<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear Woolfians, <br><br>I'm
thrilled to be able to send you the conference website and CFP for
"Digital Diversity 2015: Writing, Feminism, Culture," a conference that
celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Orlando textbase and looks to the
future of the digital as it connects and intersects with feminist
humanities projects. <br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">As a
part of the organizing committee, I can assure you that this will be a
wonderfully enriching event, so please consider submitting. Even if you
are not a DHer, you'll find plenty to engage you. Please circulate to colleagues and graduate students as you see fit. <br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Hope everyone is happy and well! <br><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Be well,<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">
Sarah<br></div>
<div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Conference website: <a href="http://digitaldiversity2015.org/" target="_blank">http://digitaldiversity2015.org/</a><br>
<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">CFP:<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div>
<p><b>Digital Diversity 2015: Writing | Feminism | Culture</b></p>
<p><b>Orlando turns 20</b></p>
<p>Edmonton, Canada 7-9 May 2015</p>
<p>How have new technologies transformed literary and cultural
histories? How do they enable critical practices of scholars working in
and outside of digital humanities? Have decades of digital studies
enhanced, altered, or muted the project to recover and represent more
diverse histories of writers, thinkers, and artists positioned
differently by gender, race, ethnicity, sexualities, social class and/or
global location? This conference examines the trajectory of feminist
digital studies, observing the ways in which varied projects have opened
up the objects and methods of literary history and cultural studies. It
marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Orlando Project, an
ongoing experiment in digital methods that produces <i>Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles, from the Beginnings to the Present</i>
(<a href="http://orlando.cambridge.org" target="_blank">orlando.cambridge.org</a>). Alongside pioneering projects such as the
Women Writers Project, the Corvey Project, the Dickinson Electronic
Archives, the Perdita Project, and the Victorian Women Writers Project,
Orlando blazed a new path in the field, bringing together feminist
literary studies with emerging methods of digital inquiry. These twenty
years have witnessed a revolution in how we research, produce, and
circulate knowledge. It is time to reflect upon the impact of the
digital turn on engagement with the literary and cultural past.</p>
<p>We welcome presentations that will together reflect on the past,
present, and future of digital literary and cultural studies; examine
synergies across digital humanities projects; and stimulate exchanges
across such fields as literary history, history, art history, cultural
studies, and media studies.</p>
<p>Potential topics include:</p>
<ul><li>Transformations and evaluations of feminist, gender, queer and other recuperative literary studies</li><li>Digital manifestations of critical race studies, transatlantic/transnationalist or local/community-based approaches</li>
<li>Collaborations between digital humanities specialists and scholars in other fields</li><li>Born-digital critical and creative initiatives in cultural history
(journals, blogs, electronic “branch” projects, crowdsourcing,
multi-media, and interactive projects)</li><li>Editorial initiatives, digitization and curation of primary texts, representation of manuscripts and the writing process</li><li>Inquiry into texts, networks, and historical processes via visualization and other “distant reading” strategies</li>
<li>Authorship and collaboration: the work of women and other
historically marginalized writers, traditional models of scholarship,
and new conditions of digital research and new media</li><li>Sound and sight: sound and visual arts studies in digital environments</li><li>Identities and diversity in new media: born-digital arts in word,
sound, and image, in genres including documentaries, blogs, graphic
novels, memoirs, hypertexts and e-literature</li><li>Conditions of production: diversity in academia, publishing, library, information science, or programming, past and present</li><li>Cultural and political implications of particular tools or digital modes of presentation</li>
<li>Pedagogical objectives, practices, environments</li><li>Dissemination, accessibility, and sustainability challenges faced by digital projects</li></ul>
<p>The conference will include paper/panel presentations as well as
non-traditional presentation formats. Please submit abstracts (500 words
for single paper, poster, or demonstration, and 1500 words for panels
of 3 papers or workshops) along with a short CV for each presenter. We
are applying for funding to support the participation of new and
emerging scholars.</p>
<p>We welcome proposals for other non-traditional formats. Half- to
full-day workshops will be held on the first day of the conference;
demonstrations and poster presentations will be embedded in the
conference program. Proposals for workshops should provide a
description, outline, and proposed schedule indicating the length of
time and type of space desired.</p>
<p>The deadline for all proposals is <b>15 September 2014</b>. Submit proposals by email, to <a href="mailto:digdiv2015@gmail.com" target="_blank">digdiv2015@gmail.com</a>. Follow us on Twitter @digdiv2015.</p><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Sarah E. Cornish, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor of English<br>
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<a href="mailto:sarah.cornish@unco.edu" target="_blank">sarah.cornish@unco.edu</a> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
<a href="http://sarahcornish.wordpress.com" target="_blank">sarahcornish.wordpress.com</a><br>
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