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Call for Papers: JADH2025

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JADH2025: “Crossing the Gap: Rethinking Boundaries between the Humanities and Informatics”

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) is pleased to announce its 14th annual conference, to be held in person at Osaka University on September 19-21, 2025.

Where is the boundary between the Humanities and Informatics, and how can we cross it? This theme has long been considered in Digital Humanities. The concept of Methodological Commons has become a vital foundation for the effective realization of interdisciplinary collaboration and the advancement of Digital Humanities. The sharing of methodologies in Digital Humanities has developed in various ways through the interplay between technology, techniques, and research subjects.

In recent years, the emergence of generative AI has brought about a profound shift in the balance between the Humanities and Informatics. In both fields, the areas where generative AI can take over seem to be expanding, simultaneously creating new possibilities for development and raising issues within these fields. In doing so, this development foregrounds critical issues regarding the very roles of the Humanities and Informatics—disciplines that form the core of Digital Humanities.

This symposium aims to explore how these disciplines can and should function within Digital Humanities under these evolving circumstances, and to investigate new possibilities for crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries. Through this examination, we hope to illuminate future pathways for the development of Digital Humanities and to foster productive dialogue on the potential trajectories of collaborative research.

In this context, we welcome presentations that will stimulate discussion of a rethinking of the boundaries between the Humanities and Informatics. This encompasses a broad spectrum, from theoretical discussions to practical applications. We are also keen to include research that reflects the diverse global practices in Digital Humanities, continuing the tradition of previous conferences.

However, it's important to clarify that the conference's scope extends beyond the theme. We invite proposals on all aspects of Digital Humanities and especially encourage papers that deal with practices that cross borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages, cultures, organizations, and so on, as related to the field of Digital Humanities. Topics of interest span a wide range, including AI, data mining, information design and modeling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities; and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Examples might include text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; and the role of Digital Humanities in academic curricula. The range of topics covered by Digital Humanities can also be consulted in the journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/), Oxford University Press.

Abstracts submitted should be of 500-1000 words in length in English, including the title and authors’ names.

Please submit abstracts via the ConfTool website below, which will open soon, by 11:59 PM, 15 Apr, 2025 (HAST).

https://www.conftool.net/jadh-2025/

Presenters will be notified of acceptance on May 30, 2025.

Type of proposals:

Interactive presentations: Interactive poster session presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software, and digital projects.
Short papers: Short papers are allotted 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development.

Long papers: Long papers are allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies.
Panels: Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of approximately 500-1000 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit a 500-1000 words outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate.

Use of generative AI language tools:
Recently, while chatbots as a new text-generating tool are becoming widespread, various problems such as authorship, accuracy, and ethical implications have been pointed out. Since the Digital Humanities field needs to respond constructively to this situation, the JADH Program committee does not prohibit their use. However, at least at present, generative AI language tools will not be recognized as an author. Instead, please report the significant use of generative AI language tools, as described in the arXiv's policy.

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/01/31/arxiv-announces-new-policy-on-chatgpt-...

After the conference:

JADH strongly encourages you to improve your contribution to this conference based on the discussion that will take place during your presentation and submit them to our open-access journal, the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjadh/list/-char/en).

Contact

Please direct inquiries about any aspect of the conference to:

conf2025 [ at ] jadh.org

Program Committee:

  • Natsuko Nakagawa (Kyushu University, Japan), Co-chair
  • Satoru Nakamura (University of Tokyo, Japan), Co-chair
  • Naoya Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan), Vice-chair
  • Yuho Kitazaki (Osaka University, Japan), Vice-chair
  • Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
  • Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University, USA)
  • Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, USA)
  • James Cummings (Newcastle University, UK)
  • J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois, USA)
  • Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Øyvind Eide (University of Cologne, Germany)
  • Makoto Goto (National Museum of Japanese History, Japan)
  • Yuta Hashimoto (National Museum of Japanese History, Japan)
  • Bor Hodošček (Osaka University, Japan)
  • ​​Jae-Yon Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • JenJou Hung (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan)
  • Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Akihiro Kawase (Doshisha University, Japan)
  • Nobuhiko Kikuchi (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan)
  • Asanobu Kitamoto (ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  • Naoki Kokaze (Chiba University, Japan)
  • Chao-Lin Liu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
  • Hajime Murai (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
  • Kiyonori Nagasaki (Keio University / International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
  • Chifumi Nishioka (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  • Ikki Ohmukai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Christof Schöch (Trier University, Germany)
  • Martina Scholger (University of Graz, Austria)
  • Masahiro Shimoda (Musashino University, Japan)
  • Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)
  • Tomoji Tabata (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Toru Tomabechi (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
  • Richard Tzong-Han Tsai (National Central University, Taiwan)
  • Ayaka Uesaka (Osaka Seikei University, Japan)
  • Raffaele Viglianti (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Christian Wittern (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Taizo Yamada (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Hilofumi Yamamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Hiroyuki Yamauchi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
  • Natsuko Yoshiga (Osaka University, Japan)