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[1] From: Greta Boers <greta.boers@duke.edu>
Subject: report: Attending Scholarly Events during the Pandemic (65)
[2] From: Gabriel Hankins <gabrielhankins@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies (69)
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Date: 2023-06-22 06:20:00+00:00
From: Greta Boers <greta.boers@duke.edu>
Subject: report: Attending Scholarly Events during the Pandemic
Dear colleagues,
The report for Attending Scholarly Events during the Pandemic
<https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/28253>
has been published in Duke University's Digital Repository. The
survey was distributed to this and other listservs between August
15th and September 30th, 2022, to international communities in
classical studies, ancient studies, archaeology, medieval studies,
public history, and relatedfields. It garnered 487 respondents,
and 415 completed the survey. Below is a summary of the report.
Adapting to the circumstances of the past years has called into
question the reasons for which we organize events and what goals
inform them: organizing an event for the sake of an event, or as an
opportunity for exchange and learning between as many participants
as possible in our often small fields of research.
- A respondent
Summary
When WHO identified Covid-19 as a pandemic in 2020, the resulting
international lockdowns required immediate changes to all aspects of the
scholarly enterprise, as in-person formats transferred to online modalities.
The objective of this survey was to understand the impact of the pandemic
on preferences about attending scholarly events, including conferences,
workshops, and seminars. It was distributed to international communities
in classical studies, ancient studies, archaeology, medieval studies, public
history, and related fields. Since the sample was entirely voluntary, the
results are only suggestive.
The attendance factor which changed most dramatically from pre- and post-
pandemic was personal interest, from 38.3% of respondents to 54.01%.
Accessibility accommodations and assistive technologies nearly tripled in
importance after the pandemic started (from 2.4% to 6.7%). The degree
to which geographic location, affordability and institutional support
influenced attendance decreased drastically. Social networking was
consistently the least important factor in pre- and post-pandemic
attendance (10.8% to 6.7%) but generated the highest number of free text
comments (48.8%). More respondents (43.2%) weighed the trade-offs
between in-person and online events, followed by those who liked online
events (37.6%). Relatively few disliked them (18.0%).
The respondent's comment quoted above summarizes the value of the survey
results as material for reflection and future planning. Relevance to research
and teaching, personal interest, inclusion, accessibility, and affordability are
considerations which cut across disciplines, academic status, and
employment.
The survey results suggest that online and hybrid events lift some of the
barriers to scholarly communication and communities.
Sincerely,
Greta G. Boers
Librarian for Classical Studies
She/Her greta.boers@duke.edu
Joyce Chapman
Assessment Analyst and Consultant
She/Her joyce.chapman@duke.edu
Duke University Libraries
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27704
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Date: 2023-06-21 15:16:41+00:00
From: Gabriel Hankins <gabrielhankins@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies
Dear all, please see our general CFP for the Cambridge Elements in Digital
Literary Studies below.
We welcome inquiries and proposals in all areas of
digital literary studies.
Our current volumes and more information here:
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/digital-literary-studies>
Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies
This series asks how digital mediation transforms literary studies and how
literary fields transform digital texts, technologies, and cultures.
Elements combine the literary and the digital to address questions situated
within a defined area of literary studies, and articulate clear conclusions
on the literary insights achieved. They are intended to serve as a new
model for working, teaching, and thinking within the contested terrain of
digital literary studies now: affording extensive digital argumentation and
archival support, underpinned by Cambridge’s Core platform for born-digital
publication, and printed in affordable editions for classroom use and
personal reference. Elements can expand on previous material, and can be
used without copyright restriction as the basis for longer books. Previous
Elements have focused on literary generalization, the geographies of Balzac
and Proust, sentiment analysis, literary mimesis, and the preservation of
born-digital fiction.
We are interested in work on:
- Theories and Models of digital literary studies
- Digital Editions: Theories and Practices
- Annotation and Social Reading
- Generative AI and Literary Studies
- Spatial Humanities
- Transformative Readings and Adaptations
- Literary Visualization
- Digital Correspondences
- Natural Language Processing and Literary Studies
- Electronic Literary Studies
- Fan Fiction: Readings and Methods
- Literary Game Studies
- Single-Author Studies, e.g. Reading Austen’s Networks
- Formal Readings, e.g. Twitter and Lyric Form
- Digital Bibliographic Criticism
- Digital Publishing: Economies and Readerships
- Social Readers: Goodreads, Reader Recommendations, and Online Book Forums
- Digital Approaches to Literary Sociology
- Feminist and Intersectional Approaches to Digital Literary Studies
- Critical Digital Race Studies
- Translation Studies: Between Literary and Machine Translation
- Encodings: Text Encoding, Methods and Uses
- Digital Latinx Studies
- Digital Cultural Heritage
Gabriel Hankins, series co-editor, for
Katherine Bode, series co-editor, Australian National University
Adam Hammond, series co-editor, University of Toronto
--
Gabriel Hankins (he / him)
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English, Clemson University
Series Co-Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/digital-literary-studies>
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