Illinois State University is hosting an Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium on 11 April 2025.

Undergraduate and graduate students in History and other Humanities disciplines at Northern Illinois University may be interested in presenting at this symposium or attending the sessions.

Here is the call for submissions from the Milner Library at Illinois State University:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium: Focusing on Student Work
11 April 2025, 10–6
Milner Library, Illinois State University

Submissions will close at midnight on 7 March 2025. Notifications of acceptance will go out on 11 March 2025.

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Dear Illinois (and neighboring!) DH Scholars and Students,

We would like to invite submissions for a one-day symposium of and on student DH work, to be held at Illinois State University, in Normal, Illinois, on the 11th of April 2025. We would like to engage universities throughout and neighboring Illinois, and have built the event around the Chicago-Normal and St. Louis-Chicago train schedules, in order to encourage participation from opposite ends of the state. Our hope is to start an annual rotation of conferences between Chicagoland and the rest of Illinois, and hope you will join us to kick off this event this year in Normal!

Our program will include a keynote lecture by Dr Ted Underwood, Professor of English and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on What Humanists Can Contribute to AI, a panel on DH pedagogy, panels of short papers, and a poster session. 

Coffee breaks and lunch (sponsored by Milner Library) and a reception (sponsored by Loyola University) will be provided. There is no cost for attendance.

Please submit a 200–500 word abstract for a poster or 20-minute paper to Dr. Sean Winslow <smwinsl@ilstu.edu> by midnight on 7 March 2025. Acceptances will be sent out on 11 March 2025. Posters and papers should be by or in collaboration with students or focused on student DH work or pedagogy. We also invite instructors to nominate themselves or particularly involved students for the panel on PhD pedagogy.

Questions and communication to smwinsl@ilstu.edu.

Best Regards,

-Sean

Dr Sean M. Winslow
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Illinois State University

621A Milner Library
201 N. School St.
Normal, Illinois 61761

smwinsl@ilstu.ed

+1 (309) 438 – 5464