Category: Calls for Papers + Conferences

CONSTRUIT 2017

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Thursday, July 13, 2017 – 12:05pm to Sunday, July 16, 2017 – 12:05pm

CONSTRUIT 2017 “Making, Thinking and Learning in the Digital Age” will bring together participants from many different disciplines and educational settings to discuss, illustrate and reflect on the impact of digital artefacts on learning practices. The conference celebrates the work of Seymour Papert by making a new contribution to his vision for constructionism.

The conference will offer a broad platform for engagement with a variety of learning environments and will also showcase the achievements of the EU Erasmus+ CONSTRUIT! project.

The deadline for submission of abstracts (500 words maximum) is June 13th 2017.

For more details, see the conference website at edumotiva.eu/construit2017 and the construal of online resources at jseden.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/construit/?load=49.

DPI 2017: Digital Pedagogy Institute 4th Annual Conference

Logo DPI 2017: Digital Pedagogy Institute 4th Annual Conference

 

The 4th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute conference will be held this August at Brock University in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula:

Dates: Wednesday August 16 – Thursday August 17, 2017

 

The two-day conference will include keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training that focus on the innovative use of digital technologies to enhance and transform undergraduate and graduate teaching.Plenary Speakers:

Dr. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo

“Learning to Collaborate (or Why You Should Hang Out with Librarians)”

Dr. Bonnie Stewart, University of Prince Edward Island

“The State of Digital Pedagogy: Where Networks and Institutions Intersect”

Dr. Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Tech

“The Hip Hop Archive as Pedagogical Design Issue: Speculating Across the Digital to the Physical ”

 

Invitations to submit a proposal for a paper, workshop, or poster:

•      digital pedagogy best practices in the Humanities or Social Sciences;

•      digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students;

•      digital pedagogy collaborations with organizations outside the academy;

•      the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education;

•      digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations;

•      innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.

 

Proposal Deadline: June 1

Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 22

Force11 New Summer Institute

FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute

July 30 – August 4, 2017
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA   USA

FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship)—a global community of researchers, students, librarians, publishers, funders and scholars interested in the future of scholarship—is pleased to announce the launch of its new annual Summer Institute in Scholarly Communications: the Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute at the University of California, San Diego (FSCI@UCSD), July 30-August 4, 2017.
FSCI@UCSD is a week-long program that offers participants training, networking and skills development in new modes of research communication.

The UC San Diego Library is hosting the event that will take place at the Institute of the Americas on the UC San Diego Campus.

“The research community lacks a forum for coordinated access to training, skills development, and expert knowledge on new modes of research communication,” says Cameron Neylon, President of Force 11, “even as funders are mandating change and the wider world has embraced new forms of communication.”

Based on proven models in other disciplines, FSCI@UCSD will bring world-leading experts in different aspects of scholarly communication to San Diego to design and deliver courses that will help participants to navigate this new world. Courses will be established for all levels, from absolute beginners to experts. They will also be aimed at different audiences, including students, researchers, administrators, funders, and information professionals, including librarians and publishers.

Typical topics to be covered at the annual event will include:

Introductory Level

  • Open Access, Open Source, Open Data, What Does this All Mean?
  • Building a Digital Presence: Social Media, Repositories, and the Researcher
  • Research Communications 101: Tools for Improving Scholarly Communication
  • Data and Other Forms of Non-narrative Publication
  • Understanding Research Metrics
  • Open Peer Review: How to give and Receive Criticism

Advanced

  • Copyright, Open Access and Open Data
  • New Metrics and How to Use Them to Build a Research Portfolio
  • Introduction to Open Data Management
  • Implications of OA on Research Publications
  • Making it Work: Knowledge Mobilization, Knowledge Translation, and Popularization

Specialised/Topic Focused

  • Implementing Successful Open Access, and Open Data Mandates
  • Supporting the Research Lifecycle  for Researchers and Administrators
  • Evaluating New Forms of Research Publication
  • Implications of OA on Publication and Collection Building
  • Data Ownership and Copyright Issues
  • Data-informed Strategy for Institutional Leaders
  • Maximizing Impact Across Disciplines
  • Increasing Transparency and Reproducibility in Research Communications

“Scholarly Communication is in a disruptive phase at the moment. Students know the rules that governed their supervisors’ early careers are changing” said Maryann Martone, past president of Force 11 and UCSD professor emerita. “Libraries know the current publishing and data repository system is unsustainable; researchers know the systems within which they have worked are changing rapidly,” adds Brian Schottlaender, UCSD’s Audrey Geisel University Librarian. “Administrators know government, industry, funders, and the general public are expecting research to be performed, communicated, and measured in new ways. But knowing that things are changing is not the same as understanding what those changes are or how individuals and institutions can navigate them. This is what FSCI@UCSD will provide.”

For more information or to sign up to receive further information about the FSCI@UCSD, visit www.force11.org/fsci

Call for Chapters: Social Annotation in Modern Learning

Call for Chapters: Social Annotation in Modern Learning Contexts

This book, published by IGI Global, aims to illustrate how social annotation intersects with modern digital literacies, and it will investigate the heavily-researched domain of reading and writing cognition with annotation practices in a digital environment. Moreover, this book will address the ethical intricacies of social annotation within public and private digital spaces, and it will explore how social annotation can help mitigate digital polarization. Case studies also will be considered.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Social Reading and Academic Performance
  • Writing in Public Spaces
  • Fact-checking with Social Annotation
  • Digital Polarization
  • Social Annotation Technologies
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Performative Publishing

Please visit http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2718 to view more information and to submit your chapter proposal. There are no publication fees or costs to you.

Proposal Deadline: May 30th.

Submission Link

SPHINx 2017 Workshop

SPHINx 2017 – SPatial Humanities meets Spatial INformation Theory: Space, Place, and Time in Humanities Research

a pre-conference workshop @ COSIT2017 – the biennial Conference on Spatial Information Theory in L’Aquila, Italy, 4 September, 2017

Humanities disciplines such as history, classical studies, literary studies, and philology have in recent years experienced a “spatial turn” similar to that begun in prior decades within the social sciences and archaeology. Many researchers in these fields are now explicitly recording the spatial and temporal attributes of their data and mapping them for visual analysis and argumentation. In many cases they are also performing spatial or spatial-temporal computations, including but not limited to viewshed, network, and cluster analyses, and agent-based and other models and simulations are increasingly common. The software used for this work is the same as that used for the environmental and social sciences: desktop GIS and specialized spatial and natural language processing libraries for the Python and R languages. These new spatial researchers are experiencing the same representational and analytic challenges in studying geographical dynamics that are well known to other disciplines, but they also face distinctive issues related to the nature of historical humanities data. Furthermore, epistemologies associated with new quantitative approaches must be reconciled with their traditional methodological practices.

Spatial information theorists and geographic information scientists have not normally drawn from humanities research cases for their development of theoretical models or the specific software and systems built upon such models. It is our belief the time is ripe for fruitful dialog between these groups.

To further and encourage such dialog, we invite papers that explicitly address one or more of these distinctive issues, particularly in the context of active or recent humanities research:

  • computing over sparse and uncertain data, e.g., the life courses of historical individuals
  • comparing and conflating conflicting assertions about the same phenomena from multiple sources
  • representing and analyzing place as experienced space
  • theorizing historical events and processes and their formal representation as spatial-temporal data, in simple, useful indexing and reasoning systems
  • building digital historical gazetteers, challenges for which include:
    • automated and machine-assisted discovery of place references in historical texts
    • place and place-name disambiguation
    • representing not only real‑world places but fictional or speculative ones
  • formalizing complex spatio-temporal relations (e.g., topological) in texts; modeling entities with evidence of multi-space, multi-time properties
  • integrated methods for performing textual analysis with spatial analysis
  • scaling of discovery methods for aggregate analyses on very large collections
  • place sentiment analysis
  • computational narrative analysis as it relates to space and place
  • cartographic representations of historical textual information

Instructions for authors

We are accepting short paper submissions (6-8 pages, including tables, figures, and references) on the topics of interest described above. We encourage paper submissions from researchers working on these issues from any disciplinary perspective. All articles must be prepared using either the Springer Word Document Template or the Springer Latex Document Template (contributed books). More general information for your camera-ready manuscript preparation can be found in the Manuscript Guidelines and Key Style Points and on the website of Springer.

The workshop proceedings will be published in a combined volume with the other COSIT workshop proceedings. It will be published by Springer, in the series Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography.

Submissions should be made through the EasyChair website.

Important dates

  • Papers due: May 12
  • Notification of acceptance: June 16
  • Camera-ready papers due: June 28
  • Workshop: September 4

Registration information can be found on the main COSIT webpage

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Please feel free to contact the workshop co-organizers:

Ben Adams
University of Canterbury
benjamin.adama@canterbury.ac.nz

Karl Grossner
World Heritage Web
karlg@worldheritageweb.org

Olga Chesnokova
University of Zurich
olga.chesnokova@geo.uzh.ch

First International Workshop on Privacy-sensitive Collections for Digital Scholarship

 

Part of Digital Humanities 2017

Pre-Conference Workshop

 

Humanities scholars have historically used archives that include restricted or privacy-sensitive collections in order to conduct their investigations about sensitive topics. The recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available. Furthermore, collections of new, born-digital documents will be readily available to support and enhance scholarship. However, such access has also exacerbated threats to the privacy of individuals named in these records. Examples of such privacy-sensitive records include mental health institutional records, prison records, records of the Truth and reconciliation commissions, Nazi archives, and the Guatemalan national police archives. Access to paper records is protected by distance, physical barriers, and varying state and national policies and laws. In some cases, the legal frameworks for digital records are substantially less clear than those for physical records. Furthermore, the online availability of such records has a potential to stigmatize or embarrass the families or descendants of those named in the records when they bear no responsibility for the acts or health conditions of the named individuals, raising ethical issues in providing broad, open access to these records. In addition to scholars, demographics such as family members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can all benefit from access to these historical collections.

Topics

We invite scholars and practitioners who work with or are interested in issues surrounding humanities scholarship supported or enhanced by digital, privacy-sensitive collection to contribute to and participate in this workshop. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

  • Digitization, curation, and preservation of privacy-sensitive collections
  • Theoretical and metadata models
  • Policies, workflows, and protections for accessing materials
  • Issues in using cloud services for privacy-sensitive materials storage and scholarship
  • Scholarly information behavior and needs
  • Models that recognize diverse user needs (for example, aggregate data, individual information)
  • Institutional and political negotiations surrounding access to privacy-sensitive collections
  • Mechanisms and models for data retrieval from handwritten documents
  • Privacy-aware digital repository architectures
  • Privacy-aware crowdsourcing and transcription methods
  • Privacy issues in designing user interfaces and data visualizations
  • Privacy mitigation in data analytics and presentation
  • Evaluation of existing software, infrastructure, and techniques
  • Social justice issues and non-scholarly outcomes of work with restricted collections

Proposals: formats and submission

All contributions must be written in English.

  • full papers (up to 3,000 words, exclusive of references): submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an area of interest
  • work-in-progess papers (up to 1,500 words, exclusive of references): submissions that present early results or a nascent project

Submit papers via the workshop’s EasyChair submission page

Important dates:

  • May 15: due date for all proposals
  • May 31: Notification of acceptance
  • June 7(expected): Early registration date for DH 2017 ends (workshop participants must register for both the conference and the workshop)
  • August 1: Submission of final, camera-ready papers
  • August 7/8: PC4DS 2017 Workshop

Organizers

Please contact us in case of questions.

Unmil Karadkar (unmil@ischool.utexas.edu)
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

King Davis(king.davis@austin.utexas.edu)
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

Future Perfect Conference

On June 16, 2017, Data & Society Research Institute’s Speculative Fiction Reading Group will host Future Perfect, a conference exploring the use, significance, and discontents of speculative design, narrative, and world-building in technology, policy, and culture.

The past year has been marked by frequent commentaries comparing the present moment to works of dystopian literature and speculative fiction. The sentiment that science fiction futures can’t keep up with present-day developments pervades discussions of policy, technology, and culture. But the extent to which fictional futures exercise power over our present is, in some cases, by design. For example, the influence of 2002’s Minority Report on gestural interfaces, surveillance technologies, and automation isn’t an accident of history–the future envisioned in the film was created in close consultation with technologists and academics actively working on products that the film imagines in real-world settings. An entire industry of speculative designers and futures consultants continues to actively construct dystopian futures on behalf of corporations and governments, transforming TED talks and architectural renders into self-fulfilling dystopian prophecy.

In a moment when the future increasingly feels like a foregone conclusion, Future Perfect will bring actors from a variety of world-building disciplines (from art and fiction to law and science) together to explore the uses, abuses, and paradoxes of speculative futures.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • The history and political economy of the future (subtopics here might include divination, scenario planning and war games, and predictive modeling)
  • Analyses of specific SF works that have uniquely influenced technology, politics, and/or aesthetics
  • Challenges to dominant future narratives in popular culture and representation in speculative fiction
  • Why Silicon Valley venture capitalists seem to think Snow Crash was a playbook for the next twenty-five years and not a dystopian hellscape
  • That one scene in Minority Report with the cereal box that is literally the only really important part of the film

Proposed contributions may include, but are not limited to:

  • Academic Papers
  • Fiction
  • Performance
  • Video
  • Games

The conference will be livestreamed and documentation of participating projects will be posted online.

Participation requirements
Participation in this event is limited. Those who are interested should apply by May 12, 2017. We are interested in having a wide range of disciplines represented, including designers and artists, academics, performers, programmers, lawyers, journalists, scientists, and of course fiction writers. All participants agree to inclusion in the conference’s online documentation.

Schedule
Thursday, June 15, 2017 (optional)
7-10pm Screening and Reception

Friday, June 16, 2017
12-6pm The Conference

The Conference itself will morph to fit the selected participants, and includes a welcome lunch, 2-3 themed sessions showcasing work and framing participation, and other potential modes for engaging with our theme.

Application
If you are interested in attending this Conference, you may either 1) propose work to be exhibited and/or presented, or 2) describe how your work makes you a relevant discussant/participant.

By Friday, May 12th, please submit the following here:
1. Name, address, affiliation, discipline.
2. A 1-page (max) description of your work and relevance to the event. Be sure to indicate whether you’re applying to present your work, or to contribute to the discussion.

  • I have something to present.
  • I don’t have a presentation but believe I could contribute to the discussion.

3. At least one link or attachment exemplifying what you’d share if selected.
4. Bio/CV
5. (optional) Travel support request
If you are in need of travel support, please let us know. Funding is limited; we will not be able to accommodate all travel needs so if you have grants or other means of covering your participation, please use that so that we can prioritize stipends for those who have none.

Dates
Application Deadline: May 12, 2017
Selection Notifications: May 24, 2017
Public Announcement: June 2, 2017
Conference: June 15-16, 2017

Questions? Contact cj@datasociety.net

The Humanities and Technology Camp Unconference

THATCamp Gainesville 2017
 

The UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and Smathers Libraries invites you to THATCamp Gainesville, on 21 April from 9am-4pm in the Harn Museum of Art. THATCamp, (The Humanities and Technology Camp), is an unconference which fosters informal and productive conversations about Digital Humanities projects, topics, and skills.Since this is an unconference, participants propose sessions directly on the website, where other participants can read and comment on them. The final schedule will be collaboratively created by the participants on the morning of 21 April. People are free to drop in and out as needed for schedules.

Browse session proposals here: http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/

To get started, please register here http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/register/

There is no registration cost, and lunch and snacks will be provided.

If you would like to learn more about the kinds of sessions offered at THATCamp or you are ready to propose a session, please go here: http://gainesville2017.thatcamp.org/propose/

You can also write a request to learn more about a particular topic, so that other conference attendees might be able to step up and propose a session about that area.

THATCamps provide a good space to network and brainstorm. This year, we expect many UF folks to attend, as well as the dynamic mix of attendees found at other THATCamps from many Florida institutions, including graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, K-12 teachers, administrators, managers, and funders as well as people from the non-profit sector, people from the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs.

HILT 2017 Registration

HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching) is a 5-day training institute that includes keynotes, ignite talks, and local cultural heritage excursions for researchers, students, early career scholars and cultural heritage professionals who seek to learn more about Digital Humanities theory, practice, and culture.

HILT will be held June 5-8, 2017, with special events on June 9, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the conference’s day-time sessions, participants can enjoy opportunities to explore the city through local dining and cultural heritage experiences. Sponsored student scholarships are available for undergraduate and graduate students as well as continuing professionals.

Registration is open!

Courses for 2017 include:

More on courses
More on scheduleSponsored student scholarships are available for undergraduate and graduate students as well as continuing professionals: http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt2017/important-dates-costs/#scholarships

Registration fees and more: http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt2017/important-dates-costs/