Category: CFPs

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024.

Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more about this year’s DLF events, session types, and committees for the DLF Forum.

From the call:

We invite proposals on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to:

• Digital humanities
• Digital scholarship
• Digital pedagogy
• Digital collections and DAMS
• Digitization, digital preservation, or reformatting analog to digital format(s)
• Born-digital materials
• Art information
• Community archives
• Machine learning / artificial intelligence
• Project management
• Partnerships, advocacy, and outreach
• Race and technology
• Accessibility
• Copyright
• Assessment
• Climate change

Sessions are invited in the following lengths and formats:

• 90-minute Workshops: Hands-on training sessions on a specific tool, technique, workflow, or concept. Up to two (2) facilitators are allowed per submission.
• 60-minute Working Sessions: Open sessions for community organizers, creative problem solvers, and existing or prospective DLF working groups to begin or get feedback on in-progress projects, collaborate on addressing challenges, and discuss thought-provoking questions. Up to two (2) facilitators are allowed per submission.
• 45-minute Panels: A discussion of up to three (3) presenters on a unified topic, with an emphasis on community discussion. Proposals with diverse and inclusive speaker involvement will be favored by the committee. Panels will be slotted into 60-minute sessions, leaving a minimum of 15 minutes for Q&A and discussion at the end of each session.
• 45-minute Presentations: A single topic or project presented by up to two (2) presenters. Presentations will be slotted into 60-minute sessions, leaving a minimum of 15 minutes for Q&A and discussion at the end of each session.

Read the full CFP here and submit proposals before Thursday, February 29, 2024.

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call:

ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new ones. To help get a new project started and/or clear hurdles, each team is assigned a Liaison expert to consult on the project and help connect them to other experts.

The steering committee encourages proposals from teams in whole or in part new to digital scholarship. We employ an expansive definition of “digital project” that can include topics like infrastructure development and pedagogical practice. Projects of all types, and in any stage, are welcomed.

Examples of successful project proposals are linked from the full CFP posted on the ILiADS website, where you can also find Frequently Asked Questions about participating in ILiADS. Submissions should be made before Friday, March 15, 2024.

ILiADS relies on a team of experts in a variety of digital project skills and technologies to serve as liaisons to project teams. A Call for Liaisons has also been shared:

We are seeking liaisons with any combination of expertise in: digital scholarship tools and methodologies; programming, multimedia, and design experience; or audio/video production skills, including 3-D/XR.

To express interest in being a liaison for ILiADS 2024, fill out this form by March 29, 2024.

UPDATE: The deadline for proposals is extended to March 15, 2024.

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024.

The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and virtually via Zoom June 17th-27th, with virtual follow-ups in August and January (more details below). Participants will receive a lump-sum award of $4,200 that will cover travel, lodging, and per diem expenses for the in-person sessions and overall participation in the institute. To learn more about the institute visit the website.

Applications from adjuncts, part-time, and full-time professors, as well as staff from a range of disciplines are encouraged, particularly those from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Native-Serving Institutions, and community colleges.

The institute is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will be hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC).

The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2024. If you cannot upload your file, or have questions, email the team at oepi2024(at)gmail.com.

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 8.

Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on May 20-22, 2024.

Conference organizers have shared a call for proposals for individual ~15-minute presentations or full 90-minute “roundtable” sessions. From the call:

The conference theme is play: the fun of exploring, gaming, and trying new things without being sure you understand them. This theme celebrates immersive experience and experimentation in digital humanities, especially marked in the adventurous work of our keynote presenters!

As with previous Keystone DH conferences, we welcome a range of proposals, including:

• Presentations to share digital and public humanities projects;
• Presentations on digital humanities pedagogy
• Work on exploring, critiquing, applying, developing generative AI;
• Methods / progress in developing digital scholarly editions and archives;
• Curation efforts with digital ephemera;
• Games, game-making, game-playing in humanities work;
• Roundtable discussions on new directions and potential energies in humanities work digitally practiced;
• “Workshopping” to share/get advice on projects in progress, which could take the form of:
  • short immersive installations of 3D projects,
  • interface design and development in progress,
  • investigations of a method (e.g. data sonification, analyzing/curating/classifying visual arts, natural language processing, network analysis, mapping time and space),
  • something we haven’t thought of here!

Students, early-career and non-traditional scholars, faculty researchers, digital scholarship librarians, designers, developers, explorers experimenting with “digital humanities” are all welcome to apply.

Read the full CFP here and submit proposals before Monday, March 1, 2024.

The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a “one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research” has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April 12, 2024 in person on Tufts’ Medford campus, though a hybrid option will be available as well for those unable to attend.

Proposals on topics related to queer digital humanities and critical mapping, exploring issues around identity, social justice, and technology are of particular interest, but those related to digital storytelling, digital public humanities, critical coding and AI, environmental humanities and climate justice, and digital musicology and sound studies, another other such issues are also desired.

Submission types include individual talks (15 min), panel or round table presentations (90 min), poster sessions, and workshops (90min). View the call for additional information.

Questions can be sent to Kaylen Dwyer at kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.

Editors Fiona Kovacaj and Victoria James are seeking proposals for chapters/recipes “on instructional activities for teaching about the Digital Humanities through a critical lens” for a Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook to be published by ACRL. The outline of the book includes five sections: Defining the Digital Humanities, Digital Tools, Data & Metadata, Preservation, and Access. The book will use the ACRL Cookbook format with each chapter framed as a recipe.

Deadline for proposals is February 1, 2024 and proposals should be submitted via this Google Form.

View the full CFP (pdf) to get more details regarding topics and format.

Please email Fiona Kovacaj and Victoria James at critical.dh.cookbook@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Debates in the Digital Humanities series is looking for an editorial team for the next general volume in the series. They welcome proposals from teams or from individuals, and the proposal should consist of an editorial statement of 500 words that describes a vision for the upcoming volume and a statement about the state of DH, as well as a description of qualifications and a CV. See the call for editors web page for further details.

Proposals should be sent via email to mgold@gc.cuny.edu AND lauren.klein@emory.edu by January 31st, 2024.

The 2024 Digital Initiatives Symposium will be held April 29-30, 2024 at the University of San Diego. They are now accepting proposals for concurrent sessions, which are 40 minutes (including 10-15 minutes for Q&A) and are limited to 1-2 speakers. They are particularly interested in proposals that touch on “artificial intelligence, data science, diversity and digital collections, controlled digital lending, collection audits, new OA initiatives, and relevant legislation,” but proposals on any topic relevant to digital initiatives in libraries, museums, or other cultural memory institutions.

Proposals should be submitted via the “Submit Proposal” link on the conference website and are due by Friday, December 15, 2023.