The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of digital humanities. The theme of the 2017 conference is “Access/Accès” and will take place in Montréal, Canada, hosted jointly by McGill University and Université de Montréal. For the first time it will be officially bilingual in French and English, so proposals are invited for presentations particularly in both languages, as well as in the other official ADHO languages (German, Italian, Spanish).

Deadlines:

Posters and Papers: 11:59pm GMT, 1 November 2016.
Workshops proposed by a Special Interest Group: 11:59pm GMT, 16 December 2016.
Workshop and tutorial proposals: 11:59pm GMT, 17 February 2017.

 For detailed information of conference, submissions, and application procedures visit : https://dh2017.adho.org/ and https://dh2017.adho.org/cfp/

Contributions should focus knowledge mobilization, public-facing scholarship, collaboration among scholars and communities, open access to code, software, research and results, and aspects of digital humanities research and publication involving accessibility technologies are particularly welcome.

Topic Ideas –

• Humanities research enabled through digital media, artificial intelligence or machine learning, software studies, or information design and modeling

• Social, institutional, global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of digital humanities

• Computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including public humanities and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship

• Quantitative stylistics and philology, including big data and text mining studies

• Digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and electronic literature

• Emerging technologies such as physical computing, single-board computers, minimal computing, wearable devices, applied to humanities research

• Digital humanities in pedagogy and academic curricula.

Presentations may include:

Posters (abstract maximum 750 words)
Short papers (abstract maximum 1500 words)
Virtual short papers (abstract maximum 1500 words)
Long papers (abstract 1500 words)
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (regular abstracts + approximately 500-word overview)
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal maximum 1500 words)

Proposals should provide the following information:

• Title and brief description of the content or topic and its relevance to the digital humanities community (not more than 1500 words)

• Full contact information for all tutorial instructors or workshop leaders, including a one-paragraph statement summarizing their research interests and areas of expertise

• Description of target audience and expected number of participants (based, if possible, on past experience)

See website for additional requirements for specialty proposals and submission guidelines