Keystone DH 2024

deadline for submissions: 
March 1, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
Keystone Digital Humanities

Keystone DH 2024 Call for Papers
CFP by March 1, 2024Conference: May 20 - 22, 2024 in person at Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeConference website: https://keystonedh.network/2024/ The theme of Keystone DH 2024 is play, the serious fun of exploration, experimentation, immersion in digital humanities. While we welcome proposals that address our conference theme, presentations need not address the theme directly, and may address any aspect of digital humanities broadly conceived. This theme celebrates immersive experience and experimentation in digital humanities, especially marked in the adventurous work of our keynote presentersDetailsWe are planning 90-minute panel blocks (as usual for this conference). You may submit proposals for individual ~15-minute presentations or for fully a formed "roundtable" panel with multiple identified participants. As with previous Keystone DH conferences, we welcome a range of proposals, including: 

  • Presentations to share digital and public humanities projects;
  • Presentations on digital humanities pedagogy
  • Work on exploring, critiquing, applying, developing generative AI;
  • Methods / progress in developing digital scholarly editions and archives;
  • Curation efforts with digital ephemera;
  • Games, game-making, game-playing in humanities work;
  • Roundtable discussions on new directions and potential energies in humanities work digitally practiced;
  • “Workshopping” to share/get advice on projects in progress, which could take the form of:
    • short immersive installations of 3D projects,
    • interface design and development in progress,
    • investigations of a method (e.g. data sonification, analyzing/curating/classifying visual arts, natural language processing, network analysis, mapping time and space),
    • something we haven't thought of here! 

Submission Form and TimelinePlease send your submissions through our Proposal Submission Form by Monday March 1, 11:59pm in US Eastern Standard Timezone.We plan to respond to all submissions by March 15.Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday May 20 - 22, 2024. Please contact the organizers by e-mail with any questions at contact@keystonedh.network .  Use of generative AI language tools:Since generative AI is an important and timely area of investigation in digital humanities, we are interested in your experiments with it, but we expect our conference participants to take responsibility for authorship of proposals and presentations. We ask that conference applicants and presenters report their use of generative AI language tools, following arXiv's AI policy.

Accessing the conferenceLike last year's successful event, the 2024 conference will be fully in person. We ask all participants plan to join us on site at Penn State Behrend's campus.

  • We plan to provide low-cost accommodations on Behrend campus, in easy walking range of conference events.
  • Hotels are available near campus or on the waterfront in Erie, but most will require transit or be easier with car transport. We'll provide travel guidance on the conference website (https://keystonedh.network/2024/).
  • Please contact the organizers by e-mail with any questions at contact@keystonedh.network .