[Discussion] CFP: The City: A Festival of Knowledge (12/15/05; SDH/SEMI, 5/29/06-5/31/06)

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From: SDH/SEMI <sdhsemi6@uvic.ca>

The City: A Festival of Knowledge

2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude
des Médias Interactifs

The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH / SEMI) invites scholars and graduate
students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting,
which will be held at the 2006 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities,
York University, from May 29-31, 2006.

The society in particular would like to encourage submissions relating to the
central theme of the Congress: The City. Our understanding of what the city
means as a construct is broad, and we encourage submissions that treat the city
not only as an object for analysis, or as a venue for expression, but also a
frame of departure for themes that are implied by the idea of the city, but not
subsumed by it, themes such as synergy, complexity, diversity, collaboration,
networks, the rural versus the urban, the city as both constituent and opponent
of the environment, and the interaction between the local and the global.

SDH also encourages submissions relating to all topics relating to the ever
emerging discipline of humanities and computing. Potential topics include, but
are not limited to:

Humanities Computing as an agora for multi-disciplinary engagement
   * Scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination
   * Humanities computing and pedagogy
   * Computer supported collaboration using the web
   * Digital / Electronic copyright issues
   * The Future of Humanities Computing
   * Computing in the Fine, Performing and New Media Arts
   * e-Accesibility

Aside from presenting a stimulating array of recent work in humanities and
computing, the final day of this year's conference will also feature a one-day
symposium titled "The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Humanities
and Social Sciences." Featuring invited speakers from the sciences, social
sciences and the humanities, the symposium, sponsored by the Federation of the
Social Sciences and Humanities, the Society for Digital Humanities, and the
Canadian Historical Association, will highlight emerging and potential
applications of the computer to support research, representation and
instruction. Invited speakers will address topics ranging from speech synthesis
and historical linguistics to computer games and the emerging medium of
augmented reality.

The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation
societies.

There is a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student
panel. Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed
below.

Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2005. Please
note that all presenters must be members of SDH / SEMI at the time of the
conference.

Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top of the
front page: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address,
including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author;
statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be
between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis,
methodology and conclusion.

All abstracts and questions should be sent electronically to the addresses
below:

John Bonnett, Conference Committee Chair, (Brock University) and
Don Sinclair, Local Events Coordinator (York University): sdhsemi6@uvic.ca.



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