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Dear colleagues,

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the virtual event, March 13-15, 2023. There will also be an in-person Symposium at Michigan State University on March 17, 2023.

Keynotes for the Virtual Symposium

Thenmozhi Soundararajan (Equity Labs) and Elaine Gan (Wesleyan University) will each give keynote presentations. Roopika Risam (Dartmouth University) will then respond and lead a discussion among the keynote presenters.

The Call for Proposals is available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese (links below), and proposals and presentations are welcome in any of these three languages. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations, as well as live captions for presentations in English. Further details about multilingualism at the Symposium are available in the CFP.

Two weeks until the deadline to apply: Thursday, December 1, 2022, midnight in your timezone

Full CFP - English - https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-english/

Full CFP - Español - https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-espagnol/

Full CFP - 中文 - https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-chinese/

This year we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics:

* Digital rights, advocacy, and activism

* Digital storytelling

* Anti-colonial digital humanities

* Digital humanities, the environment, and sustainability

We are always interested to hear about the following topics:

* Digital Humanities approaches to the global pandemics and issues of healthcare

* Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital

* Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context

* Productive failure; failure as a part of DH praxis

* Cultural heritage in a range of contexts, particularly non-Western

* Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance

* Global digital pedagogies and emerging technologies

* Equity and inclusion in digital access

* Borders, migration, and/or diasporas and their connections to the digital

* Multilingualism and the digital

* Global research dialogues and collaborations

Presentation formats vary for the Virtual and the In-Person Symposium. See the full CFP for details.

Free registration for the Symposium will open in late January 2022. Find out more, including information about past Symposia at https://msuglobaldh.org/.

Sincerely,

Kristen Mapes, on behalf of the Symposium Planning Committee

Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University East Lansing MI kmapes@msu.edu