Race and the Digital Humanities will explore how race and ethnicity are important structural categories of analysis in the digital humanities. How do race and ethnicity factor into questions of access within the digital humanities? How are digital humanities tools calibrated to take into account the effects of race and ethnicity? How is race configured in different…
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open. Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/
The second annual Theorizing the Web conference seeks to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how the Web both influences and is influenced by the social. Technology has always been social and society has always been technological. This fact has become increasingly difficult to ignore following the recent explosion of collaborative and…
ETD 2012 – Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters, Workshops. 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14 First Announcement Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the…
Georeferencing: help us place our digitised maps. Are you interested in local history and old maps? Would you like to explore historic places in London and across the UK? If so, you can help the British Library. You can quickly create an online 3-D visualisation of these rare documents (with Google Earth) and compare the…
Our conference proposes to consider both the new issues facing training programs in the heritage industries and the transformations taking place on a wider scale in university and research cultures. Digital humanities suggest a new approach for studying the relations between the way heritage is defined and the manner in which digital resources circulate and are appropriated, and how they…
Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities or practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many…
For (dis)junctions 2012, we are seeking papers that explore the construction and definition of “narrative” in all its mediated and mediating forms. The word narrative is typically associated with storytelling and plot, but for this year’s conference we want to understand “narrative” as any instance of producing meaning or “truth.” In this regard, a piece…
The first international conference on translating E-literature will take place from 12 to 14 June at the Universities of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Paris 7 Diderot Denis. The conference is organized by OTNI: Objets textuels non identifiés(UTO: Unidentified Textual Objects), a research project into the evolution of textuality in the digital age. It is supported by…
Call for Articles: “The History and Future of the 19th-Century Book,” GRAMMA Special Issue (2013) « The Hoarding. For the 2013 volume of Gramma on the history and future of the book with a focus on British and American 19th-century literary materials, papers are invited on the following or related areas: book production and publishing…