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2024 DIGITAL HUMANITIES INSTITUTE 

May 18, 2024

hosted by East Carolina University (ECU)

2024 Call for Abstracts

The DHC-NC invites individuals and/or teams working in the digital humanities to submit proposals to the 2024 Digital Humanities Institute.

This year’s Institute is especially interested in showcasing the ways in which qualitative and quantitative data inform digital humanities practices. We’re also interested in how data in various forms does or could support activism and advocacy in and beyond digital humanities.

Possible questions the context raises might include:

  • How do data activism and data justice play a role in the dissemination of digital humanities-driven projects? For example, how could digital humanists engage with activists calling for data sovereignty?
  • What are the limitations of data in the digital humanities, and/or what should we be cautious about? Are there particular kinds of data about which digital humanists should be concerned?
  • How are digital humanists contributing to community activism? How is digital humanities reshaped through its participation in activism?
  • What data tools do you use to work with data in your digital humanities work? Are you developing tools for others or is there a tool that doesn’t yet exist, but could, that would expand the scope of your data and work’s impact?
  • How is digital humanities responding to data sovereignty, data ownership, data privacy and related questions of methodology and post-research sharing?

We also welcome proposals that address digital humanities in a broader sense.

  • What are best practices to clarify a DH project’s purpose and engagement with potential audiences?
  • How do we navigate complex interpersonal dynamics in collaborative and participatory DH projects?
  • What new tools and platforms are we adding to our practice(s)? This question is meant to be as broad as possible, going beyond the data tools mentioned above.

Presentation formats

Lightning Talks: Proposals for lightning talks up to 10 minutes about projects completed or in process. Please provide a 100- to 200-word abstract.

Individual/team Presentations: Proposals for one or more speakers. Each individual presentation should be planned for 20 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A. Please provide 250- to 300-word abstracts for an individual presentation or a group presentation.

Workshops: Proposals for 75-minute facilitated workshops focused on tools, techniques, teaching, managing projects or other topics.

Important dates

Submissions are due March 31, 2024.

Decisions will be announced April 15.

The Digital Humanities Institute will be May 18.

Registration

Registration information is coming soon!

Schedule and Program

Schedule and program are coming soon!

Code of Conduct

The Institute provides a welcoming and inclusive community of digital humanities scholars and practitioners, and it is dedicated to the creation of a safe, respectful, and collegial conference experience for all attendees. All attendees must agree to follow this Code of Conduct.

About the Digital Humanities Collaborative Institute

The Digital Humanities Collaborative Institute (DHCI) is a 1-3 day institute that occurs several times each year in North Carolina with the goal of promoting digital humanities projects across North Carolina in an equitable fashion. Any institution in North Carolina can host the event.

The institute is flexible depending on the host, but often features digital humanities workshops to learn skills and/or tools, unconference sessions (small group discussions, lightning talks, open mic for news/jobs/project plugs) and opportunities for attendees to share their work with the network.

The theme is chosen by the institute planning committee, but could focus on scholarship, pedagogy, collections, public projects, social justice or a combination of all of these.

Interested in hosting a DHCI in the future? Please contact DHC-NC at dhcollabnc@gmail.com.

Past Institutes

Looking for an institute that has already happened? See schedules, session descriptions and other website content from past Digital Humanities Institutes.

The DHCI is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is one of fifteen Digital Humanities Research Institutes formed in partnership with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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