Conferences
23–24 October 2017, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
International Conference: "Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies"
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017 International Conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” that will be co-sponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program.
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research (http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr) is dedicated to advancing new areas of interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides. One of the Center’s primary research themes is Digital Genocide Studies.
Digital technologies have begun to significantly influence contemporary scholarship, theories, and methods in the social sciences and humanities. The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites scholars from all disciplines to examine the relationships between digital methodologies, practices, ethics and contemporary Holocaust and genocide studies. How can digital humanities shape, challenge, or complement contemporary genocide studies and vice versa?
The two-day international conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” will be held on October 23-24, 2017 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. The conference will investigate the ways in which digital tools and methods, new media, and information technologies can help us to challenge conventional wisdom regarding Holocaust and Genocide Studies by raising new questions, improving our understanding, deepening our analysis, widening our field of view, or pioneering new approaches. Especially of interest would be how digital humanists from a range of disciplines and methodologies can broaden our methodological approaches to the study of the causes, consequences, and prevention of genocide.
We encourage diverse approaches to the conference theme that draw from a wide variety of critical lenses and approaches, as well as focus on any time period, case study, or medium.
Submissions on the following themes are particularly encouraged:
- Digital methodologies and their applicability to genocide studies
- Quantitative genocide research
- Big data methodologies and comparative genocide studies
- Digital technologies (such as wearable devices, 3D printing, and others) and their applicability to genocide studies
- Creation, curation, promotion and analysis of digital genocide resources and collections
- Audio and visual genocide testimonies and their digitization, preservation, and accessibility
- Social, institutional, global/regional, multicultural, and multilingual aspects of digital genocide research
- Ethics of digital genocide studies
- Tools and methods of genocide studies that could fruitfully contribute to or influence the digital sphere and the field of digital humanities
https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2016/11/12664-call-papers-digital-approaches-genocide-studies
