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DHCS Colloquium, November 1st - 3rd, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008

The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS)
Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities
and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as
a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions
and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium (
http://dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/) examined the challenges and opportunities
posed by the "million books" digitization projects. The second DHCS
Colloquium in 2007 (http://dhcs.northwestern.edu) focused on searching and
querying as both tools and methodologies.

The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Making Sense" – an
exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of
the digital and the analog.

We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that
intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer
Science.

Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT
Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of
Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at
the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Website:

http://dhcs.uchicago.edu

Location:

The University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Keynote Speakers:

* Oren Etzioni is Director of the Turing Center (
http://turing.cs.washington.edu/) and Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Washington where his current research interests (
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html) include fundamental
problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine
reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a
company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare
fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building
domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an
autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field
and served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
amongst others.

* Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work
focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (
http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM's Visual
Communication Lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/), which researches
new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The
lab's latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment
in open, public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known
for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such
as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American
Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

* Stephen Downie is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library
and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His research interests (
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=jdownie) include the design
and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information
retrieval, the political economy of inter-networked communication systems,
database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal
investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems
Evaluation Laboratory (http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/) (IMIRSEL), which
is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music
data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community.

Program Committee:

* Shlomo Argamon
(http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/),
Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Helma Dik (
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/People/Faculty/dikcv.html),
Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* John Goldsmith
(http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Webpage/index.html),
Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute,
University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes (http://lib.uchicago.edu/), Bibliographer for Classics,
the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
* Robert Morrissey (http://rll.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/morrissey.shtml),
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL
Project, University of Chicago
* Martin Mueller (http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/mueller.html),
Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University
* Mark Olsen (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/), Associate
Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
* Jason Salavon (http://dova.uchicago.edu/f_jasonsalavon.html), Department
of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
* Kotoka Suzuki (http://music.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/suzuki.shtml),
Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
* Gary Tubb (http://salc.uchicago.edu/facultybios/tubb.html), Department of
South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Call for Participation:

Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for:

* Paper presentations (20 minute maximum)
* Poster sessions
* Software demonstrations
* Performances
* Pre-conference tutorials/teach-ins
* Pre-conference 'birds of a feather' meetings

Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:

DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, Nov. 1st.
offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data-mining
and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the Humanities. We
also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-conference period for
informal 'birds of a feather' meetings on topics of common interest.

The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Nov. 2nd to Nov. 3rd and will
consist of four, 1 1/2 hour paper panels and two, 2 hour poster sessions as
well as three keynotes. Generous time has been set aside for questions and
follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are
no parallel sessions.

For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/).

Suggested submission topics:

* Computing Cinematic Syntax
* Social Scholarship / Socialized Search
* Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval
* Programming Algorithmic Art
* Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture
* Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning
* Visualizing Large Data: Lessons from Industry and the Sciences
* Computer Vision for Humanists: Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes &
Events
* Computational Approaches for Analyzing Communicative Forms
* Serious Gaming
* From a Maze of Twisty Passages All Alike: Future Interactive Fictions
* Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
* Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the Humanities
* Representing Reading Time
* Computer-mediated Interaction / Hacking the Wiimote: Pwning the iPhone
* Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition / Multimedia and
Multi-modal Interfaces
* Schemas for Scholars: Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies
* Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema
* Semantic Search / Semantic Web
* Virtual Models to Reconstruct Past Events, Cultures, Objects & Places
* Deconstructing Machine Learning
* The Library Catalog as Social Network / Library 2.0
* Mapping Social Relationships in the Novel
* Music Perception and Cognition
* SOA Frameworks for Scholarly Primitives
* Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change
* Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Experience Capture.

Submission Format:

Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS
Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu.

Graduate Student Travel Fund:

A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who
are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation
expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate
students whose proposals have been accepted for the colloquium will be
contacted by the organizers with more details.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31st
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15th
Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22nd
Registration: Monday, September 22nd - Friday, October 24th
Colloquium: Saturday, November 1st - Monday, November 3rd

Contact Info:

Please direct all inquiries to: dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu

Organizing Committee:

* Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division,
University of Chicago.
* Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and
General Humanities, University of Chicago Library.
* Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal welcomes submissions for its Fall 2008 issue.
Praxis welcomes essays on a wide range of topics related to writing centers.
We also encourage submissions on this issue’s theme: Technology in the Writing
Center. Many centers have begun to incorporate technology that goes beyond the
paper and pencil consultations of the past. Many centers now use laptops, flash
drives, computers, emails, OWLs, and synchronous chat in their consultations.
These additions provide new opportunities for collaborative work in the writing
center, but may also create problems of authority, voice, plagiarism, and
collusion. Enthusiasm over the possibilities afforded by new technologies may
lead writing centers to employ them without sufficiently considering the effect
on consultation dynamics. Praxis invites submissions that interpret the theme of
Technology in the Writing Center broadly; however, some possible applications
include

• Training for new technologies
• Consultant reaction to new media
• Benefits and drawbacks of asynchronous (email) consultations
• Benefits and drawbacks of synchronous (chat) consultations
• Using technology in administration
• Navigating technical difficulties
• Online scheduling
• Compiling and analyzing student feedback
• Reexaminations of older technologies

Submission guidelines:

Recommended article length is 1000 to 2000 words. Articles should conform to MLA
style. Send submissions as a Word document e-mail attachment to James Jesson and
Patricia Burns at praxis@uwc.utexas.edu. Also include the writer’s name, e-mail
address, phone number, and affiliation. Because Praxis is a Web-based journal,
please do not send paper; we do not have the resources to transcribe printed
manuscripts. Images should be formatted as jpeg files and sent as attachments.

Deadline for Fall issue: September 5, 2008

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal (http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis) is a
biannual electronic publication sponsored by the University of Texas
Undergraduate Writing Center, a component of the Department of Rhetoric and
Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. It is a forum for writing center
practitioners everywhere.

We welcome articles from writing center consultants and administrators related
to training, consulting, labor issues, administration, and writing center news,
initiatives, and scholarship. For further information about submitting an
article or suggesting an idea, please contact the editors at
praxis@uwc.utexas.edu

The editors of Currents in Electronic Literacy (an MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed, e-journal) seek manuscripts that address the role or the relevance of the cultural commons for those working, teaching, or living in a mediated age. The term itself has received attention from those on the far left, such as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, to those defending free-market economics, such as Lawrence Lessig. As new media enable us to collaborate, share information, disseminate texts, and pull from the collective and creative resources that the humanities have traditionally celebrated, we face new challenges on a variety of fronts. What are the legal implications of sharing copyrighted (or copylefted texts)? What constitutes “fair use” in an age when most cultural artifacts can quickly be scanned and posted for public consumption? (How) are we ethically
and scholastically obligated to evaluate or cite sources that have been read and reviewed by a worldwide community of arguably critical and invested readers? (How) do profit (or exploitation) work when users determine content willfully and energetically?

We encourage submission of scholarly articles and review essays (including reviews of books, software, websites, and conferences) that relate any of the above questions or others not mentioned to the task of teaching and studying
literacy.

Submissions for reviews should be approximately 1500 words for individual reviews and 2500 for omnibus reviews of multiple texts or applications and 5000 words for scholarly articles. Submission deadline is December 15, 2007. For questions or to submit reviews email ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu.

Currents in Electronic Literacy is an online publication of the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, Austin. Currents strives to provide a forum for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. In general, Currents publishes work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies for reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to the following: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, and ESL), communications, media studies, and education.

Currents in Electronic Literacy (ISSN 1524-6493) is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and EBSCO.