[open-humanities] Fwd: [Antiquist] Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers

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From: Kai-Christian Bruhn <info at digidok.de>
Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Subject: [Antiquist] Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers
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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers
Hosted by University of Hamburg
16-22 July 2012
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/

Abstract deadline:  November 1, 2011 (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 DH2012,
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 2012
conference, which is 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and
methods'.

With the Digital Diversity theme in mind, we especially invite
submissions from scholars representing emerging digital humanities
communities, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial
history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is at
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ and 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 on 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;

the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media,
digital games, and related areas;

the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

the role of digital humanities in academic curricula.

In the spirit of the conference theme, and in consultation with the
ADHO Standing Committee on Multilingualism & Multiculturalism (MLMC),
we particularly invite proposals on the potential and impact of
digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and
multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH
in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Proposals regarding
endangered, lesser-known or minority languages and cultures are
especially welcome, as are case studies demonstrating the successful
integration of multilingualism and multiculturalism with digital
methods. Selected papers may be eligible for inclusion in future ADHO
publications devoted to the topic of multilingualism and
multiculturalism.

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, 2011.
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 by February 1, 2012.  The electronic submission
form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of
October 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals.

A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by
the Program Committee shortly.  In addition, proposals for non-
refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with
the local conference organizer, Jan Christoph Meister, as soon as
possible.  His email address is jan-c-meister at uni-hamburg.de. 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 http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/.

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).
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 that 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, 2011.

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 proposals must be submitted electronically using the online
submission form, found at the conference web site at
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de
beginning October 1, 2011.  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 Paul Spence at
paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk

IV.  Information about the conference venue

Hamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the
city limits, making the
old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis.
Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation
and a cosmopolitan flair.

The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of
the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception
Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages
and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of
the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this
end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital
Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital
Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg!

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 autumn (roughly November
1st).

More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks.

VI.  International Program Committee

Susan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair)
Arianna Ciula (ALLC)
Tanya Clement (ACH)
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI)
Dot Porter (ACH)
Jan Rybicki (ALLC)
Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI)
Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair)
Tomoji Tabata (ALLC)
Katherine Walter (ACH)

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