CFP: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

The peer-reviewed,Ā open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities has issued a call for papers for a special collectionĀ on the topic of Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities. Guest editors Aaron Mauro (Pennsylvania State University) and Ray Siemens (University of Victoria)Ā seek:

submissions dedicated to describing community formation and collaboration while accounting for global research partners and local knowledge stakeholders; we encourage submissions that reflect on both the local conditions necessary to conduct researchā€”in the form of archives, people, places, and culturesā€”and the broader effects of globalized and outward facing humanities practice …

We welcome research articles, critical essays, and review articles representing a variety of approaches, including but not limited to:

  • Digital Literature Studies
  • Book History and Publishing
  • Electronic Literature & Creative Coding
  • Pedagogical Practice and Curriculum Development
  • Visual and Material Culture
  • Cultural Heritage & History

The deadline for submissions is November 16, 2015.

Author: Roxanne Shirazi

Roxanne is the Dissertation Research Librarian at the Graduate Center, CUNY.