digital cultures and intangible cultural heritage to web archives, electronic literatures and social media. This international conference seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms what and how we research in the humanities.

We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners involved in any way in accessing or developing born-digital collections and archives, and interested in exploring the novel and transformative effects of born-digital cultural heritage. Areas of particular (but not exclusive) interest include:

1. A broad range of born-digital objects and formats
2. Theoretical, methodological and creative approaches to engaging with born-digital collections and archives
3. Critical approaches to born-digital archiving, curation and preservation
4. Access, training and frameworks for born-digital archiving and collecting

The deadline to submit a proposal is May 15, 2024. The conference, while planned as an in-person event, will have live streaming options to support virtual participation. A limited number of virtual presentations will be supported.

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) invites submissions for a special issue on, “Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation.”  From the call:

We are all digital humanists now: we are all interpellated as users of platforms, workers in the marketized university, subjects to a changing political and technological economy. The shifting relations between labor, technology, class, and political economy pose urgent questions for the pedagogy and the politics of teaching in the humanities. We confront an uncertain future for labor activism and organizing as technologies such as artificial intelligence threaten to replace, deskill, or enshittify entire swathes of the “knowledge economy” in academic as well as industrial contexts. Whether the current shifts in the economy tend towards “neofeudalism,” surveillance capitalism, or “something worse,” they are profound. We see the disciplines and fields that make up the Digital Humanities as in dialectical relation to the changes and contradictions in the political economy around them, contradictions yet to be fully named and explored. We seek papers along two axes of the dialectic of theory and praxis, “Political Economies of the Digital” and “Synthesizing Political Resistance,” for a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. We especially welcome contributions from graduate students, non–tenure-track faculty, academic or tech union organizers, and staff within DH spaces.

The special issue will be organized into two clusters, I. Political Economies of the Digital in the Humanities, and II: Synthesizing Political Resistance. Research-based manuscripts and multimedia projects alike are accepted and peer reviewed.  Collective, collaborative, and/or multi-author forms of publication are welcome and encouraged.

Submission deadline for full manuscripts is 15 June 2024, with anticipated publication in December 2024.

This year, the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating its ten year anniversary, and hosting its annual event on 20 September 2024, at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, entitled, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” From the call:

This conference will focus on exploring the intricate relationship between technology and the arts and humanities. We invite submissions that critically examine how advancements in artificial intelligence, digital tools, and computational methods have reshaped research, pedagogy, and creative expression in the humanities over the past decade. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Digital art and literature in the age of AI
2. Computational approaches to analyzing cultural artifacts and texts
3. Digital storytelling and narrative theory
4. Ethical considerations in digital humanities research
5. Collaborative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches
6. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in humanities and arts scholarship
7. Preservation and access to cultural heritage through digital technologies
8. Pedagogical innovations and digital humanities education
9. Race, gender, class, identity, technology access, and other limitations to DH participation and knowledge
10. The role of Large Language Models in DH research and teaching
11. Questions or problems that Automated Transcription raises in regard to accessibility, equity, inclusion, and other topics
12. Algorithmic bias, black box systems, and the explainability turn
13. DH work in the tenure, promotion, thesis, or dissertation process
14. Algorithmic and big data biases, and how they affect the work of digital humanities

Proposals are due by 3 May 2024 using their online submission form.

The annual Text Encoding Initiative conference, TEI 2024, is set for 7–11 October 2024 in-person at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the organizers invite submissions for papers, posters, panels, demos, and workshops. This event, marking the Text Encoding Initiative’s twenty-fourth conference, is themed around, “Texts, Languages, and Communities,” which encourages contributions that explore the global and local dimensions of text encoding across various fields and communities. Submissions are welcomed from a diverse range of participants, including those new to text encoding, with a focus on fostering a multilingual and multicultural exchange of experiences and methodologies. From the call:

Topics include, but are not limited to the use or application of TEI in:

• digital humanities
• digital editions
• galleries/libraries/archives/museums
• intangible heritage
• bibliographies and bibliographic studies
• catalogs and collection management
• study of oral cultures, oral history
• teaching and learning
• information retrieval
• machine learning approaches
• literary analysis

We are also interested in:

• encoding, publishing, and researching multilingual corpora or lexical resources
• pedagogies related to text encoding
• TEI in Spanish
• uses of the TEI in Latin America
• computational analysis of encoded text
• ontologies, authority files, and linked data in text encoding and description, particularly where multilingual
• best practices in approaches to text encoding
• sex, gender and representation in the TEI
• TEI for journal publishing and ebooks
• stand-off annotation, semantic markup and models for collaborative markup
• computer vision
• handwritten text recognition
• potential use cases or applications of text and music encoding
• innovative applications of the TEI

Submit proposals via the TEI 2024 ConfTool and forward questions to hdlabconicet[at]gmail.com.

DH2024 is seeking submissions and reviewers for the mini-conference at DH2024, “DH Inside Out,” which will be held August 6-9 at George Mason University. Rather than focusing on research and theoretical applications, this conference will focus on the technical details within the context of a project – from design and implementation to tools and code. From the call:

Submissions should specify the desired format:

• Presentations: 20 minute talks including Q&A with the audience.
• Tool presentations: 10 minutes demonstrations followed by 10 minutes discussion with the audience.
• Other: do you have a format in mind you would like to try out? Please describe the format including length and audience engagement.

Submissions should be 500 to 750 words in length. Links to relevant code and packages should be provided in the submission.

Submission deadline for presenters is March 15, 2024; no deadline is posted for reviewer sign-ups.

DH@Guelph is seeking course proposals for its 2024 Summer Workshops, May 14th-May 17th. From the call, the committee seeks:

4-day workshops on any aspect of digital humanities. Proposals will be selected by the local organizing committee with a view to maintaining the workshops’ emphasis on diversity in the digital humanities, meeting demand for particular topics, and instructor experience and qualifications.

DH@Guelph will cover the cost of travel, residence accommodation, and a modest honorarium for visiting instructors. Note that our budget is limited with a view to keeping participant costs reasonable, so if your expenses will be significant we are unlikely to be able to accept the proposal.

Previous workshops and their details are available on the project website, and the deadline for course proposals is March 5, 2024, with notifications going out around March 15th.

The Texas Digital Humanities Symposium will be held September 5-6, 2024, at Baylor University’s Moody Memorial Library. The keynote will be Dr. Tanya Clement of University of Texas at Austin. “Digital Humanities Unveiled: A Practical Exploration” is the theme of this year’s symposium, and proposals will address topics in the following areas:

• DH Content: Diverse Perspectives – Whether you’re an artist, historian, librarian, or data enthusiast, DH content awaits your exploration. Share and discover a full breadth of content, spanning text, maps, art, and multimedia. Dive into rich corpora and explore visualizations that bridge past and present.
• DH Tools: Practical Empowerment – Join us as we work together to demystify the DH toolbox. Tools are our allies; they help us collect, explore, analyze, and visualize human expression. From data insights to interactive storytelling, these tools empower understanding.
• Teaching and Classroom Integration: Real-World Impact – DH isn’t just theory—it’s practical. Let’s reimagine education and engage students with interactive projects and critical thinking. Share and explore methods, examples, and ideas for integrating DH into teaching.
• Research Challenges: Navigating the Unknown – DH research has its hurdles: funding, interdisciplinary collaboration, and tenure value, just to name a few. Join us so that we can all work together to see how DH transcends boundaries and reshapes scholarship.

The symposium is free to attend, and the deadline to submit a proposal is March 20, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will go out in early April.

The Modern Language Association’s 2025 Annual Convention will be offering several panels with overlaps in digital humanities and librarianship. The 2025 Convention theme is “Visibility,” and will be in New Orleans in January of 2025, with proposals due for submission in various dates in March 2024. Here are two panels with particular connections:

Invisible Labor: supporting emerging technologies in academic institutions
Making visible the labor and infrastructure necessary to adapt to emerging technologies such as but not limited to: immersive technologies (AR/VR), AI/LLMs, 3D scanning/printing, digital mapping/GIS, and digital storytelling platforms. Submit 250-300 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 7 March 2024.

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Roundtable discussion of digital projects and data sets rendered invisible (due to neglect, lack of funding, etc.), and the institutional, political, and methodological responses to this lack of visibility. 300-word abstract/statement and CV. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 20 March 2024.

Submission contacts for the panels are within the links.