Call for Proposals – Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, Friulan, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romontsch sursilvan, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, Welsh

Thank you to Elisabeth Burr and the ADHO – MLMC colloborators for all these versions of the call! Translators are volunteers DH’ers.

Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 11:59pm GMT on Friday, November 1^st 2013
Workshop proposal deadline: 11:59pm GMT on Friday, 21st February 2014

Guidelines for Proposal Authors and Reviewers

Practical information for workshops and tutorials organization: Preconference workshops can be organized on Monday 7 July 2014 and Tuesday 8 July 2014 in the new EPFL SwissTech conference Center. They can last half-day or a full-day.

Further indications about workshops and tutorials fees will follow as soon as possible.

Topic: Digital Cultural Empowerment

The use of digital methods within the arts, humanities and cultural heritage can lead to cultural empowerment for scholars, students and citizens. Through the theme “Digital Cultural Empowerment”, the conference encourages submissions that bridge the gaps between humanities corpora and actual digital practices used to understand, analyse, and share them. This includes digital dissemination of patrimonial content, participatory experiences, environments that improve digital literacy, and research that evaluates the effectiveness of such kind of projects. We also welcome submissions that study the underlying challenges and issues of such cultural empowerment processes, for example the joining of Western and non Western scholarship, or the maintenance of the core-values of the humanities (critical sense, close reading, excellency in details) while articulating them with new opportunities offered by the digital revolution (distant reading, large scale of information data sets, data visualisation).