Calls for Papers

November 11 - 13th, 2009: International Congress on /King/ /Alphonse VI
and the art of his time/ (Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
Those interested in presenting a paper are requested to submit their
manuscript before September 10th 2009. The complete program of the
congress will be sent in September. For further information, an initial
list of speakers, and contact details, see
http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/d437/ .

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February 19th and 20th, 2010: Call For Papers - The Past's Digital
Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities. A
Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University.

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with
pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the "medium is the message,"
then how does the message change when primary sources are translated
into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do
databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of
the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are
inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct
for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and
convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate
students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium
that will address how databases and other digital technologies are
making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student
panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator
with a panel respondent. The two-day conference will take place February
19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and
Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor,
University of Chicago
Potential paper topics include:
· The Future of the History of the Book
· Public Humanities
· Determining Irrelevance in the Archive
· Defining the Key-Word
· The Material Object in Archival Research
· Local Knowledge, Global Access
· Digital Afterlives
· Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive
· Database Access Across the Profession
· Mapping and Map-Based Platforms
· Interactive Research

Please email a one-page proposal along with a C.V. to pdp@yale.edu.
Deadline for submissions is September 10th, 2009. Accepted panelists
will be notified by October 1st, 2009. We ask that all graduate-student
panelists pre-circulate their paper among their panels by January 20th,
2010.

Please contact Molly Farrell and Heather Klemann at pdp@yale.edu with
any additional inquiries. For more information about conference events,
please visit our forthcoming website:
http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp (October).


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Below, please see two announcements for upcoming conferences.

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November 11 - 13th, 2009: International Congress on King Alphonse VI and the art of his time (Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Those interested in presenting a paper are requested to submit their manuscript before September 10th 2009. The complete program of the congress will be sent in September. For further information, an initial list of speakers, and contact details, see http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/d437/ .

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February 19th and 20th, 2010: Call For Papers - The Past’s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities. A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University.

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent. The two-day conference will take place February 19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Potential paper topics include:
· The Future of the History of the Book
· Public Humanities
· Determining Irrelevance in the Archive
· Defining the Key-Word
· The Material Object in Archival Research
· Local Knowledge, Global Access
· Digital Afterlives
· Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive
· Database Access Across the Profession
· Mapping and Map-Based Platforms
· Interactive Research

Please email a one-page proposal along with a C.V. to pdp@yale.edu. Deadline for submissions is September 10th, 2009. Accepted panelists will be notified by October 1st, 2009. We ask that all graduate-student panelists pre-circulate their paper among their panels by January 20th, 2010.

Please contact Molly Farrell and Heather Klemann at pdp@yale.edu with any additional inquiries. For more information about conference events, please visit our forthcoming website: http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp (October).