HASTAC 2015 conference will be held May 27-‐30, 2015 at the Kellogg Center on the campus of Michigan State University.
Connecting with HASTAC’s interdisciplinary mission, the conference will center on the theme of the “Art and Science of Digital Humanities.” Conference tracks will range in focus from current digital humanities work to featuring groundbreakingnew work at the intersection of the arts and sciences. The conference will feature a mini‐conference for HASTAC Scholars followed by two full days of conference activities and opportunities for collaboration.
For more information about the conference, please see www.hastac2015.org.
The Call for Proposals for HASTAC 2015: The Arts and Science of Digital Humanities is now available! The full CFP can be found here.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2014.
Join HASTAC on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore the range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! Welcome are sessions that address, exemplify, and interrogate the interdisciplinary nature of DH work.
HASTAC 2015 challenges participants to consider how the interplay of science, technology, social sciences, humanities, and arts are producing new forms of knowledge, disrupting older forms, challenging or reifying power relationships, among other possibilities.
Themes addressed by the conference include:
- the changing nature of humanities research and scholarship
- indigenous culture, decolonial and post-‐colonial theory and technology
- technology and education–open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education
- communication of knowledge, publishing, and intellectual property
- digital cultural heritage and hegemony
- crowd dynamics, global outreach, and social media
- technology and social identity and roles: gender, race, and other identities
- digital animation and other visualization media arts and sciences
- games and gaming, including for learning
- community development including the importance of art and culture districts
- mobile technologies, activity streams, and experience design
- cognitive and other dimensions of creativity, innovation, and scholarship
HASTAC 2015 will include plenary addresses, panel presentations, maker sessions, workshops, exhibitions, performances and tech demos.