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 âhumanitiesâ 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 itselfâwhat has been our effect on the field?
- Considerations of the âglobalâ 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