Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 436.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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[1] From: Michael Falk <michaelgfalk@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: DHA25 (54)
[2] From: Mapes, Kristen <kmapes@msu.edu>
Subject: Livestream for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium (April 2-8) (68)
[3] From: Danielle Hynes <Danielle.Hynes@mu.ie>
Subject: CFP: Digital Geographies 2025, Data Voids, negativity and refusal (65)
[4] From: Simone Rebora <simone.rebora81@gmail.com>
Subject: SIG-DLS mini-conference at DH2025 (57)
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Date: 2025-04-03 05:27:42+00:00
From: Michael Falk <michaelgfalk@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: DHA25
‘Digital Archipelagos’
Digital Humanities Australasia 2025
December 2-5
Australian National University, Nbambri/Canberra
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for DHA25: https://dha25.org.
Abstracts: submitted via ConfTool<https://www.conftool.org/dha2025/> by 9th May.
Notifications of acceptance: communicated by 13th June.
The Australasian region is home to myriad archipelagos with deep significance,
from the Kulkalgal Nation islands in the middle of Torres Strait to the
Wharekauri (‘Misty Sun’) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, east of Aotearoa’s
South Island. Diverse, sacred, and yet increasingly under threat, these sites
offer powerful examples of how land and sea are woven into cultural knowledge
systems, social relations, and identities.
Archipelagos also serve our conference as a metaphor to spark dialogue about new
directions and approaches in the Digital Humanities. They inspire us to
conceptualise the fragmentation, clustering, dispersion, and interconnection of
data in the Digital Humanities in discussions that prioritise local experiences
and networks to challenge dominant narratives. In an age of algorithmic
ubiquity, we aim to examine how seemingly isolated ‘islands’ of knowledge can
remain distinct but intricately connected across evolving global contexts.
Archipelagos can also signify the coming together of disciplines, ideas and
methodologies in ways that honour local histories, languages, and cosmologies
while advancing sustainable, community-informed projects in the digital arena.
From ‘relation-oriented AI’ to ‘embodied knowledge archives,’ our conference
theme foregrounds situatedness, proximity, and place as indispensable foci for
future DH research and practice (Brown, Whaanga & Lewis 2023; Alliata et al.
2024).
Digital Archipelagos invites submissions for a four-day interdisciplinary
Digital Humanities conference on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people
at The Australian National University, hosted by the HASS Digital Research Hub
and the College of Arts and Social Sciences. The main conference will run from
midday on 3 December, with pre-meetings, workshops and allied events on 2
December, including the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship
(CAPOS) gathering<https://inke.ca/re-defining-open-social-scholarship-in-an-age-
of-generative-intelligence/>.
We invite papers on the following three themes, or any other topic in the
Digital Humanities:
1. AI-Enhanced Humanities Research
2. Digital Cultural Stewardship
3. Data Ethics and Inclusive Practice
For full details and access to the Conftool Submission site, visit
https://dha25.org.
Michael Falk, on behalf of the
DHA25 Organising Committee
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Date: 2025-04-02 02:49:50+00:00
From: Mapes, Kristen <kmapes@msu.edu>
Subject: Livestream for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium (April 2-8)
Dear colleagues,
The Global Digital Humanities Symposium begins TODAY! The program is expansive
and exciting, taking place virtually this week and livestreamed and in-person
early next week. Please join us via the YouTube live stream, if you didn’t get a
chance to register!
Symposium website: msuglobaldh.org
Shortlink for the livestream (it will be updated throughout the Symposium while
we are streaming to take you to the correct stream. When we aren’t streaming,
the shortlink will default to our YouTube channel): go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh
The fully virtual symposium takes place during the following days and times
(links to time zone conversion are available on the program page of the
website):
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 pm – 7:45 pm EDT
Thursday, April 3, 11:30 am – 4:30 pm EDT
Friday, April 4, 8:30 am – 1:30 pm EDT
The in-person symposium will also be livestreamed to YouTube, so do join on the
following Monday and Tuesday as well, if you are able:
Monday, April 7, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Tuesday, April 8, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT
Information for livestream attendees:
- Questions for presenters can be posed through the chat in the livestream and
will be relayed to presenters in Zoom throughout the Symposium.
- Feel free to share the livestream link to colleagues and students who might be
interested in following along with this event.
- Not all sessions will be available through the livestream. Project Showcase
presentations, in particular, will not be streamed, however most have pre-
recorded materials that are available publicly, linked from the Program.
- Not all of the sessions will be available in the future as recordings;
decisions about long term access to the recordings are made by the presenters
themselves.
On Thursday, there is a 45-minute Project Showcase session, with 6 concurrent
breakout rooms in each session. Presenters have sent in 5-7 minute recordings of
their projects so you can pre-watch and determine where you want to go during
the Symposium. During the sessions, presenters will share their recordings and
informally discuss their work with attendees, like in a poster session, in Zoom
breakout rooms, which will not be available to live stream attendees. However,
anyone is welcome to watch the recordings (for 5/6 of the presentations). Find
the recordings linked from the schedule page.
The backchannel conversation is on Mastodon and Bluesky at #MSUGlobalDH. Feel
free to take notes and converse there. Note that we are operating on a general
protocol that all presentations and Q&A may be shared, unless the speaker
specifically requests that something not be shared. In that case we ask that
everyone respect their request per the Code of Conduct.
We hope to have you with us over the coming days!
Sincerely,
Kristen Mapes and Kate Topham, on behalf of the Global Digital Humanities
Symposium Planning Committee
Kristen Mapes
Associate Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
kmapes@msu.edu<mailto:kmapes@msu.edu>
she/her
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Date: 2025-04-01 11:45:13+00:00
From: Danielle Hynes <Danielle.Hynes@mu.ie>
Subject: CFP: Digital Geographies 2025, Data Voids, negativity and refusal
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Subject: [Air-L] CFP: Digital Geographies 2025, Data Voids, negativity
and refusal
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 11:00:41 +0000
From: Danielle Hynes via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Reply-To: Danielle Hynes <Danielle.Hynes@mu.ie>
To: Joly MacFie via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
With apologies for cross-posting.
Please see below a CFP for a Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies
Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon.
Data Voids: Understanding Digital Geographies of the Built Environment
through Negativity and Refusal
Emerging work in cultural geography has called on researchers to
consider the (im)potential of 'negative' spaces and affects, asking what
can be done with voids, limits and (in)capacities of different kinds
(e.g. Bissell et al, 2021). Meanwhile, across media and cultural
studies, critical data studies and feminist and political geography
there is growing attention to the possibilities of refusal (e.g. James
et al., 2023), particularly refusal as a collective and generative
response to datafied systems. Both bodies of work are concerned with
gaps, absences, silences and negation, though with varied foci and
orientations toward action.
Our session seeks to bring these literatures into conversation, with a
particular focus on digital data and the built environment.
The governance of built environments is increasingly informed and
narrated through digital data - from 'evidence-based' planning, to the
modelling of land/housing markets, and uses of 'proptech' to facilitate
investment or discipline tenants, data seem almost as foundational as
bricks and mortar. Yet such data are often characterised by absences,
gaps and silences. Such absences prompt initiatives to fix, 'free'
and/or repurpose the data in order to enhance access and transparency.
However, recent work problematises transparency as a universal response
to data-driven systems, pointing to refusal and data justice as
approaches pursuing a structural shift relative to data harms.
The session will seek theoretical and empirical contributions pertaining
to questions including, but not limited to:
* What might an attention to data voids from the perspective of
negative geographies and refusal illuminate?
* How do absences of data shape the built environment?
* How do acts of refusal in the face of data-driven governance
generate meaningful political and spatial alternatives?
* How might methodological approaches to data be developed or
reconceived through working with refusal and negativity?
* How do we reckon with refusal alongside the politics of data
suppression?
* How do we register what or who is left absent (unbuilt, unseen
or unheard) by/through data in its shaping of built spaces?
Papers from this session will be considered for a potential Special
Issue in a relevant journal.
Submit abstracts (max 250 words) by *April 30, 2025*
here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA3KwwzulWPBEubfIyP3ZAsmeGN8KXebD
hAoWborY-eulusQ/viewform>,
selecting Special Session 8.
More information about the conference can be found
here<https://ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeographies/>.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *May 15, 2025*.
Session Organisers:
Danielle Hynes & Samuel Mutter (National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- Data Stories<https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/> project)
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Date: 2025-04-01 09:47:37+00:00
From: Simone Rebora <simone.rebora81@gmail.com>
Subject: SIG-DLS mini-conference at DH2025
Comparative Literature Goes Digital
<https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2025/dh-mini-conference.html#comparative-
literature-goes-digital>
Call available at: https://dls.hypotheses.org/1903
In September 2024, a new Research Committee on “Digital Comparative
Literature” (DCL) was formed as part of the International Comparative
Literature Association (ICLA). In September 2025, the Computational
Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS-INFRA), part of the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, will conclude its
activities.
To celebrate the concurrent creation and conclusion of these two sister
projects, the SIG-DLS (now renamed “Digital Literary Studies”) organizes a
mini-conference at DH2025 in Lisbon, dedicated to all applications of
digital and computational methods in the study of literature.
The program (planned on Monday 14 July, 13:30-20:00 WET) will include a
series of lightning talks and demos, welcoming contributions on (but not
limited to) the following topics:
- Distant reading techniques and computational literary studies when
applied in a comparative perspective;
- Multilingual literary archives and the digitization of texts in
different languages and writing systems;
- The transformation of the book, reading in the post-digital age, and
born-digital literature;
- Geographic information systems, data visualization, and comparative
literary studies;
Machine translation, artificial intelligence;
- Language models and comparative literature.
To submit a contribution for a lightning talk or a demo, please send a
brief abstract via the submission form <https://forms.gle/f6oKJdSnHX9XkxgZ8>
by 25 April 2025. A lightning talk is intended as a short presentation
(max 5 minutes) of an ongoing or finished project, or even of an idea for
possible research (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of
max 250 words). A demo is intended as a longer, interactive presentation
(max 15 minutes) of a tool or workflow for digital/computational literary
studies (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of max 500
words–you can also add links to supporting materials like notebooks and/or
videos). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the programme committee and
notifications of acceptance will be sent by 2 May 2025.
Organising & programme committee
<https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2025/dh-mini-conference.html#organising-
programme-committee>
Simone Rebora (SIG-DLS and ICLA DCL)
Joanna Byszuk (SIG-DLS and CLS-INFRA)
Yina Cao (ICLA DCL)
Maciej Eder (CLS-INFRA)
J. Berenike Herrmann (SIG-DLS)
Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL)
Suzanne Mpouli (SIG-DLS)
Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG-DLS)
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