[Commlist] EADH2021 - European Association for Digital Humanities - Second International Conference

Second International Conference

21-25 September 2021

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Hosted by the Siberian Federal University

Call for Papers

CFP:<https://dh2020.adho.org/cfps/cfp-anishinabeg/>English, French, 
German, Italian, Russian and Spanish


    *I. General Information*

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) invites 
submission of proposals for its 2nd International Conference EADH2021, 
21-25 September 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://1>, Siberian Federal 
University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

The conference was originally scheduled for 2020. Due to the COVID-19 
pandemic it had to be postponed. Given the uncertain developments we 
plan, right from the start, to have a hybrid conference. Should 
circumstances make it necessary the conference will go entirely virtual.

Conference website: https://eadh2020.org/ <https://eadh2020.org/> (later 
https://eadh2020-2021.org/ <https://eadh2020-2021.org/>)

Submissions and presentations will be accepted in English, French, 
German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

Submit a Proposal<https://www.conftool.pro/dh2020/>via ConfTool: 
https://www.conftool.com/eadh2020-2021/ 
<https://www.conftool.com/eadh2020-2021/>

Deadline for Submissions*: 23:59 GMT on 10 January 2021 
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Reviewing phase: 18 January - 28 February 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://6>

Notification of Acceptances: 29 March 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://7>

Final DH Convalidator versions of accepted proposals: 03 May 2021 
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      *Scheduled Conference Dates*

Pre-Conference Workshops: 21-22 September 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://9>

Conference: 22-24 September 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://10>

Excursions: 25 September 2021 <x-apple-data-detectors://11>


      *Theme of the Conference: “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Data”*

The core subject of scholarly inquiry has always been cataloging and 
curating the inherited cultural knowledge, as well as contextualising it 
in a given time and place. With the exploding number of research objects 
and their unprecedented availability from anywhere on the globe, 
scholars face a significant challenge when making sense of them on a 
suddenly very different scale, resorting to quantitative and 
computational methods and in doing so eventually following science, 
business, and industry.

Not only the sheer volume of the data, but also their diversity are 
challenging the usual computational and quantitative approaches that 
call for interoperability and aggregation to work properly -- be it the 
inherent diversity of the global cultural heritage, the diversity of 
epistemological approaches, the diversity of social agendas that often 
permeate scholarly interpretations, or the omnipresent multilingualism.

Furthermore, as the ongoing pandemic shows, the means of data gathering, 
data modelling, data analysis, data contextualisation, data 
representation, data visualisation and communicating these to the public 
are, especially in a time of crisis, in particular need of being 
scrutinised critically from humanities and social science perspectives.

In practice, the complex multidisciplinarity of DH often renders 
institutional and political decisions difficult, such as the positioning 
of chairs / departments at Universities or the standards of an optimum 
DH curriculum. It can paralyse efforts to straighten out the usual 
underestimation of common DH outputs (databases, software) by national 
research evaluation schemes and to have dedicated grant proposal calls 
rather than to balance on the periphery of either the traditional 
humanities or computer science.

All these challenges, intellectual and mundane alike, have brought about 
an exciting range of practices at all levels: institutional, national, 
or applicable within a given language community or a particular project 
consortium. Let us celebrate this diversity of topics to inspire each 
other at the EADH2021 conference in Krasnoyarsk!


      *Keynote Speakers of the Conference*

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

  *

    Willard McCarty, Professor Emeritus, King's College London, Adjunct
    Professor, Western Sydney University

  *

    Diana Roig-Sanz, ERC Starting Grant holder and Ramón y Cajal senior
    research fellow, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)


    *II. Proposals*

Proposals that speak to the theme of the conference are especially 
encouraged, but any other theme pertaining to Digital Humanities is 
welcome. Possible topics include:

  *

    3D imaging, modelling and digital reconstruction / restoration of
    historical heritage

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    Computational textual studies, including quantitative stylistics and
    philology, stylometry, authorship attribution, big data, text
    mining, etc.

  *

    Computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural,
    archaeological, and historical studies, including electronic
    literature, public humanities and interdisciplinary aspects of
    modern scholarship

  *

    Computer simulation / modelling of historical dynamics, information
    design and computer analysis of big historical micro data sets

  *

    Corpora, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, Natural
    Language Processing (NLP) and their contribution to Digital Humanities

  *

    Critical infrastructure studies, media archaeology, eco-criticism,
    etc., as they intersect with the digital humanities

  *

    Critical approaches to data gathering, data modelling, data
    analysis, data contextualisation, data visualisation, and data
    communication to the public in a time of crisis

  *

    Data structuring, querying and visualization

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    Digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital
    games, and related areas

  *

    Digital cultural studies, hacker culture, networked communities,
    digital divides, digital activism, open / libre networks and
    software, etc.

  *

    Digital humanities pedagogy, and digital humanities in (public)
    education and academic curricula

  *

    Digital Social Network Analysis (SNA) in historical, bibliometric,
    scientometric, sociolinguistic, geographical, textual and other studies

  *

    Humanities research enabled through digital media, artificial
    intelligence, data mining, computer vision and machine learning

  *

    Technologies such as 3D printing, physical computing, single-board
    computers, wearable devices, haptic technologies, applied to
    humanities research

  *

    Social, institutional, global, gender, multilingual, and
    multicultural aspects of digital humanities including digital
    feminisms, digital indigenous studies, digital cultural and ethnic
    studies, digital black studies, digital queer studies

  *

    Theoretical, epistemological, historical, or related aspects and
    interpretations of digital humanities practice and theory

  *

    Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies for the
    Digital Humanities

  *

    Web-Mapping, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Visualization
    of Geospatial Data


      *Types of Proposals*

Presentations may include the following types:

  *

    Posters (abstract minimum 500 – maximum 750 words)

  *

    Short papers (abstract minimum 750 – maximum 1000 words)

  *

    Long papers (abstract minimum 1200 – maximum 1500 words)

  *

    Multiple paper panels (500-word abstracts + 500-word overview)

  *

    Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal minimum 750 –
    maximum 1200 words)

All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the 
appropriate literature. Additionally, proposals that concentrate on a 
particular tool or digital resource should cite traditional as well as 
computer-based approaches to the problem. While footnotes are included 
in the word count, citations are not to be included in the word count.

When preparing proposals, proposers should ask themselves whether their 
proposal, if accepted, could, if necessary, be presented or given virtually.


        *a. Poster Presentations*

Poster proposals may present work on any relevant topic, or offer 
project tools or software demonstrations in any stage of development. 
Poster presentations are intended to be interactive with the opportunity 
to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees. Posters are subject to the 
same rigorous peer review as other presentation types, and submissions 
in this category are strongly encouraged.


        *b. Short Papers*

Short paper proposals are intended to be dynamic 10-minute presentations 
appropriate for reporting on experiments or works in progress or for 
describing tools or software in development. Short paper sessions seek 
to open dialogues among scholars working on related topics.


        *c. Long Papers*

Proposals for long papers should deal with substantial or completed 
research; report the development of significant new methodologies or 
digital resources; and present rigorous theoretical, speculative, or 
critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for 
presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals relating to the 
development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should 
indicate how the methods are applied to research and/or teaching in the 
humanities and what their impact has been in formulating and addressing 
research questions. They should also include critical assessments of 
their application in the humanities as well as of the computing 
methodologies used.


        *d. Multiple Paper Panels*

Panels should focus on a single theme and be coherent in presenting a 
substantial body of research or a research question. Panel submissions 
which do not meet this criterion and which could function as individual 
papers will not normally be accepted. A panel should be conceived as a 
90-minute session of normally four speakers.


        *e. Pre-Conference Workshops*

Workshops are normally either half-day or full-day intensive 
introductions to specific techniques, software packages or theoretical 
approaches with a small number of participants. Participants in 
pre-conference workshops will be expected to register for the full 
conference and may be required to pay a small additional fee. Workshop 
proposals should provide the following information:

  *

    Title and brief description of the content or topic and its
    relevance to the digital humanities community.

  *

    Intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day;
    maximum one-and-a-half days);

  *

    Full contact information for all tutorial instructors or workshop
    leaders, including a one-paragraph statement summarizing their
    research interests and areas of expertise;

  *

    Description of target audience and expected number of participants
    (based, if possible, on past experience); and

  *

    Special requirements for technical support.

  *

    Proposed budget (workshops are expected to be self-financing); and
    if the workshop is to have its own call for participation, a
    deadline and date for notification of acceptances, and a list of
    individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop’s Programme
    Committee.

Proposers should explicitly consider how they would teach their workshop 
in a hybrid or fully online conference setting.


      *Evaluation of Proposals*

All formats are subject to peer review. The format selected should match 
the goals of the proposed submission. No difference in scholarly quality 
and rigorousness is intended between the formats.

EADH2021 will be using double-blind peer review. To facilitate this 
process, *please remove all identifying information from your proposal 
submission including author name and affiliation.*

Submissions will be evaluated based on:

  *

    Overall organization and clarity of proposed submission (20%)

  *

    Explicit engagement with relevant scholarship, with references and
    justifications displaying knowledge of the current state of
    appropriate fields (20%)

  *

    Clear theoretical, methodological, or pedagogical framework and
    explicit statement of purpose (20%)

  *

    Applicability, significance, and value of the theoretical,
    methodological, and / or practical contribution to the digital
    humanities generally (20%)

  *

    General recommendation (20%)

The committee will not normally accept more than a total of two 
submissions from one primary author or co-author. If more than two 
submissions considered for acceptance include the name of an individual 
presenter or co-presenter, then during the final review phase the chairs 
of the program committee will contact that participant and ask them 
which submission(s) they will withdraw to avoid exceeding that limit.

To facilitate the production of the conference book of abstracts, 
authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit final approved 
versions of their abstracts via the DHConvalidator, available through 
ConfTool, which creates not only a TEI text base of conference abstracts 
for further processing, but also a html version of the abstract which 
can be made available in the website. More information will appear on 
the website of the conference.

The conference book of abstracts will not only be sent to the British 
Library which keeps a Conference index 
<http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=facet&fctN=facet_rtype&fctV=conference_proceedings&rfnGrp=3&rfnGrpCounter=3&rfnGrpCounter=2&fn=search&indx=1&dscnt=0&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&ct=facet&srt=title&tab=primo_central&vl(freeText0)=British%20Library%20conference%20index&dstmp=1579739917122>, 
but will also be archived in EADH’s open access Zenodo Community 
<https://zenodo.org/communities/?p=EADH> where a DOI is automatically 
assigned to it.


    *III. Bursaries for Early-Career Researchers (ECRs)*

EADH is offering up to 12 travel bursaries of € 400 each to Early-Career 
Researchers (ECRs), like graduate or PhD students, postdoc or similar, 
who are presenting at the EADH2021 Conference. It is expected that with 
the prospect of a hybrid or fully virtual conference the focus of these 
bursaries will change. Any change will be announced on the website of 
the conference and via social media.

Proposals by applicants for a bursary will be subject to the same 
peer-reviewing process as all other conference proposals. Only those 
applicants whose proposal has been accepted in the initial review stage 
will be considered for the final selection of bursary winners.

If you want to apply for an EADH bursary, please tick the relevant box. 
You will then be asked to submit also a short CV and an application 
letter (max 1000 words) that should clearly state your motivations for 
taking part in the conference and your personal background. Any 
information about your situation, that might help with the decision, is 
welcome. For more information see the conference website.


    *IV. Conference Languages and Multilingualism*

EADH in its activities fosters multilingualism because it is the first 
visible level of multiculturalism - that is the appreciation and 
recognition that our studies are informed and enriched by the cultures 
which feed them and that in all this language is an essential component. 
Thus, the approach we want to promote is that of the dialogue of 
cultures and languages, not that of giving to any single culture / 
language a status of preferred one.

In practical terms, EADH in its 2021 conference accepts abstracts and 
presentations in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. 
Please choose one of these languages when you submit your proposal.

All presenters are strongly encouraged to prepare their presentation 
*for the conference *in two languages. For inclusivity reasons one of 
these languages should be English. Both language versions must be good, 
top level slides which allow to fully follow the flow of the thoughts 
and arguments developed in the talk. Presenters may either give their 
talk in one language and present slides in the second language, or 
present the slides in the language of the talk and make the second 
version of their slides available on the conference website or via a 
handout.

Any other practical actions promoting multilingualism and 
multiculturality (including whispering translation, twitter translation, 
shared google doc, etc.) are in principle welcome and supported.

Presenters are encouraged to familiarize themselves with /Global 
Outlook::Digital Humanities’ Translation Toolkit/ to prepare for a 
multilingual conference. This includes guidelines and best practices for 
multilingual slides / posters / handouts and ad-hoc community 
translation:  http://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/conferences/ 
<http://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/conferences/>

Similarly, participants are strongly encouraged to make themselves aware 
of current recommendations for accessibility of presentations and 
multimedia-based materials. Please review the /World Wide Web 
Consortium’s Web Initiative Guidelines on Presentation Accessibility/: 
https://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible 
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible>


    *V. Questions*

Questions related to this CfP should be directed to 
(eadh2020-2021pc /at/ uni-leipzig.de) <mailto:(eadh2020-2021pc /at/ uni-leipzig.de)>, 
subject line: CfP.


    *VI. EADH Conference Code of Conduct*

EADH as a member of ADHO is committed to creating a safe, respectful, 
and collegial conference environment for the benefit of everyone who 
attends and for the advancement of research and scholarship. The ADHO 
Digital Humanities conference /Code of Conduct/ is available at:

http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating-program-committee/adho-conference-code-conduct 
<http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating-program-committee/adho-conference-code-conduct>.

All EADH2021 participants should observe and uphold it.


    *VII. Information about the Conference Venue*

EADH2021 is hosted in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, a city of one million people 
located next to one of the largest world rivers flowing to the Arctic 
Ocean. Siberian Federal University belongs to a group of twenty Russian 
universities involved in the Russian Academic Excellence Project aimed 
to modernise the Russian higher education. With 26,000 students and over 
3,000 faculty members, it has experienced recent infrastructural changes 
which resulted in new buildings, recreational parks and other 
facilities. Siberian Federal University staged two major national 
Digital Humanities conferences in 2015 and 2017. This resulted in 
establishing the Russian Association for Digital Humanities which became 
the Associate Organisation of the European Association for Digital 
Humanities in 2018.

For travel, accommodation, visa requirements as well as for excursions, 
see the conference website.


    *VIII. International Programme Committee*

Chair: Elisabeth Burr, University of Leipzig, DHd
Vice-Chair: Leonid Borodkin, Moscow State University, DH Russia

Members:

Monica Berti, University of Leipzig, DHd
Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, DH Russia
Silvie Cinkova, Charles University, Prague, CzADH
Frédéric Clavert, University of Luxembourg, Humanistica
Frank Fischer, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, DHd
Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of 
Sciences, CzADH
Øyvind Eide, University of Cologne, direct EADH
Inna Kizhner, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, DH Russia
Tiziana Mancinelli, University of Venice, AIUCD
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, DHN
Christian-Emil Smith Ore, University of Oslo, DHN
Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, University of Málaga, HDH
Anna-Maria Sichani, University of Sussex, direct EADH
Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh, direct EADH
Francesca Tomasi, University of Bologna, AIUCD
Rada Varga, University of Cluj-Napoca, direct EADH
Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands, 
Amsterdam, DHBenelux


CONTACT

Website: https://eadh2020-2021.org <https://eadh2020-2021.org/>

Email: (info /at/ eadh2020-2021.org) <mailto:(info /at/ eadh2020-2021.org)>


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