Dear colleagues,

*Apologies for cross-posting

Please consider submitting to DHd2024 (Digital Humanities Conference of the German Speaking Area) in Passau. The Call for Papers also can be found here: https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/call-for-papers/

We also warmly welcome reviewers. Please sign up at Conftool (https://www.conftool.net/dhd2024/) and select your preferred topics to review. If you already had a conftool account for DHd2023, you can use your previous credentials.

Important Dates: 19.07.2023 Submission Deadline 02.11.2023 Notification of acceptance 04.12.2023 Submission of camera ready version 04.12.2023 Start of registration 15.02.2024 End of registration 26.02.2024 - 01.03.2024 Conference in Passau

Call For Papers (English) (German and English CfP here: https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/call-for-papers/ )

DHd Annual Conference PASSAU 2024 Conference theme ��DH Quo Vadis��

It has been a decade since the representatives of the DHd �C Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Area first gathered in Passau for the annual conference. The conference has since been held in various locations in Germany and other German-speaking countries. As we approach the DHd2024, it is an opportunity to reflect on the progress made within the discipline and develop future perspectives. Over the past ten years, not only has the DHd community steadily grown, but the fields of research and the applications of digital humanities have also evolved and transformed. Digital methods and tools have become integral to everyday research and various aspects of life, with digitization being a prominent topic in public discourse, such as artificial intelligence and big data. Therefore, the Digital Humanities have consistently faced the task of accompanying and providing crucial support in this process, especially in offering interpretation and assistance.

This raises questions such as: How can the Digital Humanities meet the increasing demands in areas such as sustainability, ethics, data protection, interdisciplinary collaboration, and data-intensive research? How will the field of DH develop in the next ten years? What are the current and future challenges facing DH? Which methods should be further pursued, and which ones should be reconsidered? For DH researchers, who benefit from the interdisciplinary approach and have access to a wide range of methods, it is a challenge to maintain an overview and adequately assess all approaches. For instance, digital methods and tools need to be critically examined and their application to diverse subject areas critically questioned. This process also involves learning from failures and leveraging both positive and negative experiences from the last decade. The DHd2024 conference will provide a platform to exchange these experiences and discuss potential avenues for development.

The representatives of the field have the responsibility of addressing these challenges and shaping the future of DH through collaborative discussions, to meet the demands of a changing digital society.

Possible topics for submissions: - Methodological and technical perspectives for the future - Artificial intelligence and its role in the humanities - The impact of Digital Humanities in public discourse - Citizen Science and Digital Humanities - Reflections on ten years of DH in the German-speaking areas: trends, successes, and failures - Current status of standardization efforts: standardized vocabularies, ontologies, markup languages, etc.

Besides these focus areas, submissions on any topic related to Digital Humanities are welcome. Additionally, both positive and negative project results can be presented and discussed.

Submission Requirements

The following may be submitted:

Presentations (submission of at least 1500, maximum 2000 words) Presentations in the Doctoral Consortium (submission of at least 500, maximum 750 words) Panels (minimum three, maximum six participants, submission of at least 1200, maximum 1500 words) Posters (minimum 500, maximum 750 words) Pre-conference half-day or full-day workshops (minimum submission 1200 words, maximum 1500 words)

To submit, register on ConfTool (https://www.conftool.net/dhd2024/) and upload a dhc file created using the DHConvalidator web service for peer review. Additionally, provide a short summary of approximately 100-150 words in ConfTool. The accepted submissions, which are considered as citable small publications, will be published individually and in the conference publication on the Zenodo Community of the DHd Association. They will also be featured on the conference website and program with short abstracts. The DHConvalidator provides a template for submitting in Word or OpenOffice formats, which includes guidelines for citations, references, and bibliography.

The deadline for submissions is 19th July 2023, at 23:59 CEST.

Please note that, like in previous years, this deadline will not be extended.

The review process will follow an open peer review system, where the names of submitters and reviewers will be disclosed to each other (known as open identities). However, the actual reviews will not be published. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 2nd November 2023. For any submission-related queries, please contact dhd2024@uni-passau.de via email.

The main languages of exchange in the DHd community are German and English. Proposals can be submitted in German as well as in English. We encourage all participants to present their contributions to the conference in German, but contributions in English are also welcome.

It is understood that accepted submissions will be presented by the submitters in person and on site.

Each individual may submit only one talk or poster (as the presenting person in ConfTool) and can give only one talk. Co-authorship is limited to a maximum of two additional oral or poster submissions. Furthermore, each individual can be involved in a maximum of one panel or workshop submission.

DHd working groups are allowed one additional submission (workshop, panel, or poster), clearly identified as such. For submissions with multiple contributors, it is recommended to use the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/) to indicate the roles of each contributor in a footnote at the beginning of the submission (e.g., ��Contributor Roles: Firstname1 Name1 (Conceptualization), Firstname2 Name2 (Software), Firstname3 Name3 (Writing �C review & editing)��).An academic paper typically includes a bibliography at the end. The word count does not include the words in the bibliography or captions. All other words are counted.

A good submission adheres to the principles of sound research work, providing a substantial and formally structured description of the research question, materials, methods, and results. Please note that submissions should be concise yet complete academic publications suitable for publication. If you are uncertain about the format of the submission, we recommend referring to successful examples from the previous conference. The Book of Abstracts for DHd2023 offers an overview of accepted presentations, panels, posters, and workshops. Additionally, the review process handout (in German) for the DHd annual conferences is a helpful resource.

Possible formats:

Individual presentations (20�� presentation + 10�� discussion; submission of at least 1500, maximum 2000 words): Unpublished results or developments of significant new methods or digital resources and/or a methodological or theoretical concept should be presented. Presentation submissions should contextualise the research contribution in an appropriate way against the background of the current state of research and clearly demonstrate its significance for the (digital) humanities or a respective sub-field thereof. For projects without interim results, the poster format is recommended.For accepted presentation submissions, a camera-ready version of max. 2,500 words must be submitted by 01.12.2023, taking into account the expert opinions.

Presentations in the Doctoral Consortium (submission of at least 500, maximum 750 words): The promotion of young researchers is a particular concern of the annual conferences of the Dhd. For this reason, presentations can be submitted separately to a Doctoral Consortium to present dissertation projects of selected participants. In addition to the opportunity to present one��s own research topic, feedback from the specialist audience can also be obtained in this way to further develop one��s own doctoral project thematically and methodologically. The focus is on the initial phase of the doctorate. Doctoral candidates with advanced projects are therefore encouraged to submit individual presentations (see above).Expos��s (500-750 words, plus bibliography) for the Doctoral Consortium can be submitted in the usual way via the ConfTool as a contribution of the type (conference track) ��Doctoral Consortium�� until 19 July 2023. The best submissions will be invited to the Doctoral Consortium. For them, the participation fee for the conference will be waived; in addition, the costs for an overnight stay will be covered by the organisers, if possible. Additional accommodation and travel costs will be borne by the participants themselves.In addition, it is planned to award travel grants to lecturers and participants who have little or no financial resources within the framework of their own positions and projects. Participants in the Doctoral Consortium will also be able to apply for these travel grants. A separate call will be published for the travel grants.

Panels (minimum three, maximum six participants including moderator; 60�� panel discussion, 30�� Q&A from audience; minimum submission 1200, maximum 1500 words): Panels provide an opportunity for three to six participants to discuss a topic that goes beyond the scope of a single project, project network or research centre. Panels should not be composed exclusively of participants from the same project. It is encouraged to submit panels related to the conference theme and to give the audience the chance to discuss controversial topics. Care should be taken to ensure that a panel is staffed according to diversity criteria. It is expected that no more than one third of the 90-minute session will be devoted to prepared statements and that the debate within the panel will allow sufficient time for discussion with the audience. Panel organisers will submit a brief description of the topic of at least 1200 words, maximum 1500 words, and confirm the willingness of the listed individuals to participate in the panel. For the acceptance of a panel submission, the stringent presentation of the thematic or methodological coherence of the individual contributions is of decisive importance.

Posters (minimum submission 500 words, maximum 750 words): Posters can be submitted on any topic of the Call for Papers. They may also describe the status of individual projects in a descriptive manner. The posters will each be published together with the submissions in the Zenodo Community of the DHd Association under a CC-BY licence. Posters that are accepted for presentation must therefore be submitted by the presenters as a file via ConfTool by 28.02.2024 at the latest. Further information on the procedure will be communicated to the poster presenters after acceptance.

Pre-conference workshops (half day/4 h to two half days/8 h incl. breaks; submission of at least 1200, maximum 1500 words): In addition to teaching, training or tutorial formats (e.g. on specific topics, technologies, tools, key skills), collaborative forms of work on topics and/or data (e.g. hackathons, bar camps, tool testing) and longer meetings of DHd working groups geared towards a predefined output can also be submitted. Workshops will last half a day (4 hours, including break) or two half days (7-8 hours, including breaks) and will take place on Monday and Tuesday of the conference week. Submissions must include the following information: Title and a brief description of the topic (minimum 1200, maximum 1500 words), full contact details of all contributors and a paragraph on their research interests. Details of the format Information on the target audience, in particular on necessary prior knowledge The number of possible participants Information on any technical equipment required The call for papers specific to the workshop, if one is published. Workshop leaders are expected to register for the conference. Only presenters who are not otherwise participating in other events of the conference can be exempted from registration.

Best

Thomas Haider

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Dr. phil. Thomas Nikolaus Haider

Digital Humanities and Multilingual Computational Linguistics

University of Passau