CFP: Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD)

The Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD) has issued a call for proposals for its 2019 conference, scheduled for January 23–25 in Udine, Italy. The conference welcomes abstracts for papers, panels, workshops, and posters that address

  • General questions:
    • the epistemological positioning and area of knowledge of DH in relation to the systems of Academic Research Areas (Settori Scientifico-Disciplinari) and Recruiting in Italy;
    • the positioning of DH in the European and International academic systems;
    • the evaluation of research in DH beyond traditional publications;
    • dissemination, public history, and crowdsourcing within research projects;
    • the role of inter(multi-trans-cross)-disciplinary DH research in European projects, enquiry, and teaching.
  • Pedagogy and teaching questions:
    • teaching DH: which models, technologies, and methods?
    • teaching the humanities in secondary schools and universities with DH tools;
    • teaching DH at the University: how is it taught today?
    • DH and media: production, dissemination, and analytical prospects
    • teaching history and DH;
    • DH and didactic strategies;
    • DH and hands-on teaching practices;
    • DH and primary source teaching;
    • Big Data methodologies and technologies in DH research and teaching.
  • Questions concerning research efforts:
    • statistical and quantitative research methods and their teaching applications;
    • Data Science and the role of DH in the definition of new knowledge;
    • Information science and DH:  meeting points and methodological integration;
    • cultural and social impact of humanities research with computational methodologies;
    • Semantic web technologies and linked open data in the humanities;
    • models and tools for knowledge representation in the humanities and the cultural heritage sector;
    • visualization methodologies and technologies and their significance for humanities and cultural heritage knowledge and information;
    • Natural Language Processing methodologies and applications for the humanities;
    • digitization methodologies and technologies for the production, preservation, and promotion of digital cultural heritage.

Proposals are due October 25, 2018.

Author: Sarah Melton

Sarah Melton is Head of Digital Scholarship at Boston College. Her group explores and documents new tools and supports teaching and research in a variety of areas that utilize broad methodologies in the digital humanities. She is interested in questions of digital infrastructure, the philosophical underpinnings of ”openness,” and the intersection of public history and digital humanities. She has worked with Open Access Button for the past several years. Sarah holds a PhD from Emory University’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts.