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Auto-Re: HHAI2022: Last Call for Participation
by e-mail＠jan-oliver-ruediger.de 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Liebe*r Absender*in, haben Sie vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail. Derzeit bin ich im Urlaub und ab dem 20.06.2022 wieder für Sie erreichbar. Aus Vertraulichkeitsgründen wird Ihre Mail nicht weitergeleitet. Viele Grüße Jan Oliver Rüdiger -- --- -- Dr. Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Zimmer: 4.11) Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache www.ids-mannheim.de R 5, 6-13 D - 68161 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 – 411 Fax: +49 621 / 1581 – 200 Mobil: +49 162 / 78 05 676 E-Mail / ZOOM: ruediger(a)ids-mannheim.de PGP-Fingerprint: 28DD 15FB 4401 BCA4 6A16 42E6 6A6B C53A 98D7 E86A

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HHAI2022: Last Call for Participation
by Pernisch, R. (Romana) 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Call for participation at HHAI2022 Workshops: 13-14. June 2022 Main Conference: 14.-17. June 2022 Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is the first international conference focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that assist humans and vice versa, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems that leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. This field of study is driven by current developments in AI, but also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. In addition, we need collaboration with areas such as HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others. In this first international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to participate at HHAI2022. We want to offer the opportunity to build a culture together and embrace diversity and inclusion as central principles. Therefore, we offer micro-scolarships of (100 and 200 EUR) for participants to help pay they travel expenses. If you are interested in this, please send us an email with your name and short motivation. We are looking forward to building a community together. So, follow us on Twitter (@hhai_conference) amd get your ticket now! (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hhai-2022-tickets-302546152687) Keynotes: - Paul Lukowicz: The HumanE AI Net vision of Human Centric AI - Joanna Bryson: With whom do we hybidise? Principle Agents of AI - Wendy Mackay: Creating Human-Computer Partnerships - Fernanda Viegas: Designing AI szstems with a variety of users in mind Keynote abstracts can be found on our website:https://www.hhai-conference.org/invited-speakers/ We have accepted a variaty of papers for long and short presentations. These papers include previously published work, work in progress and full research papers. Accepted papers are listed here: https://www.hhai-conference.org/accepted-papers/ An overview of the program: https://www.hhai-conference.org/program/ Monday 13. June: - Workshop on representation, sharing and evaluation of multipmodal agent interaction - Heterdox Methods for Interpretable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence - Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act - Common Ground Theory and Method Development workshop - Hackathon Tuesday 14. June: - Knowledge Representation for Hybrid-Intelligence - HI ESDiT Collaboration an AI, Human Values and the Law - Human-Centered Design of Symbiotic Hybrid Intelligence - (Eco)systemic challenges in AI - Industry Event organizes by Amsterdam Data Science - Hackathon - Conference Opening Ceremony - Keynote by Paul Lukowicz Wednesday 15. June: - Minute Madness - Sessions #1-#3 - Keynote by Joanna Bryson - Poster & Demo Session Thursday 16. June: - Session #4-#7 - Keynote by Wendy Mackay - Conference Dinner Friday 17. June: - Keynote by Fernanda Viegas - Sessions #8 & #9 - Community Meeting - Conference Closing Ceremony & Awards Location: This will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Pending local and global Covid measures at the time of the conference, we will provide options to attend virtually. The conference will be hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. General chair: Stefan Schlobach (VU) Program chairs: Myrthe Tielman (TUDelft) & Maria Perez-Ortiz (UCL) For questions, you can reach us at: organisers(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:[email protected]>

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EADH EC Elections - Call for nominations
by Fabio Ciotti 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) seeks to elect three (3) new board members for its Executive Committee for the term 2022-2024, and now opens its Call for Nominations. EADH highlights the importance of a diverse and representative Executive Committee, and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. For further information, please see our diversity and inclusivity statement <https://eadh.org/about/diversity-and-inclusivity>. For each person wishing to be nominated for election, the EADH Elections Committee must receive the following three documents: a) two nomination statements by EADH members (here, the proposers), stating the name of the person they wish to nominate (that is, the nominee). The name of the proposers and the nomination statements will not be made public; b) a statement by the nominee, of no more than 200 words (links excluded), expressing the willingness to stand for election. Statements longer than 200 words will be disregarded. The statements of the proposers and the statement of the nominee must be sent to nominations(a)eadh.org no later than midnight, 03 July, 2020 (GMT). All nominees and proposers must be members in good standing: they must have paid the 2022 membership fee of either EADH or an Associate Organisation (DhD, AIUCD, DHN, CzADH or DH Russia) no later than 15 June 2022, otherwise the nomination will be invalid. Nominees are encouraged to confirm this with their proposers in advance. Proposers may nominate only one (1) nominee. Additional nominations received from the same proposer will be considered invalid. Voting will take place online between 10 July - 20 July 2022 (GMT). Statements by the nominees will be a matter of public record during and after the election. Nomination statements and the identity of the proposers will not be made public. Results will be announced at the EADH Online AGM during DH2022 Conference (date TBC). Information about the formal structure of the Association can be found in our Constitution. Questions about serving on the EADH may be addressed confidentially to fabio.ciotti(a)uniroma2.it (Chair of the Elections Committee). We hope you are well and please take care in these difficult times. Best regards, The EADH Elections committee Fabio Ciotti Silvie Cinkova Nicola Barbuti -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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3 PhD positions in ERC project
by Georg Vogeler 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Dear European digital humanists, in my ERC project “From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" (https://didip.eu) I'm looking for 3 PhD candidates interested in medieval charters: diplomatics, computational linguistic , or computer vision - applied to medieval and historical document corpora For more information, see https://didip.hypotheses.org/549 Please forward and distribute! Georg Vogeler -- Prof. Dr. Georg Vogeler Professur für Digital Humanities | Chair Digital Humanities Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung | Centre for Informationmodelling Universität Graz | University of Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel. +43 316 380 8033 - E-Mail georg.vogeler(a)uni-graz.at <http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at> <https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbForschungsportal.cbShowPortal?pPers…>

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Auto-Re: Call for particiapation to HHAI2022
by e-mail＠jan-oliver-ruediger.de 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Liebe*r Absender*in, haben Sie vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail. Derzeit bin ich im Urlaub und ab dem 20.06.2022 wieder für Sie erreichbar. Aus Vertraulichkeitsgründen wird Ihre Mail nicht weitergeleitet. Viele Grüße Jan Oliver Rüdiger -- --- -- Dr. Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Zimmer: 4.11) Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache www.ids-mannheim.de R 5, 6-13 D - 68161 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 – 411 Fax: +49 621 / 1581 – 200 Mobil: +49 162 / 78 05 676 E-Mail / ZOOM: ruediger(a)ids-mannheim.de PGP-Fingerprint: 28DD 15FB 4401 BCA4 6A16 42E6 6A6B C53A 98D7 E86A

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ESU DH C&T 2-12 August 2022 Leipzig: Extension of the application phase
by Europaeische Sommeruniversitaet-Kulturen und Technologien 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

12th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES "CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY" - 2nd to 12th August 2022 UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG (https://esu.fdhl.info/) We have received (more than) 10 applications for quite some workshops. As we can still accept a few applications and as we have still a number of scholarships left (https://esu.fdhl.info/support/) we herewith extend the application (https://esu.fdhl.info/application/) phase for a place at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology” to 16. June 2022 (midnight). The 12th edition of the European Summer University, organised by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr, Institut für Romanistik, and her team, together with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL) (https://fdhl.info/) takes place in person from the 2nd to the 12th August 2022 at the University of Leipzig. Its intensive programme consists of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. For the following Workshops we can still accept single applications (for more information on the workshops see: https://esu.fdhl.info/workshops/) - Alex Bia (University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI document encoding, structuring, rendering and transformation (2 weeks) - Carol Chiodo (Harvard University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop - Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks) - Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks) - Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA / Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany): Text processing for linguists and literary scholars with R (1 week, week 2). - Peter Bell (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) / Fabian Offert (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA): Visual Artificial Intelligence for the Digital Humanities (2 weeks) - Jason Boyd (Ryerson University Toronto, Canada): Procedural Creativity and Digital Humanities Scholarship (1 week, week 2) - Barbara Bordalejo (University of Lethbridge, Canada) / Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): Making an edition of a text in many versions (2 weeks) - Jason Boyd (Ryerson University Toronto, Canada): Project Planning and Management in the Digital Humanities (1 week, week 1) Each workshop consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Workshops are structured in such a way that participants can either take the two blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops. The "workload" of an active participation in the European Summer University corresponds to 6 ETCS points. The Summer University is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. It wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences, Social Sciences, the Arts and Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions for future project-based co-operations. The Leipzig Summer University is special because it not only seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in publishing, libraries, and archives etc., but because it tries to integrate these technologies, methods and tools with the questions Digital Humanities pose about the consequences and implications of their application to cultural artefacts of all kinds. It is special furthermore because it consciously aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany, Europe and many parts of the world, by relying on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the borders between the so-called hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: https://esu.fdhl.info which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. If you would like to know what the structure of the programme will most probably look like then please see here https://esu.culintec.de/?q=node/1163 or here https://esu.culintec.de/?q=node/1033 With my best regards Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Director of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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Multimodal Digital Oral History: The Forward-View Seminar
by Metilli, Daniele 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Multimodal Digital Oral History: The Forward-View Seminar If the first “digital turn” in oral history was largely a passive affair, concerned with the online dissemination of retro-digitised and born digital oral history recordings, what might the incipient “sound as data” turn herald? What gains and losses might result from data-driven enquiries of oral history interviews as sonic or multimodal artefacts, individually or at scale? Which digital tools, processes and platforms can best be utilized in the data-driven analysis of oral history as sonic and multimodal artefact? What rationale and ethical commitments should guide processes of tool selection and creation for this work? What new research questions and trans-disciplinary collaborations may follow? And what are the implications for oral history of participating in this research, as may be illuminated through the emerging sub-field of digital hermeneutics? This seminar series takes as its jumping off point, that the time is right to pursue a Multimodal Digital Oral History, or one that engages with oral history artefacts in all their representational modalities: transcript, sound, waveform, metadata and more. Accordingly, it features papers that explore any of the questions posed above, and in doing so contribute to the task of imagining a Multimodal Digital Oral History turn, where the digital is active rather than passive; where digital oral history modalities are positioned as analytical categories of inquiry and also as sites of data-driven analysis; where reflexivity is a core aspect of digitally-mediated research; and as an endeavour that nevertheless remains attuned to oral history as a subjective and intersubjective meaning-making process, situated in space, time, culture and technology. Convened by: Andrew Flinn (UCL) & Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt/UCL) A joint virtual seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies UCL; the Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology, TU Darmstadt, Germany; the International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research, UCL; and the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Co-organised by Hannah Smyth (UCL) & Daniele Metilli (UCL). Website: https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmultimoda…> REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multimodal-digital-oral-history-the-forward-… Seminar 1 – 8 June 2022 * Douglas Lambert (University at Buffalo, United States) – Audio/video thematic indexing: meaning mapping for oral history access and usage * Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada) – Historicizing modalities: a few thoughts on oral history under surveillance capitalism Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST / 17:00–18:30 BST • Platform: Zoom Seminar 2 — 22 June 2022 * Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin, United States) – Dissonant records: close listening to cultural resistance in audio archives Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST / 17:00–18:30 BST • Platform: Zoom Seminar 3 — 6 July 2022 * Almila Akdag Salah & Francisca Pessanha (Utrecht University, Netherlands) – More than words: a computational look at non-verbal cues in Oral History Archives * Myriam Fellous-Sigrist (King's College London, United Kingdom) –Between access and protection: applied ethics for curating digital oral history Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST / 17:00–18:30 BST • Platform: Zoom Seminar 4 — 13 July 2022 * Machteld Venken (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) – Talking borders, history and digital hermeneutics * Elspeth Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) – Is there anybody out there? Multimodal research creation and queer oral history Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST / 17:00–18:30 BST • Platform: Zoom Seminar 5 — 20 July 2022 * Sharon Webb (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) – Streams of data: methods for distant and close listening for oral histories * Tara Brabazon (Flinders University, Australia) – The auditory academic: transforming the soundscape of scholarship Time: 18:00–19:30 CEST / 17:00–18:30 BST • Platform: Zoom

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Call for particiapation to HHAI2022
by Pernisch, R. (Romana) 25 May '22

25 May '22

Call for participation at HHAI2022 Workshops 13-14. June 2022 Main Conference 14.-17. June 2022 Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is the first international conference focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that assist humans and vice versa, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems that leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. This field of study is driven by current developments in AI, but also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. In addition, we need collaboration with areas such as HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others. In this first international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to participate at HHAI2022. We want to offer the opportunity to build a culture together and embrace diversity and inclusion as central principles. Therefore, we provide 2 scholarships (1x 1300 EUR and 1x 700 EUR) to support the attendance at HHAI to authors, which are PhD students. To apply for these scholarships, please send us an application which includes your CV and a statement to organisers(a)hhai-conference.org as soon as possible. Keynotes: - Paul Lukowicz: The HumanE AI Net vision of Human Centric AI - Joanna Bryson: With whom do we hybidise? Principle Agents of AI - Wendy Mackay: Creating Human-Computer Partnerships - Fernanda Viegas: Designing AI szstems with a variety of users in mind Keynote abstracts can be found on our website:https://www.hhai-conference.org/invited-speakers/ We have accepted a variaty of papers for long and short presentations. These papers include previously published work, work in progress and full research papers. Accepted papers are listed here: https://www.hhai-conference.org/accepted-papers/ An overview of the program: https://www.hhai-conference.org/program/ Monday 13. June: - Workshop on representation, sharing and evaluation of multipmodal agent interaction - Heterdox Methods for Interpretable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence - Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act - Common Ground Theory and Method Development workshop - Hackathon Tuesday 14. June: - Knowledge Representation for Hybrid-Intelligence - HI ESDiT Collaboration an AI, Human Values and the Law - Human-Centered Design of Symbiotic Hybrid Intelligence - (Eco)systemic challenges in AI - Rethinking Values Conflicts in Smart Systems - Hackathon - Conference Opening Ceremony - Keynote by Paul Lukowicz Wednesday 15. June: - Minute Madness - Sessions #1-#3 - Keynote by Joanna Bryson - Poster & Demo Session Thursday 16. June: - Session #4-#7 - Keynote by Wendy Mackay - Conference Dinner Friday 17. June: - Keynote by Fernanda Viegas - Sessions #8 & #9 - Community Meeting - Conference Closing Ceremony & Awards Information on registration and prices can be found here: https://www.hhai-conference.org/registration/ Location: This will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Pending local and global Covid measures at the time of the conference, we will provide options to attend virtually. The conference will be hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. General chair: Stefan Schlobach (VU) Program chairs: Myrthe Tielman (TUDelft) & Maria Perez-Ortiz (UCL) For questions, you can reach us at: hhai2022(a)easychair.org -- Romana Pernisch Postdoctoral Researcher KRR & Discovery Lab Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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ESU DH C&T 2-12 August 2022 Leipzig: Application & more Support
by Europaeische Sommeruniversitaet-Kulturen und Technologien 21 May '22

21 May '22

12th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES "CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY" - 2nd to 12th August 2022 UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG The 12th edition of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities (see https://esu.fdhl.info/) will take place in Leipzig in person from the 2nd to the 12th August 2022. It is organised by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr, Institut für Romanistik, and her team, together with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL) (https://fdhl.info/) The application phase for a place at the Summer University began on 28 April 2022 and will end on 31 May 2022. Information on how to apply can be found here: https://esu.fdhl.info/application/. As in former years the Summer University will take place across 11 whole days. The intensive programme will consist of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. For the workshops which are being offered see https://esu.fdhl.info/workshops/ Thanks to our sponsors, *more* support for participants of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities is now available. Please note: *one can only apply for one scholarship / bursary / fellowship*. Please note, furthermore, that *each scholarship / bursary / fellowship requires the fulfillment of certain conditions*. I) Funding granted by the *German Academic Exchange Service* (DAAD) (https://www.daad.de/en/) allows us to award up to *20 scholarships to foreign alumni / alumnae of German universities*, no matter from which country they come. There is one *exception*, however: Russian alumni / alumnae who hold offices in universities cannot be granted a scholarship at the moment. *Alumni / Alumnae* are people from outside Germany who as (Erasmus) students, graduates, researchers or lecturers have received a degree at a German University or have studied, conducted research or worked at a German University *at least for three months* and who are now outside of Germany. *Ukrainians* who are not Alumni / Alumnae of German universities but have an *intimate relationship with Germany* (for example as teachers or trainers or via German - Ukrainian teacher exchange) can temporarily also apply for such a scholarship. Scholarships cover the costs of travel, accommodation (12 nights) and meals (11 days). Accommodation will be reserved by us. The scholarships do *not* cover participation fees. Scholarships are attributed only once the applicant has registered for the Summer University and paid her / his participation fees. For more information see https://esu.fdhl.info/daad/ II) Thanks to the generous support *DARIAH-EU* (https://www.dariah.eu/) grants the European Summer University in Digital Humanities, a number of tuition fellowships will be available for (doctoral) students and young scholars who are not members of Leipzig University. The fellowships cover the participation fees. Winners of such a fellowship accept the obligation of writing a report about the European Summer University and the experiences they gathered during the event, illustrating it with pictures of the event and sending it to DARIAH-EU in electronic form no later than three weeks after the end of the Summer University. The text and the pictures will be published on the DARIAH-EU website and promoted through social media channels. Here you can find reports about former editions of the European Summer University: https://www.dariah.eu/2019/09/25/reflections-from-the-european-summer-unive… and https://www.dariah.eu/2021/11/12/reflections-from-the-european-summer-unive… Preference will be given to applicants (in the following order) from Eastern European Countries, including Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia; Southeastern European Countries, including Greece, Turkey and Cyprus; Central European Countries but excluding Austria; other European Countries; other countries. For more information see https://esu.fdhl.info/dariah-eu/ III) The *Slovenian Language Technologies Society* (SDJT) (http://www.sdjt.si/) decided to continue the summer school funding for Slovenian students started in 2018 also in view of ESU 2019. The open call (in Slovenian) can be found here http://www.sdjt.si/. The deadline for applications is *May 25 2022*. IV) With the aim to facilitate the participation of (doctoral) students and young scholars of Leipzig University at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities up to 3 scholarships of 300,00 Euro each are made available. This is possible because of the support the *Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig* (FDHL) (https://fdhl.info/) grants to the summer university. For more information see https://esu.fdhl.info/fdhl/. V) The *University of Leipzig* (https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/) through its International Centre (https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/international/) is, at this very moment, not able to guarantee support to participants of the European Summer University as it has done in former years. There is some *hope*, however, that a) not only for applicants from Leipzig's partner university *Kiewski nazionalny uniwersitet im. Tarasa Schewtschenko* but from the *Ukraine* in general special funds might be available, b) some bursaries for applicants from the following *Eastern European partner universities* of Leipzig University might become available in July: Sofiski Uniwersitet Sw. Kliment Ochridski Uniwersytet Wrocławski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca Univerza v Ljubljani Univerzita Karlova v Praze Interested people from the *Ukraine* and the above named *partner universities* are strongly advised to apply for support / a bursary. For more information see https://esu.fdhl.info/international-centre/ VI) People coming from EU-Partner Countries may be able to apply for an *Erasmus + scholarship* (Key Action 103) at their own university. Please get informed. VII) All interested people are strongly advised to inform themselves about support for further education, qualification, specialisation, professionalisation available at *their own universities*. At many universities such funding exists, to find out about it might, however, mean doing some serious research. Should more support become available it will announced on our website https://esu.fdhl.info/ Should you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask them by writing a mail to esu_ct(a)uni-leipzig.de With best regards, Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Director of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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Call for Proposals: Working on and with Categories for Text Analysis (DHQ Special Issue)
by Gius, Evelyn 05 May '22

05 May '22

[with apologies for cross-posting] Call for Proposals DHQ Special Issue Working on and with Categories for Text Analysis: Challenges and Findings from and for Digital Humanities Practices Guest Editors: Dominik Gerstorfer, Evelyn Gius and Janina Jacke Proposals due: 2022-06-15 Link to the full CfP and Timeline: http://dhq.fortext.org/ <http://dhq.fortext.org/> Introduction In the digital humanities, computational social sciences and related fields, the development and use of category systems (e.g. ontologies, taxonomies or typologies) plays an important role in the systematization and analysis of texts. Categories allow for the linguistic labeling of texts or (textual) phenomena, as well as for their combination or differentiation based on selected relevant features. By selecting suitable parameters for grouping, categories usually allow for a systematic reduction of complexity and the ordering of complex textual artifacts and data sets, which in turn considerably facilitates both their analysis and the communication of analysis results. At the same time, category systems offer the possibility of a detailed text systematization or description through the formation of subcategories. If category systems are created as ontologies or taxonomies, they can additionally provide information about the relationship of relevant (text) phenomena to each other. Moreover, since the creation of categories usually requires the specification of explicit definitions of terms or categories, the scholarly exchange of information on subjects in the humanities, cultural studies, or social sciences is greatly facilitated – among other things, through easier understanding and better comparability of statements. While work on and with categories in the traditional humanities remains the exception rather than the rule and is limited to certain sub-disciplines, it is omnipresent in the digital humanities due to the influence of standards from the formal sciences. This omnipresence of category-system development in the digital humanities is in stark contrast to the lack of systematic reflection in this field of research. This concerns questions as: Which categories or which types of category systems are appropriate for (certain) objects in the humanities? What determines the validity and fruitfulness of categories in this field? Which – existing or new – procedures can be used to develop and revise a category system? We invite contributions addressing these questions. While the work on and with categories used for text annotation and analysis is the one focus, a second focus is on systems and methods for the organization and classification of texts in the context of databases – as well as the connection between these two fields of work in which category systems play a role. This also includes work on ontologies or the establishment and revision of systems for text analyses from information science, as well as mathematical category theory, which has already been successfully applied to knowledge representation and management in the natural sciences. Contributions should be based on concrete studies in the field of the digital humanities and related fields or provide an information science perspective that has been, or can be, adapted in the digital humanities. Contributions about concrete studies should address one or more of the following questions: Through which steps did the development of the analysis concepts used in the analysis take place? Who was involved and when? Were existing categories used or developed further? Which development steps were defined in advance, which ones resulted from the process? Was the type of category system to be developed – e.g. ontology, taxonomy, typology or network of concepts – defined? Why was this form chosen? Were there problems with the categories? Which adjustments of the categories or the development process were necessary? To what extent and, if applicable, how was the development of the analysis categories documented? What recommendations can be derived from experience for similar approaches to category development? How does the procedure relate to non-digital procedures that are common in the original discipline? Contributions from an information science perspective should address one or more of the following questions: Which aspects of the work done in computer science concerning ontology languages, methodologies, development environments and tools (for visualization, documentation and validation) can fruitfully be applied to the field of digital humanities/social sciences? What are the prerequisites for an application of such computer science or mathematics approaches for working with categories in text analyses? In which way might the adaptation of computer science research on category development to other fields pose difficulties? What are possible solutions? How can these approaches be implemented in concrete research (i.e., use cases from the humanities/social sciences)?

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