[Air-L] DHBenelux 2017, second call for papers

[Mirko Tobias Schaefer]

Dear list,

this call sounds as "first wave" DH as possible, but they are open to 
critical contributions, explorative, mixed methods and digital methods. 
Anyway, we at Utrecht Data School would be more than happy to see also 
AoIR colleagues contributing to this conference. And we'd love to host a 
summer party ;-)

Cheers,
mirko

[apologies for cross-posting]
The fourth *DHBenelux Conference* (http://dhbenelux2017.eu/ 
<https://webmail.uu.nl/OWA/redir.aspx?C=xYgCNlMedzo9Fw4xfGU7kc_xd8Rx666B2--j4pFSvj6GgZcLZVnUCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fdhbenelux2017.eu%2f>) 
will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from *Monday 3 to Wednesday 
5 July 2017*. The conference will be hosted by Utrecht University and is 
open to everyone, including researchers from outside the Benelux.
The DHBenelux conference aims to disseminate digital humanities projects 
in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and foster collaboration 
between them. DHBenelux organises an annual conference in one of the 
Benelux countries. The conference serves as a platform for DH 
researchers and offers an opportunity for members of the DH community to 
meet, present research, demonstrate tools, and discuss projects.
We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of digital humanities 
and digital social sciences, ranging from practical applications to 
methodology and theory. Relevant subjects can be any of—but are not 
limited to—the following:
·Application of digital technology in literary, linguistic, cultural, 
and historical studies
·Exploration and analysis of multimedia resources
·Text mining and image mining (e.g. stylometry, topic modelling, 
sentiment mining)
·Digital media, digitization, curation of digital objects
·Software development, systems design and information modelling
·Interfaces, augmented reality, serious gaming
·Design and application of algorithms
·Infrastructures and virtual research environments
·Ethnography and user studies
·Critical study of digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new 
media, video games
·Ethical, social and economic aspects of digitality and digital humanities
·Didactics of digital humanities

We particularly encourage PhD students and junior researchers to submit 
abstracts.
Presentation categories are:

  * *Individual presentations* on papers will be given 15 minutes
    presentation time and 5 minutes for Q&A. Individual presentations
    are especially suitable for presenting research results, whether in
    terms of theory, methodology or outcomes.
  * A poster session will be scheduled, but* posters* may be put up for
    display during the entire conference. Posters are useful to convey
    technical explanations and clarifications, and to demonstrate
    projects and on-going research.
  * For *demonstrating* prototypes, finished software, hardware
    technology, tools, datasets, digital publications and so forth a
    ‘market place’ will be organized.
  * Groups of researchers may propose *panels*. One-hour panel sessions
    are chaired by a panellist who will be responsible for the balance
    between presentation and discussion.

*Individual presentation and panel proposals* may have a maximum length 
of* 1000 words*. The maximum length for *demonstration and poster 
proposals* is *500 words*. References and/or bibliography are excluded 
from the word count. This year peer-reviewing by the Programme Committee 
will be double-blind. Therefore, *please do not include your name* *and 
affiliation* in the abstract but only in the EasyChair submission form. 
After acceptance of the proposal you will have the opportunity to submit 
a final version with the name(s) of the author(s), in which you may also 
integrate any commentary from the reviewers.
The preferred language of the conference is English. Proposals, 
presentations and posters in any language in the Benelux will be 
accepted; note, however, that this will limit the impact of your message.
To submit your proposal, please go to the DHBenelux 2017 Submission page 
<https://webmail.uu.nl/OWA/redir.aspx?C=bmcSWy909k2adi3VVMgiLv4spCmpr2Rdb1rIKpil_xeGgZcLZVnUCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fdhbenelux2017.eu%2fsubmit-proposals%2f> for 
instructions and a link to EasyChair.
Selection will be based on the following review criteria:

  * originality
  * relevance to the field
  * academic quality
  * clear focus

All abstracts will be published in Open Access.
Deadline for submitting abstracts: *Wednesday 15 February 2017, 23:59 
CET*. Notification of acceptance: *Wednesday 5 April 2017*.
Arjan van Hessen (general chair)
Joris van Eijnatten (programme chair)
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