Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 487.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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[1] From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard@SAS.AC.UK>
Subject: DH and Materiality seminar, spring 2022 (31)
[2] From: Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski@unil.ch>
Subject: 2nd CFP/extended deadline: 2nd workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2022) (157)
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Date: 2022-01-24 10:51:39+00:00
From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard@SAS.AC.UK>
Subject: DH and Materiality seminar, spring 2022
This semester’s Digital Humanities and Materiality seminar starts
tomorrow. Programme and all booking links below.
The seminar is organized by Gabriel Bodard and Rada Varga and co-hosted
by the Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London, UK, and
Star-UBB Institute of Advanced Studies, University Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj
Napoca, Romania, from autumn 2021–spring 2022. All sessions are online
and free to attend, but booking is essential.
* Tuesday 25 January, 2022, 16:00 GMT:
Dan Deac (Cluj Napoca),/Letters through the Lenses: Using Digital
Tools to Reveal Ancient Textual Materiality/(BOOK HERE
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25358>)/
/
* Tuesday 8 February, 2022, 16:00 GMT:
Chiara Palladino (Furman University),/One landscape, different
paths. Rediscussing digital approaches to premodern geographical
knowledge/(BOOK HERE <https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25360>)
* Tuesday 22 February, 2022, 16:00 GMT:
Christian Prager (Bonn) and Hubert Mara (Mainz),/Automatic
Recognition of Maya Hieroglyphs in 3D/(BOOK HERE
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25359>)
* Tuesday 8 March, 2022, 16:00 GMT:
Piraye Hacıgüzeller (Antwerp),/Archaeology, materiality and
geo-space half a century after the ‘spatial turn’/(BOOK HERE
<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25361>)
* Tuesday 22 March 2022, 16:00 GMT:
Elysia Greenway (Liverpool John Moores University),/Human Faces:
Reconstruction, Reimagination and Representation in a Digital
Landscape/(BOOK HERE <https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25362>)
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Date: 2022-01-24 10:48:42+00:00
From: Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski@unil.ch>
Subject: 2nd CFP/extended deadline: 2nd workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2022)
In the demanding context of the beginning of this year, we have decided
to postpone the submission date of proposals for COMHUM 2022.
The new deadline for submission of abstracts is *February 11, 2022*.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities (COMHUM 2022)
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June 9–10, 2022 — University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Special track: character network construction and analysis
At the turn of the 2020s, a defining characteristic of digital humanities
remains the remarkably wide spectrum of viewpoints they encompass,
ranging from a pure engineering perspective applied to humanities data
to the use of well established humanities research methods to investigate
born-digital artifacts. In this framework, the COMHUM workshop series
positions itself as an international forum primarily devoted to the following
research questions:
(1) which computational methods are most appropriate for dealing with the
particular challenges posed by humanities research, e.g., uncertainty, vagueness,
incompleteness, but also with different positions (points of view, values, criteria,
perspectives, approaches, readings, etc.)? And (2) how can such computational
methods be applied to concrete research questions in the humanities?
The second edition of the COMHUM workshop will take place on June 9 and 10,
2022 at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), unless the sanitary situation requires
organizing the event online. The first day will be devoted to the specific topic of
computational methods for constructing and analyzing character networks. This
topic has ramifications in a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, literary
analysis, digital humanities, and game studies. It is of particular interest for a
number of research initiatives at UNIL and in neighboring institutions. COMHUM
2022 will thus be a perfect opportunity to bring together researchers from different
communities studying character networks using computational and methodologically
explicit approaches, to review the state of the art in this domain andto sketch its
future developments.
In the spirit of the first edition of the COMHUM workshop, the second day will
be open to submissions on any topic pertaining to theoretical or applied
research on computational methods for humanities research broadly conceived.
The program will consist of invited and contributed talks. The official language
of the workshop is English. Contributions can be submitted in English or French.
Topics
The topics of the workshop are divided into two tracks. The special track focuses
on formal and computational aspects related to the development and use of
computational methods for character network construction and analysis in
data from various media types studied in the humanities, such as literature,
movies, comics, and video games for example.
Topics in the *special track* include, but are not limited to:
* methods for character network extraction (e.g. NLP, computer vision, etc.)
* formal definitions and representation of relations in character networks
* quantitative methods for character network analysis
* computational methods for large-scale or transmedia studies of character
networks
In addition, an open track welcomes submissions on formal and computational
aspects related to the development and use of computational methods in
the humanities in general (with a particular interest for the disciplines
represented in the Faculty of Arts of UNIL – such as literature, linguistics,
history, history of art, cinema studies).
Topics in the open track include, but are not limited to:
* Theoretical issues of formal modeling in the humanities
* Knowledge representation in the humanities
* Data structures addressing specific problems in the humanities (including
text and markup)
* Quantitative methods in the humanities (e.g., for literary or historical
studies, or for multimodal data)
* Applications of computer vision, image analysis and spatial analysis
in the humanities
Submissions
We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (excluding
references; approx. 1–2 pages in the specified format). Abstracts will be
reviewed double-blind by members of the program committee, and all
submissions will receive several independent reviews. Abstracts submitted
at review stage must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any
information that may disclose the authors’ identity.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their research at
the workshop as a talk, and the abstracts will be published in the book
of abstracts of the workshop. The maximum number of submissions by
the same author is two papers. An author cannot be the first author of
two papers.
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are
available as an Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr)
and also downloadable directly in LaTeX and Word format
(https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates). Abstracts
must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For the submission of
abstracts we use EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=comhum2022
After the conference, authors of accepted contributions will be invited to
submit a full paper version (6–16 pages), which, if accepted after peer-review,
will be published in an open-access, electronic conference volume endowed
with persistent identifiers (to be confirmed soon).
Invited Speakers
Vincent Labatut, Université d’Avignon
[This list will be completed.]
Important Dates
* Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 11, 2022
* Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2022
* Workshop: June 9–10, 2022
Organization
The workshop is organized by members of the Lausanne Lab for
Computational and Statistical Text Analysis (https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en):
François Bavaud, Guillaume Guex, Coline Métrailler, Davide Picca, Stéphanie
Pichot, Michael Piotrowski, Yannick Rochat, Aris Xanthos.
It is hosted by the Department of Language and Information Sciences
(https://www.unil.ch/sli), with the support of the Center for Linguistics
and the Science of Language (https://www.unil.ch/clsl), both in the
Faculty of Arts at UNIL.
The workshop underlines the commitment of the Department of
Language and Information Sciences to the computational dimension
of the digital humanities, including formal and mathematical methods.
Scientific Committee
* François Bavaud (UNIL, SLI and IGD)
* Guillaume Guex (UNIL, SLI)
* Coline Métrailler (UNIL, SLI)
* Davide Picca (UNIL, SLI)
* Michael Piotrowski (UNIL, SLI) * Yannick Rochat (UNIL, SLI, chair)
* Elena Spadini (UNIL, CLSR)
* Aris Xanthos (UNIL, SLI)
* [This list will be completed.]
Further info
More information about the event will be available at the following URL:
https://wp.unil.ch/llist/en/event/comhum2022/.
Please get in touch with Yannick Rochat (yannick.rochat@unil.ch) for
specific questions that are not answered by the website.
-- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski@unil.ch>
Professeur en humanités numériques · Université de Lausanne
Section des sciences du langage et de l’information · Faculté
des lettres ☎ +41 21 692-3039 · Quartier Chamberonne,
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