Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University
March 16-17, 2017
CFP Reminder + Travel Funds available for presenters
We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. Please email us [dh@msu.edu] with any questions or clarification.
Call for Proposals Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 9, 11:59pm EST
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its second year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that which MSU champions, values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work. Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form expresses a critique of the digital content and the position of the researcher to their material.
With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, and the digital divide. We view the 2017 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome.
Michigan State University has been intentionally global for more than 60 years, with over 1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service. For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix, a digital humanities and social science center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern Africa that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships, and capacity building. WIDE has set best practices for doing community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan Collections, Archive 2.0. Today many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by Friday, December 9, 11:59pm EST:
Critical cultural studies and analytics
Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work
Global research dialogues and collaborations
Indigeneity - anywhere in the world - and the digital
Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
Global digital pedagogies
Digital and global languages and literatures
The state of global digital humanities community
Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
The practice of digital humanities across textual, historical, and media divides
Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies
Open data and open access policies in a global, postcolonial context
Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
Presentation Formats:
3-5-minute lightning talks
15-minute papers
90-minute workshop proposals