The program for SDH-SEMI’s 2012 conference at Congress in Waterloo, May 28-30, is now available at http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/sessions.php. Those wishing to attend the conference should renew their membership at the Literary and Linguistics Computing website and then register through the Congress 2012 website.
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Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World
2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2012 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, from 28-30 May (http://congress2012.ca/).
The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress–“Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.” 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 practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities.
Our keynote speaker and recipient of this year’s award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities is Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University).
The conference will also present joint sessions with ACCUTE and Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (see post below). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in this joint session.
Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2 -6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 1 February 2012 and must be submitted at http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference.
Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org).
Program committee: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra
À la croisée des chemins: Le savoir face à un monde incertain
Réunion annuelle de 2012 de la Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI)
La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2012 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Wilfrid Laurier et l’Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, du 28 au 30 mai (http://congress2012.ca/).
La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « À la croisée des chemins : Le savoir face à un monde incertain ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique.
Ronald Tetraul (Dalhousie University), récipiendaire du prix 2012 pour une contribution exceptionnelle dans le domaine des arts et sciences humaines informatiques, sera notre conférencier plénier.
La conférence présentera aussi des sessions conjointes avec ACCUTE et le Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques. Les participants devraient indiquer leur intérêt à participer aux sessions conjointes.
Les propositions de communication (20′), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d’une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 février 2012 et doivent être soumises à http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence.
Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org).
Comité scientifique: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Call for Papers
The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century .
June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada.
Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington)
At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions “What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as
- What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital?
- What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium?
- How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts?
- How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe?
- How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts?
- What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history?
Alliance of Digital Humanities OrganizationsDigital Humanities 2012 – Call for Papers
Hosted by University of Hamburg
16-22 July 2012
Abstract deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT)
Presentations formats include:
- Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)
- Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
- Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
- Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words)
SDH/SEMI is a member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. For more information on the conference, please see the website: http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/
As ever‐stricter copyright tightens control over the modes of literary production (and, in the process, criminalizes growing numbers of citizens and consumers), critical scholarship is urgently needed to intervene on the question of copyright: once a staple stimulus for literary and cultural production that now tends more to stifle it. As William St Clair shows in The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, copyright, or intellectual property (IP), represents a foundational but under‐ examined condition of literary production; today, the regulation of IP is changing fast, in international copyright law (ACTA), Canadian copyright law (Bill C‐32), and debates over copyright in Canadian education (e.g. Access Copyright, fair dealing, and Open Access). Many of these changes in IP regulation are prompted by digital media, and both IP regulation and new media networks now powerfully influence literary production and reception (e.g. Google Books, Scribd). The changing IP policy environment has polarized interests into a “copyfight” between copyright “maximalists” (e.g. corporate intermediaries that lobby for term extensions and litigate against consumers) and a “copyleft” of critical creators, scholars, and organizations (e.g. alternative licensing initiatives like Creative Commons). This session invites papers on the relationship between literature, copyright, and the copyfight.
Papers on any subject relevant to literature and the copyfight are welcome, for example:
- literary representations of intellectual property
- copyright in literary history
- IP policy changes in post‐secondary education (e.g Access Copyright)
- digital remediations and redefinitions of literature
- case studies in copyright enforcement or litigation by authors or estates
- creative license, appropriation, fair dealing
- theory and methodology of critical cultural and legal studies
Please send abstracts to mccutcheon@athabascau.ca by 1 November 2011. (Please note ACCUTE’s submission guidelines.)