Time for CFP Thursday! Check back next week for a new batch of calls.
- Emerging Learning Design Annual Conference call for proposals
- Call for Chapters: Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
- National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
- Call for Proposals – “Poetry Networks” – Special Issue of College Literature
- Special Issue of Argumentation and Advocacy on Sound and Argument
Emerging Learning Design Annual Conference call for proposals
This is a call for conference session proposals! (Deadline: December 1)
The Emerging Learning Design annual conference (ELDc) is designed to engage individuals in dynamic discourse regarding pedagogy and how technology can better enhance or transform it. This year’s conference theme is: From Learner Centered to Learner Experience (LX)
Education has changed more in the last 25 years than the 250 before that. Whereas once the norm was teacher-focused, sage-on-the-stage, a shift is still going on that places the learner at the core of the learning experience. Driven by the wide adoption of design thinking and user experience processes, LX pushes to make sure the learner voice is integrated more purposefully by sharing the experience development and iteration process with those for whom it is designed.
From an emphasis on scaffolding and creating software with Learner Centered Design to the wide adoption of design thinking and user experience processes with Learning Experience (LX) Design the goal continues to be to create effective and meaningful experiences for the learner. ELDc18 seeks to bring together diverse voices and innovative approaches to designing with the learner in mind.
The following topics are examples, but are in no way exhaustive or limited:
- How might learners be involved in the design and evaluation of learning experiences?
- What are examples of personalized learning and what can we learn from these experiments?
- How can we use learning analytics to better understand aspects of learning experiences?
- What are some organizational approaches to incorporating user experience research and iteration into the design process?
Call for Chapters :
Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific (IGI Global)
Proposals Submission Deadline: November 15, 2017
Full Chapters Due: March 31, 2018
Submission Date: August 31, 2018
Introduction
Digital Humanities (DH) is a dynamic and emerging field that aspires to enhance traditional research and scholarship through digital media. DH first came on the scene as “humanities computing” in 1949, when Father Roberto Busa and IBM formed a partnership to develop an electronically-compiled St. Thomas of Aquinas concordance. In the mid-1970s, DH started gaining traction in the United Kingdom and then spread to Europe and the United States. DH has developed into a global movement over the past decade, and has evolved in more complex directions. Now, digital scholarship is not restricted to humanities scholarship or limited to one field. It is multidisciplinary and a highly collaborative area. It draws contributors from many backgrounds, but is still situated upon a solid academic base.
Objective
Although academia around the globe is witnessing the widespread adoption of Digital Humanities, only a small portion of the literature discusses its development in the Asia Pacific. A recent authorship study conducted by the editor shows that only 11.6 and 2.96 percent of authors or co-authors published in the five most well-known DH journals were based in Asia and Oceania respectively (Wong, 2016).
There is no doubt that Europe and the United States have maintained their preeminence in Digital Humanities, but DH development in the Asia Pacific has also made important and rapid progress. These advances have caught both the attention of academics and governmental agencies, and have fostered dynamic discussions in the region, leading to vast numbers of valuable, and often region-specific, digital initiatives facilitating academic exchange and preserving cultural heritage.
The proposed book will hopefully provide a platform for libraries and government agencies in the Asia Pacific to share an overview of DH development in their nations or share individual success stories. Article submissions should capture the latest DH landscape in their nations or cities as efforts continually adapt to changing research needs and trends. These changes bring additional challenges, including the need for new skill sets and sometimes new professionals in the library; maintaining DH momentum in libraries and research communities; increasing international collaboration; ongoing maintenance and promotion of developed digital projects; and deploying/redeploying resources to support DH research. Articles that provide environmental scanning, region-wide survey results, and impact assessments are particularly welcome. Single case studies and best practices are also invited.
REFERENCES
Wong, S. H. R. (2016)., “Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer? portal: Libraries and the Academy 16, 4 (2016): 669-90.
Target Audience
This publication will fill a gap in the literature by presenting readers with information about the latest DH development in the Asia Pacific. Nowadays, DH often calls for international collaboration, sometimes even across continents. The book would be beneficial to all readers who are interested in DH and want to gain a better understanding of the status of it in this part of the world.
Recommended Topics
- National/region-wide overview of DH development
- Enviornmental scanning
- Single case studies
- Best practices
- New skillsets
- Staff management model for DH
- Maintaining/enhancing momentum
- International collaborations
- Ongoing maintenance
- Project promotion
- Resources allocation
- Impact assessments
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15, 2017, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by December 31, 2017 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 31, 2018. More information can be found from here: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2994
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2018.
Inquiries
Rebekah Wong
Digital & Multimedia Services Librarian, Hong Kong Baptist University Library, HK
rebe.wong@gmail.com(link sends e-mail)
Haipeng Li
University Librarian, UC Merced Library, USA
haipeng4cala@gmail.com(link sends e-mail)
Min Chou, EdD
Web Coordinator/Associate Professor, New Jersey City University Library, USA
minchou.njcu@gmail.com(link sends e-mail)
Call for Chapters: Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
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Open Call: National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web
Apply now to participate or receive travel funding.
The dramatic rise in the public’s use of the web and social media to document events presents tremendous opportunities to transform the practice of social memory. As new kinds of archives emerge, there is a pressing need for dialogue about the ethical risks and opportunities that they present to both those documenting and those documented. This conversation becomes particularly important as new tools, such as Rhizome’s Webrecorder software, are developed to meet the changing needs of the web archiving field.
Ethics & Archiving the Web will address the need for a deeper understanding of the ethical implications of web archiving–on the part of professionals and web users alike. The event will bring together online communities, librarians, journalists, archivists, scholars, developers, and designers to talk about how to create richer, non-oppressive web archives—archives that will better serve their publics and the historical record.
In particular, we welcome applications for presentations, discussions, and workshops on community-driven archiving efforts, and documentation of activism; archiving trauma, violence, and human rights issues; recognizing and dismantling digital colonialism and white supremacy in web archives; strategies for protecting users (from one another, from surveillance, or from commercial interests); design-driven approaches to building more ethical web archives; and issues arising when archives become big data or are used for machine learning.
If you would like to propose a short presentation, workshop, discussion, or case study, or if you wish to attend but require funding to do so, apply by filling out this form. Limited funding is available for travel and accommodation, and presenters will receive an honorarium. Responses will be sent to all applicants by December 6, and additional tickets will go on sale shortly thereafter.
The conference will be livestreamed and made available for later viewing on the event website. Proceedings and a white paper will also be published and circulated online.
Credits
The National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web is organized by Rhizome, in collaboration with the University of California at Riverside Library (UCR), the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Documenting the Now project (DocNow).
Organizers of the National Forum include Michael Connor, Rhizome’s artistic director, Aria Dean, Rhizome’s assistant curator for net art and digital culture, Bergis Jules, University & Political Papers Archivist at UC Riverside and Community Lead, DocNow, Ed Summers, Lead Developer at Maryland Institute for Technology and Technical Lead of DocNow, and Anna Perricci, partnerships manager and sustainability consultant for Webrecorder.
The Advisory Board for the National Forum includes Jefferson Bailey, Director, Web Archiving at the Internet Archive, Jarrett Drake, an advisory archivist of A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland and Doctoral Student at Harvard University Department of Anthropology, Pamela Graham, Director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research at Columbia University Libraries, Dr. Safiya Noble, author and Assistant Professor at the U.S.C. Annenberg School for Communication, and Stacie Williams, Team Leader, Digital Learning and Scholarship, Case Western Reserve University Library.
The National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Call for Proposals – “Poetry Networks” – Special Issue of College Literature
edited by Kamran Javadizadeh and Robert Volpicelli
The deeply felt presence of networked living in our time (through social
networks, media networks, information networks, etc.) has opened up new
approaches to reading literature that emphasize forms of connectivity and
mediation. As Wesley Beal argues in The Networks of Modernism (2015), while
the “vocabulary of networks” is very much a product of our current digital
age, such language can be deployed rather broadly, across much of modern
literature, to analyze the instances of distribution and interrelation that
abound there. Adding to this emerging critical field, James Purdon (2016)
has similarly noticed that many writers became “entangled” in “new
informatic webs” of communication and information technologies almost as
quickly as modernity has made these available; and Patrick Jagoda (2016)
has used the phrase “networked aesthetics” to describe how the “feeling of
connectedness” has come to stand in for a default condition of modern life.
So far such scholarship has succeeded in demonstrating the fundamental role
that literature plays in networked discourses (and as a networked discourse
itself). At the same time, however, it has tended to privilege narrative
and the novel over other genres that might be equally involved in this
conversation. Caroline Levine’s standout Forms (2015) offers a useful
example. Although this study briefly takes up the case of Emily Dickinson
to illustrate how the “bounded shape” of the poet’s hermetic life both
sustained and was sustained by the “sprawling network” of her poetry’s
epistolary circulation, like the scholars above, Levine directs her most
sustained analysis of network-as-form at the novel-in this case, Charles
Dickens’s Bleak House.
With the aim of building on what is only glimpsed in previous scholarship,
this special issue looks to correct the underrepresentation of poetry in
discussions of literary networks. Poetry’s firm hold on the language of
aesthetic autonomy has undoubtedly contributed to its own relegation to the
outskirts of networked thinking. Yet literary history often confirms that
poets-sometimes because of this greater sense of autonomy-have still made
extensive use of networks in the making and distributing of their work. In
the hope of transcending an apparent dichotomy (autonomy/network), this
issue seeks new understandings of the relationship between poetry and
networks, and the way these terms might respectively illuminate each other,
by asking questions along the following lines: What happens if we look at
poems as networks rather than as isolated islands? How do the social and
communicative networks of poets give shape to their literary production?
What are the networks that support and sustain poetry, and how do these
impinge upon the meanings of poetic texts?
Submit a CV and 500-word proposals for essays between 8,000-10,000 words to
robervolpicelli@rmc.edu and kamran.javadizadeh@villanova.
2018. When you submit your proposal, please copy College Literature (
collit@wcupa.edu).
Article drafts will be due August 30, 2018 and will then be sent out for
anonymous peer review.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Poetry and/as networked aesthetics
The lyric, the new lyric studies, and networked poetry
Forms of poetic exchange and collaboration (co-writing, correspondence,translation, editing, etc.)
Schools of poetry and other coteries (Symbolists, Imagists, Objectivists, Harlem Renaissance, The New York School, Black Mountain, etc.)
Poetry, activist groups, and/or minority coalitions (the Black Arts Movement, feminism, LGBTQ+, etc.)
The geographic movement of poets and poetry (local, regional, transnational, global, etc.)
Poetry’s print networks (magazines, edited collections, anthologies, etc.)
The publishing and marketing industries for poetry
The institutions of poetry (academic, governmental, non-profit)
Archives of poetry / poetry as archives
Poetry and media, old and new (newspapers, telegraphs, radio, etc.)
Digital networks and poetic form (hypertexts, poetry on social media,
online poetic communities, etc.)
Digital humanities approaches to reading poetry
Link to Posting
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Special Issue of Argumentation and Advocacy on Sound and Argument
The submission deadline is February 1, 2018. Anticipated publication date of this special issue is Winter 2018
Sound represents a significant part of our lives—from the musical backdrops of everyday spaces to the mundane noises of our technology. While there has been a significant amount of research on sound’s persuasive capabilities, its potential value is undertheorized. Argumentation studies can illuminate how sound can: help or hinder a procedure for resolving a disagreement; act as globally or locally relevant, sufficient, and/or acceptable evidence for a conclusion; present or modify a choice; and tactically modify the conditions for acceptance or rejection of a standpoint. This special issue of Argumentation and Advocacy seeks contributions exploring the argumentative promises and perils at the intersection of sound studies and argumentation. Submissions could include but are not limited to silence, voice, music, noise, sound object, listening, technologies of audition, and soundscapes.
Submission could interrogate topics including, but not limited to
how sound functions argumentatively;
how sound provides a presentational device;
how sound changes how analyst identify, analyze, and/or evaluates argumentation;
how sound affords new argumentative strategies;
how sound offers a useful framework for approaching argumentation in the digital age;
how sound gives or denies access to some in the public sphere
See Argumentation and Advocacy guidelines for documentation format.
Questions about the special issue may be directed to the guest editor
Justin Eckstein
Pacific Lutheran University
Justin.Eckstein@plu.edu
Argumentation and Advocacy submission guidelines apply to the special issue (see www.argumentationandadvocacy.
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