Event: Digitorium Digital Humanities Conference
When: Thursday, October 4 – Saturday, October 6, 2018
Where: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
for more information go to https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitorium/cfp/
We are delighted to invite proposals for Digitorium 2018, a large-scale, international Digital Humanities conference to be held for the fourth time at The University of Alabama, October 4 – 6, 2018.
We seek proposals on Digital Humanities work from researchers, practitioners, and graduate students which showcase innovative ways in which digital methods have brought scholarship and scholarly communities to life, whether locally or globally. We especially welcome proposals which discuss the use of digital methods and their novel results for research, pedagogy, and public scholarship. The conference will host research presentations, roundtables, and workshops throughout the event for participants to gain new digital skills, and to share their expertise in using particular tools. The workshops allow participants to see the scholarly results of using a given digital tool (e.g., OpenRefine, oXygen, Story Maps, QGIS, Paper Machines, Visual Eyes, etc.), and then to learn how to use it themselves. For these sessions, we invite proposals from scholars interested in giving an initial 10-20 minute paper about their research project followed by leading a 30-40 minute hands-on workshop in which they will teach other participants how to use one of the digital tools deployed for the research presentation.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is July 27, 2018.
We have two key “pathways” for which participants can submit abstracts:
- Digital Methods: presentations on exciting new applications of digital methods, whether to bring an under-served subject to public attention, or to break new ground in established fields.
- Digital Pedagogy and Public Scholarship: presentations on the use of digital methods in innovative teaching approaches, and for public outreach by universities, libraries, museums, and other institutions who are engaging communities via digital scholarship.
Proposals:
We seek proposals for the following types of presentation for the conference:
- 20-minute papers.
- 5-minute lightning talks.
- Workshops: a 10-20 minute paper followed by leading a hands-on workshop using the tool employed for your research (see above for details).
- Posters.
- Digital exhibits
- Bring your digital exhibit to the conference and present it as you would a poster.
- Workshops to share techniques which you have found useful.
- Roundtables.
- Experiential presentations
- 20-30 minute workshop-style presentations walking your audience through a digital method which you have used for specific scholarly outcomes.
- Panels of three or four 20-minute papers or two experiential presentations.
- Panels comprised of a whole project team.
All proposals should be made via the Submissions page on the conference website.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is July 27, 2018.
For more information about the conference, including our plenary speakers, the venue, and the departments generously offering their support for this event, please explore our website. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Thomas C. Wilson, Associate Dean for Research & Technology at tcwilson@ua.edu.
Digitorium is made possible by the generous support of the University Libraries at The University of Alabama.