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    From: Kristen Mapes <kmapes@msu.edu>
    Date: Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:02 AM
    Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Final Reminder: Global Digital Humanities
    Symposium 2018, Call for Proposals (Deadline: FRIDAY)
    To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community <
    globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca>

    *Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University*

    *March 22-23, 2018*

    *We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of
    participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there
    will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. There is
    an option to request consideration for travel funds in the proposal form.
    If you have any questions, please email dh@msu.edu <dh@msu.edu>.*

    *Call for Proposals* Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15,
    11:59pm EST

    msuglobaldh.org
    (msuglobaldh.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=nE)

    Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its
    symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities
    scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range
    of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden
    access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that
    which MSU champions
    (cplong.org),
    values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to
    reflect a broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural
    positions, and diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge
    work. Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form
    manifests a critical perspective on the digital content and the position of
    the researcher to their material.

    With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced
    and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including,
    among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation,
    digital rights, endangered data
    (endangereddataweek.org),
    and the digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to
    broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across
    borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible
    data is especially welcome.

    Michigan State University has been intentionally global
    (http://www.isp.msu.edu/about/about-isp/) for more than 60 years, with over
    1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service.
    For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in
    culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix
    (http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/), a digital humanities and social science
    center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern
    Africa
    (http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio_categories/africa-related-projects/)
    that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity
    building. WIDE (http://wide.msu.edu) has set best practices for doing
    community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan
    Collections, Archive 2.0
    (http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio-item/samaritan-archive-2-0/). Today
    many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects
    relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.

    This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types,
    welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and
    particularly on the following themes and topics by *Friday, December 15,
    11:59pm EST:*

    – Critical cultural studies and analytics
    – Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
    – DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
    – Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance,
    especially in a postcolonial context
    – DH responses to crisis
    – How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital
    humanities work
    – Global research dialogues and collaborations
    – Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
    – Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
    – Global digital pedagogies
    – Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
    – Digital and global languages and literatures
    – The state of global digital humanities community
    – Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
    – Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages,
    and economies
    – Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context

    *Presentation Formats:*

    – 3-5-minute lightning talk
    – 15-minute presentation
    – 90-minute workshop
    – 90-minute panel

    *Proposal form*: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/
    (http://www.msuglobaldh.org)

    Kristen Mapes
    Digital Humanities Coordinator, College of Arts & Letters
    Michigan State University
    479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308
    East Lansing MI 48824
    517.884.1712 <(517)%20884-1712>
    kmapes@msu.edu

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