Category: Calls for Papers + Conferences

International Association for Sound & Audiovisual Archive (IASA) CFP

The IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) will hold its 45th Annual Conference: “Connecting Cultures: Content, Context, and Collaboration” in Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday October 5th – Thursday October 9th 2014.

IASA is gathering in Cape Town at the National Library of South Africa’s Center for the Book for an in-depth look into the issues surrounding sound and audiovisual archives and their mission to preserve our sound and audiovisual heritage.

Visit their website for details on submitting presentations (deadline: February 28) http://2014.iasa-web.org/call-presentations

“The History and Future of Higher Education” CFP

Tom Abeles and his journal On the Horizon are joining the FutureEd movement with a special journal issue.

The rise of the Internet with its globally expanding social networks is creating new, overlapping communities that are significantly different from the sense of community existing throughout human history. The Internet has created new knowledge networks that make the cost of access to information asymptotically approaching zero. It makes that knowledge transferable across geopolitical boundaries. Knowledge that was once carried across land and sea in the heads of scholars and physical media is now accessible in a “smart” phone.

What the future of the University could, should, ought to be cannot be separated from its history, the history of the institution, its faculties/infrastructure, the seekers of knowledge and those who support the institution embedded in the community, local and/or global. How that history has played out in time and as seen in its current embodiment plays into its future, also.

See a list of suggested themes for this CFP and comprehensive submission guidelines at: http://www.hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-history-and-future-higher-education?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hastac%2Fopportunities+%28HASTAC+Opportunities%29

“Beautiful Data” CFP: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections

Harvard University will be hosting Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections, June 16 — June 27, 2014. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the institute will introduce participants to the “concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial description and exhibition practice, digital publication, and data-driven, object-oriented teaching.”

Further details are available at: http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2014/01/21/cfp-beautiful-data-a-summer-institute-for-telling-stories-with-open-art-collections/

“Data and Discrimination: Converting Critical Concerns into Productive Inquiry” CFP

Critics increasingly cite the pervasiveness of data collection by corporate and government actors as evidence of a growing problem that requires intervention and oversight. But what about the analysis of these data or other processes like data storage, transmission, and sharing? More importantly, in each of these contexts, what constitutes harm and who or what is likely affected?

In this preconference, scholars will explore the nature and consequences of discrimination that occurs when corporations and governments collect, store, transmit, share, and analyze information about consumers and citizens. Discrimination can be understood in technical terms, such as parameters of an algorithm that identify patterns in a data set, in political terms, such as when a lack of data collection on certain populations leads to policy choices and the distribution of resources, or social and economic terms, such as when analysis of consumers’ digital behavior leads to targeted marketing of particular products.

The deadline for proposals is January 31, and guidelines for submissions are available at: http://oti.newamerica.net/events/2014/05/22/data-and-discrimination?utm_content=buffer2d59c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

“Making Meaning from Data,” Digital Classics Association CFP

Digital techniques hold the promise of providing a consistent and comprehensive basis for the interpretation of classical culture, yet they also raise significant questions of method. Do digital approaches lead us away from certain kinds of interpretation and toward others? How does the quantitative and aggregate nature of argumentation common to digital humanities relate to other modes of understanding the ancient world? Papers are invited for this session that reflect theoretically on the study and understanding of classical antiquity in light of the growing importance of digital methods. Participants may take as their object material any aspect of classical culture, including, but not limited to: history, language, literature, material and visual culture, and philosophy.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 3, and full details can be found at: http://apaclassics.org/annual-meeting/146/cfp-making-meaning-data

“Networks in the Humanities” at University of Houston CFP

The 1st annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference, co-sponsored by  the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at University of Houston, the Humanities Research Center and Fondren Library at Rice University, and the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, welcomes submissions for twenty-minute individual papers and poster presentations for a conference on the theme of networks in the humanities.

The submission deadline is February 15, and full details can be found at: http://www.txdhc.org/?page_id=5

International Journal of Research in Computer Science CFP

Welcoming the research scholars, scientists around the globe in the Open Access Dimension, the International Journal of Research in Computer Science (IJORCS) is now accepting manuscripts for its next issue (Volume 4, Issue 2).  Authors are encouraged to contribute to the research community by submitting to IJORCS, articles that clarify new research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in field of computer science.  See topics and details at: http://www.hastac.org/opportunities/ijorcs-cfp-volume-4-issue-2?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hastac%2Fopportunities+%28HASTAC+Opportunities%29

Humanistas Digitales: Digital Humanities in a Global Context CFP

The second meeting of Humanistas Digitales: Digital Humanities in a Global Context will take place from May 21-23, 2014 in Mexico City.  This event will explore the advancement of the Digital Humanities in academic and cultural institutions, the role they play in the academic curriculum, and the future of the field on a global scale.  Note that the deadline for participation has been extended to January 20! http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ernesto-priego/2014/01/10/deadline-extended-digital-humanities-global-context-mexico-city

NMC 2014 Summer Conference

Reminder: the NMC 2014 Summer Conference will be held nearby in Portland, OR this year.  This year’s program focuses on six session pathways:

  • Digital Strategies
  • Enabling Technologies
  • Internet Technologies
  • Learning Technologies
  • Social Media Technologies
  • Visualization Technologies

“Science Fiction: Myths of the Present Future” – Call for submissions

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is a media arts center based in Liverpool, UK.  They are seeking Science Fiction film submissions for their 2014 exhibition, “Science Fiction: Myths of the Present Future.” In March 2014, Science Fiction: Myths of the Present Future will consider how our relationship with technology has blurred the lines between the real and the virtual; making our everyday lives feel increasingly like science fiction.  Full details at: http://www.fact.co.uk/news-views/2013/11/we-want-your-sci-fi-films!/