——————————
*From:* Ray Siemens <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, February 16, 2024 1:36 PM
*To:* Ray Siemens <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [Advance CFP, INKE] Creative Approaches to Open Social
Scholarship: Canada (@ Congress, 17-18 June 2024. Montréal)

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada*

*17-18 June 2024 (McGill U. Montréal, QC, Canada)*

*An INKE-hosted gathering aligned with the Federation for the Humanities
and Social Sciences’ annual Congress and Coalition Publica’s Canadian
Scholarly Journals Symposium (19 June 2024)*

*Important information*

*Proposals*: by 15 March 2024 via this link
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKLHQeX0982kDVflmd6-d-n-guzErtZETYVXGmgyI-0NRClQ/viewform__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLFWYPx2pA$)
.

*Registration*: via https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/register
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/register__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLGHJxLrRg$)
[Note: This is a free event, though Congress registration is required. If
you are coming only for this event, consider the ‘community member’ rate
($30)].

–

How do we create open social scholarship in the 2020s?

Over the past several decades, academic work has evolved alongside
substantial and far-reaching changes in communication and collaboration.
One example of this evolution is the rise of open, digital scholarship: a
movement that prioritizes access to information, social knowledge creation,
and cross-community engagement. Now, in the 2020s, academics and other
knowledge workers can produce, publish, and share their research findings
much more openly and more publicly than previously possible. In a recent
report for the Canadian Commission to UNESCO, Leslie Chan, Bud Hall, Piron,
Rajesh Tandon, and Lorna Williams “offer a vision of Open Science that is
just, fair and decolonial, but also realist and lucid. [The authors] have
drawn attention to an understanding of science based on an inclusive
universalism, open to Indigenous ways of knowing and all other theories,
epistemologies and viewpoints” (2020). Such a vision is evidence of
shifting attitudes and practices in academia. But how we actually go about
creating research that is more open, more fair, and more social bears
further examination and discussion.

We would like to continue these conversations at *Creative Approaches to
Open Social Scholarship: Canada*, the 11th Implementing New Knowledge
Environments (INKE) Partnership annual gathering in Montréal, QC, Canada,
17-18 June 2024, occurring at the Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences’ annual Congress. Those coming to our event may also wish to
consider Coalition Publica’s Canadian Scholarly Journals Symposium (19 June
2024), as well as our very informal welcome / hello gathering at the
Congress President’s Reception on Sunday 16 June which follows a
presentation of the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons (HSS
Commons, https://hsscommons.ca/
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hsscommons.ca/en/__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLHPQ-VZKw$)
).

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship* seeks to highlight open
social scholarship activities, infrastructure, research, dissemination, and
policies. The INKE Partnership has described open social scholarship as
creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad,
interdisciplinary audience of specialists and non-specialists in ways that
are both accessible and significant. At *Creative Approaches to Open Social
Scholarship* we will consider how to model open social scholarship
practices and behaviour, as well as pursue the following guiding themes:

– *Community:* How do we best foster humanities and social sciences
research, development, community building, and engagement through online,
omnipresent, and open community spaces?
– *Training:* How can we adapt existing training opportunities and
develop new opportunities in emerging areas to meet academic, partner, and
public needs for open scholarship training?
– *Connection:* How can humanities and social sciences researchers
collaborate more closely with the general public? What are the best ways to
bring the public into our work, as well as for bringing our work to the
public?
– *Policy:* How do we ensure that research on pressing open scholarship
topics is accessible to a diverse public, including those who develop
organizational or national policy?

We invite you to register for this event to join the conversation and
mobilize collaboration in and around digital scholarship, with specific
focus on:

– open social scholarship now and in future
– knowledge diversity, epistemic injustice, and knowledge equity
– multilingual digital scholarship
– community building, engagement, and mobilization
– collaboration and partnership for shared initiatives and activities
– digital scholarly production
– open access and open technologies
– knowledge sharing and preservation
– alternative academic publishing practices
– FAIR and CARE principles for data
– digital research infrastructure
– social knowledge creation
– stakeholder roles and activities
– social media
– public humanities
– research data management
– AI for humanistic pursuit
– teaching (with) digital scholarship

We invite proposals for lightning papers that address these and other
issues pertinent to research in the area, and are open to considering
proposals for other types of presentations as well. Proposals should
contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words, plus list of
works cited), and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters.
Longer papers for lightning talks will be solicited after proposal
acceptance for circulation in advance of the gathering. *Please send
proposals on or before 15 March 2024: via **this link*
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKLHQeX0982kDVflmd6-d-n-guzErtZETYVXGmgyI-0NRClQ/viewform__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLFWYPx2pA$)
*.*

This action-oriented program is geared toward leaders and learners from all
fields and arenas, including academic and non-academic researchers,
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, librarians and archivists,
publishers, members of scholarly and professional associations and
consortia, open source practitioners and developers, industry liaisons,
community groups, and other stakeholders. Building on previous INKE-hosted
events in Whistler and Victoria (2014-23), the 2019, 2022, and 2023
Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) conferences,
and our combined, online INKE-CAPOS conferences (December 2020 & 2021), we
hope to simultaneously formalize connections across fields and open up
different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of
digital scholarship.

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship*:* Canada *includes
featured talks by Jonathan Bengtson (University of Victoria) and Kathleen
Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University), as well as:

– lightning talks, where authors present 5 minute versions of longer
papers or reports circulated prior to the gathering, followed by a brief
discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application-oriented,
and more)
– a next Steps conversation, to articulate in a structured setting what
we will do together in

the future

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship* is sponsored by the INKE
Partnership (including its support by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council) and the Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Please consider joining us for what is sure to be a dynamic
discussion!

This program is organized by Ray Siemens, Adar Charlton, and Michael
Sinatra on behalf of our international Advisory Board and Group.

*Advisory Board*

Representatives from: Advanced Research Consortium, Analysis and Policy
Observatory, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, Australian
Research Data Commons, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Canadian
Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de
recherche du Canada, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Canadian
Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la
recherche, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le collaboratoire
scientifique des écrits du Canada, Compute Canada / Calcul Canada, Council
of Australian University Librarians, Deans of Arts, Social Sciences, and
Humanities, DH Downunder, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Edith Cowan
U, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic), Érudit, Federation for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanities Data Lab (U Ottawa), Iter, J.E.
Halliwell Associates, Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Open Access
Australasia, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University Library,
University of Newcastle, University of Sydney Digital Humanities Research
Group, University of Victoria Libraries, Western Sydney University Digital
Humanities Research Group, and Voyant Tools, among others

*Advisory Group*

Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), Paul Arthur (Edith
Cowan U), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle), Constance
Crompton (U Ottawa), Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Chad Gaffield (U
Ottawa), Janet Halliwell (J.E. Halliwell Associates), Rachel Hendery
(Western Sydney U), Tanja Niemann (Érudit), Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), Lynne
Siemens (UVic), Ray Siemens (UVic), and Michael Sinatra (U Montréal)

——————————
*From:* Ray Siemens <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, February 16, 2024 1:36 PM
*To:* Ray Siemens <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [Advance CFP, INKE] Creative Approaches to Open Social
Scholarship: Canada (@ Congress, 17-18 June 2024. Montréal)

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada*

*17-18 June 2024 (McGill U. Montréal, QC, Canada)*

*An INKE-hosted gathering aligned with the Federation for the Humanities
and Social Sciences’ annual Congress and Coalition Publica’s Canadian
Scholarly Journals Symposium (19 June 2024)*

*Important information*

*Proposals*: by 15 March 2024 via this link
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKLHQeX0982kDVflmd6-d-n-guzErtZETYVXGmgyI-0NRClQ/viewform__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLFWYPx2pA$)
.

*Registration*: via https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/register
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/register__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLGHJxLrRg$)
[Note: This is a free event, though Congress registration is required. If
you are coming only for this event, consider the ‘community member’ rate
($30)].

–

How do we create open social scholarship in the 2020s?

Over the past several decades, academic work has evolved alongside
substantial and far-reaching changes in communication and collaboration.
One example of this evolution is the rise of open, digital scholarship: a
movement that prioritizes access to information, social knowledge creation,
and cross-community engagement. Now, in the 2020s, academics and other
knowledge workers can produce, publish, and share their research findings
much more openly and more publicly than previously possible. In a recent
report for the Canadian Commission to UNESCO, Leslie Chan, Bud Hall, Piron,
Rajesh Tandon, and Lorna Williams “offer a vision of Open Science that is
just, fair and decolonial, but also realist and lucid. [The authors] have
drawn attention to an understanding of science based on an inclusive
universalism, open to Indigenous ways of knowing and all other theories,
epistemologies and viewpoints” (2020). Such a vision is evidence of
shifting attitudes and practices in academia. But how we actually go about
creating research that is more open, more fair, and more social bears
further examination and discussion.

We would like to continue these conversations at *Creative Approaches to
Open Social Scholarship: Canada*, the 11th Implementing New Knowledge
Environments (INKE) Partnership annual gathering in Montréal, QC, Canada,
17-18 June 2024, occurring at the Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences’ annual Congress. Those coming to our event may also wish to
consider Coalition Publica’s Canadian Scholarly Journals Symposium (19 June
2024), as well as our very informal welcome / hello gathering at the
Congress President’s Reception on Sunday 16 June which follows a
presentation of the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons (HSS
Commons, https://hsscommons.ca/
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hsscommons.ca/en/__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLHPQ-VZKw$)
).

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship* seeks to highlight open
social scholarship activities, infrastructure, research, dissemination, and
policies. The INKE Partnership has described open social scholarship as
creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad,
interdisciplinary audience of specialists and non-specialists in ways that
are both accessible and significant. At *Creative Approaches to Open Social
Scholarship* we will consider how to model open social scholarship
practices and behaviour, as well as pursue the following guiding themes:

– *Community:* How do we best foster humanities and social sciences
research, development, community building, and engagement through online,
omnipresent, and open community spaces?
– *Training:* How can we adapt existing training opportunities and
develop new opportunities in emerging areas to meet academic, partner, and
public needs for open scholarship training?
– *Connection:* How can humanities and social sciences researchers
collaborate more closely with the general public? What are the best ways to
bring the public into our work, as well as for bringing our work to the
public?
– *Policy:* How do we ensure that research on pressing open scholarship
topics is accessible to a diverse public, including those who develop
organizational or national policy?

We invite you to register for this event to join the conversation and
mobilize collaboration in and around digital scholarship, with specific
focus on:

– open social scholarship now and in future
– knowledge diversity, epistemic injustice, and knowledge equity
– multilingual digital scholarship
– community building, engagement, and mobilization
– collaboration and partnership for shared initiatives and activities
– digital scholarly production
– open access and open technologies
– knowledge sharing and preservation
– alternative academic publishing practices
– FAIR and CARE principles for data
– digital research infrastructure
– social knowledge creation
– stakeholder roles and activities
– social media
– public humanities
– research data management
– AI for humanistic pursuit
– teaching (with) digital scholarship

We invite proposals for lightning papers that address these and other
issues pertinent to research in the area, and are open to considering
proposals for other types of presentations as well. Proposals should
contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words, plus list of
works cited), and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters.
Longer papers for lightning talks will be solicited after proposal
acceptance for circulation in advance of the gathering. *Please send
proposals on or before 15 March 2024: via **this link*
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKLHQeX0982kDVflmd6-d-n-guzErtZETYVXGmgyI-0NRClQ/viewform__;!!GekbXoL5ynDpFgM!V-PtmJoa7o–1_cTVBtEpwPA-KcGZS3sysf8gZsDGMrU-QdBU4kNnlHTFCCCI_-r1zXEV2ygTLFWYPx2pA$)
*.*

This action-oriented program is geared toward leaders and learners from all
fields and arenas, including academic and non-academic researchers,
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, librarians and archivists,
publishers, members of scholarly and professional associations and
consortia, open source practitioners and developers, industry liaisons,
community groups, and other stakeholders. Building on previous INKE-hosted
events in Whistler and Victoria (2014-23), the 2019, 2022, and 2023
Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) conferences,
and our combined, online INKE-CAPOS conferences (December 2020 & 2021), we
hope to simultaneously formalize connections across fields and open up
different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of
digital scholarship.

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship*:* Canada *includes
featured talks by Jonathan Bengtson (University of Victoria) and Kathleen
Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University), as well as:

– lightning talks, where authors present 5 minute versions of longer
papers or reports circulated prior to the gathering, followed by a brief
discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application-oriented,
and more)
– a next Steps conversation, to articulate in a structured setting what
we will do together in

the future

*Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship* is sponsored by the INKE
Partnership (including its support by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council) and the Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Please consider joining us for what is sure to be a dynamic
discussion!

This program is organized by Ray Siemens, Adar Charlton, and Michael
Sinatra on behalf of our international Advisory Board and Group.

*Advisory Board*

Representatives from: Advanced Research Consortium, Analysis and Policy
Observatory, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, Australian
Research Data Commons, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Canadian
Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de
recherche du Canada, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Canadian
Research Knowledge Network / Réseau canadien de documentation pour la
recherche, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le collaboratoire
scientifique des écrits du Canada, Compute Canada / Calcul Canada, Council
of Australian University Librarians, Deans of Arts, Social Sciences, and
Humanities, DH Downunder, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Edith Cowan
U, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic), Érudit, Federation for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanities Data Lab (U Ottawa), Iter, J.E.
Halliwell Associates, Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Open Access
Australasia, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University Library,
University of Newcastle, University of Sydney Digital Humanities Research
Group, University of Victoria Libraries, Western Sydney University Digital
Humanities Research Group, and Voyant Tools, among others

*Advisory Group*

Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), Paul Arthur (Edith
Cowan U), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle), Constance
Crompton (U Ottawa), Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier U), Chad Gaffield (U
Ottawa), Janet Halliwell (J.E. Halliwell Associates), Rachel Hendery
(Western Sydney U), Tanja Niemann (Érudit), Jon Saklofske (Acadia U), Lynne
Siemens (UVic), Ray Siemens (UVic), and Michael Sinatra (U Montréal)