***apologies for cross-posting*** Dear all, It is apleasure for us to announce that thefirst EADH International Day on the 8th October 2015 at UNED(National University for Distance Education – Open University) Madrid, Spain.
The firstannual European Association for Digital Humanities Symposium (EADH Day) will beheld in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference of the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association at UNED, and hosted by LINHD in Madrid. The purpose of theevent is to provide the principal annual focus for practitioners of DigitalHumanities in Europe to network and discuss common challenges andopportunities.
Participantsmay contribute directly to EADH Day agenda in two ways:
- Through a 5 minute lightning talk presenting either recent research developments or key topics of interest to the digital humanities community (e.g. ‘The potential of Linked Data for annotating medieval music scores’). Participants wishing to present lightning talks should provide a two-page abstract of the presentation in English which will be made available online prior to the event.
- Through the proposition of a challenge for participants to address during the event related to the themes of: collaborating across borders collaborating across languages collaborating across disciplines collaborating across curricula Challenges should take the form of an open question (e.g. ‘Does DH have an impact on minority languages? How can it strengthen their use and support research on them?’), with one or two paragraphs of text justifying its significance.
Submissionsshould be sent via this web by May 15th and lightning talks and challengeswill selected by an EADH panel. Presentation of a lightning talk or challengeis not a requirement and anyone may register to attend the event via the www.hdh2015.linhd.es website.
You canfind the call for participation and all the information concerning registrationand venue at HDH conference website: http://hdh2015.linhd.es/eadh-day-2015/
Please, feel free to distribute across lists, people and collaborators. Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873
www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/%C2%A0 http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg