Call for Proposals

Thank you for your interest. Proposals are no longer accepted.

 

The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference on its Ann Arbor campus December 1-3, 2011.  We invite proposals for presentations on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication.

Topics of Interest

Submit proposals for presentations, posters or demos that explore the following range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Reformulating scholarly projects and products for different audiences
  • Reconsidering questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology,  interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation
  • Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate and recirculate
  • Expanding the digital and new media arts to include the humanities and vice versa
  • Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities, including  access, circulation, exchange and equity both within the global north and between the global north and south
  • Generating new kinds of research, modes of teaching, and partnerships
  • Expanding new forms of dissertations and theses
  • Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication
  • Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers)
  • New forms of digitally based humanities research.

Presentations may include the following formats:

  • Individual five-minute “lightening” talks or ten-minute lecture-style presentations, with or without technology (e.g., PPT, Prezi)
  • Panels featuring a common theme with short presentations , followed by discussion, with or without technology
  • Posters or demos displayed digitally (e.g., YouTube or other presentation format uploaded to the conference website; laptop-based video on a continuous loop, slidecast, interactive website; print poster board, etc.)

(Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference.)

Concurrent Sessions

The middle part of the day on both December 2 and 3 will be given over to concurrent sessions. People may present in the following formats:

  •  A ten minute lecture/talk with visual aids (PowerPoint slides etc.).
  •  A poster project uploaded to YouTube and then discussed by the presenter(s).
  •  A poster project demonstrated in U-M’s digital studio with discussion by the presenter(s).

Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference.