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SASS Conference 2013, including a track about Digital Humanities![]() SASS - Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study SASS is an association of scholars and others interested in the cultures of the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Founded in 1911, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study has as its objectives:
The 2013 annual meeting of the Society will take place in San Francisco next May. The Conference aims to provide thematic multi-session threads of discussion, including a stream dedicated to Digital Humanities. Call for Papers are open until 30th November.
Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Digital methods in the Liberal Arts have shifted from being a sideshow to a central act in the scholarly engagement with human culture. Though humanists and social scientists have used computation in their work for many decades, the amount of both digitized data and degree of algorithmic sophistication makes the present moment a crucial one for bringing together expertise and exchange of ideas in this area. Since our field studies nations with high levels of technical development and strong investments in large-scale digital cultural heritage projects, we face a special challenge in ensuring our methodologies are sophisticated enough to tackle a coming flood of Nordic “big data.” As part of the Annual Meeting of SASS, we are soliciting proposals on the subject Digital Humanities, broadly considered. We anticipate any of the following focus areas would be appropriate, and also welcome other topics and approaches as relevant:
Download the specific Digital Humanities Call for Papers (PDF, 52 Kb) Download the full Call for Papers (PDF, 136 Kb) For more information about SASS 2013 or the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, please visit: http://www.scandinavianstudy.org/site/. |