DHSI 2021 – Online Edition Conference & Colloquium

Call for Papers                        

Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Conference & Colloquium, a virtual event to be held in June 2021 alongside other events at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute – Online Edition. The DHSI Conference & Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere.

Proposals may focus on any topic relating to the Digital Humanities. Submissions are welcome from all members of the digital humanities community, including faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, early career scholars, independent researchers, and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage, alt-academics, academic professionals, and those in technical programs.

This year’s Conference and Colloquium is a virtual event and will take the form of recorded presentations and open, real-time discussion sessions on Twitter, to be scheduled between June 7–11 and 14–18.

Submissions are welcome across a number of formats:

Conference Presentations
Recorded presentations should be 15–20 minutes long and will be organized into themed sessions. Presenters will be invited to share key points from their presentations and participate in a real-time open discussion on Twitter.

Colloquium Presentations
Recorded presentations should be 5–10 minutes long and will be organized into themed sessions. Presenters will be invited to share key points from their presentations and participate in a real-time open discussion on Twitter.

Posters & Digital Demonstrations
Digital posters and recorded digital demonstrations (5–10 minutes) will be showcased in a virtual exhibition. Presenters will be invited to discuss their posters and demonstrations in a real-time open discussion on Twitter.

Please submit proposals using this Google form.

Submissions should include the title of the presentation, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the contributor(s), a 300-word abstract, and your preferred week for presenting. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, February 25, 2021. Submissions will be reviewed by the Conference & Colloquium committee, with presenters being notified in March.

After the event, we will invite participants to contribute papers to a special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagements in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal founded as a mechanism for distributing the innovative, engaging scholarship shared annually at DHSI.

For more information, contact Caroline Winter (winterc@uvic.ca) and/or Arun Jacob (arun.jacob@mail.utoronto.ca).

This conference is part of DHSI 2021—Online Edition. Other aligned conferences are:

• Right to Left (RTL)
• Project Management in the Humanities
• Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
• Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities
• Research Data Management for Digitally-Curious Humanists
• GraphPoem

The CfP for all conferences is open till February 25, and registration is free. To submit an abstract or learn more about these events, visit our page. Registration will open shortly.

About DHSI

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an initiative of the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and led by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria. DHSI provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies, and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The Institute incorporates intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. During DHSI, we share ideas and methods and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. For more information, see www.dhsi.org.