Digital Methodologies for Research on Early Modern Privacy (1500-1800)
A peer-reviewed collection of short research articles, edited by Sanne Maekelberg and Natália da Silva Perez.
Center for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen
Submission Deadline: Oct 15, 2021
The present call for short research articles invites researchers to engage computational and digital methods to expand the scope of the PRIVACY method mentioned above. We welcome contributions that honor the historian’s attention to primary sources, but also enable a birds-eye view of topics related of historical privacy. We are particularly interested in case-studies that exercise their methods in a critical way, taking care to unite the potential of computational tools with a reflection of how digital and computational humanities might: 1) enhance research into historical privacy, 2) open up new avenues of analysis, 3) drive historical arguments, and 4) raise new research questions.
We welcome submission of short research articles (3000 words) that analyze historical privacy through the use of tools such as:
- Digital mapping and Geographical Information System (GIS)
- Natural language processing (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, sense disambiguation, etc.)
- 3D reconstruction and Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Network analysis and visualization
Selected short articles will be part of a peer-reviewed, open access edited collection focused on early modern privacy (1500-1800). The collection will appear as a special issue of a digital humanities journal. We seek to feature case-studies stemming from European contexts or that employ a transnational or comparative perspective between Europe and other parts of the world. The language of publication is English, but authors are welcome to engage with primary sources in other languages. Please use the Chicago Manual of Style with shortened notes and bibliography format. The short length of the texts allows for submission of ongoing research and early findings. We encourage early career researchers and PhD candidates to submit their contributions.
Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis until Friday 15 October 2021. You will be notified of whether your text was selected to enter the peer-review process no later than Friday 3rd December 2021. The volume editors will provide editorial guidance to the authors of selected articles in order to improve the chances of success during the peer-review process. For further information, visit Call for Short Research Articles: Digital Methodologies for Research on Early Modern Privacy (1500-1800).