[SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Announcement: DHCS 2009 Call for Papers and Publication of the 2008 Proceedings

[Ray Siemens]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Olsen 

On behalf of the Program Committee of Chicago Colloquium on Digital
Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), I am pleased to announce
both the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 Chicago Colloquium
on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu/)
and our Call for Papers for the 2009 Colloquium, to be held at the Illinois
Institute of Technology, November 14–16, 2009.   I hope you will consider
submitting a proposal for the 2009 Colloquium and I look forward to
seeing you in Chicago.  Please circulate this announcement widely.



                          CALL FOR PAPERS
2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)

                        Critical Computing:
     Models and Challenges for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

                      URL: http://dhcs.iit.edu

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2009
Colloquium Dates:    November 14 – 16, 2009
Location:            Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer
Science (DHCS) was established to bring together researchers and
scholars in the humanities and computer science to advance the digital
humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and
explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

The theme of this year's Chicago DHCS Colloquium is "Critical
Computing".  We will explore how research collaborations between
computer scientists and humanists can be made most effective.

* How can computation provide new critical tools for humanists?
* How can humanities scholarship help us understand the real meaning
 and import of computational analysis of human artifacts?

We invite presentation proposals from scholars, researchers and
students on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in
the humanities and computer science.

We welcome proposals for:

* Paper presentations  (20 minute talks)
* Poster presentations (open session)
* Software demonstrations (open session)
* Panel discussions (60-90 minute session)
* Performances
* Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars (1-4 hours)
* Pre-conference “birds of a feather” technical meetings (1-4 hours)

Last year's proceedings are available at: http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu

Submission Format:

Please submit a (2 page) proposal in PDF format via
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/DHCS2009.

Graduate Student Travel Fund:

A small number of travel grants will be available to assist graduate
students presenting at the colloquium with travel expenses. More
information about the application process will be available soon.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submissions:   Sunday, August 30
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 14
Full Program Announcement:  Thursday, September 24
Registration opens:         Tuesday, September 29

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Vasant Honavar, professor of Computer Science at Iowa State
University, is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence
Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence,
Learning & Discovery.  His research interests include artificial
intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and computational
biology, data mining, semantic web, and social informatics.
Prof. Honavar's recent work focuses on information integration and
knowledge discovery from diverse data sources, learning from
biological and textual data, and modular ontologies.

Other keynote speakers at DHCS-2009 will be announced shortly, once
they are confirmed.  Previous DHCS keynote speakers have included
Gregory Crane, Stephen Downie, Oren Etzioni, Matthew Kirschenbaum,
Lewis Lancaster, Ben Schneiderman, John Unsworth, and Martin
Wattenberg.

DHCS-2009 is sponsored by:

Illinois Institute of Technology
The University of Chicago
Northwestern University

Program Committee:

* Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois
 Institute of Technology
* Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* Prof. Ophir Frieder, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
 of Technology
* Dr. Nazli Goharian, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
 of Technology
* Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near
 East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
* Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics,
 Northwestern University
* Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University
 of Chicago
* Prof. Kathryn Riley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of
 Technology
* Prof. Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, University of
 Chicago
* Prof. Karl Stolley, Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of
 Technology
* Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute
 of Technology

Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:

Pre-conference: DHCS will begin with a half-day pre-conference session
the afternoon of Saturday, November 14, offering introductory
tutorials and/or seminars on topics such as text analysis/data-mining
or 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 (e.g. "digital archaeology").

The formal DHCS colloquium program, on Sunday, November 15 and Monday,
November 16, will consist of several 1-1/2 hour paper presentation
sessions, three keynote addresses, and two 2 hour poster sessions.
Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up
discussions. There are no parallel sessions.

For further details, please follow updates on the DHCS website.

Contact Info:

Please email dhcs2009 at iit.edu for more information.

Colloquium Website:  http://dhcs.iit.edu

Information about previous years' colloquiua is available at
http://dhcs.uchicago.edu and http://dhcs.northwestern.edu.


--
Mark Olsen
ARTFL Project
University of Chicago
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