DHCS2018: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2018 Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL, United States, November 10-11, 2018

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers, scholars, librarians, and technologists in the humanities and computer science from across the country and around the world to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The thirteenth meeting of the DHCS will be held at the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago on November 9-11, 2018.

Visit the DHCS website at www.ctsdh.org.dhcs2018 to learn more about DHCS!

List of Topics

The conference is interested in proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and posters from people at all ranks whose work contributes to the themes of the conference.  Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• visualization tools, theories, methodologies, and workflows to make sense of Big Data;
• digital approaches to textual studies;
• public digital humanities;
• digital accessibility;
• digital humanities pedagogy;
• preserving the digital humanities;
• digital gaming, critical play, game design, and gaming culture;
• creative coding and electronic literature;
• studies on uses and behaviors of Social media sites users;
• digital humanities technologies (e.g., mapping, text-mining);
• digital humanities project design/management;
• institutional DH partnerships and project-based collaborations;
• community-based online media practices;
• digital representation.

Submission Guidelines

Applicants should submit a title and 200-300 word abstract along with a brief biography or C.V. by 15 July 2018 via Easychair. Decisions will be made by early August. All presenters will have their registration fee for the conference waived. Presenters may have the opportunity to publish their papers in an online proceedings edition from the conference.

Accepted Formats

DHCS 2018 welcomes submissions in the following formats:

• Papers/Presentations (15 minutes)
• Panels (60-90 minutes)
• Posters
• Workshops (60-90 minutes)

Please specify which format your submission falls under in your application materials.

How to Submit

1. Visit the DHCS 2018 submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcs2018 (link at the top of this CFP page).
2. You will be prompted to log in. You may use an existing Easychair account, or click the "create an account" link to create a new account.
3. If creating an account, you will need to respond to a confirmation email and create a password before you continue.
4. Once logged in, you should see a message that "This conference accepts new submissions. You can log in as an author to make a submission." If you do not see this message, navigate back to the submission page while logged into Easychair.
5. Click the "enter as an author" link. This should take you to the "New Submission for DHCS 2018" page.

1. In the Author Information section, provide a name and email address for yourself and team members (if applicable). Please provide your institutional affiliation under "Organization." You will need to mark at least one author as "corresponding author" in order to enable updates through the Easychair platform. You may provide a personal website here if you wish.
2. In the Title and Abstract section, please enter a Title and a 200-300 word Abstract in plain text (use a word processor or word-count website to check word count). If providing a URL or DOI for your work, please do so in the Abstract (not in the author information section).
3. Easychair requires you to enter 3 keywords. You may enter any keywords that describe your submission.
4. In the Topics section, check the appropriate box for your submission (paper/presentation, panel, poster, or workshop)
5. Click "Submit." You will see a message that "The submission has been saved" and any authors marked as "corresponding author" will receive a confirmation email.
6. Thank you! Decisions will be made by mid-August.

Membership

DHCS Member Institutions

• Loyola University Chicago
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• DePaul University
• University of Illinois - Chicago
• University of Chicago
• Northwestern University

DHCS 2018 Steering Committee

Contact

Please direct all questions to Kyle Roberts, Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago (kroberts2@luc.edu).