Two recent CFPs relating to Libraries and DH are posted below:
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Humanities Area, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Please join us for the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association,February 19-22, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Digital Humanities is a new subject area in the newly renamed SWPACA conference, and the theme for 2014 is “Popular and American Culture: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”
Digital Humanities (DH) is “a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or . . . ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.” (Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “The Humanities, Done Digitally,”http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/30). The DH area is seeking papers (approximately 15 minutes in length) that explore the practical, pedagogical, and theoretical issues stemming from the use of Web technologies and other computing techniques and applications to enhance the study of the humanities, particularly popular and American culture studies. What are some of the exciting DH projects being developed today, and how are they redefining the way we approach popular culture? How is DH changing popular culture studies in (and outside of) academe? Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Digital applications in popular culture studies and related fields such as literature, history, music, art, graphic or digital arts, film, television, Web and other new media, gaming, etc.
• Creation and curation of digital resources for popular culture
• DH and the Southwest
• Interactive technology, images, audio/video, text and non-text based DH projects
• DH and smartphones, GIS, 3-D printing, cloud computing, and other emerging technologies
• DH and the future of the humanities or popular culture studies
• DH and the classroom/academic curriculum
• DH and scholarly communication
• DH and libraries, archives, museums, schools, or public history institutions
Other topics are welcomed! Please share this CFP with any who might be interested.
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:
Provide a 200-word abstract to the SWPACA submission database: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/.Proposals are due by November 1, 2013. All proposals must be submitted through the database.
AWARDS FOR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS:
Presenters are urged to consider applying for one of the SWPACA monetary awards for best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Details are at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/. Also, please consider expanding your papers to send to the SWPACA’s new peer-reviewed, quarterly journal,Dialogue (http://journaldiaglogue.org). Its inaugural issue will debut at the 2014 conference.
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Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library
June 20th-22nd 2014, Charleston, SC
Guidelines for Submission
Lightning Round/Paper/Panel deadline: 01 December 2013
Workshop proposal deadline: 01 February 2014
General Information
“Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library,” sponsored by the South Carolina Digital Library, the College of Charleston and the Charleston Conference, invites submissions for its 2014 conference, on all aspects of digital humanities in the library. This includes but is not limited to:
• Digital scholarship
• Humanities & library collaborations on DH projects
• GIS and/or data visualization projects
• Text mining & data analysis
• Digital humanities librarianship
• Digital project management
• Knowledge lifecycle, including production & collaboration
• Creating or using tools & services for the production, editing and/or analysis of DH data
• Metadata and linked data in DH
We particularly welcome collaborative panel and paper submissions from librarian and humanities scholar-based teams and/or graduate students. We strongly encourage any proposals relating to the theme of the conference.
Presentations may include:
Lightning Rounds (250-500 word abstract)
Long Papers (abstract of 1500 words max)
Panel Sessions (approximately 500-word overview)
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (overview of 1500 words max)
The deadline for submitting lightning round, long paper, and session proposals is December 1st, 2013. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 1st, 2014. Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are by February 1st, 2014, with notice of acceptance by March 1st, 2014. Please send all submissions to whitej [at] cofc [dot] edu with “DHLIB 2014 PROPOSAL” entered in the subject line. All submissions must include name, title and institutional affiliation.
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