ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Punctum – International Journal of Semiotics

Deadline: April 30, 2021

https://iass-ais.org/…cs/

We bring you the new the new call for papers for the Volume 7, Issue 2 of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, devoted to ''The Social, Political and Ideological Semiotics of Comics and Cartoons'', edited by Stephan Packard and Lukas R.A. Wilde.

What more can semiotics do for comics? As early as the 1960s and through to the first decades of the 21st century, comics studies have attracted a large and perhaps disproportionate amount of attention from analytical semiotic approaches that foreground description and theory building: Their combination of pictures and text offering a challenge to any attempt towards a systematic theory of signs, and their experimental treatment of their semiotic inventory as well as the genres, imageries, and conventions of other media and art forms inviting descriptive scrutiny as well as playful engagement. Scott McCloud’s famous Understanding Comics (1993), both praised and criticized for its essentially semiotic approach, provided the foundation for the rise of sequential comics studies. Even the relatively more practice-based earlier work of Will Eisner (Comics & Sequential Art, 1985), on which McCloud built his own, focuses on a description of formal semiot-ic and semantic relationships. Thierry Groensteen’s Système de la bande dessinée(1999), on the other hand, elaborated a semiological approach to the comics images’ ’iconic solidarity.’ For semantics rather than syntax, Umberto Eco’s treat-ment of Superman (1962) had already extended a semiological perspective to examining plot and character. The influence of these authors might wrongly cloud the plethora of early interna-tional contributions to a semiotic study of comics, including Ullrich Krafft’s Comics lesen (1978), Ursula Oomen’s Wort – Bild – Nachricht (1975), Daniele Barbieri’s Il linguaggio del fumetto (1990), and Anne Magnussen’s Peircean approach in Comics & Culture (2000, with Hans-Christian Christiansen), among many others. Natsume Fusanosuke’s and Takekuma Kentarō’s collection Manga no yomikata (漫画の読み方1995, roughly: How to Read Manga) inspired a similar Japa-nese wave of formal-aesthetic and semiotic reflections of writing, images, and abstract line-art in the manga tradition, although this has hardly been noticed internationally due to a lack of translations. More recently, the multimodality approach of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) has given rise to new methods, such as Janina Wildfeuer’s empirical discourse analysis of comics (2018ff.), Paul Fisher Davis’ multimodal systemic-functional linguistics (2019), or large-scale formal corpus analytics (cf. Alexander Dunst, Quantitative Analysis of Comics, 2018).

Simultaneously, the combination of semiotics and cognitive linguistics has opened new venues, such as Neil Cohn’s description of distinct visual languages of comics (Cohn 2013). And yet, many of these approaches have been accused of treating their subjects with arbitrary abstraction and an overload of theory, neglecting political and material conditions of comics production, contents, distribution, and fandom, and reproducing distinctions of class, race, and gender by elevating the body depic-tions of a popular genre to the metaphysical dignity of seemingly ahistorical semiotic principles (cf. Horrocks 2001; Frahm 2006). In the face of this criticism, we contend that a semiotic approach to comics studies always has and can continue to engender a thorough and critical engagement with comic books’ social, political, and ideological dimensions.

The naturalization of 'improper,' comical, and deformed shapes in comics can be exposed at the very heart of its ideological tendencies and implicit traditions. Carefully examining the cartoonish depiction of bodies and stereotypes against the political history of caricature offers insight into the reproduction processes that structure these comical signs. The formation and transformation of plot and figural schemata in serial storytelling invites closer looks at the currents shaping and tearing at the conventions of both the popular genres and experimental or avant-garde forms of comics. The drawing pen’s freedom inevitably leads to a pictorial database in which all aspects of the depicted world are specifically appropriated and invite interpretation.

The reinvention of panels, pages, habits, and means of inferences in webcomics demand specific formal scrutiny alongside the social implications of their extended and postdigital usages. If we are to see transnational mainstream comics enter a ‘Blue Age,’ as Adrienne Resha has recently argued (2020), it is not least in the reordering of code, address, and com-municative situation that the expansion of topics and reader bases has to take place. More fundamentally, what has been neglected in much of existing comics scholar-ship is the social implications of semiotics that should be understood as the exami-nation of an inherently social process of “unlimited community” (Peirce), as the “science of the life of signs in society” (Saussure). A comprehensive understand-ing of sign usage rhetorics requires an adequate account of its ideological dimen-sion (Barthes). Against this background, we invite abstracts that focus on the socio-political semi-otics of comic books, manga, graphic storytelling, and political cartooning.

More analytically, abstracts can be about topics such as, but not limited to:

• various forms of cartoonish representation in historical context;

• new approaches to the pictorial ideology of comics conventions and traditions;

• studies into the semiotic techniques of fandom appropriation and remixes;

• engagements with the sequential and serial forms of comic books and their social and economic conditions;

• narratological criticisms and revisions of 'reality principles' and 'natural' forms of meaning-making;

• inter- and transcultural adaptations, negotiations, and appropriations as semi-otic transcriptions;

• research into specific comic genres and their conventionalized forms of expres-sions (e.g., superheroes, shōnen manga, funny strips, etc.) between conservatism and subversion, and many more.

Prospective authors are asked to submit an abstract of approximately 500 words by mail to the guest editors, Prof. Dr. Stephan Packard (packard@uni-koeln.de) and Dr. Lukas R.A. Wilde (lukas.wilde@uni-tuebingen.de), including their affiliation and contact information. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all research articles will be subjected to the journal’s double peer-review process.

Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2021

Notice of Acceptance of the Abstract: May 15, 2021

Deadline for Submission of Full Papers: September 1, 2021

Peer Review Due: November 1, 2021

Final Revised Papers Due: December 1, 2021

Publication Date: Winter 2021-22

University of Sheffield

Contract Type: Open-ended

Working Pattern: Full-time

Faculty: Social Sciences

Department: Department of Journalism Studies

Salary: Professorial

Pay Scheme for appointment as Chair: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hr/thedeal/professorial/structure OR Grade 9: £52,560 to £ 59,135 per annum (pro-rata), with potential to progress to £68,529.

Closing Date: 29th March 2021

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, a world top 100 University. We are seeking applications for a Head of Department (HoD) and/or Chair. The successful candidate may be either on a Teaching and Research career pathway (T&R), or a Teaching career pathway (T).

This is an exciting opportunity to provide academic leadership, including original studies in your subject area and to further influence the direction of your subject area on other fields of academic work. You will work in a diverse community of colleagues and students, with a shared commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. You will provide dynamic leadership, aligned with the strategic goals of the University and Faculty, in order to promote and enhance the Department’s strengths and specialisms in teaching and research in collaboration with the Department’s senior leadership teams.

The Department of Journalism Studies is one of the major journalism research and teaching establishments in Europe. Our staff are drawn from journalism practice and academia and are complemented by an excellent and dedicated professional services team who support education, research and the management and administration of the school. We have an excellent network of national and international contacts both in journalism and in the academic world and are home to the internationally recognised research and advocacy centre, Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM). We have a thriving international community of postgraduate research students, taught postgraduates and undergraduates. Our alumni are working in newsrooms in the UK and abroad as reporters, editors, producers, presenters while others have gone on into the wider media and communications sector and into academic careers.

For more information on the Department of Journalism Studies please visit our website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism

You will have a doctorate in the discipline of Journalism, or a related Social Sciences or a related Arts and Humanities discipline, or equivalent experience.

Ability to demonstrate strategic leadership and management of the Department, consistent with Department and Faculty vision and goals for research, knowledge exchange and impact, student recruitment and student experience, and quality assurance is essential.

We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

To find out what makes the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work, watch this short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LblLk18zmo, and follow @sheffielduni and @ShefUniJobs on Twitter for more information.

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Dear Ladies,

We invite you to participate in the research titled "Distribution of responsibilities within the family during the COVID-19 pandemic and financial literacy of women".

We are two professors/an assistant professor from the University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, with specialization in the field of management and finance.

Why are we conducting this research?

We are aware the unenviable position of women and the recent Covid-19 pandemic has further worsened it. Therefore, we would like to understand what influences women’s decisions to take on more or less family responsibilities during pandemic and if this relates to their financial literacy.

The data collected will help shaping future activities aimed at improving the position of women at work and in the family.

You can participate in the research by taking this short survey. It takes 5 minutes to complete. All answers are anonymous and they cannot be linked in any way to the identity of the person who responds.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePT_yvdKM51BuQx-l8pMmSWFo8MVzmVsnRwQYOIalXQRz4sQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

In the survey, we will ask you to rate how you deal with evolving responsibilities at work and at home during the COVID-19 epidemic. Finally, we will ask you to rate your family’s financial position and answer three short financial questions.

We would appreciate it if you could forward this survey to women that are close and dear to you and ask them to complete it.

If you have any comment, suggestion or are interested in the results of the research, please contact us on e-mail address women_in_research@efst.hr.

Thank you in advance for your time and kindness.

Ana Rimac Smiljanić, PhD, Associate Professor

Ivana Bulog, PhD, Associate Professor

Sandra Pepur, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Split,

Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism

Deadline for application: March 12, 2021

The YECREA network is calling for early-career media and communication researchers across Europe to apply for three vacant positions as YECREA representative.

The vacant positions are in the following Sections and Temporary Working Groups (TWGs):

• Philosophy of Communication
• Gender and Communication
• Communication and Sport

What is a YECREA Representative?

The young scholar (YECREA) representative in each section/TWG of ECREA assists the managing team (consisting of a chair and two vice-chairs) in organising panels, symposiums and/or conferences, promoting the specific research area. Furthermore, the YECREA representative works to inform early-career scholars about events in the field and take part in organising events, such as pre-conference workshops or meetings.

The ‘young’ in young scholar is not a measure of age, but of career progression. Thus, all scholars in non-tenure positions (e.g. PhD’s and postdocs) are welcome to apply. It should be noted that the position as YECREA representative is not paid.

How to Apply

Applications should be no more than 500 words and contain the following information:

• A heading with your name and the specific position you are applying for
• Details on your current university, position and progression
• A brief description of your research
• A brief statement on your work’s connection to the specific section, TWG or network
• A brief statement on your aspirations for improving early-career research

The managing team of YECREA (Corinna Lauerer, Norbert Šinković and Johan Farkas) will evaluate applications. The final decision on candidates will be taken in collaboration with the managing teams of each section/TWG.

As part of the evaluation, motivation will be emphasised as well as ensuring geographical diversity and supporting new scholars in the field.

More information about each section/TWG/network can be found at: https://www.ecrea.eu/Sections

More information about YECREA can be found at: http://yecrea.eu/

Questions can be addressed to Johan Farkas (chair): johan.farkas@mau.se

Applications should be sent to: yecreanetwork@gmail.com

April 29-30, April

Virtual Event

Abstract Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): March 15, 2021

Organized by: Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Film and Television

Venue: Virtual Zoom Event

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
• Robert Prey (University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts)
• Diğdem Sezen (Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Transmedia Digital Art and Animation)

Contemporary visual and sound cultures which increasingly rely on algorithmic analytics raise important questions on subjectivity and creativity in our ways of seeing and hearing, the ethics of the visual and the aural, the quantified self, the aesthetics and the provenance of the image.The use of algorithmic analytics to create media content, including films, series, trailers and teasers have proliferated with the advent of networking and digital streaming platforms. Digital data sets have become commodities in the global media industry. The knowledge obtained from digital data sustains the flow of knowledge on the users’ choices, governing production and consumption processes. Although algorithmic data appears to be computationally generated, it is bound with actors, networks, businesses and their ways of thinking and imagining the world. A line of research focuses on how the algorithmic calculation of taste data in film, sound and television have transformed and possibly subverted the mediums. Hence, algorithms are objects of critical cultural and political analyses.

Algorithms shape and condition not only ways of knowing but also ways of storytelling. Although the use of algorithms (which can be traced back to early editing) is not new in film studies, their increasing use in the production of film, including footage organization and cutting as well as dramatic writing raises questions about new ways of storytelling. To illustrate with a few examples, companies such as Scriptbook in Belgium and Vault in Israel use algorithmic software to foresee films’ box office performances by analyzing scripts. Likewise, artificial intelligence that is used to produce images from texts is used in the production process of film. In 2018, the BAFTA-nominated director Oscar Sharp teamed up with an artificial intelligence expert to create the ~7-minute film Zone Out.

Utilisation of algorithms in sound and music is also more and more visible in various forms. Regarding popular music consumption, algorithmic engines used by music streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music to offer personalised recommendations is among the prominent of these applications. Similarly, there are attempts to build an algorithmic deep-learning tool called AutoFoley, that can design synchronised sound for videos.

Against this background, this conference invites submissions that examine new ways of knowing and storytelling in film, sound and television that are in connection with algorithms in digital visual spaces. Possible topics may include, yet not limited to:

• different frameworks to study algorithms
• algorithms and storytelling in film and television
• algorithms and streaming platforms
• the aesthetics of the image
• new visual spaces
• algorithms and scriptwriting
• cross platform interactions
• algorithm and user interaction
• algorithm and production cultures
• algorithm and creative processes
• algorithm and transnational adaptations
• algorithm and genres
• racial and gender biases in algorithms
• algorithm and sound cultures

Please direct all inquiries and submissions to Can Türe can.ture@bilgi.edu.tr by March 15, 2021.

Participants will be notified of acceptance by March 31, 2021.

Paper proposals must include a 300-500 word abstract, a bibliography with up to 5 entries, and a brief author bio.

Roundtable panel proposals must include a ~500 word abstract describing the goal of the panel, a bibliography with around 5 entries and bios and contact information for each of the participants. Please indicate the primary correspondent for the panel.

Selection Committee

• Ebru Çigdem Thwaites Diken, Istanbul Bilgi University, Radio, TV & Film
• Ayşegül Kesirli Unur, Istanbul Bilgi University, Radio, TV & Film
• Robert Prey, University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts
• Diğdem Sezen, Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Transmedia Digital Art and Animation
• Ivo Furman, Istanbul Bilgi University, Television Reporting & Programming
• Erkan Saka, Istanbul Bilgi University, New Media and Communication
• Nazan Haydari Pakkan, Istanbul Bilgi University, Television Reporting & Programming
• Blake Hallinan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Communication and Journalism

Contact person: Can Türe

E-mail: can.ture@bilgi.edu.tr

Website: https://digitalhumanities.bilgi.edu.tr/

May 20-21, 2021

Online conference

Deadline: April 18, 2021

conference@fjsc.ro

http://www.fjsc.unibuc.ro/cercetare/conferintele-fjsc/30-years-of-higher-education-in-journalism-and-communication-in-eastern-europe-after-1989

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies in collaboration with State University of Moldova, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, Sofia University “Sf. Kliment Odhirski”, Radio and Television Department, University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Communication and Journalism, organize the Regional online Conference:

Call for papers

Between 1989 and 1990, in Eastern Europe emerged the first signs of a new social and political reality in which print and audiovisual media played a fundamental role in achieving freedom of speech. The first years were dedicated to fervent construction. Thousands of newspapers and magazines, dozens of television and radio stations were founded, contributing to an effervescent context, in contrast to the censorship of the authoritarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. In tandem came the interest for studying the impact of media, as well as the increasing need to train future journalists, equipped to undertake their role in a climate free of ideological constraints, and marked by freedom of expression. The post-communist journalism schools chose as models the Western European and American journalism, understood as practice of democracy (Gross, 2001).

Not only journalism needed specialists but the whole field of public communication required trained professionals. Thus, public relations and advertising became distinct fields of study, following the rapid development of communication industries. The investments of large companies in strategic communications campaigns, as well as regulations regarding the transparency of public institutions have motivated universities to build study programs in the field of communication. The Bologna process has led to the diversification of MA programs and the creation of the first doctoral schools in Communication Studies.

Digital communication technologies, underpinned by the consolidation of Internet access, have brought new challenges for the universities. New disciplines were implemented quickly, in a permanent race with the realities of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and subsequent developments (AI, IoT, etc.).

With the growth of new media, the ethical dilemmas and controversies have multiplied. These add up to the market conditions of media institutions in Eastern Europe, which are characterized by center-periphery relations, that favor the import of technology, but also the adoption of Western editorial concepts. These transformations are problematic as they overlap with previous media issues, such as the lack of the trust in traditional media, the quasi-disappearance of print media, the tabloidization, etc. These controversies impact the activity of journalists, but also that of communication professionals. Traditional media institutions are being under scrutiny (Deuze, 2020), and journalists are facing public distrust, complicated by the rise of fake news.

We invite you to submit papers that discuss the evolution of media and journalism education, as well as the developments of journalism and public communication during the last 30 years.

We welcome abstracts and papers that cover the following topics:

1. Higher education in journalism and communication: history, curricula effects of the Bologna process and the ongoing digitalization.

2. Media and communication professions. transformations, configurations, and challenges.

3. Digital communication: computational propaganda and democracy, fake news, illiberal parties and movements.

4. Political communication: marketization and elections in the age of digitalization.

5. The Coronavirus outbreak and media education: infodemia and censorship in public communication during the state of emergency.

6. Advertising, digital campaigns, globalization and localization.

8. Gender perspectives on journalism and media

9. Ethical dilemmas in journalism, in public relations and advertising.

10. The impact of the Internet on journalists and communication professionals.

Participants can also opt to send 500 words abstracts for the following panels:

1. Audiovisual communication in communism and post-communism

2. The impact of technologies on journalism and communication

3. Media and communication policies, media pluralism and independence. New approaches from a systemic perspective of the media system in Central and Eastern Europe

4. The relationship between academia and the advertising industry

5. Political communication in the digital age

6. Gender, politics and communication

Practical informations:

- Participants can send 500-600 words abstracts (references included). We accept abstracts in English and Romanian. E-mail for sending the abstract: conference@fjsc.ro

- There are no participation fees.

- The conference will be organized in the Webex system.

- The selected papers will be published in a proceedings volume or in the special issues of academic journals (Facta Universitatis Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History; Media Studies and Applied Ethics; Styles of Communication).

Contacts: conference@fjsc.ro, romina.surugiu@unibuc.ro

International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021)

Deadline: April 9, 2021

The International Journal of Film and Media Arts is an open access, subsidized by the Film and Media Arts Department of Lusófona University, Lisboa, Portugal. In June 2020, IJFMA was accepted for indexation in Scopus from Elsevier.

This special issue invites filmmakers, artists and researchers to submit papers that deal with but are not limited to the topics of:

• Animation and public space
• Animation and architecture
• Site-specific installations that use animated image
• Animated video-mapping projects
• Animated VR experiences
• Expanded animation environments
• Spatially engaged animation practice

Since its early days, the animated image has suggested a spatial freedom that challenges the limits of the photographic and traditional filmic space.

When, in 1914, Winsor McCay drew himself onto the landscape to interact with Gertie, he was initiating a practice of expanding the space(s) we live in through the use of animated image that lasts until today. And, while early rubber hose animation projected the uncertainty of the accelerating modern life onto the screen, contemporary animation is now seamlessly embedded in our lives, redesigning the facades of our cities, expanding our intimate spaces, bringing to life the digital devices that enhance our body interfaces.

Animation’s wide aesthetic and technical range has made its practice a perfect vehicle for engaging with our environment: From straightforward projections, site-specific installation work, to video-mapping and VR, the city landscape has simultaneously become the ultimate animation canvas and an animated body in itself; From the purely decorative to socially or politically engaged projects that challenge our perception of the world, animation has taken over the surfaces that used to limit our space, to augment our physical experience.

We are dedicating a special issue of the International Journal for Film and Media Studies to expanded animation and the ways it addresses public space interacts with the contemporary city, reflects on landscape and/or reshapes personal environment, to challenge our perception of the space(s) we inhabit.

Abstracts to be submitted by 9th April 2021

Provide two Word documents (.doc) with:

1. ABSTRACT, no longer than 500 words with 5 keywords.

The abstract should not have any reference to the authors or the institution they belong to. The authors must ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in such a way that they do not reveal their identities to reviewers, either directly or indirectly.

2. BIO, no longer than 300 words. Name, Email address and institutional affiliation.

Please submit to:

anna.coutinho@ulusofona.pt

Schedule for publication:

Abstracts to be submitted - 9th April 2021

Feedback on abstracts – 3rd May 2021

Submission of full paper – 30th July 2021

Final revisions – 17th September 2021

Publication date – 30th October 2021

Submission online or via email will be made anonymously. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 peer reviewers. Accepted papers will be given guidelines for the preparation and submission of the final text. Authors will not be requested submission or processing fees.

More info: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/announcement/view/131

April 21, afternoon (exact time TBD)

Online meeting (Zoom)

Deadline: March 19, 2021

Early-Career Workshop at “Migrant Belongings” Conference

What happens after the PhD and what are challenges and opportunities? How and where do I publish in the field of media and migration? How to find a good line of research and contribute to it? How to prepare for the post-PhD academic life? And how to cope with imposter syndrome? These are some of the questions we all face as early career scholars.

This year’s YECREA workshop of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media section is directed towards PhD students as well as researchers in early stages, working in the field of media and migration.

The two confirmed facilitators Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Nishant Shah (ArtEZ University of the Arts) - professors with a long commitment to studying migration and media - will help us to discuss, reflect and answer some of our concerns, questions and problems in an open workshop format. The topics can revolve around (but are not limited to) experiences of PhD life in the field, publishing, post-doctoral aspirations, or structuring and planning one’s own research project.

If you are interested in participating, please submit 250 words abstract of your PhD project, as well as a set of max. 5 questions concerning your position, career or experiences of being an early-career researcher in the field of media and migration.

Please submit your application via this link: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/6LC7TPF

Deadline for applications: 19 March 2021

For further questions please e-mail: philipp.seuferling@sh.se or M.Mevsimler@uu.nl

This workshop is part of the ‘Migrant Belongings’ Conference, which is jointly organised by the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging and the DMM (Diaspora, Migration and the Media section) of the ECREA.

March 26-27, 2021

Online conference

Deadline (EXTENDED): March 15, 2021

The 12th edition of the international conference Professional Communication and Translation Studies (PCTS) organized by the Department of Communication and Foreign Languages at Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania aims to continue the exchange of ideas on the impact of new technologies on communication, to highlight the evolution of humanities and social sciences in conjunction with technological innovation, and to identify (new) trends in the language industry in the post web 2.0 era. In preparation of Timisoara being a European Capital of Culture in 2023, this edition of PCTS focuses on “Digital culture, communication and translation”. The conference will be hosted online on Zoom.

Conference tracks:

• Communication and public relations
• Linguistics
• Translation studies
• Foreign language teaching.

Conference format

• Types of presentation: talk (20 minutes), workshop (60 minutes), panel discussion (2 hrs.)
• Working languages: Romanian, English, French, or German

Publication

Selected papers, after peer-review, will be published in the volume Professional Communication and Translation Studies (open access, peer-reviewed, indexed by CEEOL, EBSCO – Communication and mass media complete, Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, MLA, ULRICH'S, Scipio and WorldCat) or in the Scientific Bulletin of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Transactions on Modern Languages (open access, peer-reviewed, indexed by CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIHPLUS, Europeana, Google Scholar, MLA, ULRICH'S and WorldCat).

Languages of publication: English, French or German.

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2021
• Final draft of the conference programme: March 20, 2021
• Final paper submission deadline: May 1, 2021

To register, please use the registration form available on the conference page, at https://sc.upt.ro/ro/pcts12/registration

Updates on the conference news, information about keynote speakers, workshops and other events are available on

https://www.facebook.com/ProfessionalCommunicationAndTranslationStudies

Contact: You can reach us at pcts@upt.ro

November 17 - 19, 2021

Online conference

Deadline: July 2, 2021

Website: https://2021.computational-humanities-research.org/

Twitter: @CompHumResearch

Hashtag: #chr2021

Contact: info@computational-humanities-research.org

Description:

In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry in the arts and humanities. This is precisely the scholarly niche that the CHR conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at:

Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be complementary to the digital humanities landscape.

Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer questions relevant to the humanities.

Topics of interest:

We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including – but not limited to – the following:

• Applications of statistical methods (machine learning) to process, enrich and analyse humanities and cultural heritage data;
• Hypothesis-driven humanities research;
• Development of empirical methods for humanities research;
• Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the humanities;
• Evaluation methods and development of standards;
• Statistical evaluation of categorization / periodization;
• Explanatory models for humanities research;
• Theories for quantitative methods and computational humanities approaches;
• Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations.

To gain further insight into paper topics, please also refer to CHR2020 proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/

Submission types:

Long Papers: up to 6000 words (ca. 12 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded), long papers report on completed, original and unpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information.

Short Papers: up to 3000 words (ca. 6 pages references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded), small papers report on focussed contributions, and may present work in progress, negative results, and opinion pieces.

Overleaf has a word count functionality, or you can use the TexCount application: https://app.uio.no/ifi/texcount/

Submission instructions and review process:

Submissions should be written in English and must be formatted according to the CHR latex template https://github.com/cohure/CHR-2021/raw/main/chr2021_latex_template.zip (see instructions on the forum to get you started here: https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/chr-latex-instructions/230).

Submissions are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the conference organizers.

Paper should be submitted as PDF documents via the Easychair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chr2021.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference and present the paper.

Accepted papers will be submitted for publication to the CEUR-WS Proceedings publication service (http://ceur-ws.org/).

Authors are encouraged to openly share code and data. If the authors have created an openly available dataset associated with the research presented in the CHR2021 paper, in addition to the conference paper, they are welcome to submit a data paper describing their dataset in the Special Collection on Computational Humanities Data (https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/cfp-computational-humanities-research-data-journal-of-open-humanities-data/706) of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/), which accepts submissions on a rolling basis.

Important dates:

(Time zone: Anywhere on Earth https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)

Submission deadline: July 2, 2021

Notification to authors: September 3, 2021

Camera-ready: September 17, 2021

Conference: November 17 - November 19, 2021

Program committee:

https://2021.computational-humanities-research.org/people/

Organizers:

- Tara Andrews, University of Vienna

- Manuel Burghardt, Computational Humanities, University of Leipzig

- Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam

- Maud Ehrmann, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

- Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Institute

- Mike Kestermont, CLiPS

- Enrique Manjavacas, Universiteit Antwerpen

- Barbara McGillivray, Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge

- George Mikros, University of Athens

- Adina Nerghes, Wageningen University & Research,

- Kristoffer Nielbo, University of Aarhus

- Michael Piotrowski, University of Lausanne

- Joris van Zundert, Huygens ING - KNAW

- Melvin Wevers, University of Amsterdam