CfP EADH2021 (en)

CfP EADH2021 (en)

Second International Conference 

21-25 September 2021

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Hosted by the Siberian Federal University

Call for Papers

CFP: 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, 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/ (later https://eadh2020-2021.org/)

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

Submit a Proposal via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.com/eadh2020-2021/ 

Deadline for Submissions: 23:59 GMT on 10 January 2021 

Reviewing phase: 18 January - 28 February 2021

Notification of Acceptances: 29 March 2021

Final DH Convalidator versions of accepted proposals: 03 May 2021 

Scheduled Conference Dates

Pre-Conference Workshops: 21-22 September 2021

Conference: 22-24 September 2021

Excursions: 25 September 2021

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

• 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 literat