IDRH is pleased to announce our Fall 2013 Digital Humanities Forum, September 12-14, 2013 at the University of Kansas. The three-day Forum features the following events:

Thursday, September 12 & Friday, September 13
WORKSHOPS: A set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital humanities tools and topics.

Friday, September 13
THATCamp Kansas: An “unconference” for technologists and humanists, with conversations about topics defined on-site by the participants.

Saturday, September 14
RETURN TO THE MATERIAL: A one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing digital humanities projects and research.

KEYNOTE TALKS
Colin Allen, Indiana University
Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria
Whitney Trettien, Duke University

The Forum is free to attend and open to participants beyond KU, but space is limited.

Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, 

IDRH, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities is holding this year the annual Digital Humanities Forum event in which humanist have the opportunity to participate in different events:

•  Thursday, September 12: Workshops
•  Friday, September 13: THATCamp Kansas
•  Saturday, September 14: Return to the Material conference

The Call for papers to participate in the Return to the material conference is now open.

CFP submission deadline: June 1
Forum registration opens in June

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, posters or panel sessions on topics from your own research that focus on the relationship between the digital and the material, such as:

• How the digital deforms, reforms, and transforms the material, and vice-versa;
• Innovative computational approaches to the close reading of text, map, image or audio;
• The implications for humanities scholarship and pedagogy of digital-to-physical conversion tools, wearable computers, and augmented reality technologies (e.g. 3-D printing, electronic textiles, Google Glass)
• The future of physical objects and collections in a digital world;
• New digital techniques in the making and exhibition of art;
• The materiality of music, art, or film in the digital age;
• Digital humanities as a key mode of addressing technological change;
• The recognition of craft in building, creating and accessing electronic materials;
• How the apparent wild experimentation of DH reveals substantial and tangible insights;
• and other related topics.

DH Forum best student paper award: ​Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers or poster presentations. One student presentation will be selected for an award based on the quality, originality, clarity of the written abstract, along with its alignment with the DH Forum theme and expected future impact. The awardee will be presented with a check for $400 and award certificate at the conference. Students should identify themselves as such at the time of abstract submission to be considered for the award. For a paper to be eligible, at least fifty percent of the research reported in the paper must be performed by one or more student authors, and the student must be the primary presenter of the paper at the conference.

Please submit abstracts of 500 words maximum here.

Proposal Deadline: June 1. Notification: June 15

Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities,