10th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities – Digital Humanities and Social Trends


The Digital Humanities is an emerging field of research, the term itself having only been coined in 2004. Notwithstanding the fact that research in this area is quite new, the digital humanities has been flourishing at an unprecedented rate. In recent years, whether in Europe, America, Asia or Taiwan, various research institutes and teams dedicated to research and development in the digital humanities have been established. This demonstrates the high level of interest in and importance attached to this field by the community.

The core concept of the field of digital humanities is the application of modern digital technologies to the disciplines of the traditional humanities, in order to overcome the limitations of traditional research methodologies. This combination of knowledge and technology, in an interdisciplinary manner, is unachievable in any single area. The development of the field of digital humanities is in fact inseparable from the progress of new digital technologies. These new technologies not only provide new methods of data analysis, but can also be used to create new types of digital resources.

In recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in the theories, technologies, systems, and tools of cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. Facing this new era, the spirit of digital humanities, humanistic themes as the kernel, digital technologies as an aid, can be feasibly achieved if humanists can integrate computation thinking in the ideation and conduction of their research.

This year is the ten-year anniversary of the International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities. This conference will explore the potential, advantages, and limitations of digital humanities in humanities research. This conference will continue over the years to research every facet of the digital humanities, but will also include the topic of ‘Digital Humanities and Social Trends’ as its theme. We invite scholars and experts, at home and abroad, to participate in this conference, and look forward to creating new milestones in digital humanities through dialog and idea exchange.

Conference Venue: National Taiwan Normal University
Conference Time: 3-6 December 2019
Conference website: http://dadh2019.conf.tw

Call for Papers -- Topics of Interest

We invite submissions of abstracts relating (but not limited) to the following aspects of artificial intelligence and digital humanities:

+ Digital humanities theory and epistemology

+ Digital humanities and social, cultural, economic, institutional, historical and ideological aspects

+ Impact of digital humanities and computational thinking on humanities education

+ Digital humanities and fake news

+ Datacentricism, Datafication and their impact on research

+ Innovative forms of digital arts such as music, film and theatre

+ Innovative digital applications such as digital design, virtual reality, games and new media.

+ Development of digital technologies and their applications to help advance humanities studies (including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, data mining, social network analysis, visualization and graphics).

+ Open resources and tools for digital humanities

+ Research data management and data curation

+ Interdisciplinary research and humanities research in literature studies, linguistics, culture, history, etc., conducted with digital data and technology.


Submission Guidelines

+ Submission of a single paper abstract, poster abstract, or a panel proposal is welcomed.

+ All submissions are to be done online.
(website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dadh2019)

+ Submitted abstract for a single paper should contain 1,000-3,000 words.

+ Submitted abstract for a poster should contain 750-1,500 words.

+ Submitted panel proposal should contain at least 1,500 words. The panel proposal should provide an overview and the abstracts of 3-4 papers.

+ The papers will be reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full papers by October 15th, 2019.



Publications

Conference Proceedings will be distributed during the conference. All authors who attend the conference will be invited to submit revised papers to the Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities). Detailed information will be announced later.


Important Dates

2019/08/18 : Paper/Poster/Panel Submissions due

2019/09/10 : Acceptance Notifications due

2019/10/15 : Full Paper Submissions due

2019/10/15 : Early Registrations due

2019/11/20 : Registrations due

2019/12/3 (W2)-12/6 (W5) : Conference