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    From: Re:Humanities
    Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:06 AM
    Subject: Re: Humanities 2016 Call for Papers
    To: “Gold, Matthew”

    Dear Professor Gold,

    The Re:Humanities working group would like to inform you that we have extended our submission deadline to Saturday January 23 at midnight. All submissions should be sent to rehumanities@gmail.com.

    The full CFP guidelines can be found here: http://blogs.haverford.edu/rehumanities/%5Bblogs.haverford.edu%5D.

    Please spread this information to your students and anyone interested in our conference on Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1 at Bryn Mawr College.

    Thank you,
    The Re:Humanities 2016 Working Group

    On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Re:Humanities wrote:
    Based on your work in digital humanities, we thought you may be interested in Re:Humanities, an annual undergraduate symposium centered around Digital Humanities.

    Please find attached our Call for Papers for Re:Humanities 2016. Re:Humanities is the only national symposium of, by, and for undergraduates working in the digital humanities.

    Following on successful symposia in the last five years, Re:Humanities 2016, “Bleeding Edge to Cutting Edge,” will feature new modes of undergraduate research and faculty-student collaboration. The symposium is hosted by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges and will take place on March 31-April 1, 2016 at Bryn Mawr College. Please circulate the attached CFP to undergraduates doing related work or colleagues who might be interested.

    Lodging and travel support will be offered to participants. The deadline for proposal submissions is Thursday, January 1, 2016.

    I would be happy to provide further information or answer any questions you or your students might have.

    Best,
    Leila Selchaif ’18
    lselcha1@swarthmore.edu

    On behalf of the Re:Humanities Working Group

    http://www.haverford.edu/rehumanities
    #rehum16

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    Re:Humanities ’16: Bleeding Edge to Cutting Edge
    Bryn Mawr || Haverford || Swarthmore
    March 31-April 1, 2016
    rehumanities@gmail.com
    #rehum16

    Re:Humanities is the first national digital humanities conference of, for, and by undergraduates, now in its sixth year. Our theme for Re:Humanities 2016 is “Bleeding Edge to Cutting Edge.” The Re:Hum Working Group, comprised of students from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, seeks undergraduates who engage with contemporary currents in digital humanities. We especially encourage work that uses digital methods and tools to engage in traditional humanities research and poses critical questions about those technologies. We invite undergraduates who will think interdisciplinarily, exploring relationships between new digital technologies and the webs of power and access that surround them.

    In today’s culture of innovation, the question of failure looms large. Bleeding edge innovations, ideas, and technologies are high risk, and prone to failure, as they have not yet been fully implemented. Cutting edge ideas are tested, polished, and primed for success. Re:Humanities ’16 aims to explore the space between raw risk and published presentation. This year we challenge ourselves and each other to create a space for inquiry by spectacularly failing together. How does the concept of failure shape the process of success? These concerns raise fundamental questions for both scholars and broader communities. Where does Digital Humanities as a field lie on the spectrum between bleeding and cutting edge? Are the terms mutually exclusive or can they exist in a productive relationship with each other? What happens to good ideas that do not work? These concerns raise fundamental questions for both scholars and the community. As in past years, we hope this theme will merge theoretical analysis and practical inquiry in the interdisciplinary spirit of the digital humanities.

    The Working Group welcomes submissions of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with the understanding that a substantial amount of research will be accumulated to present at the conference at Bryn Mawr College, March 31-April 1, 2016. We encourage proposals that are concerned with but not limited to:

    * Criticism of new media technologies and practices
    * Archiving of personal and academic texts and literatures through new technologies and media
    * Collaboration and solidarity in the digital humanities
    * Hybrid practices, interdisciplinary media, and subversion of cultural and political norms
    * Intersections between academic research and a public audience
    * Public preservation of histories and cultures
    * Risk, trial, and error in new media
    * Privacy: digital footprints, cloud storage, and Big Data
    * Identity as shaped by excessive information or data deprivation
    *What haven’t we heard about because they were initially “failures”?
    *The ways that the academic disciplines view failure – the risks and benefits of experimentation, completeness
    *The rhetoric of describing innovation
    *Is DH itself bleeding or cutting edge? Are they mutually exclusive?

    Students selected to present will receive a small award to defray travel costs. Lodging will be arranged at no cost to participants.

    The submission deadline is January 1, 2016 (Midnight GMT) and decisions will be announced in early February. All submissions must include your name, institution, a short biography of 2-3 sentences, and a titled description of your project (maximum 700 words). Send a .doc/.docx, .pdf or .jpg file to rehumanities@gmail.com. (We are happy to accommodate you if your submission requires a different format. In this case, please contact us at least seven days in advance of the due date).

    We look forward to your participation!

    The Re:Humanities 2016 Working Group
    Miranda Canilang ’17 (BMC) mcanilang@brynmawr.edu
    Hannah Weissmann, ’17 (HC) hweissmann@haverford.edu
    Leila Selchaif, ’18 (SC) lselcha1@swarthmore.edu
    Amanda Lee ’18 (SC) alee5@swarthmore.edu


    Join us for #ReHum16 March 31-April 1, 2016
    Re:Humanities || @ReHumanities
    [blogs.haverford.edu]

    This topic was also posted in: MALS Digital Humanities Track.
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