[Air-L] CFP: Digital Humanities Forum 2019: Bodies, Justice, Futures, Oct 3-4 at the University of Kansas

[Thorat, Dhanashree Ashok]

Hi All,


I wanted to share a CFP that may be of interest to some of you. The deadline for proposal submission is May 20th, 2019 at 11:59pm.


Dhanashree

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Call for Proposals

The Digital Humanities Forum 2019, presented by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH), will take place October 3-4, 2019 at the Burge Union at the University of Kansas.


This year, the theme of the Forum is: Bodies, Justice, Futures. With this theme, the Digital Humanities Forum hopes to inspire presenters to think about the ways in which we envision and build towards just futures for individual and collective bodies from around the globe.  By evoking the human body, we ask presenters to foreground humanistic inquiries of digital culture and technology, to trace continuities between historical realities and present socio-political conditions, and/or take up issues related to marginalized and invisible lived experiences. Suggested topics related to our theme's keywords are listed below.

Bodies: wearables and biotechnologies; cognition and neuro-aesthetics of art and literature; machine learning, artificial life, Turing bots, and robotics; datafication of human bodies and experiences; literary bodies: texts, archives, collections; the human in the (digital) archive; embodiment and affect in digital culture; critical issues of identity (race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, etc) in digital culture; digital materiality.

Justice: precarious and emotional labor in the digital humanities; ethics and politics of algorithms and digital platforms; data justice; eco-critical approaches to digital technologies and cultures; digital humanities in the global south; surveillance and privacy; democratization of science, technology, access, and knowledge production; citizen technology and citizen labs; race, space, and place in the digital.

Futures: emerging technologies and data economies; speculative futures and critical making; participatory, critical, and speculative design; architectures of necessity; minimal computing; IT governance and cybersecurity; hackerspaces, fabrication, and DIY/repair culture; open technology and hardware; video games and the utopian/dystopian; Afrofuturism and the digital; pirate libraries and peer-to-peer networks; participatory, experimental, and/or anticipatory digital pedagogy.


Forum organizers welcome proposals that explore connections in and between these themes and that suggest new approaches to digital scholarship.  We encourage proposals from scholars at any stage in their careers, including undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty scholars; from gallery, library, archives, and museum professionals; as well as from those engaged in scholarship outside the university. There is a Student Presentation Award for a graduate or undergraduate presentation.


The deadline for proposal submission is May 20th, 2019 at 11:59pm. Additional details are available on our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2019



Dr. Dhanashree Thorat
Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Humanities
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Kansas