DHSI Colloquium,
The DHSI Colloquium showcases new and emerging, innovative and engaging work of those at DHSI.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (21 February 2012): Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2012 at the University of Victoria. (After an *excellent* first intake of papers for the colloquium, with the promise of additional tuition scholarship spots we've added a second intake to ensure that all those receiving tuition scholarships have the opportunity to submit a proposal.)
Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin and end each day. Presentations will be informal and may take the form of full-length conference papers (15-20 minutes), short conference papers, those traditional in their delivery, and those more demonstration-oriented. Brief high-impact formats such as paper-slams, lightning presentations, dork shorts, pecha kuchas, etc., will also be given consideration. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals or teams of two or more presenters.
We invite proposals of 200-300 words for these presentations. Successful proposals will focus on specific applications, aspects and/or cases of digital humanities research, as opposed to general issues pertaining to the digital humanities; topics may include, but are not limited to, the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy, etc. Potential presenters should be new or emerging scholars (including, but not limited to, graduate students; early career scholars and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs).
Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsicolloquium2012. Deadline for submissions is February 21, 2012. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and all who have submitted an abstract will be notified by late February 2012. For more information, contact dhsicolloquium2012@easychair.org.
ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies, and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The Institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. For more information see www.dhsi.org.
REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register early. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. Registrations and applications for tuition scholarship applications will be accepted beginning in October.
Accepted for Presentation, From the First Call for Papers
- Almond Aguila, "The Pedagogy of Facebook"
- Gord Barentsen, "Coding Digital Texts in TEI-Compliant XML, Case Study: The Folger Shakespeare Library Edition of Troilus and Cressida"
- Mary Borgo, "Voyeur-istically Viewing Middlemarch: Visualization Tools and Traditional Literary Scholarship"
- Lauren Burr, "House of Leaves, House of Lexia"
- Christopher Church, Hannah Farber and Scott McGinnis, "Computing and the Practice of History: Creating an Institutional Framework for the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley"
- Kristin Cornelius, "Disseminating the Humanities"
- Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell and Ray Siemens, "The Devonshire Manuscript Defused: Modeling the Social Edition"
- Jon Detombe, "Digitizing and Deciphering the Courten MS"
- Eugenie Duthoit, "Re-thinking the Use of Digital Tools to Assist the Pedagogical Translation from Latin"
- Bill Endres, "Sorting Through Encoding Possibilities: TEI Guidelines and Conflicting Hierarchies in an 8th Century Illuminated Manuscript"
- Paul Faber, "'A Thousand Twangling Instruments': Digital Humanities and the Study of Song"
- Chris Friend, "Bringing Technology to Student Writing: How DH Practices Can Enhance Composition Pedagogy"
- Gabriel Hankins, "Mapping the Modern Republic of Letters: Modeling Correspondence Networks with Omeka/Neatline"
- Rob Imes, "Mapping Early Modern Travel Compilations: Merging Cartography, Travelogues, and GIS"
- Peggy Jubien, "Opening the Black Box of Mobile Technology"
- Andy Keenan, "Gamification: Exploring the Debate within Game Design"
- Sarah Koning, "Historical Gentrification?: The Example of 19th-Century Mexico City"
- Brooke Lestock and Sarah Storti, "The Praxis Program and Prism: Rethinking Graduate Training in a Digital Age"
- Paige Morgan, "Visible Prices: Digital Humanities at the Intersection of Literature and Economics"
- Mike Nutt and Markus Wust, "Omeka and MicroTiles: Building Library Exhibits for Enormous Displays"
- James O'Sullivan, "Advancing Textual Analysis Through Digital Annotation"
- Charles Pence, "Software Demo: RLetters"
- Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Alyssa McLeod and Shaun MacPherson, "Digital Humanities and the Alt-Ac "Track": Views from the Grad School Trenches"
- Anne Salsich, "The Archivist's Role in the "Shansi: Oberlin and Asia" Digital Humanities Project"
- Jeffrey Witt, "Rethinking the Critical Edition: The "Editio Critica Electronica" of Petrus Plaoul"
- Amanda Visconti, "Choose Your Own Edition: Digital Pedagogy, Game Studies, and Editing Theory"
- Rob Voigt, "Unmasking the Translator: The Example of Yu Hua's "To Live""
- Robin Wharton, "How to Make a Digital Humanist?"
- Ross Woods, "Mapping Madrid: Digital Humanities as Literary Criticism"
Conference: Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century,
This year, DHSI will be immediately followed by a conference on digital textual studies, led by the Textual Studies group of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, and sharing our Friday DHSI Institute lecture.
Call for Papers (15 December 2011): The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century. June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington).
At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions “What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as
- What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital?
- What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium?
- How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts?
- How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe?
- How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts?
- What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history?
INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies.
Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria. A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012.
