DiXiT Workshop, Rome January 24, 2017 - Call

DIXIT workshop Call for proposals

The educational and social impact of Digital Scholarly Editions

Tuesday Jan 24 2017

Deadline: November 30, 2016

Digilab and DiXiT network are organizing a workshop on the educational application and social impact of digital scholarly editions. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, January 24, 2016, in conjunction with the AIUCD 2017 Conference and the 3rd EADH Day (aiucd2017.aiucd.it). The format of the one-day workshop consists of a set of six/eight papers (20 minutes) and large room for discussion.

The goal of the workshop is to share experiences and foster theoretical reflections about the impact of digital scholarly editing products and methods, primarily in the educational context, but also in the more general social context. The use of digital technologies in teaching prompts a reflection on the added value of using these technologies and raises some controversial questions at the same time: shall we consider digital humanities as a ‘special topic’, separate from non-digital subjects, such as national literature or ancient languages, etc.? Is digital scholarly editing an invaluable pedagogical tool for learning to encode texts by means of markup? Does it enable students to make an original research contribution while still learning? Is the ‘learning by doing’ approach recommended? Is it just a matter of skin? Can a digital tutorial, if properly designed, engage a wider public well beyond the limits of the scholarly target for which it was originally developed?

At the same time, digital research outcomes and methods should not be considered as separate from the more general cultural and social context. In this sense, digital scholarly editions can play a relevant role in the public engagement of humanities scholarship.

These topics can be articulated in the following issues:

• the digital editions in teaching philology and textual criticism
• digital editions in disciplinary context
• digital editions and their social impact
• digital editions and academic publishing
• digital editions and public humanities

The organizers solicit proposals in the form of an abstract of max 500 words. Abstracts can be submitted via the AIUCD 2017 ConfTool, available at http://http://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017/. The official language of the Workshop is English.

Submitters must create an account on the system and then use the specific type of submission “DIXIT Workshop”. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by December 15, 2016.