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>Call for papers: 2nd Digital Humanities early career conference
>
>Mapping the Scope and Reach of the Digital Humanities
>
>20 May 2016 | Kingıs College London, Strand Campus
>
>This yearıs conference theme is: Mapping the Scope and Reach of the
>Digital Humanities. Since computing in the humanities was renamed to what
>it is nowadays called digital humanitiesı (DH), the field has shifted
>significantly in its scope and has gained importance as an academic
>discipline. The DH is envisaged to encompass a range of interests and
>tasks such as ³refurbishing the humanities for an electronic age²
>(McCarty 2005), manipulating texts (Bradley 2004), gathering big data for
>macroanalysis (Jockers 2013), distant reading (Moretti 2013), building
>rather than
>writing for algorithmic criticism (Ramsay 2011), speculative computing
>and visual forms (Drucker 2008), to name a few.
>
>The digital has undoubtedly cut across the humanities disciplines, but
>how wide is its reach? Is the DH inclusive enough as ³a trading zone and
>a meeting place², as defined by Svensson (2012)? What do the other
>disciplines have to teach digital humanities? Are we capable of inventing
>any new functions of the digital within and for the traditional scope of
>the humanities? How responsive are the institutions to the new demands
>and ideas of researching the digital? What forms and areas of
>collaborative research have been missing? Do the collaborative projects
>overshadow a
>single scholarıs effort and will in any way? Are the digital tools going
>hand in hand with the needs of humanities research, theory and pedagogy?
>
>We would like to put these and many other historical, empirical and
>pedagogical aspects of the digital in the humanities on the agenda of the
>DDH Student Conference 2016 at Kingıs. We invite humanists, regardless of
>their technical background, to share their ideas and research on the past,
>present and future issues of the digital in and for the humanities.
>
>Keynote sessions include:
>
> - ³Quality in Quantity? Stylometry on Ever Bigger Data² | Jan Rybicki,
> Assistant Professor of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University
> of Kraków, Poland
> - ³Community Building in the Digital Humanities² | James Cummings,
> Senior Digital Research Specialist for the IT Services of the
>University of
> Oxford
> - ³Open Access and Multi-media Monographs² | Rupert Gatti,
> co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers and Director of
>Studies in
> Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge
> - ³Researching Born-digital Data² | Jane Winters, Professor of
> Digital History and Head of Publications at the Institute of Historical
> Research
>
>The event will also feature a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor
>Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of
>Digital Humanities at King's College London.
>
>The conference committee seeks proposals for:
>
> - Research paper presentations - submissions should include: a title,
>author list (including names, email addresses and institutional
>affiliations) and an abstract for the proposed presentation (no more than
>250 words in length). Presentations on the day should last no more than
>15 minutes and will be followed by five minutes of discussion time.
>
> - Poster or digital art presentations - submissions should include: a
>title, author list (including names, email addresses and institutional
>affiliations) and an abstract for the proposed poster or digital art
>exhibit (no more than 250 words in length). Please note: creativity is
>greatly encouraged in these presentations. Your work does not need to be
>in the form of a traditional poster and can include digital elements (for
>example animation or design) - please email us to propose your idea.
>
>Further information will be made available through the conference website
>(TBC), Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/KCLDHCONF) and Facebook page
>(https://www.facebook.com/kcldhconf/). Submissions should be made by
>midnight on 11 April 2016 by emailing [log in to unmask] Please
>indicate in your email whether you wish to propose a presentation, poster
>or both. Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to
>applicants no later than 18 April 2016.
>
>Gabriele Salciute Civiliene
>PhD Student, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
>
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