Forwarded message:
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Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the “Mapping the
Text” conference, occurring at New York University on Saturday 21 April
2018. The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual Culture
Mapping event hosted at New York University, which will occur on Friday 20
April 2018. The Culture Mapping event will be hosted by NewYorkScapes , a
research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and
social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship.
Our scholarly landscape surrounds us with spatial turns in both the
humanities and social sciences. Additionally, the arrival of mapping
software suites with low barriers to entry has prompted a new interest in
supplementing these spatial turns with digital, geographical
visualizations. The boons to fields like history or archaeology and
anthropology have been immediately apparent, but other humanistic fields
have often made use of this software mostly to answer
historiogeographically driven questions, namely by using digital geospatial
visualizations to show how objects have moved through the “real world” to
generate networks of influence, such as in Stanford’s “Mapping the Republic
of Letters ” project. In so doing, this work reproduces a distinct
separation between the world(s) outside a text and world(s) inside a text.
In “Mapping the Text,” our aim is to convene scholars who have crossed this
line and begun linking the “real world”(s) mediated by software packages
with the worlds that emerge inscribed within texts, where both “worlds” and
“texts” are understood broadly. Topics for papers, panels, or posters
should feature both spatiotemporal/digital components of textual analysis
and could include, for example: doing geospatial work on a budget, doing
geospatial work on texts from before or outside the Cartesian plane,
geospatial visualization in contrast to or supplementing analysis, minor
texts and minor geographies, handling and creating geospatial data,
teaching the geospatial through texts, and more.
All proposals for papers and panels must be submitted through the
conference’s webform. We seek a diverse group of proposals from a diverse
group of scholars, both in terms of their geography and institutional
affiliations as well as in their positions in their careers.
There may be some funding available for non-US / non-faculty panelists.
The deadline for submissions is 12 January 2017.
With any questions about the “Mapping the Text” conference, please contact
its organizer, Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York University, at
moacir@mapping-the-text.org
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Deadline for submissions:
12 January 2018
Contact email:
conference-2018@mapping-the-text.org
https://mapping-the-text.org/conference/2018/cfp
—
Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities /
Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center
Vice President, Association for Computers and the Humanities
http://cuny.is/mkgold | @mkgold
