[ecrea] Call for Contributions: Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities

*Call for contributions for a Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities*

This collection seeks to bring together some of the most recent 
international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary 
fields of digital and public humanities. Alongside a critical 
exploration of the production, distribution and scholarship of culture 
in relation to digital media and technologies, the collection will 
examine the possibilities and challenges of publicly engaged scholarship 
in the digital humanities and beyond. Working with a broad definition of 
‘public humanities’, we wish to interrogate the multifaceted interface 
of arts and humanities scholarship and engagement with wider ‘publics’ 
beyond academia, from literary and cultural heritage to creative arts 
and performance. The volume will explore key concepts, theories, 
practices and debates within both the digital and public humanities 
while also assessing how these two areas are increasingly intertwined.

Chapter contributions may either deal with theoretical examinations of 
key concepts significant to the digital and/or public humanities, or 
offer examples of specific areas of digital and/or public humanities 
practice that are embedded in critical-theoretical reflections on the 
socio-political stakes and theoretical-methodological implications of 
such practice.

Possible topics and areas for contribution include (but are not limited to):

  * Theorizations of ‘publics’, communities and audiences
  * Public intellectuals and the humanities in the public sphere
  * The public face of digital humanities
  * Creative arts, literacy and heritage in the community
  * Literary and other cultural festivals
  * Civic agency, arts and activism
  * Cultures of commemoration and collective memory
  * Exhibition design and institutional knowledge production
  * Literary tourism
  * Dark tourism
  * Closed institutional settings (hospitals and prisons)
  * Methodologies for public humanities
  * Media and interface
  * Identity and equality in public and/or digital humanities practice
  * Ecology, climate and the digital
  * Other topics that specifically engage with the intersection between
    the public and digital humanities

_Timelines_

We have had an initial conversation with Palgrave who are interested in 
this proposal for their Palgrave Handbooks series, which typically 
features research-led essays at the forefront of developments in the 
field. No contract has been signed, and the publisher is requiring 
chapter abstracts with our full proposal before taking this any further.

Chapter abstracts of 300 words are due by *January 25^th 2019*. The 
abstract should outline the approach and content, as well as research 
questions and tentative arguments/conclusions. We will inform you by the 
end of April 2019 if we are able to include your contribution with our 
volume proposal.

If contracted, final chapters of 7000-8000 words will be due sometime in 
2020.

Please send your abstract, together with a 100-word biographical 
statement, to (digitalandpublichumanities /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(digitalandpublichumanities /at/ gmail.com)>.

Any queries before the deadline should be sent to both Tara Thomson 
((t.thomson2 /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(t.thomson2 /at/ napier.ac.uk)>) and Anne 
Schwan ((a.schwan /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.schwan /at/ napier.ac.uk)>).


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