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It is now ten years since the representatives of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries gathered for the first time in Passau for the conference, which now takes place annually at different locations in Germany and other German-speaking countries. After a decade, DHd2024 now offers the opportunity to take stock and develop future perspectives within the discipline. Not only has the community grown steadily over the last ten years, but the fields of research and applications of the digital humanities have also changed and developed. Digital ways of working and methods have arrived in everyday research and in all areas of life; digitalization has become part of the public discourse, think of artificial intelligence or big data, for example. DHs have therefore always been faced with the task of accompanying this process and playing a decisive role in it, especially when it comes to formulating offers of interpretation and assistance.

The question therefore arises: How can the digital humanities meet the growing demands - for example in the areas of sustainability, ethics and data protection, interdisciplinary collaboration and data-intensive research? How will the DH develop over the next ten years? What current and future challenges will DH have to face? Which methods should be pursued further and which should be reconsidered?

(translated and cited after: https://web.archive.org/web/20240226103915/https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/call-for-papers/)

As part of the conference, we will present the progress of the project and in particular the annotation guideline CANSpiN.CS1 in a poster contribution.

The annual ADHO Digital Humanities Conference is the central and largest event of the international DH community and unites scholars from across the globe, presenting them with a unique opportunity for the exchange of their work and ideas and the fostering of future collaborations.

This year’s conference theme “Collaboration as Opportunity” showcases transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration, with a special focus on the thriving South-Eastern European Digital Humanities community. It will explore how mutual empowerment and collaboration of neighboring countries – regardless of continent and geopolitical placement – can transform regional hubs of expertise to international networks of excellent research, to the benefit of the global DH community.

(cited after: https://dh2023.adho.org/)

The DH2023 conference gives us the opportunity to engage with partners from around the world on topics of interest to us in the project, such as corpus building, data modeling, annotation, extraction from unstructured data, and large language models.

The Collaborative Research Center 1288 "Practices of Comparison" (Bielefeld University), in collaboration with the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies (Bielefeld University) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, invites proposals for papers for the interdisciplinary conference "Comparing Landscapes: Approaches to Space and Affect in Literary Fiction". The conference will take place at the ZiF Bielefeld on April 20 and 21, 2023.

We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge), Prof. Alexander Honold (University of Basel), Jun.-Prof. Mareike Schumacher (University of Regensburg) and Prof. Matthew Wilkens (Cornell University) as keynote speakers already! [...]

This conference brings together scholars from literary studies and the digital humanities to explore representations of space and affect in literature and literary history, focusing on two aspects: the 'national' as a dimension of reference and the role of practices of comparison.

The conference is designed to welcome a wide range of perspectives: from literary criticism to machine learning, from geospatial to sentiment analysis, from metaphor theory to historiography.

Our goal is to create an interdisciplinary event in which research on the dimensions of space and affect in literary texts is explored with reference to "national literatures" and practices of comparison at different levels. This exchange of ideas will take place among scholars from different faculties and backgrounds who share an interest in the ways in which space and affect inform literary discourse and literary historiography.

We look forward to a series of exciting presentations comparing dimensions of space and affect in different national literatures and periods. We invite contributor:s from a variety of research traditions and disciplines, including but by no means limited to hermeneutics, philology, cultural studies, cognitive poetics, empirical literary studies, corpus stylistics, and all kinds of data-driven and digital humanities.

(translated and cited after: https://comparing-landscapes.github.io)

In the context of the planned poster session we will present the CANSpiN project to the conference participants. See the publications.