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posting. Please note I am reliably informed that there will be no
extension to the Nov 1st deadline this year.
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:42:06 -0500
From: Katherine L Walter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Posters, Short Papers, Long Papers, and Sessions
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities 2011
Call for Papers
Hosted by Stanford University
19-22 June 2011
http://dh2011.stanford.edu
Abstract deadline: November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT).
Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to
the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of
November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2011, you
need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference
website by November 1
Presentations include:
Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)
Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words)
Call for Papers Announcement
I. General Information
The international Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of
between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from
information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We
welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on
new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in
some way to the theme of the 2011 conference, which is Digital Humanities
2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities. With the Big Tent theme in mind, we
especially invite submissions from Latin American scholars, scholars in
the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public
humanities. The conference web site is in development at
http://dh2011.stanford.edu will be developing over the next few weeks. The
program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will
normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of
authors for presentation at the conference.
Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital
humanities:
research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling,
software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital
medium;
computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic,
cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public
humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some
examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language
processing, language learning, and endangered languages;
the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and
related areas;
the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;
the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;
The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in
the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC),
Oxford University Press.
The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions
proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2010. Since the
deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the
submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on
February 15, 2011. The electronic submission form will be available on
the conference site the beginning of October 2010. See below for full
details on submitting proposals.
A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the
Program Committee next week. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or
vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local
conference organizer, Glen Worthey, as soon as possible. His email
address is [log in to unmask]. All other proposals should be submitted
to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission
form on the conference web site.
For more information on the conference in general, please visit the
conference web site.
II. Types of Proposals
Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster
presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4)
sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). This year, the committee
is approaching submissions in a different way. The type of submission
preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee
may accept the application in another category based on the number of
proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the
incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all
applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are
therefore equal in importance.
Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or
Spanish.
1) Poster presentations
Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may
include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as
outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software
demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be
interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas
one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those
most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided
with board space to display their work, computer connections may be
available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card,
or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at
various times during the conference, and a separate conference session
will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain
their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for
software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may showcase some of
the most important and innovative work being done in the digital
humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a
prize for best poster.
2) Short papers
This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short
papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10)
minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper.
Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting
shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing
newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the
behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a
short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further
along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper
presentation.
3) Long Papers
Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial,
completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of
significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous
theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will
be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for
questions.
Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital
resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research
and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in
formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some
critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the
humanities. Papers than concentrate on a particular application or
digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as
computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical
assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should
include relevant citations to sources in the literature.
4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either:
Three long papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word
statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500
words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to
participate in the session;
or,
A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an
abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be
organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each
speaker is willing to participate in the session.
The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for
papers, i.e. November 1, 2010.
Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as
parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for
consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify
bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the
added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers
separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference
theme.
III. Format of the Proposals
All proposal must be submitted electronically using the online submission
form, found at the conference web site at http://dh2011.stanford.edu
beginning October 1, 2010. Anyone who has previously used the confTool
system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account
rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name
or password, please contact [log in to unmask]. As noted above,
the electronic submission form will be available on the conference site
the beginning of October 2010.
IV. Information about the conference venue
Situated on the peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific
Ocean, Stanford University is in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from
magnificent redwood forests and the vineyards of the Napa and Sonoma
Valleys. Stanford has a special culture and history to offer the Digital
Humanities, sharing both rich traditions in the humanities, arts, and
sciences, and a deep kinship with the world of computing, beginning well
before the late 1930s founding of Hewlett-Packard by two recent Stanford
graduates in a Stanford professor's now-legendary garage, and continuing
through the founding of Google by two other Stanford graduate students in
the late 1990s. We welcome new pioneers of DH2011 to Stanford.
V. Bursaries for young scholars
A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available
to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital
Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a
bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website
http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this fall (roughly November 1st).
More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks.
VI. International Program Committee
Arianna Ciula (ALLC)
Dominic Forest (SDI-SEMI)
Cara Leitch (SDI-SEMI)
John Nerbonne (ALLC)
Bethany Nowviskie (ACH)
Daniel O'Donnell (SDI-SEMI)
Dot Porter (ACH)
Jan Rybicki (ALLC)
John Walsh (ACH)
Katherine Walter (ACH: Chair)
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Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication
Department of Information Studies
Henry Morley Building
University College London
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Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
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Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/
Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/
Deputy Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/
General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
