Dear Colleagues,
I am organizing a panel or panels on the theme of “Early Modern Digital Humanities” for the
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 24-27, 2013). Despite its name, the SCSC is really concerned with the whole run of time ca. 1450-1700 or so. Proposals for individual papers of all sorts on this theme
are very welcome. I think that there may be enough interest in the early modern historical, literary, art-historical and other communities to put together more than one panel; which would be great. Papers might be such things as
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applications of digital methods like spatial, network, text or image analysis
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reports on progress of or problems in digitization efforts, whether text, image, audio or other (especially perhaps electronic text curation)
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treatments of meta-topics concerning data, informatics, convergence of knowledge systems or similar which might lend themselves to electronic representation
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treatments of virtual representations of things early modern, such as buildings, landscapes or sensory patterns
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Who knows? The sky’s the limit.
The submission deadline is March 15, so interested participants should contact me by about March 8.
Sincerely yours,
Colin Wilder
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Dr. Colin F. Wilder
Associate Director
Center for Digital Humanities, Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
1322 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208