First call for papers DHASA Conference 2021
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za/
Theme: “Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent”
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is organizing its
third conference with the theme “Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent”.
The field of Digital Humanities is currently still rather underdeveloped in
Southern Africa. Hence, this conference has several aims. First, to bring
together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research from the
broad field of Digital Humanities. By doing so, this conference provides an
overview of the current state-of-the-art of Digital Humanities especially in
the Southern Africa region. This includes Digital Humanities research by people
from Southern Africa or research related to the geographical area of Southern
Africa.
Second, the conference allows for information sharing among researchers
interested in Digital Humanities as well as network building. By bringing
together researchers working on Digital Humanities from Southern Africa or on
Southern Africa, we hope to boost collaboration and research in this field.
Third, affiliated workshops and tutorials provide information for researchers
to learn about novel technologies and tools. These related events are aimed at
researchers interested in the field of Digital Humanities, to focus on specific
aspects of Digital Humanities or to provide practical information for
researchers to move into the field or advance their knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working
on all areas of Digital Humanities (including, but not limited to language,
literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music,
history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies,
philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, etc.). It aims to create
the conditions for the emergence of a scientific Digital Humanities community
of practice.
Suggested topics include the following:
- Humanities research enabled through digital media, artificial intelligence or
machine learning, software studies, mapping and geographic information systems,
or information design and modelling;
- Social, institutional, global, gender, multilingual, and multicultural
aspects of digital humanities including digital feminisms, digital indigenous
studies, digital cultural and ethnic studies, digital black studies, digital
queer studies;
- Theoretical, epistemological, historical, or related aspects and
interpretations of digital humanities practice and theory;
- Computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, archaeological, and
historical studies, including public humanities and interdisciplinary aspects
of modern scholarship;
- Computational textual studies, including quantitative stylistics, stylometry,
authorship attribution, text mining, etc.;
- Emerging technologies such as physical computing, single-board computers,
minimal computing, wearable devices, and haptic technologies applied to
humanities research;
- Digital cultural studies, hacker culture, networked communities, digital
divides, digital activism, open/libre networks and software, etc.;
- Digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula;
- Critical infrastructure studies, critical software studies, media
archaeology, eco-criticism, etc., as they intersect with the digital
humanities; and
- Any other theme pertaining to the digital humanities.
Additionally, topics specifically related to the theme of the conference are
requested, among others:
- AI and decolonisation, AI as a new form of colonisation, algorithmic bias;
- AI and Anthropocene, discourse of extinction, reverse-engineer- extinction
via AI;
- AI and human-technology interactions (androids, cyborgs, robots,
posthumanism), AI and digital labour, data extraction, knowledge magnification,
AI and facial recognition;
- AI-driven art, impact of AI-art on art, (ontological) relation between art
and AI, questions of (computational) creativity, intelligence and perception,
digital arts (including architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital
games, and electronic literature), purposes of art;
- Histories and materialities of AI, telling better stories about AI, imagining
better ways of living with AI;
- Superintelligence, ‘so-called’ intelligence, another intelligence, artificial
unintelligence, adversarial intelligence.
Submission Guidelines
The DHASA conference 2021 asks for three types of submissions:
- Long papers of at most 10 pages, not counting references, when accepted will
allow for a presentation;
- Short papers of at most 6 pages, not counting references, when accepted will
allow for a poster presentation;
- Abstracts of 200-250 words, when accepted will allow for a lightning talk.
Additionally, student submissions (where the first author is a student) are
especially encouraged.
All submissions should adhere to the style guide, see
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za/style-guides/.
All accepted submissions that are presented at the conference will be published
in the conference proceedings.
Important dates
Submission deadline: 22 August 2021
Date of notification: 30 September 2021
Camera ready copy deadline: 28 October 2021
Conference: 29 November 2021 - 3 December 2021
Given the current state of the Covid pandemic, the conference will be fully
virtual.
Co-located events
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops,
tutorials (e.g., Wikimedia), and a shared task.
Organizing Committee
Rooweither Mabuya
Franziska Pannach
Amanda du Preez
Oghenere Salubi
Mmasibidi Setaka
Anusha Sewchurrana
Menno van Zaanen
Programme committee
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