CFP: TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium

COVID-19 UPDATE: We are sorry to announce that the TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium, originally scheduled to take place on June 24 and 25, 2020 at Tilburg University, has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are aiming to hold the conference at the same venue in June 2021 and plan to the keep the format of the meeting as presently planned. The deadline for submissions is extended until March 1, 2021. Abstracts that have already been submitted will also be valid for the 2021 event but authors are of course free to withdraw or adapt their submissions in due course. The exact dates for the TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium will published on this website as soon as possible.

On June 24 and 25, 2020, the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, organizes a two-day Digital Humanities Symposium.  This workshop brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural, Literary and Media Studies, Communication and Information Sciences, and Cognitive Science. How do we bring the Humanities together with digital tools, methods, and epistemologies? Together, we will reflect on practical and theoretical issues regarding the ways that digitalization and datafication are transforming our fields.

Keynotes
- Susan Aasman (University of Groningen)
- Marieke van Erp (Digital Humanities Lab KNAW)
- Eric Postma (Tilburg University).

Confirmed invited speakers include Lucy Chateau (Tilburg University), Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University), Mike Kestemont (Antwerp University), and Bruce Mutsvairo (Auburn University). In addition, the symposium will host two introductory workshops on text mining and issue mapping.

Submission guidelines
We welcome abstracts and poster proposals (300-500 words) about any topic related to the theme of the symposium. Please submit your document suitable for blind review. The deadline for submissions is May 1. Please send your abstracts viaeasychair.org/my/conference?conf=dhs20200.

Dates and Deadlines
May 1: Submission deadline
May 22: Notifications
June 24-25: Symposium

Programme committee
Jan Engelen (TSHD, Department of Communication and Cognition)
Emmanuel Keuleers (TSHD, Department of Cognitive Science and AI)
Inge van de Ven (TSHD, Department of Culture Studies)
Sander Verhaegh (TSHD, Department of Philosophy)

More information
Information about the symposium can be found at tshddigitalhumanitiessymposium.wordpress.com.