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CFP: Transmedia History Conference in Lausanne (deadline: July 15)
by Martin Grandjean 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder of the call for papers for the international conference organised by the Impresso project (impresso-project.ch) and the History Department of the University of Lausanne (unil.ch/hist), to be held on 27 and 28 January 2025, on the theme 'Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies'. If you work with different types of media sources, this call is for you! For more information and full CFP, visit the conference website: https://… [View More]impresso.github.io/transmedia/ As the aim of this scientific event is to contribute to the clarification and development of the transmedia approach from a historical and long-term perspective and, more broadly, to promote a decompartmentalised history of the media, we encourage contributions from junior and senior researchers who wish to share their empirical and methodological approaches in this field. Proposals (350 words max.) must be submitted by 15 July 2024 on the following platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transmedia2025 Thanking you in advance for your interest, and with best regards, Martin Grandjean _______________________ Call for papers TRANSMEDIA HISTORY: CIRCULATIONS, RECONFIGURATIONS AND NEW METHODOLOGIES International conference University of Lausanne 27-28 January 2025 Hosted by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne Conference website: https://impresso.github.io/transmedia/ MOTIVATION How can “transmedia” history be put into practice from both theoretical and empirical perspectives? The international conference “Transmedia History”—organised by the Impresso project (https://impresso-project.ch/) and the University of Lausanne’s History Department (https://www.unil.ch/hist/home.html)—will gather scholars from various backgrounds around this question to exchange views on new prospects opened by digitisation and digital tools to carry out transmedia research. Media history is composed of a myriad of parallel histories, which makes comparisons difficult (Fickers 2018, 121). Research in the field has indeed long focused on single types of media (newspapers, television, radio, …) or single institutions within their national contexts. In the mid-2000s however, the transnational turn—which spread across all historical disciplines—allowed for new trends in research objectives to emerge (Bourdon 2008; Vallotton and Nicoli 2021). Research scopes overcame previous temporal and spatial frameworks and thereby became less driven by institutional perspectives than by contents and their circulation. Moreover, this new focus on transnational perspectives enlarged its scope to encompass a wider range of topics within media studies, such as technologies and communication. The development of the history of communication, cultural industries, techniques, and international relations all contributed to a form of décloisonnement or decompartmentalisation, that paved the way for a more comprehensive history of media systems (Mattelart 2002). These new approaches were made possible most notably by mass digitisation of media sources and the improvement of their online accessibility to researchers. International research networks gathered around such transnational ambitions. The first engaged with the history of the book (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing - SHARP, https://sharpweb.org/) and the history of television (European Television History Network - ETHN, (Post)Socialist Television History Network), while, later on, other groups broached the radio (Transnational Radio Encounters - TRE, http://www.transnationalradio.org/) and the press (Transnational Network for the Study of the Press in Foreign Languages - Transfopress, https://www.chcsc.uvsq.fr/transfopress-transnational-network-for-the-study-… ). The transnational turn was a major breakthrough that resulted in important publications (see for example Mollier and Lyon 2012 for the book; Fickers and Johnson 2012 for the television; Badenoch, Fickers and Henrich-Franke 2013 for radio and a global history of French-speaking press which is currently in the making). It remains, however, that research in media history continues to face borders it has not managed to cross yet: beyond geographical borders, those between media institutions and between different types of media remain mostly uncrossed (Cronqvist and Hilgert 2017, 134). This challenge gave the impulse for the establishment of the Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS, https://emhis.blogg.lu.se/) network in 2013. In a milestone article published in 2017, Marie Cronqvist and Christoph Hilgert—both members of EMHIS—defined the concept of entangled histories “as a means of better understanding the dynamic interconnectedness of media across semiotic, technological, institutional and political boundaries in history” (Cronqvist et Hilgert 2017, 130). Rather than accumulating histories of different media, they advocated for a focus on the elements that bridge them. This idea has a certain genealogy (Müller 2000) and theoretical debates have also broached the matter. This perspective was indeed articulated in different ways depending on the historical subdiscipline (global history, history of communications, history of techniques, history of cultural industries that incorporate sociological methods, etc.) and the national and linguistic areas. Despite this, a lack of empirical studies persists, primarily due to the enduring division of knowledge and the practical challenges associated with navigating separate, multilingual archives. These factors discourage research that moves beyond compartmentalised, sector-specific approaches. With the exception of a handful of significant works (see most notably Daniel, de Lima Grecco, Tamagne and Zierenberg 2023), monomedia perspectives still dominate the field of media history and too little research is being carried out on exchanges and cooperation between media. This international conference aims to extend those efforts and reflections by inviting papers that prioritise a “transmedia” approach. We seek to present research that explores media history through the simultaneous analysis of different media, thereby emphasising the significance of the media ecosystems in which they co-evolve. A variety of terms have been used in fields like art history, narratology, journalism and communication to explore the interconnectedness of media (cross-media, intermedia, transmedia, etc.). With regards to history, it has occurred to us that “transmedia”—first used in narratology (Jenkins 2006)—was most suited to capture our ambition. We believe that it encompasses the study of various forms of circulation that occur between media (institutional, economic, technological, aesthetic, or content level). In this sense, we argue that “transmedia” refers with greater accuracy to our objective of transcending monomedia units. “Media” is understood in a broad sense here. It includes traditional media (books, posters, press, cinema, radio and television), but also recent ones such as video games, the Internet (e.g. streaming services, podcasts, online news) and social media. The targeted timeframe is extensive, spanning up to the present day. The conference ultimately seeks to present papers that contribute to a decompartmentalised and interconnected history of media. These papers will not only place media history within a broader social, political, and cultural context but also foster a dialogue among them. In this regard, we invite papers that fall within three main research axes: 1. Transmedia circulations, adaptations and reciprocal influences Media history, which was also strongly influenced by the cultural turn of the 1970s and 1980s, has gradually expanded the range of media objects studied and the actors involved (Ruppen Coutaz and Vallotton 2019). The concepts of cultural transfer (Spain and Werner 1988) and acculturation (Dulphy, Frank, Matard-Bonucci and Ory 2010) have proved useful in understanding the international circulation of media productions, which is now increasingly being studied (Mattelart 2014). Such approaches highlight the importance of mediators (Cooper-Richet, Mollier and Silem 2005; Sapiro 2012) and the creation of new transnational circulation spaces. The aim of this initial strand of research is to identify and analyse various factors that facilitate the circulation of content and formats across media and/or that foster interactions between media: * specific actors or media professions such as news and advertising agencies, foreign correspondents, exiles and diaspora representatives active in various media, translators, arrangers, cross-border media; * technological innovations like the telegraph, printing technologies, digital platforms or alternate reality games; * spaces of circulation and exchanges that transcend traditional political and/or linguistic boundaries, such as fictional serial productions, co-productions, joint-broadcasts, technical cooperation associations in the telecommunications field, foreign-language press; * socio-economic factors like concentration and financial globalisation, liberalisation and deregulation, convergence and new consumption habits. It will also involve considering the rhythms and temporality of information, the modes of circulation (e.g. scissors-and-paste journalism), adaptations and reconfigurations (e.g. comics to radio), as well as the transmission of practices and the mobility of people. Finally, it will be important to investigate resistance to these phenomena, in the sense of factors that hinder or trouble transmedia circulation (seasonal and geopolitical conditions, legal matters, censorship, etc.). 2. Intersections, reconfigurations and new media genealogies Traditionally, media history has viewed the advent of new distribution channels as significant ruptures per se marking the beginning of life cycles, each eventually bound to a certain downfall. Against this backdrop, new perspectives rooted in the new media history (Marvin 1990; Gitelman 2006) and media archaeology (Parikka 2012) provided counterpoints. Some have emphasised the relevance of synchronic approaches to study global transformations in the media system, as instanced by the “invention” of the telephone and, more broadly, by the evolution of images transmission. Others have put forth diachronic perspectives. In this vein, the notion of “live” transmission—which had been used to draw a line between television and cinema—provided an entry point for the exploration of media history through the lens of interdependence and competition. Likewise, analyses of “media imaginaries” (imaginaires médiatiques) acknowledged new periodisations that considered, for example, the presence of prophetic literary representations in communication or the recycling of media devices bound to disappear. The goal set by this second strand of research is to provide a refined understanding of how media define themselves in relation to each other. Additionally, it seeks to shine light upon their strategies and motives, in order to appreciate better the complex ties that they maintain (Lits 2005; Letourneux 2017). How was the advent of new media perceived, announced and narrated by existing media? How do media publicise, promote and criticise other media’s content? We aim to identify productions and documentary resources that reflect such intertwined relations, such as anticipation tales, criticism in the press, advertising productions, etc. From a broader viewpoint, these considerations also address the evolution of mentalities towards new media, their gradual integration within the media ecosystem, as well as the reconfigurations of the latter. 3. New approaches, resources and methods In what ways can the mass digitisation of archival collections and the advancement of computational analysis tools foster transmedia research? Computational research methods allow processing large volumes of data and in recent times also increasingly across languages and modalities (e.g. image, text, sound) (Arnold et al. 2021; Smits and Wevers 2023). Techniques such as text reuse detection (Salmi et al. 2020; Düring et al. 2023; Rosson et al. 2023) or the representation of textual elements in multilingual dense vector spaces (embeddings) (Reimers and Gurevych 2019) have been shown to serve large-scale comparisons and content exploration. But how exactly can computational approaches contribute to the advancement of a transmedia media history? The third axis of this conference aims to identify (new and/or digital approaches that facilitate and bolster comparisons. Besides, it seeks to discuss methods which enable analyses of the circulation of contents and formats at scale, in order to enhance our understanding of information fluxes (Lundell, Hannu et alii 2023). Until recently, most projects that embraced data-driven approaches focused on a single media, mostly the press (see for instance Viral Texts Project (https://viraltexts.org/) Oceanic Exchanges (https://oceanicexchanges.org/) Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland (COMHIS)(https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/projects/comhis-computational-history-and-transformation-public-discourse-finland-1640-1910 ) or Information Highways of the 19th Century (https://www.oru.se/english/research/research-projects/rp/?rdb=p2403) Research now starts to explore how to set up the processing—and how to conduct the analysis—of transmedia data; projects in the likes of TwiXL: An infrastructure for cross-media research on public debates (https://twi-xl.humanities.uva.nl/) Clariah Media Suite (https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/) and Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II (https://impresso-project.ch/) all welcomed this goal. We therefore look to understand the effects that the use of digital tools and methodologies has on the research practices of media historians (changes in scale, shifts between close and distant reading). More broadly, we want to question how the facilitated exploration of media sources affects the way we carry out historical research, especially in the field of media history (changing relation to sources, cross-fertilisation of research fields, emergence of new objects of study, new ways of presenting results, etc.). In doing so, we seek to assess the added value of digital tools for media history (Weber, Comte and Vallotton 2023). By embracing a transmedia approach, papers gathered for this conference will: * showcase shared, entangled histories, as well as differences and lesser-known relations and connections between media; * discuss the application of novel methods and tools to conduct historical research and ground a theoretical and empirical reflection on complex interactions between media; * enhance the global understanding of media ecosystem dynamics. This conference seeks to contribute to the clarification and development of a transmedia approach in the historical sciences. It aims to address transmedia from a historical, long-term perspective and, more broadly, to promote a decompartmentalised, entangled history of media. We therefore encourage presentations from junior and senior researchers who wish to share their empirical and methodological approaches in this field. PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS The conference will be held at the University of Lausanne. Remote participation (via Zoom) will be possible only if absolutely necessary and on explicit request. Working languages at the conference will be English and French. All speakers are kindly requested to prepare slides in the other language to accompany their talk. We strive to publish selected papers in the form of a special issue in a media history journal. If speakers' home institutions cannot cover travel and accommodation costs, partial or full support may be available depending on the number of requests. Please submit an explicit request for this funding. Priority will be given to junior researchers. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND IMPORTANTE DATES July 15, 2024: Proposals must be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transmedia2025 Proposals (max. 350 words) should include a title, a clear outline of the research question, a bibliography (max. 5 references); please add a short bio-bibliographical note (max. 150 words) and a note as to whether or not you intend to travel to Lausanne. In EasyChair, please use the “Title and abstract” section to upload your plain text proposal: the abstract, its references and the bio–bibliographical note can be inserted in the same field. No need to produce a PDF document. Early September, 2024: Notification of acceptance after a selection process conducted with the help of the Scientific Committee members. December 13, 2024: Those interested in taking part in the publication project submit a paper of circa 6,000 words to be forwarded to the organisers and panel discussants. January 27-28, 2025: International conference at the University of Lausanne. April 1, 2025: Submission of final versions of papers selected for publication. ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Section d’histoire, Université de Lausanne François Vallotton, Section d’histoire, Université de Lausanne Marten Düring, C²DH, Université du Luxembourg Martin Grandjean, Section d’histoire, Université de Lausanne Arthur Michelet, Section d’histoire, Université de Lausanne [View Less]

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CHR 2024 submission deadline extended to 11 July
by marijn Koolen 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

---------------------- Conference: Computational Humanities Research 2024 Dates: 4-6 December 2024 Location: Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University Website: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org Call for Papers: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ Submission deadline: July 11, 2024 (was July 8, 2024) ---------------------- Update 2024-07-05: submission deadline extended to 11 July, 2024, AoE! In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, … [View More]statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry in the arts and humanities. This is the scholarly niche that the CHR conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at 1. Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be complementary to the digital humanities landscape. 2. Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer questions relevant to the humanities. ### Topics of interest We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including -- but not limited to -- the following: - Applications of statistical methods and machine learning to process, enrich and analyse humanities data, including new media and cultural heritage data; - Hypothesis-driven humanities research, simulations and generative models; - Development of new quantitative and empirical methods for humanities research; - Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the humanities; - Evaluation methods, evaluation data sets and development of standards; - Formal, statistical or quantitative evaluation of categorization / periodization; - Theoretical frameworks and epistemology for quantitative methods and computational humanities approaches; - Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations; - Visualisation, dissemination (incl. Open science) and teaching in computational humanities. - Potential and challenges of AI applications to humanities research. ### Venue The 2024 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will be hosted by the Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University ( https://chc.au.dk/) The conference will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person in Aarhus, virtually, or a combination of the two. More details will follow soon. ### Important dates - Submission deadline: July 8, 2024 (extended to July 11, 2024), Anywhere on Earth (23:59:59 UTC-12) - Notification to authors: September 16, 2024 - Final papers ready: October, 2024 - Conference: December 4 - December 6, 2024 - Pre-Conference workshops: December 3, 2024 ### Submission types **Long Papers**: up to **5000** words (ca. 10 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Long papers report on completed, original and unpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. **Short Papers**: up to **3000** words (ca. 6 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Short papers report on focused contributions, and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented either as short oral presentations or posters. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. **Lightning Talks**: Submit an abstract of up to 750 words (excluding references, tables and illustrations) to give a 5 minute presentation during a lightning talks session. This format can be well suited for reporting work in progress, introducing ideas, preliminary results, or focused question-answer research. **Workshops**: up to **1500** words. Workshops should be organised to be more interactive than the main conference. The workshops will take place before the conference, on 3 December. Workshop proposals should describe: - the aims and set up of the workshop, - the academic background for the work, - proposed length (e.g. half day or full day), - an outline of the day, including the types of activities, - the expected key outcomes, - a short bio of each organiser or presenter, including their name, affiliation, email address - a plan for promoting the workshop to draw participants. ### Submission Details We welcome submissions from scholars of diverse backgrounds and particularly from under-represented groups. Submissions should be written in English and submitted anonymously. For more details, see the full Call for Papers: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ ### Questions? Contact the organizers: info(a)computational-humanities-research.org CHR community on discourse: https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org [View Less]

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CfP: Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture
by katya krylova 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Dear colleagues, Please check out the new CfP for *Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture*. The theme of the new issue is 'The Science and Art of Digital Technology: From the Turing Machine to ChatGPT <https://www.pulse-journal.org/open-call> ' Pulse is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal affiliated with Central European University. It is especially targeted at early career scholars pursuing innovative and inspiring research. The submission deadline is September 15. The … [View More]

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Anne Frank scholarly edition now available in English
by Peter Boot 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Dear colleagues, Some of you might be interested to hear that our TEI-based digital scholarly edition of Anne Frank's manuscripts is now also available in English. It includes her Diary, The Back House (the novel into which she set out to rewrite the diary), her collection of Tales, the unfinished novel Cady's Life and her Book of Beautiful Sentences (inspiring fragments that she copied from her reading). The edition provides extensive historical and textual commentary, context information and … [View More]

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ADHO DH2023 Conference (Graz): Video recordings available on Youtube!
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, as an "appetiser" in preparation for the upcoming ADHO Digital Humanities Conference DH2024 in Washington - https://dh2024.adho.org/ - we would like to invite you to revisit last year's DH2023 in Graz. All video recordings of presentations are now available on the Youtube channel of our department (DH_Graz): https://www.youtube.com/@dh_graz137/playlists You are also welcome to revisit our Zenodo Community https://zenodo.org/communities/dh2023graz/ and the conference website … [View More]

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CLS INFRA Fully-funded TNA Fellowships - final call open now
by Hoover, Sarah 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Please circulate widely. These fellowships are intended for researchers from academic and non-academic areas. Apologies for cross posting [A green and white sign with blue text Description automatically generated] Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) is now opening its final call for applications, evaluated on rolling deadlines. The CLS INFRA Fellowship Programme provides access to a wide range of data, tools and knowledge. Scholars from literary studies or with an interest in … [View More]Computational Literary Studies methods are invited to apply for a fellowship grant in one of our infrastructure providers. Successful applicants will not only obtain free-of-charge physical access to the infrastructure, but in the context of the overall project they will become part of the larger CLS community. By responding to one of our calls, applicants may have the opportunity to: * Interact with experts; * Receive advice on ongoing projects; * Learn how to use the ecosystem of data, tools and standards; * Assemble new literary corpora; * Profit from hands-on training and support. * Fellowships grants will cover housing and subsistence costs as well as travel to and from the host institution. The CLS INFRA Fellowships are funded by the European Union under the rules of transnational access. CLS INFRA fellowship grants will typically cover travel and subsistence costs. Successful applicants are expected to join the chosen infrastructure for a period of 4 to 12 weeks. However, shorter residencies will be also taken into consideration. The last call will be structured on a rollling basis with the following deadlines: * first deadline for evaluation: July 29, 2024 (notification early-mid August) * second deadline for evaluation: September 9, 2024 (notification mid-end September) * third deadline for evaluation: October 21, 2024 (notification early November) * fourth deadline for evaluation: November 25, 2024 (notification early-mid December). Please note that the places still available are scarce and the call might close earlier than foreseen. Furthermore, we cannot accept applications for fellowships finished later than February 28, 2025. Please take this into consideration prior to your submission. The institutions participating for the first evaluation deadline are the following: * University of Galway * Trier University * Charles University N.B. Only applications from scholars based in an EU member state or in a Horizon 2020 associated country are eligible for this final call as the limit of fellowships that can be offered to scholars based in non-EU or associated countries has been reached. DARIAH ERIC<https://www.dariah.eu/> is leading the Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) and is responsible for the management and oversight of the TNA selection process. More on the CLS INFRA project: clsinfra.io<https://clsinfra.io/opportunities/tnafellowships/> [A picture containing text, sign Description automatically generated] This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004984 Visit clsinfrattna.sciencescall.org<https://clsinfratna.sciencescall.org/> to apply. For examples of other TNA Fellowships, visit the TNA Archive: clsinfra.io/opportunities/tnafellowships/tna-archive<https://clsinfra.io/opportunities/tnafellowships/tna-archive/> Contact: Marco Raciti Email: marco.raciti(a)dariah.eu<mailto:marco.raciti@dariah.eu> All the best, Sarah Dr Sarah Hoover Taighdeoir Iardhochtúireachta | Postdoctoral Researcher Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure: CLS INFRA<clsinfra.io> M: +32 0483 90 04 88 | sarah.hoover(a)universityofgalway.ie<mailto:sarah.hoover@universityofgalway.ie> SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: * Forthcoming: Monograph, Reflective affective dramaturgies of participatory theatre: larping audiences into performance. Palgrave MacMillan, Dec 2024. * Chapter editor and contributor: ‘Performance Studies and Role-Playing Games’. Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations, edited by José Pablo Zagal and Sebastian Deterding, Routledge, 2018, pp. 213–26. In process of revision and republication 2023. * ‘Think Outside my Box: Imagery and Narratives of Women’s Bodies in Repeal the 8th Campaigns’, co-authorship with Miriam Haughton and Ciara L. Murphy. Feminist Encounters. March 2022 [University of Galway] [UniversityofGalway.ie] Uimhir Carthanachta Cláraithe/Registered Charity Number 20002107 [EU Flag] CLS INFRA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme [View Less]

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PhD post Cologne University
by Frank Hentschel 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Dear all The Institute of Musicology at the University of Cologne has a vacancy for a doctoral researcher in a project on 13th century music (3 years). Attached you will find the corresponding job advertisement. I look forward to receiving your applications! Best regards Frank Hentschel

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Second CfP: Computational Humanities Research Conference, 4-6 December in Aarhus, Denmark
by marijn Koolen 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

-------------------- Conference: Computational Humanities Research 2024 Submission deadline: July 8, 2024 Dates: 4-6 December, 2024 Location: Aarhus, Denmark Website: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org -------------------- In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This … [View More]includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry in the arts and humanities. This is the scholarly niche that the CHR conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at 1. Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be complementary to the digital humanities landscape. We actively seek, welcome, and encourage people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and identities to join. This includes, but is not limited to, scholars from underrepresented groups, different academic paths, and those who are contributing novel perspectives to the computational humanities landscape. 2. Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer questions relevant to the humanities. ### Topics of interest We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including -- but not limited to -- the following: - Applications of statistical methods and machine learning to process, enrich and analyse humanities data, including new media and cultural heritage data; - Hypothesis-driven humanities research, simulations and generative models; - Development of new quantitative and empirical methods for humanities research; - Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the humanities; - Evaluation methods, evaluation data sets and development of standards; - Formal, statistical or quantitative evaluation of categorization / periodization; - Theoretical frameworks and epistemology for quantitative methods and computational humanities approaches; - Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations; - Visualisation, dissemination (incl. Open science) and teaching in computational humanities. - Potential and challenges of AI applications to humanities research. To gain further insight into paper topics, please also refer to the proceedings of previous years: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/. ### Venue The 2024 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will be hosted by the DIGHUMLAB (https://dighumlab.org/) and the Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University (https://chc.au.dk/) The conference will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person in Aarhus, virtually, or a combination of the two. More details will follow soon. ### Important dates - Submission deadline: July 8, 2024 - Notification to authors: September, 2024 - Final papers ready: October, 2024 - Conference: December 4 - December 6, 2024 ### Submission types **Long Papers**: up to **5000** words (ca. 10 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Long papers report on completed, original and unpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. **Short Papers**: up to **3000** words (ca. 6 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Short papers report on focused contributions, and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented either as short oral presentations or posters. **Lightning Talks**: Submit an abstract of up to 750 words (excluding references, tables and illustrations) to give a 5 minute presentation during a lightning talks session. This format can be well suited for reporting work in progress, introducing ideas, preliminary results, or focused question-answer research. **Workshops**: up to **1500** words. Workshops should be organised to be more interactive than the main conference. The workshops will take place before the conference, on 3 December. Workshop proposals should describe: - the aims and set up of the workshop, - the academic background for the work, - proposed length (e.g. half day or full day), - an outline of the day, including the types of activities, - the expected key outcomes, - a short bio of each organiser or presenter, including their name, affiliation, email address - a plan for promoting the workshop to draw participants. - specific requirements, including but not limited to special equipment (e.g. audio/video), software, physical space arrangements, - any technical knowledge, skills, or experience participants should have prior to attending the workshop. ### Submission instructions and review process We welcome submissions from scholars of diverse backgrounds and particularly from under-represented groups. For submission details, see https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/. Accepted full and short papers will be published as part of a CEUR-WS proceedings. ### Questions? Contact the organisers if you have any questions, specific requirements or concerns: info(a)computational-humanities-research.org or drop us a line on the discourse forum (https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org) [View Less]

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Call for Challenge: The first Data Challenge of HERMES Data Competence Center
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

Dear fellow DH-ists, HERMES Data Competence Center is conducting its first Data Challenge! We challenge multidisciplinary teams of humanities scholars and data scientists to critically analyze newspaper data from the German Newspaper Portal and solve the problems that arise when working with real-life, text-based data. The goal of this Data Challenge is to develop best practices for the critical handling of tabular and text-based data sets to answer a research question in the humanities and … [View More]

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Call for Challenge: The first Data Challenge of HERMES Data Competence Center
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

HERMES Data Competence Center is conducting its first Data Challenge! We challenge multidisciplinary teams of humanities scholars and data scientists to critically analyze newspaper data from the German Newspaper Portal and solve the problems that arise when working with real-life, text-based data. The goal of this Data Challenge is to develop best practices for the critical handling of tabular and text-based data sets to answer a research question in the humanities and to find … [View More]

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