**CALL FOR PROPOSALS**

REMINDER

Forthcoming Conference

DRHA 2009: DYNAMIC NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE: CONTEXTS, 
CRISES, FUTURES
http://www.dho.ie/drha2009

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held 
annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this 
year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and 
practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users 
and digitisation of cultural heritage. The conference is hosted by Queen's 
University, Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy and Swansea University in 
partnership with the National Library of Wales.  It will take place from Sunday 
6th September to Wednesday 9th September 2009. It will be held at QUB with 
its innovative spaces, fantastic architecture and state-of-the-art Sonic 
Laboratory.

The conference will:
* Establish new digital communities of knowledge exchange
* Promote discussion around the impact of data on scholarship and wider 
society
* Enquire into how innovations become mainstream through mutation, imitation, 
and the 're-invention of the wheel'
* Advance discussion around digitisation of scholarly editions and cultural 
heritage
* Evolve new approaches to the digital representation of time, space and 
locality
* Debate burning issues in digital preservation and sustainability
* Investigate user engagement and social participation
* Explore the impact of narrative and design in the Arts and Humanities on ICT 
and vice versa
* Promote discussion around education and the digital humanities and arts
* Share the theory and practice of creating and documenting digital arts

Keynote speakers will include:

* Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of 
Nottingham

* Andrew Green, Librarian of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of 
Wales

* Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin.

We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, round-tables, 
workshop sessions and other events that address the conference themes, with 
attention to 'contexts, crises, futures'. We particularly encourage proposals for 
innovative and non-traditional session formats such as 'town hall' discussions 
and hands-on workshops that will help to foster 'dynamic networks of 
knowledge and practice'.

DHRA 2009 will also include a round-table event with facilities for enabling 
international participants to present papers via Second Life, and a further 
session dedicated to the discussion of Multi-user Virtual Environments such as 
Second Life.

Short presentations, for example of work-in-progress, are also invited for an 
informal, rapid (Quickfire) slideshow and discussion event (please see DRHA 
website for further details).

Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit 
http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/main.php?page=soniclab and 
http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/AboutUs/Facilities/PerformanceSpaces/ for further 
information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available. 
Spaces include the Sonic Arts Laboratory, the Harty Room and the McMordie 
Hall.

All proposals, whether papers, performance or other, should reflect the critical 
engagement at the heart of DRHA.

The deadline for submissions will be 31 March 2009. Abstracts should be 
between 600 - 1000 words.

A selection of submissions will be published in The Edinburgh University Press 
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.

On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September, QUB with the Digital Humanities 
Observatory and King's College London, will offer a series of short, pre-
conference, hands-on courses in TEI, GIS and Visualisation. Further details and 
prices will appear on the DHRA 2009 website.

Please see http://www.dho.ie/drha2009 for more information and a link for 
online submission.

Sue Broadhurst
DRHA Programme Chair

Professor Sue Broadhurst,
School of Arts,
Brunel University,
West London,
UB8 3PH, UK
Direct Line:+44(0)1895 266588
Extension: 66588
Fax: +44(0)1895 269768
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