CfP: 3rd EADH DAY, in conjunction with AIUCD 2017, Sapienza Un. Roma, Jan 25, 2017

 Apologies for cross-postingCfP: 3rd EADH DAY, Sapienza University Roma
January 25, 2017

The third annual European Association for the Digital Humanities Symposium
(EADH Day) will be held in conjunction with the 6th Annual Conference of
the Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Culture Digitali (AIUCD,
Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures) which will take
place at the University Sapienza of Roma from the 24th to the 28th of
January 2017 (http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/). The 3rd EADH day will take place
on Wednesday January 25, 2017.

The objective of EADH days is to raise awareness for DH research activities
beyond the regional conference context. The format of EADH day is designed
to facilitate exchange and networking initiatives among European DH
research communities and in particular to foster the participation of early
career scholars to local DH conferences around Europe.

The 3rd EADH Day will be articulated in two main sessions. The morning
session is theme oriented; it will be opened by a keynote speech given by
an affirmed scholar in the EADH community and will hopefully be closed by a
lively and open debate to which all the delegates can participate. This
year theme is:

“Diversity, multiculturalism and theoretical foundations of DH: how big can
the tent be?”

The 3rd EADH day will be opened by a keynote speech by *Barbara Bordalejo*,
Assistant Professor at Leuven University and member of EADH executive board.

The afternoon session is open to any relevant subject in DH such as recent
research developments, key topics of interest to the digital humanities
community, project or tool presentations.

Participants may contribute directly to the EADH Day in both sessions:

   1.

   Through presentations of a 10 minute lightning talk
   2.

   Through the proposal of a challenge for participants to address during
   the event. Challenges can be presented in creative ways: round tables with
   respondents and / or speakers / audience sharing the stage in turns,
   multimedia presentations, short sketches, students' projects, are only some
   of the formats which come to mind.

Participants wishing to present lightning talks should provide a 500 words
abstract of the presentation in English which will be made available online
prior to the event. Challenges should take the form of an open question
(e.g. ‘How do we teach Digital Humanities?’ ‘What is the social resonance
of Digital Humanities?’, ‘What is the contribution of Digital Humanities to
collective memory and public history?’ etc.), with one or two paragraphs of
text justifying its significance.

Proposals must be submitted via AIUCD 2017 ConfTool (
*https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017/* <https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017/>)
by the 5th of December 2016. Lightning talks and challenges will be
selected by an EADH panel.

Presentation of a lightning talk or a challenge is not a requirement to
participate and anyone may register to attend the event via the AIUCD
Conftool website website.

Participation in the 3rd EADH Day is free of charge for registered
participants of AIUCD 2017. For people who only choose to take part in the
3rd EADH Day fees are as follows:

   -

   Members of EADH AOs / ADHO COs € 10
   -

   Non members of EADH AOs / ADHO COs € 30

Information on how to become a member of EADH are available at
https://eadh.org/about/membership. Information on membership for COs and
AOs can be found on their respective web sites.
EADH-day bursaries

In order to facilitate the participation of early career scholars to the
EADH Day, the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), *offers 5
bursaries of 300 EUR* for young scholars presenting a talk at the 3rd EADH
Day, which will take place at the Sapienza University of Roma on Wednesday
25 January, 2017.

Conditions of eligibility

As the objective of EADH days is to raise awareness for DH research
activities beyond the regional conference context and to facilitate
exchange and networking initiatives among European DH research
communities, participants
from countries other than Italy will have priority in the allocation of the
bursaries. Participants whose journey is supported by their department /
institution should not apply.

Applications can be submitted via ConfTool together with the abstract of
proposals for the EADH Day, uploading a PDF file including: (1) a max
one-page CV, (2) a short motivation letter which explains benefits from
attending and individual contribution to the EADH Day.

Selection of the bursary winner and award of the bursary

The bursary winners will be chosen among the participants whose
contribution to the EADH Day was accepted and who have registered for the
EADH day or the EADH Day and the AIUCD 2017 conference. Selection criteria
are (a) the quality of the abstract, especially its originality and
innovation potential (scholarly, technical or methodological), and (b) the
evidence of need for support provided in the motivation letter. Preference
is given to members of EADH, of an EADH Associate Organisation or of an
EADH Partner Organisation.

Awardees are expected to deliver a report (in the form of a blog post) at
the latest two weeks after the 3rd EADH Day.

Bursary winners will be notified on the 10th of January 2017. They will be
awarded the bursary during a prize allocation ceremony that will take place
at the end of the EADH Day on Wednesday January 24. Questions regarding the
bursary can be addressed in French Italian or English to: [email protected]
.

-- 
Fabio Ciotti
Dept. Studi letterari, Filosofici e Storia dell’arte
University of Roma Tor Vergata
President "Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale" (AIUCD)