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CALL FOR PAPERS

2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)

Critical Computing: Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009

Colloquium Dates:    November 14 – 16, 2009

Location:                   Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL


The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer
Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and
scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the
digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to
identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future
research.

The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical
Computing".  We will explore how research collaborations between
computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective.

* How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists?

* How can humanities scholarship help us understand the meaning and
  import of computational analysis of human artifacts?

We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and
students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in
the humanities and computer science.

We welcome proposals for:

* Paper presentations  (20 minute talks)

* Poster presentations (open session)

* Software demonstrations (open session)

* Panel discussions (60-90 minute session)

* Performances

* Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours)

* Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours)

Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu

Submission Format:

Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009.

Graduate Student Travel Fund:

A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate
students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More
information about the application process will be available soon.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions:   Sunday, August 30

Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14

Full Program Announcement:  Thursday, September 24

Registration opens:         Tuesday, September 29

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State
University, is the founder and director of the Artificial
Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational
Intelligence, Learning & Discovery.  His research interests include
artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and
computational biology, data mining, semantic web, and social
informatics.  Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information
integration and knowledge discovery from diverse data sources,
learning from biological and textual data, and modular ontologies.

Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, as
they are confirmed.  Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included
Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum,
Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin
Wattenberg.
 

DHCS-2009 is sponsored by:

  * Illinois Institute of Technology

  * The University of Chicago

  * Northwestern University

Program Committee:

* Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois
  Institute of Technology

* Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago

* Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
  of Technology

* Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
  of Technology

* Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near
  East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library

* Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics,
  Northwestern University

* Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University
  of Chicago

* Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of
  Technology

* Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of
  Chicago

* Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of
  Technology

* Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
  of Technology

Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:

Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference
session the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering
introductory tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text
analysis/data-mining or GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
applications for the humanities (to be announced).  We also
encourage proposals for informal "birds of a feather" meetings on
topics of common interest (e.g. "digital archaeology").

The formal DHCS colloquium program, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday,
November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation
sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions.
Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up
discussions. There are no parallel sessions.

For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website.

Contact Info:

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Colloquium Website:  http://dhcs.iit.edu

  Information about previous years' colloquia is available at
  http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu.

Catherine Mardikes
Senior Humanities Bibliographer,
Bibliographer for Classics & the Ancient Near East,
Electronic Text Services Coordinator
The University of Chicago Library
Telephone: (773) 702-2783
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