DAH - Methods, Practices, Epistemologies

Call for Papers

Second call for papers

The second edition of the Conference Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies aims at bringing together established and early career scholars, independent researchers, and professionals involved with the transdisciplinary digital research initiatives, who are interested in critically examining a recent developments in the field of Digital Art History, Digital History of Architecture and Urbanism, Visual Studies, Museology, Digital Cultural Heritage, Social and Cultural History / Studies.

Along with the presentations of the ongoing or recently completed research projects, and unpublished discussions concerning theoretical, methodological, or epistemological issues of Digital Art History / Digital Humanities, we encourage the papers focusing on the methods used to approach a complex research questions, on the technical problems, and on the theoretical, and epistemic issues that might be of interest to wider DH community.  

Topics that might be examined include, but are not limited to:

Practices & approaches to

·        Network visualizations, and social networks analysis

·        Digital mapping, imaging, and modelling

·        Integration of visual, spatial and temporal analysis

·        Computational text analysis (topic modelling, data mining, qualitative text analysis, spatial and textual topographies)

·        Image analysis

Data practices

·        Institutional and disciplinary research data management services and infrastructures

·        Good practices to achieve research transparency and reproducibility

·        Data management plans (DMP)

·        Implementations of FAIR data principles

·        Interoperability, standards, and shared data sources

Collaborative research

·        Collaborative research networks & platforms

·        Collaboration and communication of scholarly insights within and across disciplines

·        Advantages and limits of collaborative research

DAH/DH policies & epistemologies

·        Power centers’ and ‘new’ peripheries

·        Relation between analogue & digital art history, and change in the character of art historical knowledge

·        DAH/DH pedagogy and scholarship