[Commlist] Call for Papers: DH (Digital Humanities) Benelux 2019

Call for Papers: DH Benelux 2019 11-13 September
Host: Université de Liège (ULiège), Belgium

Dear colleague, we are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the 
DH Benelux 2019 Conference which will take place at the University of 
Liège in Belgium, from Wednesday 11 until Friday 13 September 2019. This 
sixth annual conference serves as a platform for the community of 
interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and 
discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and 
projects. This year’s central theme is Digital Humanities in Society. 
You can find the complete Call for Papers below.

We look forward to accepting your submission for consideration.

With best wishes,

The DH Benelux 2019 Organisers:

Program chairs:
Susan Aasman (Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Groningen)
Claartje Rasterhoff (University of Amsterdam)

Local Organisers:
Dominique Longrée (ULiège)
Björn-Olav Dozo (ULiège)

About the conference
The 6th DH Benelux Conference will take place on 11-13 September 2019 at 
the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium. DH Benelux is an initiative 
that aims to further the collaboration between Digital Humanities 
activities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The call is open to all colleagues working in the humanities, the 
(social) sciences and heritage sectors with an interest and enthusiasm 
in the application and use of digital technologies. Submissions are 
welcome from researchers at all career stages. We particularly encourage 
early stage researchers (MA/PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) 
to submit abstracts. In addition, we welcome humanities scholars, 
developers, computer and information scientists as well as librarians, 
archivists and museum curators. The conference has a focus on recent 
advances concerning research activities in the Benelux as well as data- 
or research projects related to Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Language:
We accept abstracts written in English and in any official language of 
the Benelux. Note that abstracts written and/or presented in any other 
language than English will likely limit the impact of your message.

Key dates:
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Friday 26 April (23:59 CET)
Notification of acceptance: Friday 14 June

Call details:
We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of Digital Humanities: 
practical experimentation, theorising, cross- and multidisciplinary 
work, and new and relevant developments. This year the central theme is 
Digital Humanities in Society. We are especially interested in research 
that addresses digital humanities in relation to broader societal 
transformations. Three issues are of particular interest: 1) Digital 
Humanities and new forms of knowledge production and consumption, 
including citizen science and participatory research methods; 2) Digital 
Humanities in relation to  processes of digitisation and datafication in 
society, including ethical and political issues; 3) Finally, the 
conference aims to open up the debate within Digital Humanities on how 
to position itself within in the various institutional policies that 
fund or request research with big data, artificial intelligence and data 
visualizations, in collaboration with private and public partners.

Relevant subjects can be any of—but are not limited to—the following:

  * Critical studies about datafication of society, from a digital
    humanities perspective.
  * Social and economic aspects of digitality and digital humanities.
  * Critical study and digital hermeneutical approaches in the humanities.
  * Ethical issues related to Digital Humanities research and the use of
    big data.
  * Citizen science, participatory research methods, and other forms of
    public engagement.
  * Humanities research enabled by digital approaches: digital arts,
    architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games and
    cyberculture; digital media, digitisation, curation of
    (born-)digital objects; geo-humanities.
  * Computational methods and techniques: text mining and data mining;
    design and application of algorithms for analysis and visualisation
    methods; stylometry, topic modeling, sentiment analysis; spatial
    analysis and applications of GIS; visual analysis, computer vision.
  * Pedagogy, teaching, and digital literacy.
  * Dissemination of digital humanities research in and beyond knowledge
    institutions.
  * Data: Big Data, Linked Data, data modeling, data criticism.
  * Software studies, information design and tool criticism.
  * Digital scholarly editing and ePublications.
  * Virtual Research Environments / Research Infrastructures.


Formats:
For DH Benelux 2019 we welcome six types of proposals: (1) long papers; 
(2) short project introductions; (3) round tables; (4) posters and; (5) 
application / tool demonstrations and (6) workshops. Abstracts should 
clearly state the title and name and affiliation of the authors and the 
presenters, if you have one please include your twitter username too. 
Also indicate for which category (or categories) of presentation you are 
submitting your proposal. The word length is dependent on the proposal 
you submit, see details below. References and/or bibliography are 
excluded from the word count. Proposals may contain graphics and 
illustrations.

  * Long papers (abstracts of 1000 words, paper presentation 20 mins +
    10 mins for discussion) are suitable for presenting empirical work,
    theorising, cross- and multidisciplinary work, research methods and
    concise theoretical arguments. The research presented in a long
    paper should be completed or in the final stages of development. The
    research its stage of completion must be clearly stated in the 
abstract.
  * Short papers (abstracts of 500 words, paper presentation 10 mins + 5
    mins for discussion) are well- suited for reporting on early stage
    and ongoing research, as well as new project presentations,
    technical details and the results of practical experimentation and
    proof of concepts.
  * Round tables (abstracts of 1000 words) which bring together a group
    of practitioners/ researchers (ideally both) to discuss particular
    methodological and/ or epistemological challenges.
  * Posters (abstracts of 500 words) are particularly suited for
    detailed technical explanations and clarifications, and for the show
    and tell of projects and research alike.
  * Demonstrations (abstracts of 500 words) of prototypes, finished
    software, hardware technology, tools, datasets, digital publications
    and so forth.
  * Workshops (abstracts of 1000 words) of topic and possible approaches
    to explore innovative methods.

The abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the DH Benelux 2019 Programme 
Committee and published on the DH Benelux 2019 website. Authors of 
accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full research article for 
the DH Benelux Journal. A separate call for journal submissions will be 
made after the conference.

Abstract Submissions:
Please submit your abstract by Friday 26 April (23:59 CET) via EasyChair 
(see: http://2019.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/)


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