CALL. 15.02.2016: 2016 Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities - Göttingen (Germany)

FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 15/02/2016

FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 11-18-25/04-02-09-16-23-30/05-06-13-20-27/06-04/07/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (Göttingen, Germany)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)

INFO: call - gddh@gcdh.dein

CALL:

The Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities has established a forum for the discussion of digital methods applied to all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including Classics, Philosophy, History, Literature, Law, Languages, Archaeology and more. The initiative is organized by the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH). The dialogs will take place every Monday from April 11th until early July 2016 in the form of 90-minute seminars. Seminar content should be of interest to humanists, digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. Furthermore, we proudly announce that Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann (KU Leuven) will be giving the opening keynoteon April 11th. We invite submissions of abstracts describing research which employs digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable a better or new understanding of the humanities, both in the past and present. We also encourage contributions describing "work-in-progress". Abstracts should be written in English only. The authors of the successful abstracts will be asked to contribute a paper to a Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) special issue.Furthermore, the author(s) of the best paper and talk will receive a prize of €500, which will be awarded on the basis of both the quality of the paper (50% weight) and the presentation of the research (50% weight). Abstracts should be sent by February 15th at midnight CET to gddh@gcdh.dein Word.docx format only and should be a maximum of 3 pages in length.