Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 316.
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[1] From: Brent Nelson <nelson_at_arts.usask.ca> (251)
Subject: SDH-SEMI 2007
[2] From: Ross Scaife <scaife_at_GMAIL.COM> (11)
Subject: Chicago Statement
[3] From: John Unsworth <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu> (80)
Subject: Dec. 1 deadline for submissions to HASTAC conference
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:24:49 +0000
From: Brent Nelson <nelson_at_arts.usask.ca>
Subject: SDH-SEMI 2007
Society for Digital Humanities
Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs
*Call for Papers*
*/Bridging Communities: making public knowledge--making knowledge public/*
2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital
Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs
The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI)
invites scholars and graduate students to submit
proposals for papers and sessions for its annual
meeting, which will be held at the 2007 Congress
of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University
of Saskatchewan, from 28-30 May.
The society would like in particular to encourage
submissions relating to the central theme of the
Congress“Bridging Communities”or its
sub-theme“making public knowledge/making
knowledge public.” Computing in the humanities
already has a strong history of fostering
collaboration in areas of research that have
traditionally been built on the model of the
solitary scholar. Digital technology has enabled
networking and collaboration where logistics were
previously prohibitive, and the digital medium
has accelerated dissemination of knowledge and
enriched means for delivering complex and diverse
forms of data. The Internet has further taken
much scholarly work out of the confines of
university libraries and made it readily
accessible to an extensive reading public. While
this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the
interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions
on all topics relating to both theory and praxis
in the evolving discipline of humanities
computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
• Humanities computing as an means of bridging disciplinary communities
• The public and the proprietary in electronic publication
• Virtual communities
• The computer as a generative or analytical tool in humanities research
• Humanities computing and pedagogy
• Digitizing material culture
• Computer supported collaboration
• Computer modeling in humanities research
• The history and future of humanities computing
• Computing in the fine, performing and new media arts
• Facility and large project management
The conference will also present a number of
joint sessions with several national societies,
including the Canadian Society of
Medievalist/Société canadienne des médiévistes
(CSM/SCM), the Canadian Society for Renaissance
Studies/Sociéte canadienne d'études de la
Renaissance (CSRS/SCER), and the Association for
the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne
pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH),
as well as the international society, Association
of Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO).
Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in a joint session.
Selected papers from the conference will appear
in a special collection, jointly published by
/Computing in the Humanities Working Papers/, and /Text Technology/.
In collaboration with CSM/SCM and ASBC/ACEH we
will also host a half-day symposium on
“Reassembling Disassembled Books,” featuring a
keynote talk by Professor Peter Stoicheff
(associate dean of humanities and fine arts,
University of Saskatchewan) on the Otto Ege
manuscripts and a project for digitally reconstructing parts of the collection.
There is a limited amount of funding available to
support a graduate student panel. Interested
applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below.
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted
until December 15, 2006. Please note that all
presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference.
Abstracts/proposals should include the following
information at the top of the front page: title
of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing
address, including e-mail; institutional
affiliation and rank, if any, of the author;
statement of need for audio-visual equipment.
Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300
words long, and clearly indicate the paper's
thesis, methodology and conclusion.
All abstracts and questions should be sent
electronically to the addresses below:
Brent Nelson, Conference Committee Chair and
Local Coordinator, (University of Saskatchewan)
nelson_at_arts.usask.ca <mailto:nelson_at_arts.usask.ca> or
Department of English
9 Campus Dr.
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5
We hope you consider joining us in Saskatoon for
this year’s meetings of SDH/SEMI at Congress. In
addition to the excellent slate of papers that we
expect this year, the local organizing committee
for Congress 2007 has several cultural events
planned, including an aboriginal round dance and
film festival, an Alice In Wonderland croquet
match in the university commons, complete with
costumes and flamingo mallets (will President
McKinnon be the Queen of Hearts?) and a repeat
performance of /Songs of a Prairie Girl/, a
musical review featuring the songs of Joni
Mitchell. The picturesque university campus sits
upon the banks of the Saskatchewan river valley,
which offers an extensive system of trails and
parks ideal for evening walks. There will also be
excursions available to local historical sites,
including Fort Carleton, Duck Lack, Batoche, and Waneskewin Heritage Park.
*Appel de communication*
*/Le partenariat entre communautés : la création
et la diffusion du savoir public/*
Réunion annuelle 2007 de la Société pour l’étude
des médias interactifs / Society for Digital Humanities
La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
(SEMI / SDH) invite les spécialistes ainsi que
les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxième et
troisième cycles à soumettre des propositions
d’atelier ou de communication pour la réunion
annuelle de la Société, dans le cadre du Congrès
des sciences humaines et sociales, les 28, 29 et
30 mai 2007, à l’Université de Saskatchewan.
La Société aimerait encourager en particulier les
soumissions qui se rapportent à une discussion du
thème central du Congrès, c’est-à-dire le
partenariat entre communautés, ou du sous-thème,
la création et la diffusion du savoir publique.
En pratique, l’informatique dans les sciences
humaines s’est toujours bien prêtée à encourager
la collaboration entre les spécialistes de
différents domaines qui, traditionnellement, se
limitaient au travail individuel et isolé. La
technologie digitale permet maintenant le travail
en réseau alors que dans le passé, la logistique
nécessaire à la collaboration rendait cette
activité quasi impraticable. Ce nouveau support
digital permet la diffusion accélérée du savoir
et demeure un véhicule privilégié pour la
transmission de données complexes et diverses.
L’internet encourage l’accessibilité du savoir en
permettant les ouvrages académiques, jusqu’alors
restreints aux habitués des bibliothèques
universitaires, d’être à la portée d’un public
élargi. Même si le thème du Congrès cette année
correspond bien aux intérêts de la SEMI/SDH, nous
voulons encourager des soumissions qui se
rapportent à la fois à la théorie et à la praxis
dans le domaine dynamique des médias interactifs.
Voici quelques suggestions de sujets pertinents
dont le but est de favoriser la réflexion et non de limiter l’inspiration:
• Les médias interactifs comme moyen d’encourager
le partenariat interdisciplinaire
• Le savoir public et les droits d’auteurs dans
le monde de la publication électronique
• Les communautés virtuelles
• L’informatique comme outil génératif ou
analytique dans le domaine des sciences humaines
• Les médias interactifs et la pédagogie
• L’adaptation de la culture matérielle un support digital
• L’informatique comme soutien la collaboration
• La création de mod les informatisés d’aide la
recherche dans le domaine des sciences humaines
• Le développement historique et l’avenir des médias interactifs
• Les médias interactifs dans les domaines du
théâtre, des beaux-arts, et des arts médiatiques
• La gestion de structures et de projets importants
Dans le cadre de la réunion annuelle, un certain
nombre de colloques seront organisés en
collaboration avec des sociétés nationales, dont
la Société canadienne des médiévistes/the
Canadian Society of Medievalists (SCM/CSM), la
Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance/the
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
(SCER/CSRS), et l’Association canadienne pour
l’étude de l’histoire du livre/the Association
for the Study of Book Culture (ACEH/ASBC), ainsi
que la Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO).
Nous encourageons les participants à préciser,
dans leur proposition, s’ils entendent participer
à l’un de ces colloques conjoints.
Certaines communications présentées au congrès
seront incluses dans un collectif publié
spécialement pour la conférence et produit
conjointement par /Computing in the Humaities
Working Papers /et par /Text Technology/.
Nous présenterons aussi, en collobaration avec la
SCM/CSM et l’ACEH/ASBC, un symposium d’une
demi-journée intitulé « Reassembling Disassembled
Books » (Le rassemblement des livres
désassemblés). Le discours-programme du symposium
sera prononcé par le professeur Peter Stoicheff
(doyen associé, Faculté des sciences humaines et
des beaux-arts, Université de Saskatchewan) et
aura pour thème les manuscrits Otto Ege et un
nouveau projet qui vise à reconstruire
digitalement certaines parties de la collection.
Les ressources disponibles pour financer une
séance d’étudiants et d’étudiantes de deuxième et
troisième cycle sont limitées. Les candidats et
candidates intéressé(e)s doivent se renseigner
auprès des responsables. Voir l’adresse ci-bas.
La date limite pour l’envoi de résumés de
communication ou de propositions d’atelier est le
15 décembre 2006. Veuillez noter que tous les
présentateurs et présentatrices doivent devenir
membres de la SEMI/SDH avant la date de la conférence.
Les résumés et propositions doivent inclure les
renseignements suivants en haut de la première
page : titre de l’article, nom de l’auteur,
adresse postale complète, adresse de courriel,
affiliation institutionnelle et rang professoral,
s’il y a lieu. Veuillez de plus nous indiquer
quels seront vos besoins informatiques et audio-visuels.
Les résumés ne doivent pas dépasser 300 mots. Ils
doivent indiquer clairement la thèse soutenue, et
la méthodologie. Les résumés ainsi que les
questions sont envoyés de préférence par courrier
électronique, mais ils peuvent aussi être
transmis par courrier traditionnel. On achemine le tout à :
Brent Nelson,
président du comité du congrès et coordonnateur local
Department of English
9 Campus Dr.
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5
Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez à nous à
Saskatoon pour la conférence annuelle du congrès
de la SEMI/SDH. Nous nous attendons à des
présentations excellentes cette année et nous
vous proposons aussi des divertissements
captivants. Le comité d’organisation local du
congrès 2007 a planifié des événements culturels
intéressants comprenant un spectacle de danse
aborigène, un festival de films, un match de
croquet à la Alice au pays des merveilles avec
costumes et maillets en forme de flamants sur le
campus de l’université (est-ce que le président
McKinnon jouera le rôle de la reine de cœur?) et
un spectacle intitulé « Songs of a Prairie Girl
», une revue musicale qui met en vedette les
chansons de Joni Mitchell. Le campus
universitaire pittoresque sur les bords de la
rivière Saskatchewan offre un accès à plusieurs
parcs et pistes de randonnés pédestres idéales
pour ces promenades en soirées. Des excursions
vers quelques sites historiques de la région, y
compris Fort Carleton, Duck Lake, Batoche et
Waneskewin Heritage Park, seront aussi disponibles.
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:25:57 +0000
From: Ross Scaife <scaife_at_GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Chicago Statement
A working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago
Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now issued a
position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library.
This paper is available in pdf and doc formats from the Stoa site at
http://www.stoa.org/?page_id=516
or via the link under "Pages" at the upper right corner of the Stoa's
gateway blog.
We hope there will be some discussion of this document here on the
Digital Classicist list, and also that some paper proposals may be
forthcoming from some of you by December 15.
with best wishes,
Ross Scaife
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:29:07 +0000
From: John Unsworth <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
Subject: Dec. 1 deadline for submissions to HASTAC conference
Call for Papers
International HASTAC Conference
"Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface"
April 19-21, 2007
www.hastac.org
We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for "Electronic
Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," the first international
conference of HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science and
Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The interdisciplinary conference
will be held April 19-21, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, co-
sponsored by Duke University and RENCI (Renaissance Computing
Institute). Details concerning registration fees, hotel
accommodations, and the full conference agenda will be posted to
www.hastac.org as they become available.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
"Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" is one of the
culminating events for the In|Formation Year that began in June 2006
and extends through May of 2007. (See the HASTAC website for a
calendar of In|Formation Year events, plus open source archived
materials suitable for downloading for courses or campus events.)
The keynote address will be delivered by visionary information
scientist John Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information) at the
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Other events include a talk by legal
theorist James Boyle (co-founder of the Center for the Study of the
Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Science Commons), a conversation
among leaders of innovative digital humanities projects led by John
Unsworth (chair of the ACLS "Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities
and Social Sciences" commission), and a presentation by media artist
and research pioneer Rebecca Allen. The conference will also include
refereed scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances, an
exhibit hall of innovative software and hardware, plus tours of art
and scientific installations in virtual reality, learning-game, and
interactive sensor space environments.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Six sessions will be devoted to panels with refereed papers on
aspects of "interface" spanning media arts, engineering, and the
human, social, natural, and computational sciences. Panels will be
topical and cross-disciplinary; they will be comprised of papers that
are themselves interdisciplinary as well as specialized disciplinary
papers presented in juxtaposition with one another.
We will consider proposals for full panels (three or four papers),
for paired cross-disciplinary papers on a shared topic, or for single
papers.
Topics: Panels might address interfaces between humans and computers,
mind and brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction,
consumers and producers, text-archives and multi-media, youth and
adults, disciplines, institutions, communities, identities, media,
cultures, technologies, theories, and practices.
Other possible topics: the body as interface, neuroaesthetics and
neurocognition, prosthetics, mind-controlled devices, immersion,
emergence, presence, telepresence, sensor spaces, virtual reality,
social networking, games, experimental learning environments, human/
non-human situations and actors, interactive communication and
control, access, borders, intellectual property, porosity, race and
ethnicity, difference, Afro-Geeks and Afro-Futurism, identity,
gender, sexuality, credibility, mapping and trafficking, civic
engagement, social activism, cyberactivism, plus all of the other In|
Formation Year topics: in|common, interplay, in|community,
interaction, injustice, integration, invitation, innovation.
Proposal Submissions: Please send 500-1000 word paper and/or panel
proposals to info_at_hastac.org.
Deadline for Proposals: December 1, 2006.
Full-length papers or power-point presentations will be posted on the
HASTAC website prior to the conference. The sessions themselves will
be devoted to synopses of the work, followed by a response designed
to elicit audience participation. Attendees whose papers are not
accepted will be encouraged to display their work at a digital poster
session.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Registration will be limited to 150 people. HASTAC will announce a
priority registration period for HASTAC In|Formation Year site
leaders, followed by open registration.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Some scholarship funding will be available to graduate students to
help defray fees and conference costs.
For additional information as well as copies of the In|Formation Year
poster, contact Jonathan Tarr, HASTAC Project Manager
(info_at_hastac.org or call 919 684-8471).
HASTAC uses Creative Commons licenses for all of its endeavors. All
conference sessions will be webcast, archived, and made available for
non-profit educational purposes.
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