May 30st – June 1st, 2025 | George Brown College, Toronto
CFP Deadline: 13 January 2025
ConfTool URL: https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2025/
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at George Brown College, as part of the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025). We encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities.
We are particularly interested in papers that critically engage the Congress 2025 theme of “Reframing Togetherness.” Togetherness and community are fraught concepts, and we welcome papers that think carefully about creative and ethical ways of attending to difference and togetherness within communities and across disciplines. Digital humanities work offers new possibilities for fostering critical forms of difference from ‘traditional’ humanities, and we welcome papers that think about these implications of DH work.
We envision papers that seek to explore the following topics:
- DH and racial justice
- DH and the Health Humanities
- DH beyond the academy
- DH Makerspaces and Breakerspaces
- Digital Worldmaking in the Face of Political Change
- Environmental Digital Humanities
- Francophone and/or Multilingual Digital Humanities
- Histories of DH work in Canada and elsewhere
- Labour and DH
- Libraries and Archives in DH
- LLMs, Machine Learning and AI
- Research Creation in DH
- Social Media Breakdown and Buildup
- Sustainable DH
- Surveillance, Authority and Power in contemporary DH
Proposals for papers (20 minutes), digital demonstrations (posters), and panels (2-6 speakers for a 90-minute session) will be accepted until January 13, 2025 and must be submitted to https://conftool.net/csdh-schn-2025/.
- Paper abstracts should be 500 words and should specify your thesis, methodology, and conclusions.
- Panel proposals should include a brief introduction to the topic, a list of presenters, and a 250-500-word abstract for each paper.
- Proposals for digital demonstrations of innovative projects or tools should be 250 words and introduce the tool or project, the intended audience, and the project’s stage of development. These demonstrations will be given table space and a backdrop so they can set up a poster and a computer for a two-hour session. We encourage projects with software to show to apply for this venue.
Our conference may be able to offer limited opportunities for remote presentations. If circumstances would make in-person attendance challenging, please indicate this in your submission.
We welcome collaborations and joint presentations with other associations whose dates overlap with ours.
Please note that all presenters and instructors must be members of CSDH/SCHN at the time of the conference. A limited amount of funding is available to support graduate student travel. Please indicate on ConfTool that you are a student, and we will reach out with a link to the bursary application.
Congress 2025 welcomes scholars and student researchers, librarians, archivists, technologists, artists, activists, and public intellectuals—including those who have not previously seen themselves or their work reflected in Congress—to engage in deep interdisciplinary scholarly and artistic engagement and to join this crucial conversation about how we can re-imagine and change the world for the better. CSDH/SCHN welcomes proposals from all constituencies and disciplines and encourages applications from women, Indigenous people, people of colour, LGBTQ2+, people with disabilities, or other underrepresented groups.
Working languages of the conference are French and English. Engagements with other languages and issues of multilingualism in DH are welcome and encouraged as topics and components of presentations.
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special collections published in the CSDH/SCHN society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org).2025 Program Committee: Yann Audin (Montreal), Paul Barrett (Guelph), Heidi Craig (Toronto), Rebecca Dowson (SFU), Abi Muthukumar (UBC), Harvey Quamen (U Alberta), Cecily Raynor (McGill), Markus Reisenleitner (York), Caroline Winter (Victoria), Vera Zoricic (Waterloo)
