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I'm posting this on behalf of Catherine Mardikes. Please pass it on to people you think might be interested. --- 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: Please email [log in to unmask] for more information. 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 [log in to unmask]