Conference on Digital Humanities

School of Arts and Social Sciences Research Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities RIDCH Conferences 2015 Conference on Digital Humanities

Conference on Digital Humanities 2015 
Theme: Digitization of the Humanities: Technologizing Interconnections in Art, History and Literature

Digital Humanities used to be called 'Humanities Computing', which largely refers to the mere application of computer technology in the humanities. Yet, as the range of devices, media, and web technology proliferates in recent decades, the digital experience has come to play a central role in modern life. For many, life in the digital era is meditated through new media, social networks, and virtual applications. The digital experience is not just a part of everyday life; it has become everyday life. Critics and scholars in disciplines ranging as widely as art, history, film, language, literature, education, media studies, and sociology now describe this emerging global phenomenon as Digital Humanities, an emerging field that increasingly grows in depth, diversity, and richness. With the theme of 'Digitization of the Humanities: Technologizing Interconnections in Art, History and Literature', the first Digital Humanities Conference offers opportunities to explore key themes, impacts, potentials, and challenges in the digitization of the Humanities. 

The Conference on Digital Humanities 2015 will address a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • The media ecology of literary institutions;
  • Reflections on digital culture in the Humanities;
  • The poetics of new media and electronic literature;
  • Humanities research enabled through digital media;
  • The institutional role of digital humanities in the contemporary academy;
  • Internet studies, software, and computer applications in arts and humanities;
  • The digital arts, film, music, drama, new media, and related humanities areas;
  • Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computer-mediated research;
  • New possibilities in research in cultural, literary, linguistics, and historical studies;
  • Data curation and knowledge management for humanities digital archives and resources.