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2nd Call for Papers TOTh 2025 - Submission deadline extended to February 3, 2025 -19th International Conference on Terminology and Ontology (France) - On-site and Online
by Christophe Roche 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] [Feel free to disseminate] [L’appel en français suit l’appel en anglais] ====================================================== *19^th International Conference TOTh 2025 – On-site & Online* *Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications* *Call for Papers & Posters* http://toth.condillac.org/ <http://toth.condillac.org/> June 5 & 6, 2025 University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The TOTh Conferences, created in 2007, bring together researchers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, users and industrialists interested in Terminology**and, more generally, in the links between language and knowledge in the context of our discipline, considering conceptual and technological advances in disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence. The International Programme Committee comprises more than 20 nationalities and the most prominent personalities in the domain. The official languages are English and French. The annual events organised by TOTh include a Conference, a Training session, a Young Researcher Prize, and a Workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Topics (not limited to):* - Terminology, Translation, Linguistics, Lexicology, Lexicography - Natural Language Processing: Corpus analysis - Artificial Intelligence: Ontology, Knowledge Graph, Generative AI, Large Language Models - Terminology Management, Environment, Methodology, FAIR principles, Standards (ISO, W3C) - Applications: Digital Humanities, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Linked Open Data ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Deadline for submission of extended abstracts postponed to: February 3, 2025* Notification to authors: March 3, 2025 Easychair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2025> The format for submitting abstracts is free. The number of characters including spaces is between 12,000 and 15,000, excluding the bibliography ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *5 Free Registrations for Young Researchers* https://toth.condillac.org/free-registrations <https://toth.condillac.org/free-registrations> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *TOTh 2025 Training – On-site & Online* “*Terminology & Artificial Intelligence (2) Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models (including hands-on work)*” https://toth.condillac.org/training <https://toth.condillac.org/training> 3 & 4 June 2025 University Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France). ====================================================== ====================================================== *19^ème Conférence Internationale TOTh 2025 – en présentiel et à distance* *Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et applications* *Appel à Communications et Posters* http://toth.fr.condillac.org/ <http://toth.fr.condillac.org/> 5 & 6 juin 2025 Université Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Les conférences TOTh, créées en 2007, rassemblent chercheurs, enseignants, formateurs, praticiens, utilisateurs et industriels dont les préoccupations touchent à la terminologie, et de façon plus générale aux liens entre langue et connaissance, prenant en compte les avancées conceptuelles et technologiques de disciplines telles que l’intelligence artificielle. Le comité de programme international comprend plus de 20 nationalités et les personnalités les plus éminentes du domaine. Les langues officielles sont l'anglais et le français. TOTh organise chaque année une conférence internationale, une session de formation, un prix du jeune chercheur et un atelier. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Thèmes abordés (liste non exhaustive) :* - Terminologie, Traduction, Linguistique, Lexicologie, Lexicographie - Traitement automatique de la langue naturelle : Analyse de corpus - Intelligence Artificielle : Ontologie, Graphes de Connaissance, IA Générative, Grands Modèles de Langage - Gestion de terminologies, Environnements, Méthodologies, principes FAIR, Standards (ISO, W3C) - Applications: Humanités Numériques, Sciences de l’Information, Web Sémantique, Données Liées et Ouvertes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Date limite de soumission des résumés étendus reportée au : 3 février 2025 *Notification aux auteurs : 3 mars 2025 Page de soumission Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2025> Le format de soumission des résumés est libre. Le nombre de caractères doit être compris entre 12.000 et 15.000 caractères espaces compris, à l’exclusion de la bibliographie ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *5 Inscriptions Gratuites pour Jeunes Chercheurs* http://toth.fr.condillac.org/inscriptions-gratuites <http://toth.fr.condillac.org/inscriptions-gratuites> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Formation TOTh 2025* "*Terminology & Artificial Intelligence (2) Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models (including hands-on work)*" http://toth.condillac.org/training-2025-ai <http://toth.condillac.org/training-2025-ai> 3 & 4 juin 2025 Université Savoie Mont-Blanc (Chambéry, France). ======================================================

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Free talk:
by Emily Middleton 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear all, You are warmly invited to a talk on computer vision, hosted as part of the University of Leeds School of English 'Digital Horizons in English Studies' seminar series <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fahc.leeds…>, taking place next Wednesday 15 January on Zoom (1pm GMT): Thomas Smits (Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI at the University of Amsterdam): 'Making Victorian News Images Searchable: A Computational Approach to the *Illustrated London News*, 1842-1899'. The* Illustrated London News *(ILN) revolutionized Victorian media by pioneering the integration of high-quality wood engravings with news content, reaching over a million viewers at its peak. While digitization has enabled text-based analysis of the ILN, its visual content remains difficult to explore and analyse. We address this challenge by presenting a dataset of 72,081 wood-engraved illustrations extracted from the ILN (1842-1890), accompanied by multimodal embeddings and a Flask application for retrieval. We create a searchable corpus of the ILN that enables users to find illustrations using textual queries, (modern) images, or image-text combinations. The resulting dataset and application allow flexible analysis of nineteenth-century visual representations of news, and suggest new avenues for research in computational humanities, media history, periodical studies, and visual culture studies. At the same time, this presentation also underscores the limitations of interpreting historical imagery with modern AI models, identifying the potential effects of bias and interpretive distortion. Thomas Smits is an assistant professor of Digital History and AI at the University of Amsterdam. His book* The European Illustrated Press* (Routledge, 2019) won the 2020 RSVP Colby Book Award. Recent work has been published in* Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Visual Studies, New Media and Society, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities*, and *Visual Communication*. Please register using this link: *https://forms.office.com/e/Lii2Rd8Ep8 <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.off…>* . A Zoom link will be sent out to registered attendees the day before. We hope to see you there, Emily Bell and Mel Evans (seminar coordinators)

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Exploring the materialities of AI: Geographies, infrastructures, numbers
by Loup Cellard 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Hi all, We are happy to invite you to a one-day conference in Paris organised by the Center for Internet and Society. The schedule and abstracts are attached as a pdf. [image: JE IA 3101 affiche light.jpg] The consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) on the environment have garnered attention in public discourse after several publications estimating the water consumption, energy usage and resource depletion caused by the training and operating of AI and large language models (LLMs). Quantification plays an important role in making the materiality of AI perceptible but they do not exhaust the representations of AI’s consequences on the planet. In this conference, we explore the materialities of artificial AI from a wider variety of epistemic perspectives that deepen the comprehension of the multiple facets of AI’s material presence in the world and its consequences. When: Friday, January 31, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm *Where:* CNRS, site Pouchet, 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris, FRANCE <https://maps.app.goo.gl/QC6PN5YN25seF6FYA> *Organisation team:* Loup Cellard (Datactivist, médialab Sciences-Po, ADM+S Centre), Valentin Goujon (médialab, Sciences Po), Hugo Estecahandy (IFG Lab, université Paris 8), Théophile Lenoir (University of Milan, médialab, Sciences Po), Adrien Tournier (HT2S, Cnam). A conference organised by the GDR 2091 Internet IA and Society (CNRS, Paris, FR). -- *Loup Cellard* <http://www.loupcellard.com>Researcher — Datactivist <https://datactivist.coop/en/> (Paris/Marseille) Affiliate at Sciences-Po Médialab <https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/> (Paris) + ADM+S Centre <https://www.admscentre.org.au/> (Melbourne) Editor at Tèque <https://revue-teque.fr/>, a tech criticism journal by Audimat Editions <https://audimat-editions.fr/> (Paris) Email : loupcellard(a)gmail.com Mobile FR : +33 7 87 00 84 22 Website : loupcellard.com <http://www.loupcellard.com/> Twitter : @CellardLoup <https://twitter.com/CellardLoup>Newsletter : Data Dandysme <https://tinyletter.com/loupcellard>

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Deadline approaching! International Conference on Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era
by Sofia Baroncini 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

-------------------- Deadline approaching! Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era: Critical reflections and best practices (10-12 November 2025, Mainz, Germany) https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/ Submission deadline: 19th of January 2025 -------------------- Dear Colleagues, We would like to remind you that the deadline for submissions for the International Conference "Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era: Critical reflections and best practices" (10-12 November 2025, Mainz, Germany) is approaching (19th of January). The conference, organized by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), in cooperation with NFDI 4Memory and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, seeks to examine the ethical dimensions of data usage within historical research, fostering discussions among scholars to provide practical tools and strategies to navigate these challenges. We invite interested scholars to submit proposals in the form of abstracts (500 or 750 words, depending on the type of submission). For more information about the conference and submission guidelines, please visit our conference website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/ Important Dates: · Submission Deadline: 19 January 2025, 23:59 CET · Notification of acceptance: 15th February 2025 · Conference dates: 10th-12th November 2025 Conference Themes: · Sensitive data · Discriminatory language in databases · AI ethics · Unequal representation of marginalized genders, cultures, social groups and identities · Data storage and infrastructure · Environmental aspects · Misused data Conference language: English We look forward to receiving your proposals, Best regards, Sofia Baroncini On behalf of the organising committee Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Dr. Sofia Baroncini Postdoctoral researcher DH Lab Alte Universitätsstraße 19 55116 Mainz baroncini(a)ieg-mainz.de<mailto:[email protected]> www.ieg-mainz.de<http://www.ieg-mainz.de/> [cid:[email protected]]

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HHAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium (DC) - 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence - June 2025, Pisa, Italy
by c.natali6＠campus.unimib.it 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

**apologies for cross-posting** The HHAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence in June 2025, Pisa, Italy: https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ This forum will provide early as well as middle/late-stage PhD students in the field of Hybrid Intelligence focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will take place in person at the HHAI 2025 conference. The DC provides an opportunity to present and discuss their doctoral research ideas and progress in a supportive, formative and yet critical environment and receive feedback from reviewers, mentors and peers from the field of Hybrid Intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will also provide opportunities to network and build collaborations with other members of the HHAI community. We welcome submissions across research HHAI-related domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others (see “Topics of interest”). The event is intended for early as well as middle/late-stage PhD candidates and asks them to formulate and submit a concrete PhD research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results. The proposal will be peer-reviewed. If accepted, students must register and physically attend the event, which will include a range of interactive activities (among which presentations and mentoring lunch). Details for the submission are found below under “Submission Details”. **Important Dates** Submission Deadline: January 24, 2024 Reviews Released: March 18, 2025 Camera-ready Papers: April 13, 2025 Doctoral Consortium: June 10, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth) **Topics of Interest** We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: • Human-AI interaction, interpretation and collaboration • Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation • Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop • User modeling and personalisation • Integration of learning and reasoning • Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI • Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI • Societal awareness of AI • Multimodal machine perception of real-world settings • Social signal processing • Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI • Symbolic representations for human-centric AI • Human-AI Coevolution • Foundation models and humans • Human cognition-aware AI • Decentralized human-AI systems • Reliability and robustness in human-AI systems • Applications of hybrid human-AI intelligence **Submission Details** All proposals must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hhai2025. Each PhD student should provide the following information on Easychair: • Research proposal (details below). • Supplementary material: a maximum of 2-page PDF listing the following: • Names and affiliations of your research supervisor(s). • Dissertation status: When you began your PhD, and expected to complete it. Are there any constraints on the PhD duration from your institute? This part helps us better tailor feedback to a realistic timeline according to your program. • Benefits statement: 1-2 paragraphs describing what you hope to gain by participating in the doctoral consortium. Highlight specific points where you require feedback. • A personal statement citing three key papers in the field and briefly describing how they influenced the student’s work and how HHAI is defined in those works and the student’s research. • List of the student’s relevant publications (if available). **Research Proposal Details** Students should submit a maximum of a 6-page description of their PhD research proposal. Papers should be written in English and adhere to IOS formatting guidelines. The limit of 6 pages is excluding references. The papers should have a single author (the PhD candidate) and submissions are *not* anonymous. Supervisors, other involved persons, and funding agencies should be acknowledged in an Acknowledgements section. Research proposals should contain the following elements: • Context: The background and motivation for your research, including the related work that frames your research • Research questions/challenges: what are the research questions/challenges that your dissertation addresses? Try to highlight how it differs from existing literature. • Method/approach and evaluation: how is each of the research questions answered? How are results evaluated? If you are planning to conduct studies or build prototypes, provide a brief description. • Preliminary results (if available). Highlight results and contribution to date and the timeplan for projected steps. • Discussion and future work: What are intermediary conclusions, and what are the planned next steps? **Upon Acceptance of the Doctoral Consortium Proposal** Accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers in AI and Applications (FAIA) series by IOS Press. Authors will have the opportunity to opt-out from being included in these proceedings, with only their proposal title being mentioned on the web page. Participants will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work during the consortium, to be followed by a discussion. In case there are any questions regarding the call, or if you are unsure about submitting your work to the HHAI 2025 Doctoral Consortium, please reach out to dc(a)hhai-conference.org **DC Chairs** Jennifer Renoux (Örebro University) Salvatore Ruggieri (University of Pisa) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Shihan Wang (Utrecht University)

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15th European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU-2025)
by Alejandro Bia Platas 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

We are excited to share that the *15th European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU-2025)* will take place from *July 22nd to August 1st, 2025, in Besançon, France*. The local host will be *Université de Franche-Comté*, which will soon be renamed *Université Marie et Louis Pasteur*. Please reserve these dates in your calendar. More details will be provided in January 2025. Best regards, Alexandra Cotoc and Alex Bia ESU Steering Committee chairs

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Phishing Scam
by Zoe S 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Dear All, Many thanks to those of you who brought this matter to my attention. It seems that an e-mail has been sent to many of you this morning, purporting to be from myself, asking for help with an urgent EADH matter. This is a scam. If you received such a message from the following account, please delete the e-mail and/or report it as spam: boardexecutive370(a)gmail.com. All best wishes, Zoe *Secretary - EADH*

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Submit Job Offer on EADH
by GRK2806 Koordination 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

Good morning, As part of our GRF-funded Research Training Group 'Literature and the Public Sphere' at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, we are inviting applications for 11 doctoral positions, starting 01.10.2025 (application deadline 01.05.2025). Since the call for applications is explicitly aimed at graduates in the field of Digital Humanities, we would like to ask you to share the call for applications via your mailing list. Please find attached the call text in English (as word- and pdf-files). Please contact us if you have any questions or requests for changes. Thank you in advance for your support! With kind regards, Birgit Umbreit -- Ulrike Dencovski und Dr. Birgit Umbreit, Koordination Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg GRK 2806 Literatur und Öffentlichkeit Universitätsstr. 40, 91054 Erlangen grk2806-koordination(a)fau.de<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/

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AIUCD2025 - second Call for Papers
by Simone Rebora 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the opening of the submission platform for the upcoming AIUCD Conference (11-13 June 2025, Verona, Italy). You can find the updated Call here below or on the conference website: https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/call-for-papers/ The deadline for submissions is 12 January 2025. Best regards, Simone Rebora Call for Papers (ENG) AIUCD 2025 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The conference provides an opportunity for large-scale discussions in the various research areas of the Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on issues of inclusiveness. In a world where artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of knowledge, it is indeed crucial to explore how this transformation can be guided by principles of inclusiveness and equity. While one track of the conference will be devoted exclusively to this issue, all the different parts of the Digital Humanities are affected by it in various ways. Starting with the computational part, which needs to better understand its tools to counter biases and distortions, but which can also use them to democratize access to knowledge and culture. Access which, in turn, can be fostered by good practices in the digitization of works and documents, by supporting, for example, the encoding of accessible digital editions for all types of users. In the field of knowledge representation, then, the concept of accessibility is already inscribed at the heart of the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability), which need increasingly virtuous applications within digital heritage preservation practices. Preservation which, finally, is at the heart of contemporary challenges to ensure that cultural heritage is not only safeguarded, but also made accessible and understandable to a global and diverse audience. Therefore, papers relevant to the following conference tracks are invited: 1) Digital Humanities and Inclusion Proposals related to issues of inclusion in the Digital Humanities from multiple perspectives are welcomed: from accessibility at the level of research, teaching, infrastructure, and outreach, to practices for overcoming gender, economic, social, and cultural disparities. Specific topics of interest include: minority representation in digital projects; accessibility of digital resources for disadvantaged communities; the role of digital humanities in bridging the digital divide; innovative methodological approaches to make digital projects more inclusive and participatory. 2) Archives and Digital Editions We welcome both theoretical and applied proposals on (a) the representation and organisation of techniques and problems in the fields of digitisation, the organisation of born-digital heritage and methods for its archiving; (b) themes, issues, and applications pertaining to digital critical editions, to modes of visualisation and interrogation of online texts, and alternative means of encoding. 3) Computational Methods Papers are welcomed that explore methods and tools for computational analysis of cultural heritage, including advanced approaches based on cutting-edge technologies in Artificial Intelligence. Reflections on the state of the art, up to the latest theoretical frameworks, are also encouraged, with the aim of highlighting future developments and perspectives in the field. Included are approaches for the analysis of literary texts and *corpora*, touching upon computational models for literary criticism on the one hand, and research in computational linguistics and natural language processing on the other. Papers on analysis and visualization methods such as Network Analysis and Mapping are also welcomed. 4) Data and Knowledge Representation Special attention will be given to knowledge representation and the use of Semantic Web and Linked Open Data technologies. We welcome proposals concerning the design of conceptual models, knowledge graphs, ontologies and technologies of the Semantic Web with respect to cultural heritage and the Digital Humanities, the creation of datasets and applications that conform to the FAIR principles, the production of Linked Open Data in these domains, as well as the automated extraction of metadata, named entities and models from cultural heritage resources. 5) Preservation of Memory and Digital Heritage We welcome proposals concerning memory and digital cultural heritage preservation, particularly relating to the research outputs in the Digital Humanities. We also encourage proposals addressing the challenges of digital infrastructure and the problems of sustainability posed by projects involving digitisation and the conservation of born-digital collections, as well as proposals on the implementation of best practices for the preservation of, and effective access to, cultural heritage. Guidelines for the Submission of Proposals The conference envisages participation by oral communication (paper) or poster. At the proposal stage, authors are asked to specifify in which mode they intend to present the paper, whether by oral or poster communication. Following peer review, the Scientific Committee may decide whether the accepted contribution is more suitable for an oral communication or a poster presentation. It should be noted that there is no difference in quality between contributions assigned to one or the other mode of presentation: oral presentations are generally more appropriate for theoretical and methodological work, including that relating to actual applications; posters, optionally presented with a demo, are better suited to the description of projects, tools or digital resources. All proposals must be submitted in the form of a contribution of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) pages, excluding bibliography. The submission format for contributions must adhere to the template (updated from previous years) and directions found on the page Information for Authors <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/informations-for-authors/>. Contributions that do not adhere to the template and directions will be rejected without considering their content. Neither plagiarism nor self-plagiarism is tolerated. Please note that a plagiarism checking tool may be applied to submitted contributions. The use of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, is not permitted unless the generated text is submitted as part of the experimental analysis, or the generative AI tool was used only for editing and refinement of the authors’ work. However, all uses must be explicitly stated in the submitted contribution. Contributions must be submitted, in PDF format only, using the dedicated platform <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/submission/>. Proposals must be anonymised. Author names and any internal references should be removed to the extent possible so as to not compromise reviewers’ assessment of the proposal. A maximum of two proposals in the five tracks of the call can be submitted as the first contributing author. At the conference, authors will be allowed to present a maximum of two accepted contributions as either first or co-authors. In any case, at least one of the authors must register for the conference for the contribution to be accepted. The official languages of the conference are Italian and English. Authors can present in either language, regardless of the one used in their written proposal. Evaluation Criteria Proposals will be evaluated through a “double-blind” review process. Each contribution will be submitted to at least two reviewers. Proposal evaluation will be conducted based on the following criteria: - relevance of the contribution to the purpose of the conference; - innovativeness and relevance of the contribution; - methodological rigor; - critical analysis of the literature on the topics covered and relevant and up-to-date bibliography; - appropriateness of theoretical and conceptual approach to the relevant domain; - quality of exposition and adequacy of organization of the contribution; - critical attitude toward the adopted methodologies and the tools in use; - replicability of the results (with the exception of theoretical reflections). Publication of Proceedings Accepted proposals will be published as Conference Proceedings with DOI and ISBN, freely available from the conference website and the «Umanistica Digitale» portal under Book of Abstracts and Proceedings <https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/pages/boa>. “Giuseppe Gigliozzi” Prize AIUCD awards two prizes of 300 euros each, one for posters and one for presentations, to early career scholars (students, doctoral students, scholarship or grant holders) presenting at the conference. The terms of participation are described on the dedicated page <https://www.aiucd.it/premio-gigliozzi/> of the Association’s website. Deadlines The deadline for submission of proposals is fixed for 11:59 p.m. on January 12, 2025 (CET/GMT+1). Acceptance notifications will be sent out to the authors by March 7, 2025. A camera-ready copy of the proposal must be submitted no later than March 28, 2025.

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Job Openings at the IOS Regensburg-DataLab
by Jiří Kocián 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg is an interdisciplinary and international non-university research institution focusing on the historical, economic, and political development of Eastern and Southeastern Europe ( [ https://leibniz-ios.de/en/ | https://leibniz-ios.de/en/ ] ). IOS combines research with scientific infrastructure services and policy consulting, both in Germany and internationally. Starting in 2025, the IOS will expand its multidisciplinary research with a new Research Division “Politics”, complementing the existing fields of History and Economics. This expansion includes establishing a DataLab to support and accompany data-driven research across the different disciplines at IOS. The expansion also involves increasing the institute’s infrastructure and administrative capacities. To achieve these goals, IOS seeks to fill the following five positions (f, m, d) as soon as possible: * Scientific Editor / Research Communicator / Postdoc (full time) * Research Data Specialist (part time, 50%) * IT Specialist (part time 50%) * Microsoft 365 Administrator (part time 50%) * Librarian, part time 75% These positions are offered on a permanent basis. The classification follows the TV-L (Collective Agreement for Public Service in the German States) salary scale. Applications should be submitted through the IOS electronic application portal (see [ https://leibniz-ios.de/freie-stellen-und-praktika/details/aktuelle-stellena… | German job posting ] ). T he application deadline for all positions is December 18, 2024. Detailed job descriptions and application details can be found [ https://leibniz-ios.de/freie-stellen-und-praktika/details/aktuelle-stellena… | in the German job postings ] . IOS is an equal opportunity employer and proud of the diversity of its workforce. Jiří Kocián Koordinátor Centra vizuální historie Malach Ústav formální a aplikované lingvistiky Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta Univerzita Karlova

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CfP SIS conference 'Italian Studies at the Digital Turn', University of Leeds, 23-24 June 2025
by Simone Rebora 08 Dec '24

08 Dec '24

*Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland (SIS)* *Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity * *University of Leeds, 23-24 June 2025* *[ITALIAN VERSION BELOW]* The last decade has witnessed a significant rise in the use of digital and computational methods across research, scholarship, and education, fundamentally reshaping the humanities and modern languages. The evolution of the Semantic Web, the widespread adoption of the smartphone, and the rise of social media have transformed our cultural and social lives. Recent advancements and the commercialisation of Generative Artificial Intelligence hold the potential to significantly change the ways in which we access and interact with digital environments, creating new possibilities and risks. The *2025 themed conference of the Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland (SIS), Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity,* held at the *University of Leeds, 23-24 June 2025*, will explore how the field of Italian Studies has responded to this ‘digital turn.’ We would like this event to be inclusive and to act as a bridge between those who have been engaging with the digital for a short or long time, those who study it, those who are considering using it, and those who want to learn more about the state of the art of digital use in the broad field of Italian Studies. Whether your research and your scholarly and teaching practices already employ digital methods and concern digital objects or you are “digitally curious”, we invite you to join us in a conversation at the *intersection between the Digital Humanities (DH) and Italian Studies*. We invite submissions that engage with *both theoretical and practical aspects *of the digital within Italian Studies, with the aim to: · Showcase past and ongoing projects in Digital Italian Studies · Bring to light and map out new ideas and approaches in Digital Italian Studies · Create a forum for discussing the affordances and challenges of these methods · Encourage broad conversations within the Italian Studies community to foster partnerships, networks, and collaborative projects that intersect with DH’s objects and methods *Areas of Interest* We welcome contributions that investigate current and future perspectives on how digital humanities enrich, shape and challenge Italian Studies, including but not limited to: · Research employing DH methods focusing on Italy across various periods, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century · Approaches to convergence culture · Reflection on the digital as a conceptual paradigm · The digital transmission and reception of cultural items · The impact of the ‘digital revolution’ in contemporary society and culture · The potential of digital methods to foster interdisciplinarity · The use of digital tools and resources in teaching and assessment, including opportunities and challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence · The use of digital methods for the dissemination and communication of research · The study of digital cultural items and platforms · The digital as an element used in literary, social and cultural storytelling *Italian Studies is intended here in its broader sense – from literature to history and the public humanities, film and media studies, linguistics and language acquisition (L1, L2, LS), translation, cultural studies, and visual arts*. We also welcome *comparative and transnational proposals* that situate Italian Studies within the wider landscape of Modern Languages and the Humanities. The keynote address will be delivered *by Elena Pierazzo, Professor of Digital Humanites at the University of Tours *– the author of *Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods *(Routledge, 2020) and PI of the ERC project *PRIMA Manuscripts in the Age of Print <https://prima.hypotheses.org/>**.* In addition to *traditional conference sessions*, panels of papers, and roundtables, we envisage having *practical sessions* on digital methods in research, scholarship and teaching, and on their use in grant applications, for postgraduates and early-career researchers. We welcome proposals for: 1. *Individual papers* (15 minutes, to encourage discussion) 2. *Digital posters* showcasing DH resources and tools (e.g. interactive posters, project websites, apps and digital collections or archives), as part of a *digital fair* (this will be hosted in a room equipped with screens, where participants will be able to project and interactively display a digital tool/project they have developed). Proposals for other formats, such as *roundtables and panels organised by the proposer/s*, will be taken into consideration. Please, get in touch with the organisers to enquire and for further information. The conference will be held *in person,* and the languages are both *English and Italian*. *Submission Guidelines* *Please submit your abstracts (max. 300 words for individual contributions) along with a brief bio (max. 100 words) to **sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com <sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com>** by 10th January 2025 at 5pm UK time. *Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 10 February 2025. We are keen to include *a diverse range of participants, particularly in relation to career stage, gender, and race*; we will arrange panels and sessions to ensure a balanced representation in each panel wherever possible, in adherence with the SIS Policy for Conferences and Event Planning guidelines (*https://italianstudies.org.uk/front-page/edi/our-policies/ <https://italianstudies.org.uk/front-page/edi/our-policies/>*). Unwaged, postgraduate, and early career academics participants will be able to apply for *a small number of bursaries to assist with travel and/or accommodation costs*. Details and instructions on how to apply will be given at registration stage. For more information, please contact *sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com <sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com>**.* The organising committee: Laura Lucia Rossi, Alessio Baldini, Olivia Santovetti, Gigliola Sulis (University of Leeds) *[ITALIAN VERSION]* L’ultimo decennio ha visto un aumento significativo dell’uso di metodi digitali e computazionali nella ricerca e nell’insegnamento, che ha coinvolto anche le discipline umanistiche. L’evoluzione del cosiddetto Semantic Web e l’uso ormai trasversale degli smartphone hanno rivoluzionato le nostre vite sia dal punto di vista sociale che culturale. Inoltre, i più recenti progressi dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e la sua commercializzazione su ampia scala hanno reso evidente come tali strumenti siano in grado di cambiare radicalmente i modi del nostro accesso e dell’interazione con gli ambienti digitali, generando sia nuove possibilità sia nuovi rischi. *Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity, convegno della Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland (SIS) organizzato per il 23-24 giugno 2025 presso la University of Leeds*, intende esplorare come il settore degli Italian Studies stia rispondendo alla ‘svolta digitale’. Il convegno si propone di essere aperto e inclusivo, per unire in conversazione coloro che lavorano nel campo del digitale già da tempo, quanti che stanno valutando di entrarvi, ma anche chi abbia interesse a comprendere il ruolo attuale del digitale nelle varie aree di ricerca e studio. Se avete già esperienza nell’uso di metodi digitali o nello studio di oggetti digitali nella ricerca o nella didattica, se vi incuriosiscono le possibilità che il digitale potrebbe aprire nel vostro campo, e qualunque sia la vostra esperienza di partenza, vi invitiamo a partecipare a queste giornate di studio, *all’intersezione tra Digital Humanities (DH) e Italian Studies*. Si invitano pertanto proposte che esplorino tanto *gli aspetti teorici, quanto quelli pratici *del digitale negli Italian Studies. La conferenza si propone di: · Presentare progetti passati e in corso nel campo degli studi digitali di italianistica · Esplorare e mappare nuove idee e approcci negli studi digitali di italianistica · Promuovere una discussione sulle opportunità e sulle sfide che derivano da questi metodi · Creare le condizioni per dialoghi, contatti e collaborazioni che intersechino diversi oggetti e metodi delle Digital Humanities. *Aree di interesse* Si accettano contributi che indaghino prospettive attuali e future su come le Digital Humanities arricchiscono, modellano e pongono sfide agli studi di italianista, inclusi ma non limitati a: · Studi che usano metodi delle Digital Humanities (DH) con un focus sull’Italia attraverso vari periodi, dal Medioevo al XXI secolo · Approcci alla cosiddetta *convergence culture* · Riflessioni sul digitale come paradigma concettuale · La trasmissione e la ricezione digitale degli oggetti culturali · L’impatto della ‘svolta digitale’ nella società e cultura contemporanea · Le opportunità offerte dai metodi digitali per favorire l’interdisciplinarità · L’uso di strumenti e risorse digitali nell’insegnamento e nella valutazione, comprese opportunità e sfide poste dall’Intelligenza Artificiale · L’uso di metodi digitali per la diffusione e la comunicazione della ricerca · Lo studio degli oggetti e delle piattaforme culturali digitali · Il digitale come elemento utilizzato nella narrazione letteraria, sociale e culturale Gli *Italian Studies sono intesi qui nel loro senso più ampio – dalla letteratura alla storia e alle public humanities, dagli studi cinematografici a quelli sui media, dalla linguistica alla didattica dell’italiano (in contesti L1, L2, LS) e alla traduzione, dagli studi culturali alle arti e oltre*; sono benvenute *proposte comparative e transnazionali* che situano gli studi di italianistica nel panorama delle Lingue Moderne e delle Scienze Umanistiche. La lezione in plenaria è tenuta da *Elena Pierazzo, Professoressa di Umanistica Digitale presso l’Università di Tours *– autrice di *Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods *(Routledge, 2020) e Principal Investigator del progetto *ERC <https://prima.hypotheses.org/>**PRIMA Manuscripts in the Age of Print <https://prima.hypotheses.org/>**.* Oltre alle *consuete sessioni di conferenza* quali panel e tavole rotonde, sono previste *sessioni pratiche* sull’uso dei metodi digitali nella ricerca, nella riflessione pedagogica e nell’insegnamento, e come elemento integrante di progetti di dottorato e di postdottorato, indirizzate a dottorandi/e e giovani ricercatori/trici . Si invitano proposte di: 1. *Interventi individuali* (di 15 minuti, in modo da incoraggiare il dibattito) 2. *Poster digitali* che presentino risorse e strumenti digitali (per esempio poster interattivi, siti web di progetti, app e collezioni o archivi digitali). La *digital fair* sarà ospitata in un’aula attrezzata con schermi, dove i partecipanti potranno proiettare e mostrare interattivamente uno strumento/progetto digitale che hanno sviluppato o a cui hanno contribuito. Chi fosse interessato a proporre altri *contributi di altro tipo*, come panel completi o tavole rotonde, può contattare direttamente il comitato organizzatore. La conferenza si terrà *in presenza*, e le lingue dei lavori sono *l’italiano e l’inglese*. *Linee guida per la presentazione degli abstract* *Si prega di inviare un abstract (max. 300 parole per interventi individuali)* *insieme a una breve biografia (max. 100 parole) a **sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com <sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com>**,* *entro il 10 gennaio 2025 alle 17:00 ora del Regno Unito*. Le notifiche di accettazione saranno inviate entro il 10 febbraio 2025. Il convegno ambisce a garantire *rappresentanza ampia e diversificata con riferimento all’origine, all’identificazione di genere e alla fase di carriera di chi partecipa*; le sessioni saranno organizzate per quanto possibile attorno a questo principio, in conformità con le linee guida della SIS Policy for Conferences and Event Planning (*https://italianstudies.org.uk/front-page/edi/our-policies/ <https://italianstudies.org.uk/front-page/edi/our-policies/>*). Coloro che partecipano senza affiliazione o retribuzione, dottorandi e dottorande, ed early career researchers potranno concorrere a un *numero limitato di borse di studio come contributo ai costi di viaggio e/o alloggio*. Indicazioni su come fare domanda saranno fornite più avanti, in fase di registrazione. Per ulteriori informazioni: *sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com <sis2025.digitalturn(a)gmail.com>*. Il comitato organizzatore: Laura Lucia Rossi, Alessio Baldini, Olivia Santovetti, Gigliola Sulis (Università di Leeds, UK)

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Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series WS 2024/25, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

The FSP Digital Humanities is very pleased to announce the third of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2024. All lectures will take place in Hörsaal 7 of the university Hauptgebäude and streamed via the following link: https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/a98a9afa-bb88-4a64-a9b2-bb73d1020452 The lecture will be followed by a small reception in the space opposite Hörsaal 1. All interested colleagues are warmly invited to attend! With best wishes, Tara Andrews 10 December, 16:45 - Ass.-Prof. Dr. Alíz Horváth, Central European University Why Does Language Matter in DH? a.k.a. What do OCR, NLP, and UX have in common? Upcoming lectures: - 14 January, 16:45 - ACDH-CH Lecture 11.1 (Information will be circulated separately!)

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by marijn Koolen 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Conference: DH Benelux 2025 Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2024 (23:59 CET) Conference Dates: 4-6 June 2025 (main conference), 3 June 2025 (pre-conference workshops) Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU) – Amsterdam (Netherlands) Website: https://2025.dhbenelux.org/ ----------- We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the DH Benelux 2025 Conference, which will take place between 3-6 June 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. This annual conference serves as a platform for the community of Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings. We invite researchers, practitioners, scholars, and students to submit their original research, case studies, and demos in Digital Humanities. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and encourage submissions from various disciplines within the Digital Humanities. We aim for a programme covering topics that reflect current trends and emerging debates in Digital Humanities, providing opportunities for diverse interdisciplinary discussions *** Important Dates *** Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2024 (23:59 CET) Notification of acceptance: February 2025 Conference Schedule: 4-6 June 2025 (main conference), 3 June 2025 (pre-conference workshops) Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU) – Amsterdam (Netherlands) For more information, see https://2025.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/

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New Journal: Philosophy & Digitality
by Geiger, Jonathan 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, Sorry for crossposting. May I introduce to you a new journal: Philosophy & Digitality (open access, double-anonymous review, no publication fees). Philosophy & Digitality is an open access, double-anonymous review philosophical community journal without publication fees. It welcomes original papers on the aesthetic, ethical, political, ontological, and epistemic dimensions of digitalization. Two issues per year are scheduled: The first as a special issue (annual call for special issues) on an international conference or workshop, the second as an open issue (annual call for papers). The journal is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The first issue (1/1) has just been published in 2024. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/phidi/issue/view/258 The second issue is in preperation for beginning 2025 (special issue (2/1) on "Normative Issues of Affective Computing"). Editorial Board Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen) (Editor in Chief) Sybille Krämer (Luneburg) Jörg Noller (Munich) Scientific Advisory Board Andrew M. Bailey (Singapore) Philip Brey (Twente) David Chalmers (New York) Petra Gehring (Darmstadt) Armin Grunwald (Karlsruhe) Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn) Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Maryland) Gerhard Lauer (Mainz) Sabina Leonelli (Exeter) Catrin Misselhorn (Goettingen) Karoline Reinhardt (Passau) Arno Schubbach (Zurich/Basel) Andreas Speer (Cologne) Thank you and best wishes, Jonathan D. Geiger

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CfP – International Conference on Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era (Submission Deadline: 19th of January)
by Sofia Baroncini 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ———————————————————— Call for Proposals Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era: Critical reflections and solutions (10-12 November 2025, Mainz, Germany) https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/ Submission deadline: 19th of January 2025 ———————————————————— Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to draw your attention to the International Conference “Data Ethics for Historical research in a Digital Era: Critical reflections and solutions” (10-12 November 2025, Mainz, Germany), organized by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), in cooperation with NFDI 4Memory and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. This conference seeks to examine the ethical dimensions of data usage within historical research, fostering discussions among scholars to provide practical tools and strategies to navigate these challenges. We invite interested scholars to submit proposals in the form of abstracts (500 or 750 words, depending on the type of submission). For more information about the conference and submission guidelines, please visit our conference website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/ Important Dates: · Submission Deadline: 19th January 2025, 23:59 CET · Notification of acceptance: 15th February 2025 · Conference dates: 10th-12th November 2025 Conference Themes: · Sensitive data · Discriminatory language in databases · AI ethics · Unequal representation of marginalized genders, cultures, social groups and identities · Data storage and infrastructure · Environmental aspects · Misused data Conference language: English We’d appreciate it if you could forward this call to interested colleagues and students. We look forward to receiving your proposals, Best regards, Sofia Baroncini Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Dr. Sofia Baroncini Postdoctoral researcher DH Lab Alte Universitätsstraße 19 55116 Mainz baroncini(a)ieg-mainz.de<mailto:[email protected]> www.ieg-mainz.de<http://www.ieg-mainz.de/> [cid:[email protected]]

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CFP: ESTS 2025: Manuscripts in the Age of Print
by Elena Pierazzo 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

[with the usual apologies for cross-posting] Dear community, It's with great pleasure that I invite you to submit your proposals for the forthcoming 20th conference of the European Society of Textual Scholarship, which will be held in Tours 28-30 April 2025. Manuscripts in the Age of Print ======================== The invention and relatively rapid dissemination of print in 15th- and 16th-century Western Europe did not replace manuscript culture. Whether in the form of draft manuscripts, letters and journals, note-taking, margin annotations, manuscript dissemination to escape control, or documentary records, the two media—print and manuscript—continued to coexist, intertwining and influencing each other in complex ways across the globe. In various regions, from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, manuscripts remained central to intellectual, cultural, and religious practices, often complementing or resisting the spread of print. Although recent scholarship has addressed this dynamic in specific contexts, manuscript production is still rarely considered as a distinct phenomenon in the early modern and modern periods across different cultures. This oversight neglects the profound impact manuscripts had on intellectual and cultural life worldwide, where they served as vessels for innovation, subversion, and the preservation of alternative voices. Moreover, it overlooks the materiality of manuscripts, which developed in specific local and regional contexts, conveying unique physical characteristics that shaped both the form and content of the works themselves. The conference will explore these and other uses of manuscripts, welcoming contributions that address: • Manuscript production and circulation during the early modern and modern periods • Modern codicology and handwriting studies • Print-to-manuscript and manuscript-to-print transitions and their coexistence • Hybridization of the two media across different periods and regions • Digital representation and analysis of such documents, including Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and quantitative codicology • Study and assembling of public and private archives and libraries • Scholarly editing of manuscripts and hybrid documents • Textuality of texts transmitted through manuscripts • Social networks and manuscript production (e.g., how social relationships, patronage, and collaboration among scribes, authors, and intellectuals influenced manuscript production and content) • Cross-cultural manuscript traditions (e.g., interactions between different manuscript practices and production centers, including trade, diplomacy, and scholarly exchanges across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and other regions) • Censorship and media circulation We also welcome contributions that examine the global persistence of manuscript culture alongside print in the early modern and modern periods, taking into account the diversity of manuscript traditions worldwide. This includes exploring how manuscripts remained essential for knowledge transmission, record-keeping, and resisting dominant discourses, even as print technologies became increasingly prevalent. Other topics such as the theory and practice of textual scholarship and digital textual scholarship will also be welcomed. Contributions to the ESTS Conference may take the following forms: Research Papers Individual scholars are welcome to submit proposals for papers which may then be selected for panels. 20 minutes in length. Please supply an abstract of 250 words (max) + bio of 100 words (max). Panel sessions We also invite groups of scholars (3 speakers) to submit proposals for thematically linked research paper panels. 90 minutes in length (3 x 20 minute papers + Q&A). Please supply 3 abstracts of 150 words (max) each + bios of 100 words (max) for each speaker. The organisers will give preference to panels that reflect the diversity of our field. Roundtable We also invite groups of scholars (up to 6 speakers) to submit proposals for thematically linked roundtable sessions. 90 minutes in length (10 mins per speaker + Q&A). Please supply an overall abstract of 350 words (250 words) for the roundtable + bios of 100 words (max) for each speaker. Poster sessions We will run a poster session as part of the main conference program. Topics of interest include all topics listed above. The poster session is an opportunity for researchers to discuss their early/ongoing work with attendees. Please provide an abstract of a maximum 250 words. Submissions and information here: https://cesr-ests2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en –– Elena PIERAZZO Professeure en Humanités Numériques Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323 Université de Tours 59 Rue Néricault Destouches – BP 12050 37020 Tours Cedex 1 ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-3884 ERC PRIMA 'Manuscripts in the Age of Print' (Grant number 101142242)

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Job: graduate assistant in computer science for the humanities (Lausanne, Switzerland)
by Michael Piotrowski 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

The Department of Language and Information Sciences (https://www.unil.ch/sli/) in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) invites applications for a position of graduate assistant in computer science for the humanities (assistant·e diplômé·e en informatique pour les sciences humaines) This is an 80% doctoral position for a maximum of 5 years, starting February 1, 2025. The application deadline is December 8, 2024. Offical job posting (in French) and application link: <https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req…> A good knowledge of French is required (you don’t have to be a native speaker, but you should be comfortable teaching in French, i.e., B1/B2 level). For further information, please don't hesitate to contact me at michael.piotrowski(a)unil.ch. Best regards, Michael -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski(a)unil.ch> Professeur en humanités numériques · Université de Lausanne Section des sciences du langage et de l’information · Faculté des lettres ☎ +41 21 692-3039 · Quartier Chamberonne, bâtiment Anthropole, bureau 3137 OpenPGP public key 0x926877BF1614A044

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JOB: research assistant / Digital Humanities research assistant "Antiziganism and Ambivalence in Modernity"
by peter.bell＠uni-marburg.de 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

The Department of German and Art Studies, Institute of Art History at University of Marburg is currently accepting applications for a Research Assistant The position is offered for a period of 4 years. The starting date is as soon as possible. The position is fulltime with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13). The sub-project “pictorial narration and visual representation of antiziganist motifs (1848-1930)” of the research group “Antiziganism and Ambivalence in Europe (1850-1950)” investigates the constitutive significance of visual antigypsyist stereotypes in figures, motifs and pictorial narratives for the formation of European modernity. Antigypsyist motifs from high and popular culture are to be indexed, catalogued, categorized and evaluated in their structural entirety for the first time in order to ensure coherent art-historical analyses on this basis. The sub-project is also responsible for setting up a multimodal database, i. e. the technical infrastructure of the research group, in which events, works and people are conected. This digital research environment is intended to enable the mapping and evaluation of antiziganist images, from paintings to advertisements, and to ensure a systematic link with the materials and discourses of the neighboring disciplines involved. Tasks: - implementation and operation of a multimodal research environment for the entire research group - research data management with regard to sensitive and discriminating data - teamwork with all sub-projects and support with digital humanities tasks - preparation and implementation of scientific workshops and conferences - own research, e. g. on multimodal databases in the humanities and the specific challenges of sensitive data - This is a project position that is not limited according to § 2, 1 WissZeitVG. Profile: - MSc degree or equivalent in digital humanities, computer science or related disciplines a PhD in a related field is an advantage - good knowledge and experience in research data management, in the development and administration of databases as well as in the communication of technical content in interdisciplinary dialog - skills in the use of graph databases and/or visualization in order to represent the complex structure of historical contexts and discursive and methodological orders - skills in image processing and experience in humanities projects or GLAM-institutions are also desirable - ability to deal sensitively with the occasionally discriminatory and marginalizing data, for example through their own experience of alterity or discrimination, e. g. as part of a minority - knowledge of Romani language or Central and Eastern European languages is desirable We offer: - a diverse and interesting range of activities in an interdisciplinary research group - a collegial environment with other digital humanities projects - opportunities for mobile working and home office - flexible working hours - ticket for free use of public transport in the state Hesse, Germany Please apply here: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/93aa3849c1c8712095318de3b… -- Prof. Dr. Peter Bell Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities Philipps-Universität Marburg Kunstgeschichtliches Institut Biegenstraße 11 35037 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421 28-26966 Tel.: +49 6421/28-22195 (Sekretariat Angelika Fricke M.A.) Email: peter.bell(a)uni-marburg.de

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[CFP] Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence Conference (HHAI 2025) - June 9–13, Pisa, Italy
by Chiara Natali 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

-------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS HHAI 2025 - Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ June 9–13, 2025, Pisa, Italy -------------------------------------------------- Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. HHAI 2025 will be held on June 9–13, 2025, in Pisa, Italy, and is the fourth conference in the series. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, complex systems, and others. In this third international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. **Join the HHAI community and keep up with the news:** Website: https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hhai-conference/ X: https://x.com/hhai_conference Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@hhai IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 17th, 2025 Paper submission: January 24th, 2025 Acceptance notification: March 16th, 2025 Camera-ready version: April 13th, 2025 Conference: June 9-13, 2025 LOCATION HHAI 2025 will be an in-person, single-track conference organized in Pisa, Italy. Workshops and tutorials (9-10 June) will be held at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. The main conference (11-13 June) will be held at CNR. TOPICS We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: - Human-AI interaction, interpretation and collaboration - Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation - Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop - User modeling and personalisation - Integration of learning and reasoning - Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI - Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI - Societal awareness of AI - Multimodal machine perception of real-world settings - Social signal processing - Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI - Symbolic representations for human-centric AI - Human-AI Coevolution - Foundation models and humans - Human cognition-aware AI - Decentralized human-AI systems - Reliability and robustness in human-AI systems - Applications of hybrid human-AI intelligence We welcome contributions about all types of technology, from robots and conversational agents to multi-agent systems and machine learning models. PAPER TYPES In this conference, we wish to stimulate the exchange of novel ideas and interdisciplinary perspectives. To do this, we will accept three different types of papers: - Full papers present original, impactful work (12 pages excluding references) - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (8 pages excluding references) - Working papers present work in progress (8 pages excluding references) Accepted full papers and Blue sky papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers of AI series by IOS Press. Working papers can be included in these proceedings, unless the authors request the paper to remain unpublished. REVIEWING PROCESS & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions of full, blue-sky, and working papers should be original work without substantial overlap with pre-published papers. All submissions should adhere to IOS formatting guidelines. Papers should be written in English and detailed submission instructions can also be found here. **Important** HHAI 2025 will follow a double-blind reviewing process. Thus, submissions must exclude all information that might disclose the authors’ names or affiliations. All studies involving human participants should have received human-research ethics consent from the relevant institutions and mention this in the paper. Work should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair (link to be announced soon). On acceptance, at least one author should attend the conference. A significant contribution is expected from all authors. PROGRAM CHAIRS Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, IT) Luca Pappalardo (ISTI-CNR, IT) Andrea Passerini (University of Trento, IT) Shenghui Wang (University of Twente, NL) CONFERENCE CHAIRS Michela Milano (University of Bologna, IT) Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, IT) Stuart Russell (University of California Berkeley, US) Ilaria Tiddi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) CONTACT INFORMATION For questions, you can reach the program chairs at: program(a)hhai-conference.org

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"Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections", 12-13 December 2024. Hybrid: Marburg/Germany and Online
by Zoe S 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

*Conference: "Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections: Practices, Potentials, and Evidence Production in Dealing with Images and Multimodal Cultural Heritage” 12-13 December 2024. Hybrid: Marburg/Germany and Online.* The Research Lab 1.3. ‘Digital Heuristics and Digital History’ of the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’ in cooperation with NFDI4Memory, Task Area Data Quality is organising a conference in Marburg on artificial intelligence in heritage institutions, such as archives and collections, and how these new technologies are transforming archival institutional practices. Topics will primarily focus on – but will not be limited to – visual sources, such as photography and graphic collections or those with mixed image-text sources and multimodal information processing. The conference that presents speakers from Austria, China, France, Germany, USA, UK, Switzerland and Sweden will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from the humanities, archives and collections to connect with researchers and engineers in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and the digital humanities, to discuss new findings, and to exchange experiences. The event seeks to promote an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral dialogue between research, development and practice. The organisers cordially invite interested parties to take part in the conference. *Programme, Registration and further Information:* https://www.herder-institut.de/event/conference-artificial-intelligence-in-… https://eveeno.com/441936742 Contact: archivesai(a)herder-institut.de

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STAGE Seminar - Derek Miller’s Presentation (18/11/24) - A Bird's-Eye View of US Theater Around 1900
by clarisse bardiot 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, Next Monday (18/11/24), the third session of the STAGE seminar will take place, featuring a presentation by Derek Miller, Professor of English at Harvard University: A Bird's-Eye View of US Theater Around 1900 Like so much cultural history, theater history tends to focus on outstanding performers, writers, or productions. But most theatrical practice is normal: there are typical ways to write, stage, produce, and attend a play. Quantitative methods of historical analysis make it easier to understand the norms of theatrical practice. In this presentation, I explore data from a set of guides to the late-nineteenth-century theater in the United States. I offer model analyses of (a) the number of theaters in the US from after the Civil War to WWI, as well as their seating capacities; (b) the geographic distribution and operation of the Theatrical Syndicate; and (c) theater electrification. Along with these examples, I will explain my procedures for working with this data. I consider both what these methods can teach us about these topics, and what issues come to light, but perhaps cannot be answered, through quantitative archives and analysis. Derek Miller is Professor of English at Harvard University, where he has taught theater history and dramatic literature since 2013. He has published extensively on the theater industries in the US and UK since the nineteenth century, primarily on law and performance, particularly copyright. Recent work includes an essay on digital methods in theater studies, a chapter about legal texts as performance texts, and an elegy for theater tickets. More information: https://visualizingbroadway.com/ --- Upcoming Sessions (through December 2024): 18/11: Derek Miller, Harvard University: A Bird's-Eye View of US Theater Around 1900 02/12: Aurélie Lemaître, INRIA: Combinaison d'intelligences artificielles pour la reconnaissance d'images de documents 09/12: Thierry Coduys, Le Hub, IanniX The full program is available here: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/fr/evenements/adda --- About the Seminar: The STAGE seminar (From Stage to Data, the Digital Turn of Contemporary Performing Arts Historiography) is led by Clarisse Bardiot as part of a European research project. It offers an in-depth introduction to the challenges, concepts, methods, and tools for the digital study of texts, images, and cultural data. The seminar explores the challenges and opportunities of using digital data in artistic studies, particularly in the fields of performing arts, digital art history and culture analytics, and demonstrates how digital humanities open new research perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. Sessions are held in English or French. --- Participation Details: - Time: Mondays from 4 PM to 6 PM Paris Time - Location: - In person: Villejean campus, Rennes 2 University, Building B, research area - Online: Via Zoom (registration required through this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct-OXLGCHqzZHQaVj3j9-qzW4D4caNZlg… ) If you have already registered, there is no need to fill out the form again. The sessions will be recorded and made available on the From Stage to Data website and YouTube channel: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr <https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/> Best regards, Clarisse Bardiot ///// Clarisse Bardiot Professeur des universités en études théâtrales Département des Arts du spectacle Université Rennes 2 Site web http://www.clarissebardiot.info/ <http://www.clarissebardiot.info/> Projet ERC From Stage to Data : https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/en/ Dernier livre : Arts de la scène et humanités numériques. Des traces aux données <https://www.istegroup.com/fr/produit/arts-de-la-scene-et-humanites-numeriqu…> / Performing Arts and Digital Humanities. From Traces to Data. <https://www.istegroup.com/fr/produit/arts-de-la-scene-et-humanites-numeriqu…> 2021. Wiley / Iste.

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‘Theatre as Data’ book presentation with Miguel Escobar Varela (November 28, 14.00 CET)
by Daniil Skorinkin 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, The Network for Digital Humanities at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to a special event of the ‘Code & Culture’ lecture series: this time we are doing a book presentation with the author. Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore) is going to present his book titled ‘Theatre as Data’. In 'Theatre as Data: Computational Journeys into Theatre Research' Miguel Escobar Varela examines the use of the use of computational methods in theatre research. On the basis of examples (not only) from his own research on Southeast Asian theatre, he shows how statistics and visualisations can offer exciting insights into various aspects of theatre studies. Date and time: November 28, 14:00 CET. The event will be held in English. Unlike other ‘Code & Culture’ events, this event is hybrid and can be attended either online or in person in Potsdam (Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 9, Lecture hall 1.14). To attend online, please register here: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/presentation-… Registration for on-site participants is not required, but it is still possible to register here to receive a reminder before the event. The DH Potsdam <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/> Team

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Invitation: Open Research Colloquium Digital History (HU Berlin, Germany) in the winter semester 2024/2025 - online
by Professur für Digital History 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, The Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, cordially invites all those interested in Digital Humanities and Digital History to this winter semester's Open Research Colloquium on Digital History. The diverse and international program with talks on topics such as NFDI4Memory, Data Ethics, Game Studies, Queer Studies or digital source criticism as well as various methodological approaches to the investigation and analysis of research objects (and many other topics) can be found on the Chair's blog: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/digital-history-forschungskolloquium/progra… The presentations always take place on Wednesdays from 4:15-5:45 pm (CET)*via Zoom*. For access details, please send a short request to digitalhistory(a)hu-berlin.de or subscribe to the open mailing list <https://sympa.cms.hu-berlin.de/sympa/info/offenes-kolloquium-digital-history>. You can also find some of the talks held so far on the Chair's YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2E__culOIiZTok5WRh7lQ>. This *Wednesday, 13 November, 4:15-5:45 pm (CET),* Mila Oiva will offer insights into her research projects: *Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland)* /Chasing Leninism with AI. Using Computational Methods to Trace Cultural Phenomena through Historical Audiovisual Materials/ Zum Abstract <https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/8886> We look forward to welcoming you to the research colloquium and engaging in discussions with you! With kind regards, Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann Melanie Althage -- Melanie Althage, M.A. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Professur für Digital History Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften Philosophische Fakultät Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin

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Job: UCLA Transcultural Digital Humanities Assistant or Associate Professor
by Wendy Perla Kurtz 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Hi everyone, I apologize for cross-posting. We are currently seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor of Transcultural Digital Humanities <https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09943>. Please share this opportunity widely within your networks. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or the search committee chair, Vetri Nathan (vnathan(a)humnet.ucla.edu) Best regards, Wendy -- Wendy Perla Kurtz, Ph.D. Lecturer & Project Scientist UCLA PROGRAM IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES Office: Royce 323 Pronouns: she/her/ella wpkurtz(a)ucla.edu www.wendyperlakurtz.com

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First Digital Humanites conference in Mongolia
by Öyvind Eide 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Dear Colleagues, the final programme for the first Digital Humanities conference in Mongolia, which will take place in Ulaanbaatar on Thursday this week, is now online https://tinyurl.com/mu4vy3a3 The conference is organised by The National University of Mongolia in cooperation with The Mongolian University of Science & Technology, The University of the Humanities, The Mongolian National University of Arts and Culture, Otgontenger University, and the rest of the Artest Project network: https://artest-project.eu/ it is supported by the Artest Project (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education Call EAC/A02/2019, project 618802-code EPP-1-2020-1-DE- EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) and the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo. The conference will be streamed online. The link will be available at the webpage of the conference. All the best, Otgontsetseg Sukhbaatar and Øyvind Eide -- Prof. Dr. Øyvind Eide Institut für Digital Humanities — Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Universität zu Köln Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50931 Köln Büro: Universitätsstraße 22, Raum 1.02 (1 OG) URL: http://idh.uni-koeln.de/ fon: +49.221.470.1752 (Vorzimmer .4430)

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CfP: Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK) co-located with COLING 2025 (with some travel grant for 2 students)
by Chen, Lihu 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK), 19 January 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2025/ X: @GenAIK25 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047 Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with COLING 2025, January 19-24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a branch of artificial intelligence capable of creating seemingly new, meaningful content, including text, images, and audio. It utilizes deep learning models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), to recognize and replicate data patterns, enabling the generation of human-like content. Notable families of LLMs include GPT (GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and GPT-4), LLaMA (LLaMA and LLaMA-2), and Mistral (Mistral and Mixtral). GPT, which stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, is especially popular for text generation and is widely used in applications like ChatGPT. GenAI has taken the world by storm and revolutionized various industries, including healthcare, finance, and entertainment. However, GenAI models have several limitations, including biases from training data, generating factually incorrect information, and difficulty in understanding complex content. Additionally, their performance can vary based on domain specificity. In recent times, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to represent structured and interconnected information, and adopted by many companies in various domains. KGs represent knowledge by depicting relationships between entities, known as facts, usually based on formal ontological models. Consequently, they enable accuracy, decisiveness, interpretability, domain-specific knowledge, and evolving knowledge in various AI applications. The intersection between GenAI and KG has ignited significant interest and innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For instance, by integrating LLMs with KGs during pre-training and inference, external knowledge can be incorporated for enhancing the model’s capabilities and improving interpretability. When integrated, they offer a robust approach to problem solving in diverse areas such as information enrichment, representation learning, conversational AI, cross-domain AI transfer, bias, content generation, and semantic understanding. This workshop aims at reinforcing the relationships between Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and NLP communities and foster interdisciplinary research in the area of GenAI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Enhancing KG construction and completion with GenAI * Multimodal KG generation * Text-to-KG using LLMs * Multilingual KGs * GenAI for KG embeddings * GenAI for Temporal KGs * Dialogue systems enhanced by KG and GenAI * Cross-domain knowledge transfer with GenAI * Bias mitigation using KGs in GenAI * Explainability with KGs and GenAI * Natural language querying of KGs via GenAI * NLP tasks using KGs and GenAI * Prompt Engineering using KGs * GenAI for Ontology learning and schema induction in KGs * Hybrid QA systems combining KGs and GenAI * Recommendation systems and KGs with GenAI * Creating benchmark datasets relevant for tasks combining KGs and GenAI * Real-world applications on scholarly data, biomedical domain, etc. * Knowledge Graph Alignment * Applying to real-world scenarios ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Submission deadline: 5 November 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: 13 December 2024 - COLING2025 Workshop day: 19 January 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full research papers (6-8 pages) Short research papers (4-6 pages) Position papers (2 pages) These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… ). The templates are available for download as style files and formatting guidelines. Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected. Submissions are open to all and must be anonymous, adhering to COLING 2025's double-blind submission and reproducibility guidelines. All accepted papers (after double-blind review of at least 3 experts) will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in ACL Anthology. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop to be included into the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be a 100% in-person 1-day event at COLING 2025. Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/GenAIK25/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NFDI4DataScience (NFDI4DS - https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/ ) is a national research data infrastructure for Data Science and AI project. The overarching objective of the project is the development, establishment, and sustainment of a national research data infrastructure (NFDI) for the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence community in Germany. The vision of NFDI4DS is to support all steps of the complex and interdisciplinary research data lifecycle, including collecting/creating, processing, analyzing, publishing, archiving, and reusing resources in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. NFDI4ds is offering a total of €2000 in travel grants (€1000 each) to two selected students who will attend and present their work at GenAIK 2025! To be considered, submit your paper to the workshop, and if your paper is accepted, you’ll be eligible for a chance to receive one of the two grants. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany - Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King’s College London, UK - Lihu Chen, Imperial College London, UK If you have published in ACL conferences previously, and are interested to be part of the program committee of GenAIK2025, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/t56dP6McD1VJmTfT9 Kind Regards, Lihu Chen Imperial College London

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DH Potsdam Talk: "Digital Humanities — an Ancient History" (J. Dawson, November 12, 2024)
by Daniil Skorinkin 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities Networkat the University of Potsdam invites you to another 'Code & Culture' online lecture on November 12. Our guest this time is Prof. John Dawson, who served as the Head of the Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre (LLCC) at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1974 to 2009. Title: Digital Humanities — an Ancient History Abstract: The Literary and LinguisticComputing Centre (LLCC) at the University of Cambridge was established in 1964 and had to devise innovative methods forinputting, storing, and analysing text of many types and in several alphabets. John Dawson was Head ofLLCC from 1974 to 2009. During that time, advancements in computer storage, software techniques, and printingtechnology revolutionised Digital Humanities, but they also posed many new challenges for humanists. Two examples: * In 1977 Chinese characters could only be drawn as simple line-drawings on a graph plotter, andthere was no established way to sort and print the mixture of Chinese and English required for a Chinese–Englishdictionary. * Concording the Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot required a large amount of computer store,three magnetic tapes, and 45 minutes of computer time on a mainframe computer. The Concordance had to be sent onmagnetic tape to be printed on a Monotype typesetter at Oxford University. The talk will show howsome of these problems were overcome. Many of the techniques have been made redundant by modern technology, but lessonscan still be learnt. The talk will take place online on November at 16:00 CET. Pleaseregister here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/code-and-cult… Best wishes, and have a good start into the week! The DH Potsdam team

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CfP: Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK) co-located with COLING 2025 (with some travel grant for 2 students)
by Gesese, Genet-Asefa 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK), 19 January 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2025/ X: @GenAIK25 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047 Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with COLING 2025, January 19-24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a branch of artificial intelligence capable of creating seemingly new, meaningful content, including text, images, and audio. It utilizes deep learning models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), to recognize and replicate data patterns, enabling the generation of human-like content. Notable families of LLMs include GPT (GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and GPT-4), LLaMA (LLaMA and LLaMA-2), and Mistral (Mistral and Mixtral). GPT, which stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, is especially popular for text generation and is widely used in applications like ChatGPT. GenAI has taken the world by storm and revolutionized various industries, including healthcare, finance, and entertainment. However, GenAI models have several limitations, including biases from training data, generating factually incorrect information, and difficulty in understanding complex content. Additionally, their performance can vary based on domain specificity. In recent times, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to represent structured and interconnected information, and adopted by many companies in various domains. KGs represent knowledge by depicting relationships between entities, known as facts, usually based on formal ontological models. Consequently, they enable accuracy, decisiveness, interpretability, domain-specific knowledge, and evolving knowledge in various AI applications. The intersection between GenAI and KG has ignited significant interest and innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For instance, by integrating LLMs with KGs during pre-training and inference, external knowledge can be incorporated for enhancing the model’s capabilities and improving interpretability. When integrated, they offer a robust approach to problem solving in diverse areas such as information enrichment, representation learning, conversational AI, cross-domain AI transfer, bias, content generation, and semantic understanding. This workshop aims at reinforcing the relationships between Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and NLP communities and foster interdisciplinary research in the area of GenAI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Enhancing KG construction and completion with GenAI * Multimodal KG generation * Text-to-KG using LLMs * Multilingual KGs * GenAI for KG embeddings * GenAI for Temporal KGs * Dialogue systems enhanced by KG and GenAI * Cross-domain knowledge transfer with GenAI * Bias mitigation using KGs in GenAI * Explainability with KGs and GenAI * Natural language querying of KGs via GenAI * NLP tasks using KGs and GenAI * Prompt Engineering using KGs * GenAI for Ontology learning and schema induction in KGs * Hybrid QA systems combining KGs and GenAI * Recommendation systems and KGs with GenAI * Creating benchmark datasets relevant for tasks combining KGs and GenAI * Real-world applications on scholarly data, biomedical domain, etc. * Knowledge Graph Alignment * Applying to real-world scenarios ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Submission deadline: 5 November 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: 13 December 2024 - COLING2025 Workshop day: 19 January 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full research papers (6-8 pages) Short research papers (4-6 pages) Position papers (2 pages) These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… ). The templates are available for download as style files and formatting guidelines. Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected. Submissions are open to all and must be anonymous, adhering to COLING 2025's double-blind submission and reproducibility guidelines. All accepted papers (after double-blind review of at least 3 experts) will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in ACL Anthology. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop to be included into the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be a 100% in-person 1-day event at COLING 2025. Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/GenAIK25/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NFDI4DataScience (NFDI4DS - https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/ ) is a national research data infrastructure for Data Science and AI project. The overarching objective of the project is the development, establishment, and sustainment of a national research data infrastructure (NFDI) for the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence community in Germany. The vision of NFDI4DS is to support all steps of the complex and interdisciplinary research data lifecycle, including collecting/creating, processing, analyzing, publishing, archiving, and reusing resources in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. NFDI4ds is offering a total of €2000 in travel grants (€1000 each) to two selected students who will attend and present their work at GenAIK 2025! To be considered, submit your paper to the workshop, and if your paper is accepted, you’ll be eligible for a chance to receive one of the two grants. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany - Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King’s College London, UK - Lihu Chen, Imperial College London, UK If you have published in ACL conferences previously, and are interested to be part of the program committee of GenAIK2025, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/t56dP6McD1VJmTfT9 Dr.-Ing. Genet Asefa Gesese Head of Machine Learning Department Information Service Engineering Phone. +49 7247 808 186 Fax. +49 7247 808 78186 FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen www.fiz-karlsruhe.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH. Sitz der Gesellschaft: Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Amtsgericht Mannheim HRB 101892. Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann. Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinR’in Marion Steinberger. FIZ Karlsruhe ist zertifiziert mit dem Siegel "audit berufundfamilie".

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New Living Book about History: Material Histories of Paper
by Enrico 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Dear list members, Declared obsolete but still omnipresent, paper has for centuries been the information carrier par excellence. At a time when the digital transition is reminding us of the importance of the materiality of knowledge, this new volume in the Living Book about History series looks at the «Material Histories of Paper <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/material-histories-of-paper>». Edited by Juliette De Maeyer, Aleksandra Kaminska and Ghislain Thibault (Université de Montréal), «Material Histories of Paper <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/material-histories-of-paper>» is a digital anthology that offers an original historiographical essay and a commented selection of 40 freely accessible online resources. The book is available in English <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/material-histories-of-paper> and French <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/fr/book/material-histories-of-paper> on the Living Books about History <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/> website. Best regards, Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Colloque infoclio.ch 2024: Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Une mémoire en mutation Berne, 22 nov. 2024 Programme <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme-colloque2024> / Inscription <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/inscription> infoclio.ch-Tagung 2024: Zweiter Weltkrieg. Erinnerung im Wandel Bern, 22. Nov. 2024 Programm <https://www.infoclio.ch/de/programm-tagung2024> / Anmeldung <https://www.infoclio.ch/de/anmeldung>

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AIUCD2025 - first Call for papers
by Simone Rebora 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear all, We are pleased to share the Call for Papers of the upcoming AIUCD conference, which will be held in Verona, Italy, between June 11 and 13, 2025. You can find it here below (in English and Italian) or on the conference website at the following link: https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/call-for-papers/ Best regards, Simone Rebora Call for Papers (ENG) AIUCD 2025 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The conference provides an opportunity for large-scale discussions in the various research areas of the Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on issues of inclusiveness. In a world where artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of knowledge, it is indeed crucial to explore how this transformation can be guided by principles of inclusiveness and equity. While one track of the conference will be devoted exclusively to this issue, all the different parts of the Digital Humanities are affected by it in various ways. Starting with the computational part, which needs to better understand its tools to counter biases and distortions, but which can also use them to democratize access to knowledge and culture. Access which, in turn, can be fostered by good practices in the digitization of works and documents, by supporting, for example, the encoding of accessible digital editions for all types of users. In the field of knowledge representation, then, the concept of accessibility is already inscribed at the heart of the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability), which need increasingly virtuous applications within digital heritage preservation practices. Preservation which, finally, is at the heart of contemporary challenges to ensure that cultural heritage is not only safeguarded, but also made accessible and understandable to a global and diverse audience. Therefore, papers relevant to the following conference tracks are invited: 1) Digital Humanities and Inclusion Proposals related to issues of inclusion in the Digital Humanities from multiple perspectives are welcomed: from accessibility at the level of research, teaching, infrastructure, and outreach, to practices for overcoming gender, economic, social, and cultural disparities. Specific topics of interest include: minority representation in digital projects; accessibility of digital resources for disadvantaged communities; the role of digital humanities in bridging the digital divide; innovative methodological approaches to make digital projects more inclusive and participatory. 2) Archives and Digital Editions We welcome both theoretical and applied proposals on (a) the representation and organisation of techniques and problems in the fields of digitisation, the organisation of born-digital heritage and methods for its archiving; (b) themes, issues, and applications pertaining to digital critical editions, to modes of visualisation and interrogation of online texts, and alternative means of encoding. 3) Computational Methods Papers are welcomed that explore methods and tools for computational analysis of cultural heritage, including advanced approaches based on cutting-edge technologies in Artificial Intelligence. Reflections on the state of the art, up to the latest theoretical frameworks, are also encouraged, with the aim of highlighting future developments and perspectives in the field. Included are approaches for the analysis of literary texts and *corpora*, touching upon computational models for literary criticism on the one hand, and research in computational linguistics and natural language processing on the other. Papers on analysis and visualization methods such as Network Analysis and Mapping are also welcomed. 4) Data and Knowledge Representation Special attention will be given to knowledge representation and the use of Semantic Web and Linked Open Data technologies. We welcome proposals concerning the design of conceptual models, knowledge graphs, ontologies and technologies of the Semantic Web with respect to cultural heritage and the Digital Humanities, the creation of datasets and applications that conform to the FAIR principles, the production of Linked Open Data in these domains, as well as the automated extraction of metadata, named entities and models from cultural heritage resources. 5) Preservation of Memory and Digital Heritage We welcome proposals concerning memory and digital cultural heritage preservation, particularly relating to the research outputs in the Digital Humanities. We also encourage proposals addressing the challenges of digital infrastructure and the problems of sustainability posed by projects involving digitisation and the conservation of born-digital collections, as well as proposals on the implementation of best practices for the preservation of, and effective access to, cultural heritage. Guidelines for the Submission of Proposals The conference envisages participation by oral communication (paper) or poster. At the proposal stage, authors are asked to speciﬁfy in which mode they intend to present the paper, whether by oral or poster communication. Following peer review, the Scientific Committee may decide whether the accepted contribution is more suitable for an oral communication or a poster presentation. It should be noted that there is no difference in quality between contributions assigned to one or the other mode of presentation: oral presentations are generally more appropriate for theoretical and methodological work, including that relating to actual applications; posters, optionally presented with a demo, are better suited to the description of projects, tools or digital resources. All proposals must be submitted in the form of a contribution of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) pages, excluding bibliography. The submission format for contributions must adhere to the template (updated from previous years) and directions found on the page Information for Authors <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/informations-for-authors/>. Contributions that do not adhere to the template and directions will be rejected without considering their content. Neither plagiarism nor self-plagiarism is tolerated. Please note that a plagiarism checking tool may be applied to submitted contributions. The use of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, is not permitted unless the generated text is submitted as part of the experimental analysis, or the generative AI tool was used only for editing and refinement of the authors’ work. However, all uses must be explicitly stated in the submitted contribution. Contributions must be submitted, in PDF format only, using the platform that will be made available on the conference website <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/submission/> on December 12, 2024. Proposals must be anonymised. Author names and any internal references should be removed to the extent possible so as to not compromise reviewers’ assessment of the proposal. A maximum of two proposals in the five tracks of the call can be submitted as the first contributing author. At the conference, authors will be allowed to present a maximum of two accepted contributions as either first or co-authors. In any case, at least one of the authors must register for the conference for the contribution to be accepted. The official languages of the conference are Italian and English. Authors can present in either language, regardless of the one used in their written proposal. Evaluation Criteria Proposals will be evaluated through a “double-blind” review process. Each contribution will be submitted to at least two reviewers. Proposal evaluation will be conducted based on the following criteria: - relevance of the contribution to the purpose of the conference; - innovativeness and relevance of the contribution; - methodological rigor; - critical analysis of the literature on the topics covered and relevant and up-to-date bibliography; - appropriateness of theoretical and conceptual approach to the relevant domain; - quality of exposition and adequacy of organization of the contribution; - critical attitude toward the adopted methodologies and the tools in use; - replicability of the results (with the exception of theoretical reflections). Publication of Proceedings Accepted proposals will be published as Conference Proceedings with DOI and ISBN, freely available from the conference website and the «Umanistica Digitale» portal under Book of Abstracts and Proceedings <https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/pages/boa>. “Giuseppe Gigliozzi” Prize AIUCD awards two prizes of 300 euros each, one for posters and one for presentations, to early career scholars (students, doctoral students, scholarship or grant holders) presenting at the conference. The terms of participation will be posted on the dedicated page <https://www.aiucd.it/premio-gigliozzi/> of the Association’s website. Deadlines The deadline for submission of proposals is ﬁxed for 11:59 p.m. on January 12, 2025 (CET/GMT+1). Acceptance notifications will be sent out to the authors by March 7, 2025. A camera-ready copy of the proposal must be submitted no later than March 28, 2025. ================= ================= Call for papers (ITA) AIUCD 2025 - Diversità, equità e inclusione: sfide e opportunità per l’informatica umanistica nell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale Il convegno rappresenta un’occasione di confronto su larga scala nei diversi ambiti di ricerca delle Digital Humanities, con un’attenzione particolare alle tematiche dell’inclusione. In un mondo in cui l’intelligenza artificiale sta ridefinendo i confini del sapere, è infatti fondamentale esplorare come questa trasformazione possa essere guidata da principi di inclusività ed equità. Mentre un track del convegno sarà dedicato esclusivamente a questa tematica, tutte le diverse anime delle Digital Humanities ne sono in vario modo investite. A partire da quella più puramente computazionale, che necessita di meglio comprendere i propri strumenti per contrastare bias e distorsioni, ma che può anche utilizzarli per democratizzare l’accesso al sapere e alla cultura. Accesso il quale, a sua volta, può essere favorito da buone pratiche nella digitalizzazione di opere e documenti, supportando per esempio la codifica di edizioni digitali accessibili per ogni tipo di utenza. Nell’ambito della rappresentazione della conoscenza, poi, il concetto di accessibilità è già inscritto al cuore dei principi FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability), i quali necessitano di una sempre più virtuosa applicazione in seno alle pratiche di preservazione del patrimonio digitale. Preservazione la quale, infine, è al centro delle sfide contemporanee per garantire che l’eredità culturale non solo sia salvaguardata, ma anche resa accessibile e comprensibile a un pubblico globale e diversificato. Sono quindi incoraggiati interventi pertinenti ai seguenti assi portanti della conferenza: 1) Digital Humanities e inclusione Si accolgono proposte relative alle tematiche dell’inclusione nell’ambito delle Digital Humanities sotto molteplici aspetti: dall’accessibilità a livello di ricerca, didattica, infrastrutture e divulgazione, alle pratiche per il superamento delle disparità di genere, economiche, sociali e culturali. Gli specifici temi di interesse includono: la rappresentazione delle minoranze nei progetti digitali; l’accessibilità delle risorse digitali per comunità svantaggiate; il ruolo delle Digital Humanities nel colmare il divario digitale; approcci metodologici innovativi per rendere i progetti digitali più inclusivi e partecipativi. 2) Archivi ed edizioni digitali Si accolgono interventi di tipo metodologico e applicativo su: a) rappresentazione e organizzazione delle tecniche e criticità nel campo della digitalizzazione, dell’organizzazione del patrimonio nato digitalmente e delle modalità della sua archiviazione; b) temi, questioni, applicazioni inerenti alle edizioni scientiﬁche digitali, alle modalità di visualizzazione e interrogazione dei testi disponibili in rete nelle varie modalità di codifica. 3) Metodi computazionali Si accolgono interventi che esplorino metodi e strumenti per l’analisi computazionale del patrimonio culturale, inclusi approcci avanzati basati sulle tecnologie più all’avanguardia nell’ambito dell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Si incoraggiano inoltre riflessioni sullo stato dell’arte, fino ai più recenti quadri teorici di riferimento, con l’obiettivo di evidenziare sviluppi e prospettive future nel campo. Sono inclusi gli approcci per l’analisi di testi letterari e *corpora*, che tocchino da un lato i modelli computazionali per la critica letteraria, dall’altro le ricerche di linguistica computazionale e le tecniche di elaborazione del linguaggio naturale. Si accolgono anche interventi su metodi di analisi e visualizzazione come Network Analysis e Mapping. 4) Rappresentazione di dati e conoscenza Particolare attenzione sarà riservata alle riﬂessioni sull’organizzazione della conoscenza e sull’impiego di tecnologie del Semantic Web e dei Linked Open Data. Si accolgono proposte di progettazione di modelli concettuali, grafi di conoscenza, ontologie e tecnologie del Semantic Web per i Beni Culturali e le Digital Humanities, di creazione di dataset e applicazioni conformi ai principi FAIR, di produzione di Linked Open Data nei settori dei Beni Culturali e delle Digital Humanities, di estrazione automatica di metadati, entità e modelli da risorse del patrimonio culturale. 5) Preservazione della memoria e del patrimonio digitale Sono attesi interventi riguardanti la conservazione della memoria e del patrimonio culturale digitale, incluse speciﬁche riﬂessioni sulla preservazione degli esiti delle ricerche in Digital Humanities e dei progetti scientiﬁci digitali. Sono incoraggiati anche interventi sulle criticità infrastrutturali e sui problemi di sostenibilità dei progetti legati alla digitalizzazione e alla conservazione di collezioni nate digitalmente, nonché proposte per la messa in atto di buone pratiche che garantiscano, oltre alla preservazione, anche l’accesso effettivo al patrimonio. Formato e modalità di invio delle proposte Il convegno prevede la partecipazione tramite intervento orale (paper) o poster. Nella fase di proposta si richiede alle autrici e agli autori di speciﬁcare in quale modalità intendono presentare l’articolo, se con una comunicazione orale o con un poster. A seguito della peer review, il Comitato Scientifico potrà decidere se il contributo accettato sia più adatto a una comunicazione orale o a una presentazione a mezzo poster. Si precisa che non c’è differenza di qualità tra i contributi assegnati all’una o all’altra modalità di presentazione: gli interventi orali sono di norma più adatti a riﬂessioni teoriche e metodologiche, anche connesse a esperienze sul campo; i poster, eventualmente affiancati da demo, sono particolarmente adatti alla descrizione di speciﬁci progetti, strumenti, risorse digitali. Tutte le proposte devono essere inviate nella forma di contributo di un minimo di tre (3) pagine ﬁno a un massimo di cinque (5) pagine, bibliograﬁa esclusa. Il formato di presentazione dei contributi deve attenersi al template (aggiornato rispetto agli anni precedenti) e alle indicazioni che si trovano nella pagina relativa alle Informazioni per gli Autori <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/informations-for-authors/>. Contributi che non si attengano al template e alle indicazioni saranno rifiutati senza entrare nel merito del contenuto. Non sono tollerati né il plagio né l’auto-plagio. Si ricorda che uno strumento di controllo del plagio potrà essere applicato ai contributi inviati. L’utilizzo di Large Language Model (LLM), come ChatGPT, non è consentito a meno che il testo generato non sia presentato come parte dell’analisi sperimentale, o che l’IA generativa sia stata utilizzata solo per la modifica e perfezionamento del lavoro degli autori. Tutti gli utilizzi dovranno comunque essere esplicitamente dichiarati nel contributo inviato. I contributi devono essere inviati, esclusivamente in formato PDF, usando la piattaforma che sarà messa a disposizione sul sito del convegno <https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/submission/> il 12 dicembre 2024. Il contributo deve essere anonimizzato togliendo i nomi degli autori e i riferimenti interni, nei limiti del possibile, senza che ciò impedisca una valutazione accurata della proposta da parte dei revisori. È possibile presentare in qualità di primo autore di contributo, un massimo di due proposte nei cinque track della call. In sede della conferenza è possibile presentare al massimo due contributi, di cui si è autori o coautori, tra quelli eventualmente accettati. In ogni caso, perché il contributo sia accettato è necessario che almeno uno degli autori si iscriva al convegno. Le lingue ufficiali della conferenza sono l’italiano e l’inglese. La scelta dell’una o dell’altra per il contributo non è vincolante per la comunicazione in sede di convegno. Criteri di valutazione delle proposte Le proposte saranno valutate attraverso un processo di revisione “a doppio cieco”. Ciascun contributo sarà sottoposto ad almeno due revisori. La valutazione delle proposte sarà condotta sulla base dei seguenti criteri: - attinenza del contributo alle finalità della conferenza; - innovatività e rilevanza del contributo; - rigore metodologico; - analisi critica della letteratura sui temi trattati e bibliograﬁa pertinente e aggiornata; - adeguatezza dell’impostazione teorica e concettuale rispetto al dominio di riferimento; - qualità dell’esposizione e adeguatezza dell’organizzazione del contributo; - atteggiamento critico verso le strategie adottate e gli strumenti in uso; - replicabilità dei risultati descritti (con l’eccezione per le riflessioni teoriche). Pubblicazione degli atti Le proposte approvate in via deﬁnitiva saranno pubblicate, come Conference Proceedings con DOI e ISBN, liberamente consultabili dal sito del convegno e dal portale di «Umanistica Digitale» alla voce Book of Abstracts and Proceedings <https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/pages/boa>. Premio “Giuseppe Gigliozzi” AIUCD offre due premi di 300 euro ciascuno per giovani studiose e studiosi non strutturati (studenti/esse, dottorandi/e, borsisti/e, assegnisti/e) che presentino proposte accettate alla conferenza: un premio è dedicato ai poster e uno ai paper. Le modalità di partecipazione saranno pubblicate sulla pagina dedicata <https://www.aiucd.it/premio-gigliozzi/> del sito dell’Associazione. Scadenze La scadenza per la presentazione delle proposte è ﬁssata per le ore 23:59 del 12 gennaio 2025 (CET/GMT+1). Informazioni sull’accettazione verranno comunicate agli autori entro il 7 marzo 2025. La versione *camera ready* deve essere inviata entro il 28 marzo 2025.

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Conference “Rewriting Literary History With Algorithms”, November 14 & 15, 2024, Chicago/Zoom
by Katrin Dennerlein 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

*Katrin Dennerlein/Patrick Fortmann: “R**ewriting Literary History With Algorithms**”* *Max Kade Conference 2024 at the *Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 14 & 15, 2024 Location: Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W Harrison Street, Suite 153, MC 206, Chicago, IL 60607 and on Zoom In the past 20 years, data-driven research approaches have profoundly shaped many academic disciplines. This shift has also influenced literary studies, especially with the digitization of large text collections over the last 10 to 15 years. By applying algorithms to these collections of digital literary texts, scholars can gain new insights into their structures and developments. However, literary texts have been studied quantitatively far less frequently than non-literary texts. They present particular challenges for quantitative analysis due to their complexity, such as their fictional nature, their creative and aesthetically motivated use of language, and the unique characteristics of literary symbols. Unlike other texts, literary works often communicate indirectly through stories and images, and they tend to individualize and hybridize their style, themes, and forms. Several key challenges arise from the distinctive nature of literary texts and the current state of research in this emerging field. These include the need to adapt text analysis tools to the domain of literature; the complex relationship between norms and deviations in literary texts; determining similarities and differences between literary and non-literary works; the difficulty of reaching consensus on how to annotate features relevant to literary studies; the lack of interpretive transparency in modern formal models; and the urgent need to build reference corpora. Achieving progress in this area requires close interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from literary studies, digital humanities, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and computer science. In recent years, several initiatives have advanced this field, including research funding programs, book series, journals and a number of important monographs. Given these developments, it is now time to assess the field and take stock. At the heart of this discussion lies the question of how insights from digital humanities have prompted a reevaluation—or even a complete rewriting—of literary history. The primary focus of this conference is the presentation of research findings. While methodological discussions remain important, speakers will emphasize the results of their work, demonstrating how these findings contribute to reshaping or transforming existing literary knowledge. This means either revising established hypotheses or introducing new perspectives on topics such as the formation of literary groups and movements, textual features, and the correlations between literature and historical or societal events. The presentations will offer findings that challenge and refine existing hypotheses about literary evolution. They will explore the diverging characteristics of specific genres, styles, and themes across periods and movements. Speakers will also address how literature's cultural capital and its role in literary life have evolved, as well as how new groups and trends have emerged within literary history. Additionally, these presentations will offer novel insights into both textual features and metadata analyses. Finally, they will examine the profound impact of societal events on the production and reception of literature, offering fresh perspectives on the complex interactions between literature and its broader cultural context. *Thursday, November 14, 2024* 2:00- 2:30 p.m. Coffee & Welcome José Camacho, Director, School of Literatures, Cultural Studies & Linguistics, UIC Susanne Rott, Head, Department of Germanic Studies, UIC Ellen Mc Clure, Director, Institute for the Humanities 2:30-3:15 p.m. Keynote Katrin Dennerlein, Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg/UIC, “Emotions in German Drama from the 17th to 19th Century: New Perspectives on Literary Evolution“ 3:15-5:00 p.m. Julian Schröter, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, “The German Novella: New Perspectives on the Nature and Historical Development of a Genre” Matt Erlin, Washington University, St. Louis, “Geotopes: Situating Postcolonial Bestsellers in the Global Literary Marketplace” Katherine Elkins, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, “Is Formal Innovation Really a Key Marker of the Modern Novel?” 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. Graduate Students in the Department of Germanic Studies, UIC – Short Presentations on “The Language of Emotions in German Drama Around 1800: Key Words and Expressions“ 7:30 p.m. Conference Dinner *Friday, November 15, 2024* 8:30-9:00 a.m. Coffee & Breakfast 9:00-10:30 a.m. Jo Guldi, Emory University, “Digital Text Mining Insights: Bridging Digital History and Literary Studies” Susan Brown, University of Guelph, “Making Feminist Literary History with Boundary Objects” 10:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Thorsten Ries, University of Texas, Austin, “Re Writing Time, Processing Time, and Literary History: On Digital‘s Chronotope Shift“ Patrick Fortmann, UIC, “Literary Summary from Epitome to AI: Reflections on Past and Present of a Minor Form” 12:00-1:15 p.m. Lunch Buffet 1:15-3:45 p.m. Leonard Konle/Merten Kröncke, Universität Würzburg/ Georg-August Universität Göttingen, “The Shape of Literary Change: Insights into German Literature, c. 1850–1920” Christof Schöch, Universität Trier, “Genre Analysis in Computational Literary Studies: The first ten Years” 4:00 p.m. Reception Abstracts can be found here: https://german.uic.edu/profiles/dennerlein-katrin/ *Contact Information* PD Dr. Katrin Dennerlein, Max Kade Visiting Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, UIC / Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, kdenner(a)uic.edu Patrick Fortmann, Professor of Germanic Studies, UIC, fortmann(a)uic.edu *Zoom* For Zoom-Participation please write an E-Mail to Patrick Fortmann, fortmann(a)uic.edu

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Call for Papers Conference of Computational Literary Studies (Krakow, July 3-4, 2025)
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

[with apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) has launched its Call for Papers for the conference+journal track. The the 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland (deadline for submissions: January 30, 2025). All the details of the call can be found on our website at https://jcls.io/site/cfp/ Please feel free to contact us at info(a)jcls.io if you have any questions regarding the submission process or the journal more generally and make sure to follow JCLS on Mastodon <https://fedihum.org/@jcls/113286261892297575> or Bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/jcls-io.bsky.social/post/3l6pobg75e72f> for updates. We are looking forward to your submissions! Best wishes, Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke PS: If you want to be up to date about upcoming calls subscribe to our newsletter at https://jcls.io/site/contact/ - - - - - - - - - - - Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io <https://jcls.io/> E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io <mailto:[email protected]> Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Julian Häußler, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Production Developer: Dominik Gerstorfer Board: Katherine Bode, Anne-Sophie Bories, Amy E. Earhart, Maciej Eder, Miguel Escobar Varela, Martin Eve, Frank Fischer, José Eduardo González, Natalie M. Houston, Fotis Jannidis, Mike Kestemont, Anouk Lang, David Mimno, Borja Navarro, Roxana Patras, Glenn Roe, Richard Jean So, Tomoji Tabata, Ted Underwood, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Paul Vierthaler

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Workshop for PhD students 14 & 15 November Trier University
by Weis, Joelle, Dr. 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, below some information on a workshop for PhD candidates held in Trier on 14 & 15 November. Please do not hesitate to forward it to potential interested people. Best wishes Joëlle Weis --------------- Are you a PhD student eager to explore digital humanities tools and methods? The DARIAH-EU Working Group on Community Engagement invites you to an in-person workshop designed specifically for PhD students who are new to digital humanities. When: 14 & 15 November Where: Trier University If you are interested in taking part in the workshop, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScb5soGvPbYK0pOehL6VRYdesFlNYU39zh… We will get back to you in the next few days with an acceptance or rejection and all further details. ---------- This interactive, hands-on workshop will focus on evaluating existing training materials and tools, with a particular emphasis on DARIAH's TextGrid and Topic Explorer: * TextGrid: A powerful virtual research environment optimized for working with TEI-coded resources. You'll learn how TextGrid can support the entire research process, from data management to publication, through the TextGrid Lab and TextGrid Repository. * Topic Explorer: A beginner-friendly tool for topic modeling that allows you to experiment with your own text corpora, without the need for programming skills. You'll gain experience using a graphical user interface (GUI) to transform plain text or XML files into visualized results, including interactive graphs. This workshop is tailored for PhD students at the early stages of their academic careers and offers a unique opportunity to develop hands-on skills while expressing your individual training needs in digital humanities. Don't miss this chance to deepen your understanding of these powerful tools and connect with fellow researchers! Location: Trier University, Germany Travelling to Trier: https://www.uni-trier.de/en/university/directions-contact/travelling-to-tri… Program: Thursday 14 November 13:00: Welcome and aims of the workshop 13:30: Group Work: Textgrid 15:30: Break 16:00: Evaluation of training material for Textgrid 18:00: End of workshop day 1, Dinner at the city centre Friday 15 November 09:00: Group Work: Topic Explorer 10:30: Break 11:00: Evaluation of training material for Topic Explorer 12:00: General discussion 13:00: End of workshop Dr. Joëlle Weis Kompetenzzentrum - Trier Center for Digital Humanities Forschungsbereichsleitung "Digitale Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften" Tel.: +49 651 201-3017 E-Mail weis(a)uni-trier.de<mailto:[email protected]> Persönlicher Meetingraum Zoom https://uni-trier.zoom.us/my/joelleweis?pwd=bEtoa3RETGsyaEJEWTRldEt6cmI3UT09 [cid:[email protected]] Universität Trier | Universitätsring 15 | 54296 Trier | Germany www.uni-trier.de<http://www.uni-trier.de/>

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Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series WS 2024/25, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) The FSP Digital Humanities is very pleased to announce the first of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2024. All lectures will take place in Hörsaal 7 of the university Hauptgebäude and streamed via the following link: https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/a98a9afa-bb88-4a64-a9b2-bb73d1020452 The lecture will be followed by a small reception in the space opposite Hörsaal 1. All interested colleagues are warmly invited to attend! With best wishes, Tara Andrews 15 October, 16:45 - Alumni/ae of the MA Digital Humanities present their work Christos Bintsis: Western Hagiography in Topic Modelling David Siegl: Measuring Plot in the Age of Distant Reading Emilie Sitter: Predicting Keywords in a Corpus of Field Post Letters Upcoming lectures: - 12 November, 16:45 - Dr. Wolfgang Göderle, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Unlocking the Schematismus: Towards a Prosopography of the Functional Elites of the Late Habsburg Monarchy (1700-1918). A Technical Approach - 10 December, 16:45 - Ass.-Prof. Dr. Alíz Horváth, Central European University - 14 January, 16:45 - ACDH-CH Lecture 11.1 (Information will be circulated separately!) -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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International Closing Conference "Cultural Heritage Data & Power" (DAVIF Research Group) / 14.-16.11.2024 / Philipps-Universität Marburg
by Pauline Junginger 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the program of the international conference “Cultural Heritage Data & Power. Exploring Digital Collections and Situated Knowledges in Film History and Beyond”, which will take place from November 14-16, 2024 at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. It is the closing conference of the BMBF research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) (2021-2025). Please find further information on our website: https://uni-marburg.de/CaPWG1. Registration is open until October 31, 2024 via the following form: https://forms.gle/JoNW8yk8cFaRHL2d7. Attendance is free of charge. We would be very happy to welcome you to Marburg! Kind regards, also on behalf of the DAVIF research group, Pauline Junginger -- Pauline Junginger, M.A. (sie/ihr - she/her) Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin & Doktorandin BMBF-Forschungsgruppe "Ästhetiken des Zugangs" (DAVIF) Philipps-Universität Marburg Institut für Medienwissenschaft Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6 D-35043 Marburg +49 6421 28 211 85

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Applications Open: MSc in Digital Scholarship, University of Oxford
by Zoe Screti 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Dear All, Applications for the MSc in Digital Scholarship at the University of Oxford are now open for the 2025/26 academic year. Please circulate the below flyer with anyone who might be interested in applying. [cid:[email protected]] All best wishes, Zoe Dr Zoe Screti | Astra Foundation Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies Voltaire Foundation | University of Oxford | www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk<http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/> 99 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6JX https://voltaire.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-zoe-screti/ Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College Secretary, European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) https://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/zoe-screti Œuvres complètes de Voltaire<https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/oeuvres-completes-de-voltaire/>, 205 vol. (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1968-2022) L'édition savante et définitive de l'œuvre de Voltaire est maintenant disponible dans son intégralité Now available in full: the definitive scholarly edition of Voltaire's works ISBN 978 0 7294 1236 0 https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/celebrating-the-complete-works-of-voltaire/

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DH Potsdam Talk: Capturing Participatory Culture (A. Glawion, 24.10)
by Luca Giovannini 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam invites you to another 'Code & Culture' online lecture on October 24. Our guest this time is Prof. Dr. Anastasia Glawion, Junior Professor for Digital Literature and Methods at the FAU University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Title: *Capturing Participatory Culture: A Network Analysis of Fanfiction Communities and Reader Interactions* Abstract: /Over the past 20 years, fanfiction writing has been on the rise. This fan-driven practice presents an ideal case for digital literary studies, as the texts are digitized, widely available, and challenge the status quo of the canon. Many fanfiction scholars have underlined the importance of the participatory aspect in studying the phenomenon. In this presentation, I show how interactions on fanfiction websites can be investigated through metadata-based network analysis. This approach provides fresh insights into textual reception and reader engagement, while offering a more comprehensive perspective on how fanfiction communities interact with texts and reshape them. As a result of this process, various interpretive communities emerge, each with its own dynamic. Some span across multiple fandoms, while others demonstrate different perspectives on a single canon, such as communities in the “Harry Potter” universe where a distinctive cluster focused on Hermione becomes visible./ The talk will take place online on *October 24 at 18:00 CEST*. Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/code-and-cult… Best wishes, The DH Potsdam team

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Gentle reminder: Call for Contributions: Short Audios for category "5 Questions - 1 Answer" in "From Global to Local?" (Deadline 30/09/2024)
by Ulrike.Wuttke＠gmx.net 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

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"Text as Data": Potsdam Spring School in Digital Humanities
by Daniil Skorinkin 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, From March 31 to April 5,2025, we are holding a week-long text-focused DH Spring School <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/dh-potsdam-spri…> in Potsdam, Germany. The School is aimed at students and early-career scholars* who are beginning to explore DigitalHumanities (DH) and are interested in working with textual sources. Participation is free. The concept of the DH school While traditional hermeneutic approaches remaincrucial in the humanities, computational methods offer additional perspectives for textual analysis. The Spring Schoolaims to guide participants through the process of formulating a research question about a textual source to developing a comprehensive research project. The School provides anintroduction to several computational methods and offers an opportunity for the students to reflect on the prospects of applying those methods to their own research projects/interests. "Text as Data" features intensive discussions, workshops, and lectures tailored for students across allhumanities disciplines who are interested in computational approaches to text. The focus of the week-long Spring School is on the following themes: * (mindful) Research design, operationalisation and corpus selection * Topic modeling * Stylometry * Mapping of textual data * Network analysis Who's doing the DH school The school is co-organised by the DH Network ofthe University of Potsdam and the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Lecturers and workshop organizers are leading researchers from DH and NLP institutions in Berlin, Erlangen, Krakow, Potsdam, Prague, and Trier. Thevenue of the School is the University of Potsdam (Campus Am Neuen Palais). The preliminary timetable will be published soon on the School webpage <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/dh-potsdam-spri…> . How to apply Those interested in attending theschool are welcome to submit their applications via the following link <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/potsdam-dh-sc…> until November 30th, 2024. The number of places is limited. We also offer students a limited number of travel grants ofmax. 300 euro per person. To apply for a travel grant please use this separate form <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/potsdam-dh-sc…> . Feel free to tell your students and everyone who could be interested! Best, Anastasia Glawion (Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAUErlangen-Nürnberg), Daniil Skorinkin (Digital Humanities Network, University of Potsdam), Dinara Gagarina(Department of History, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) * While this is the pool of people we primarily have in mind, we areopen to applications from everybody interested in digital methods in the humanities.

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Four-year post-doctoral position in computer science / digital humanities at the University of Helsinki, Finland
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear all, I'm looking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities to my ERC-funded project, which started in May 2024: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multimodality/a-foundation-for-em… The project develops novel methods and resources for studying multimodality, or how human communication naturally combines multiple 'modes' of expression. These methods and resources are used to develop empirically founded theories of multimodal communication in the domain of everyday cultural artefacts. The data studied in the project includes, for example, school textbooks, user-generated explanation videos on social media, news broadcasts, instruction manuals and online newspapers. This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in January 2025 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The deadline for applications is October 21, 2024. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing new methods for querying the multimodal corpora created in the project, which describe the structure of multimodal discourse using graphs that combine crowdsourced human insights and vector representations. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in digital humanities, humanities computing, language technology, computer science or a related field, and have a keen interest in multimodality. Previous experience of working with knowledge graphs or information retrieval is essential. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3513/ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best, Tuomo Hiippala --- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities Department of Languages | University of Helsinki, Finland | +358 50 377 33 66 http://www.helsinki.fi/~thiippal/ | https://www.helsinki.fi/multimodality

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IMC 2025: Call for contributions to a strand "Digital Approaches to Late Medieval Charters"
by Georg Vogeler 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

"Worlds of Learning" Through Digital Approaches to Late Medieval Charters The Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, host of the European Research Council-funded project "From Digital to Distant Diplomatics" (DiDip), invites submissions for a series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress 2025, exploring the conference theme "Worlds of Learning" through innovative Digital Humanities approaches to late mediaeval charters (c. 1300-1500). Charters are "Worlds of Learning" - for contemporaries learning about legal activities and status, and for mediaeval studies scholars, sources of their own learning. Digital methods provide entirely new learnings: on the charters themselves and on the actors writing, using, and keeping charters. Our sessions aim to demonstrate how computational methods can fundamentally transform and expand our understanding of documentary practices and knowledge transmission across Europe. We welcome papers on the following topics: 1. Computer Vision and Medieval Charters: New Perspectives on Visual Learning * How can computer vision techniques reveal patterns in the visual aspects of charters across regions and time? * Applications of machine learning algorithms to identify and analyse layout, script styles, and graphical elements (seals, monograms) in large datasets of digitised charters. 2. Natural Language Processing and Charter Formulas: Tracing Textual Learning Networks * Computational analysis of charter texts using NLP techniques to uncover patterns in formulaic language, legal terminology, and scribal practices. * Exploration of networks of textual learning and the dissemination of documentary conventions across linguistic and cultural boundaries. 3. Data Visualisation and Medieval Charter Networks: Mapping Knowledge Circulation * Application of network analysis, GIS mapping, and other visualisation methods to represent relationships between chanceries, scribes, and document types. * New insights into the "worlds of learning" in charter production through data visualisation techniques. 4. Digital Methodologies and Medieval Charters: Innovative Approaches to Documentary Learning * How can digital editions enhance our understanding of charter creation, use, and preservation? What insights can database creation and management offer into the organisation and retrieval of mediaeval documentary knowledge? * Applications of XML/TEI encoding for semantic analysis of charter content and structure. * Exploration of linked data approaches to connect charter information across different collections and archives. By applying state-of-the-art computational methods to the study of late mediaeval charters, we aim to contribute to a more interconnected and nuanced understanding of European documentary cultures and the transmission of specialised knowledge in this period. Submission Guidelines: * Please submit a 100-word abstract of your proposed contribution and a brief CV. * Send submissions to didip(a)uni-graz.at <mailto:[email protected]>(Subject: IMC2025) * Deadline: September 16th, 2024 We look forward to your contributions to these exciting intersections of medieval studies and digital humanities! Georg Vogeler for the ERC DiDip Team

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I am on holidays.
by Gerik Scheuermann 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Dear Madam/Sir, I am currently on holidays till August 12th, 2024. I will not read my email before this date. In urgent cases, please contact my secretary Karin Wenzel at wenzel(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:[email protected]> . Regards Gerik Scheuermann -- Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann Image and Signal Processing Group Department of Computer Science Leipzig University D-04081 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 97 32250 Fax: +49 341 97 32252 email: scheuermann(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:[email protected]>

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Constellate Discussion Panel: ChatGPT and Copyright Infringement
by Amy Kirchhoff 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

Hi all ~ As part of the Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute from Constellate, we are running a free webinar panel discussion with two legal experts about ChatGPT and copyright on Monday, August 5, at 11:30 am Eastern: ChatGPT and Copyright Infringement The New York Times initiated legal proceedings against OpenAI on December 27, 2023, accusing the company of deliberate copyright violation through ChatGPT, its generative AI product. The Times pursued more than just monetary compensation; it requested a federal court to mandate the destruction of ChatGPT and any other AI models trained on the same data. In this panel, we will discuss the implications of copyright infringement by ChatGPT and how it affects the public. We will also discuss the difficulties in defining data rights in the context of generative AI. You'll gain understanding of the training data that large language models may lawfully use and the technological guardrails that may be necessary to avoid legal liability. Panel: * João Marinotti, Associate Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project * Heather Jenson, Deputy General Counsel for ITHAKA All are welcome to attend! You may register through the TAP Institute webinar registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMlr5e7GaXuqufaYRaNt_L5ejIxwrZOf0…>. I hope to see you there. ~ Amy -- Amy J. Kirchhoff (she/her) Senior Manager, Constellate | ITHAKA Twitter: @AmyPlusFour<https://twitter.com/AmyPlusFour> Constellate empowers educators and students with text analysis and data literacy skills. Unlock the potential of your research!

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Call for Contributions: Audios for category "5 Questions - 1 Answer" in "From Global to Local? Digital Methods in the Humanities in German-speaking Countries: A Triptych" (Deadline 30/09/2024)
by Ulrike.Wuttke＠gmx.net 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

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I am on holidays.
by Gerik Scheuermann 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Dear Madam/Sir, I am currently on holidays till August 12th, 2024. I will not read my email before this date. In urgent cases, please contact my secretary Karin Wenzel at wenzel(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:[email protected]> . Regards Gerik Scheuermann -- Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann Image and Signal Processing Group Department of Computer Science Leipzig University D-04081 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 97 32250 Fax: +49 341 97 32252 email: scheuermann(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:[email protected]>

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a postdoc in text and data mining (newspapers) at Uni Tartu
by Peeter Tinits 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Dear EADH community, I have a postdoc ad that may be relevant for you or where you may know of interested circles. ---- Post doc job(s) available for text and data mining and social history / sustainability transitions. Thank you for sharing the offer in potentially interested circles. The project “The Crisis and Transformation of Industrial Modernity, 1900-2055”, is a five-year project at the University of Tartu. It is based on the Deep Transitions framework which theorizes industrialization as a long-term co-evolution of various socio-technical systems. Website: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/. Job description: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/jobs/ Job call PDF: http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024<http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024> 1,5 FTE available for jobs. Some flexibility in workload and work location based on the exact focus. Contact laur.kanger(a)ut.ee<mailto:[email protected]> for more details. Thank you for sharing! :) Peeter

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Intermediality and Computational Humanities Hackathon, 14-15 Nov in Vienna
by Michela Vignoli 17 Jul '24

17 Jul '24

* sorry for cross-posting * Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities Team at the University of Vienna and the Ottoman Nature in Travelogues (ONiT) project are pleased to announce a hackathon dedicated to exploring current challenges and solutions related to the analysis of texts, images, and multimodal sources. The hackathon is targeting scholars with backgrounds in Arts and Humanities as well as Computer Science with an interest in Computational Humanities methods. The aim of the hackathon is to bring together tool providers and art and history researchers to collaboratively focus on the analysis of digitised texts, images, or an inter-medial approach. The hackathon will be a two-day event starting on Thursday, November 14 at 9:00 CET and ending on Friday, November 15 at 15:00 CET. On the first day of the event, participants will be invited to propose topics and challenges related to the theme of the hackathon that they wish to work on. Working groups will then be formed from the participants to investigate these challenges. The working groups will be flexible, and participants will be welcome to work on multiple topics throughout the course of the event. With this in mind, participants are invited to suggest for potential topics and lines of enquiry in the registration form below. The hackathon will include two keynote lectures by Thomas Smits/Melvin Wevers and Matteo Valleriani. A social dinner for the participants and small bursaries sponsored by the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the ONiT project will be available as necessary for the covering of travel costs. More information can be found here: https://dh.univie.ac.at/hackathon/ Registration Link If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email at hackathon.geschichte(a)univie.ac.at. Best,Michela & the orga team

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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://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

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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, 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

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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 contact for presubmission inquiries is: pulse.scistudies(a)gmail.com Thank you Katya Krylova PhD researcher, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, University of Canterbury t: (+64) 2902098793 | e: ekaterina.krylova(a)gmail.com Forthcoming: Conference paper: ‘Neo-Ascetic Technologies of the Self in the Anthropocene’ at the International Conference ‘Environmental Ethics and Vulnerability in Western and/or Buddhist Philosophy’, Verona, October 24-26 <https://iseethics.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/call-for-abstracts-international…>, 2024 Journal article: ‘Cute Aesthetics of Fear: A Critique of Korean Neoliberalism in *The School Nurse Files*’ in *Asian Cinema <https://www.intellectbooks.com/asian-cinema> * Recent: Edited journal issue: Tenth-anniversary volume of Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture <https://www.pulse-journal.org/>, co-edited with Siobhan Leddy, 2024 Conference paper: ‘Portraying Emergency through Human-Whale Conversations: Extractive Capitalism and Extinction in Apple TV+ Extrapolations’ at the NECS 2024 <https://necs.org/conference/2024/izmir> conference, Izmir, June 27-29 Journal article: ‘Pets of Precarity: On Excessive Cutification of Companion Animals’ in *Society & Animals <https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/aop/article-10.1163-15685306-bja10208/…>* Conference paper: ‘The Narrative Construction of Cuteness as a Premise of Affection for Non-charismatic Species’ at *Cute Ecologies <https://awwstruckseminar.wordpress.com/>* critical-creative symposium, June 7, 2024 Conference paper: ‘What Does the Magpie See Looking at Your Bruises? *The Axeman’s Carnival* as a Literary Artefact of Advocative Mutualism' at CfHAS <https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/events/> PGRs’ *Narrating the Non-human* hybrid symposium, Edge Hill University, May 30-31, 2024 Book: The Market of Convenient Animals, *New Literary Observer <https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/kultura_povsednevnosti/25208/>*, 2023

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