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Humanist Archives: Jan. 3, 2019, 6:18 a.m. Humanist 32.301 - events: heritage; textual scholarship & MLA sessions

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    [1]    From: Marco BÜCHLER 
           Subject: DATeCH 2019 final call for papers - 1 week for the abstract submission deadline (130)

    [2]    From: Willard McCarty 
           Subject: Fwd: STS CFP and MLA panels of interest (184)


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        Date: 2019-01-03 06:06:10+00:00
        From: Marco BÜCHLER 
        Subject: DATeCH 2019 final call for papers - 1 week for the abstract submission deadline

 > From:        Marco BÜCHLER 

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to draw your attention to our Call for Papers for
DATeCH 2019, which will take place from 8-10 May 2019 at the Royal
Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the heart of
Brussels, Belgium.

The International DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage)
conference brings together researchers and practitioners seeking
innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation
of historical documents in digital form. This interdisciplinary
conference, takes place at the intersection of computer science,
(digital) humanities, and cultural heritage studies. The DATeCH 2019 is
jointly organised by IMPACT Centre of Competence, Instituut voor de
Nederlandse Taal, DARIAH-BE and CLARIN-Flanders.

   For full details of the Call for Papers are available on the DATeCH
2019 website:http://datech.digitisation.eu/submission/

The deadlines for submission are:

Abstract submission deadline: 09 January 2019, 23:59 CET
Full Paper submission deadline: 20 January 2019, 23:59 CET

We look forward to welcoming you to Brussels!

With all best wishes,

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Salford University, UK
Marco Büchler, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Germany
Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium / DARIAH-BE
Isabel Martínez, IMPACT Centre of Competence



Call for Papers: DATECH 2019: Digital Access to Textual Cultural
Heritage, Brussels, 8-10 May 2019

The International DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage)
conference brings together researchers and practitioners seeking
innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation
of historical documents in digital form. This interdisciplinary
conference, takes place at the intersection of computer science,
(digital) humanities, and cultural heritage studies.

 Venue 

The 3rd edition of DATeCH will take place at the Royal Flemish Academy
of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the heart of Brussels, Belgium:
http://datech.digitisation.eu/venue/

 Important dates 

Abstract submission deadline: 09 January 2019, 23:59 CET
Full Paper submission deadline: 20 January 2019, 23:59 CET
Decision notification: 20 February 2019
Camera-ready papers due: 25 March 2019
Conference: 8-10 May 2019

 Topics 

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific
goals listed above, such as:

OCR and/or HTR  technology and tools for minority and historical
languages, including dialects.
Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR and/or HTR results.
Document layout analysis, document understanding.
Automated quality control for mass OCR and/or HTR data.
Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
Natural language processing of ancient languages (e.g. Latin, Greek,
Arabic, Coptic ...).
Visualisation techniques and interfaces for search and research in
digital humanities.
Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital
humanities.
Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
Data created with mobile devices.
Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
Ontological and linked data based contextualisation of digitised and
born-digital scholarly data resources.

 Submission 

The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to DATeCH
2019, see:http://datech.digitisation.eu/submission/
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 500 words.
Followed by full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
Only original material will be accepted.
All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed and accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major
digital library.
The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an
extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an
indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).

 Submission instruction 

The maximum length for abstracts is 500 words (the format can be the
one in the template of item 3 or another format but always including
enough information about the paper).
The maximum length for the papers is six pages (references, tables and
figures included).
The following
templatehttps://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template  shall be
used for the submission of papers.
Both abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair
platform athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datech2019.


[...]
--
Marco BÜCHLER
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Papendiek 16 (Heynehaus)
37073 Göttingen

eMail    :mbuechler@etrap.eu
Web      :http://www.etrap.eu/  (eTRAP Research Group)
Web      :http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/112072.html  (Telematics Group
at Institute for Computer Science)
LinkedIn :https://de.linkedin.com/in/mabue/de
Twitter  :https://twitter.com/mabuechler

Leadership is a choice. It is not a formal position, and does not come
with a title. (Mark McGregor)

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        Date: 2019-01-03 05:59:25+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: Fwd: STS CFP and MLA panels of interest

 > From:        Young, John 


Dear members of the STS community,

I am writing with two pieces of information for the new year. First, let
me remind you of our Spring 2019 conference, held March 20-22 and
co-sponsored by the New School and New York University. The conference
theme this year is 'Ephemerality: The Precarious and the Preserved.' We
have recently extended the deadline to January 14. It is not too late
to send a paper, panel, seminar, or workshop proposal to
stsconference2019@gmail.com .

Here is a link to the call for proposals:

https://textualsociety.org/current-conference-program/ .

Second, for those of you attending MLA in Chicago this week, please
consider coming to the STS-sponsored session, 'In Another Medium:
Transcription as Transaction,' Saturday, Jan. 5, 3:30-4:45, Michigan 2,
Hyatt Regency. Here are the session details:

                  Presiding: Marta Werner, D'Youville College

  1. Celeste Martin, Emily Carr University of Art and Design,
     'Typographic Transcriptions of Borges's Poems'
  2. Donato Mancini, Johns Hopkins University, 'The Extraordinary Poetics
     of Transcribed Talk'
  3. Stephanie Anderson, Tsinghua University, ''A Radio Station Somewhere
     in Time': Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff's Collaborative
Transcriptions'
  4. Tyler Shoemaker, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'The Error
     That Catches the Eye: Marking Transcribed Mistakes'

Other MLA sessions of possible interest for textual scholars include:

Thursday, Jan. 3

2.            DH Curious? Digital Humanities Tools and Technologies for
Students, Emerging Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and Administrators

52.          The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities

55.          Beyond Recovery: New Approaches to Lost and Excised Archives

83.          Making an Old Genre New Again: Digital Humanities, the
Material Text, and the Early Modern English Sermon

86.          Early Modern Textual Transactions at the Newberry Library

89.          What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities: Curriculum
and Experience

92.          Gower's /Confessio Amantis/ in Manuscript, Print, Machine,
and Production

101.        Multifarious Philology: The Undisciplined Past, the
De-disciplined Future?

102.        Text-Sound-Image: The Materiality of Media around 1800

108.        Script Reform and Modernity in East Asia

115.        Asian Americans in the Literary Marketplace

126.        What Do Pixels Want? Digital Visualities in Latin America

127.        Digital Black Literature and Composition: Exploring Black
Digital and Textual Futures

134.        Textuality and Sustainability

143.        Screen and Postscreen Digital Humanities

166.        Archives of Images, Archives of Texts: Comics as Sources for
Historical Research

Friday, Jan. 4

196.        New Editions, New Writings: Fresh Perspectives on T.S. Eliot

197.        Same as It Ever Was: Fulfilling the Unfulfilled Promise of
Digital Humanities

203.        Health Humanities and Digital Life

205.        Editing for Noneditors

245.        The Porous Scholarly Edition

248.        Science and Literature: Publishing, Editing, Theorizing
Science and Writing

264.        Textual Transactions in an Unequal and Digital World

301.        Digital Humanities and Modern Languages

374.        Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape

376.        Stretched or Cropped Margins: Annotation Studies between the
Disciplines

Saturday, Jan. 5

401.        DH Curious? Digital Humanities Tools and Technologies for
Students, Emerging Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and Administrators

417.        Critical Computation: What's Next?

424.        Born Digital Literature: History, Theory, and Practice

451.        How Do Computers Read?

481.        Bookish Transactions: Publishing, Media, and Materialism

484.        New Perspectives in Book History

487.        Transacting Digital Humanities: Rights, Roles, and
Responsibilities of Collaboration

509.        Teaching with Material Texts

511.        Digital Archives in the Early American Classroom

531.        Poetics and Annotation

557.        Medieval Feminist Digital Humanities

567.        Embodied Minds in the Cognitive and Digital Humanities

574.        New Approaches to Digital Cervantes Scholarship

582.        Digital Hispanisms

584.        Movable Types: Print Culture in South Asia

586.        The Aura of Foreign Paper in the Long Nineteenth Century

588.        Teaching Shakespeare in Collaboration with Special Collections

613.        Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities
Projects

Sunday, Jan. 6

638.        American Literature without Authors

639.        What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities: Labor and Ethics

643.        Medieval Texts and Digital Editorial Resources

660.        Big Data Meets Early Modern French Studies

661.        Visuality, Race, and Childhood in the Golden Age of American
Print Culture

666.        Copy, Cut, Paste, Track

675.        Geographies and Genealogies of Black Western Print Culture

699.        Archaeologies of the Catalog

708.        Reading the Forms of the Early Modern Page

728.        Readership Studies in the Age of Digital Media

730.        Trans Actions

734.        Depth of Field: New Dimensions in the Study of Early Modern
Books

745.        Philology, Nationalism, and Medieval Literary Studies

Happy new year, and I hope to see you in Chicago and/or New York,

John

Dr. John K. Young
Professor, Department of English
Marshall University
(304) 696-2349
youngj@marshall.edu
Executive Director, Society for Textual Scholarship
www.textualsociety.org


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