Digital Humanities - Pathways to the future

The Digital Humanities have grown in prominence in recent years, as digital technologies have been woven ever deeper into the fabric of human life. Be it through imaging, archiving, communicating or simply exploring the intersection of the human with the digital, Digital Humanities now comprise an expanding array of research topics and themes of crucial importance.

Keio University and the College of Humanities at SOAS are therefore proud to celebrate the launch of a new collaboration in the research and teaching of digital humanities across our two institutions, starting with a series of symposia. Accordingly, we are pleased to announce a call for papers relating to any topic within Digital Humanities.

Papers do not have to relate to Japan or any specific national/regional context, or type of digital technology. SOAS may choose to have very little STEM scholarship, but the pervasiveness of digital capital means that we are often digital-adjacent and these technologies enter our work or field of interest in a variety of tangential (or indeed fundamental) ways. This symposium can be a forum for existing, published work you’ve done in relation to these connections, or be a place to share new research directions or articulate emergent curiosities.

Abstracts should be in English and about 200 to 250 words long. Please send all abstracts to digital.symposium.2025@soas.ac.uk. The deadline is 10 December 2024, 4:00pm UK time (11:00pm Japan time). We aim to announce acceptance of the papers until 20 December 2024.

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