Making Connections: Digital Humanities Australasia Conference – Call for Papers

Making Connections
Digital Humanities Australasia
2-5 October, 2018
University of South Australia, City West Campus

Deadline: 9 April, 2018
More info: http://dha2018.org.au

All sessions will explore the central theme of “Making Connections”. This could include connections in any combination between data, tools, people and their stories, systems, platforms, organisations, sectors, environments, places, and approaches to working, teaching and research. Submissions may feature projects or case studies ranging from research and teaching to creative practice, community outreach and problem solving.

Collaborative and multi-partner submissions are particularly welcomed in all categories.

The following proposal types are invited.

  1. Lightning talks: Lightning talks will be allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for discussion) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on work in the early stage of development.
  2. Papers: Papers will be allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research, new digital resources or addressing broader questions of interest to digital humanists.
  3. Birds of a Feather sessions: These collaborative, informal and participatory sessions will be allocated 60 minutes to be used as participants decide, ensuring that time is allocated for questions and discussion.
    Workshops: Hands-on sessions exploring the latest digital humanities tools, techniques and resources. All workshops will be run twice to maximise participation. Workshops will range from software carpentry and visualisation techniques to app development and hackathons. Workshops will be allocated 90 minutes.
  4. Posters: A poster competition will be run during the conference, with an award for the entry which demonstrates most convincingly how the Digital Humanities can enhance collaborative problem solving by “Making Connections”.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by Monday 9 April 2018. All proposals will be fully refereed.

Proposals should be submitted via the conference website. Proposals will be assessed in terms of alignment with the conference themes and the quality of research within these or related themes. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal by mid-May 2018.

It is a condition of acceptance that presenters register to attend the conference and pay the applicable delegate fee. Fees will be no more than $450 for full registration. Significant discounts will apply for aaDH members and research students. We are working with prospective sponsors to reduce the cost for all delegates.