CFP: Graduate student symposium on Digital Humanities at Yale

FYI! Call For Papers
***Deadline Extended to September 30th***
The Past’s Digital Presence:
Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

February 19th and 20th, 2010

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital
sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the
message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What
kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make
obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its
use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material?
How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost,
and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate students
to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address
how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research
in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale
faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent. The two-day conference
will take place February 19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago

Potential paper topics include:

* The Future of the History of the Book
* Public Humanities
* Determining Irrelevance in the Archive
* Defining the Key-Word
* The Material Object in Archival Research
* Local Knowledge, Global Access
* Digital Afterlives
* Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive
* Database Access Across the Profession
* Mapping and Map-Based Platforms
* Interactive Research

Please email a one-page proposal along with a C.V. to pdp@yale.edu. Deadline
for submissions is September 30th, 2009. Accepted panelists will
be notified by early October. We ask that all graduate-student panelists
pre-circulate their paper among their panels by January 20th, 2010.

Please contact Molly Farrell, Heather Klemann, Ryan Brasseaux, and Taylor Spence at pdp@yale.edu with any additional inquiries.
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