Explorations in Textual Digital Analysis for the Humanities and Social Sciences

5th Workshop of the Research Programme “Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Co-evolution? Intercultural Contact in the Age of Globalization”

May 14-15, 2015

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Call for papers

Given the continuous online content development, archiving, storing and presentation combined with the relatively recent efforts of public and private institutions to digitalize public domain texts and documents from different historical times, digital textual analysis is an increasingly productive research method in the social sciences. In this workshop, we address the principles, methods, and problems of exploring historical texts as data, with particular relevance to intercultural conflict and harmony in the historical regions of Banat and Transylvania between 1867-1937.

Text analysis enables the investigation of vast amounts of text, text as data. Our workshop will explore the most productive methods of digital textual analysis currently available and applicable in cultural historical research, such as:

Text Mining / Data Retrieval.

R and Digital Text Analysis.

Sentiment Analysis.

Network Analysis and Information Visualization.

Contributions and participants

The workshop is open equally to users and to developers of textual analysis software.

We invite contributions of theoretical essays, discussion papers and empirical studies or demonstrations of the various uses of textual analysis software.

Please submit a title and abstract (300-500 words) by 15 April.

Full papers of up to 6000 words are expected by April 30, 2015 to fofiu at fspac.ro. Revised papers will be published in an international volume by the end of 2015.

More details: http://intercultural.politicalanalysis.ro/2015/03/workshop-explorations-in-textual-digital-analysis-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/

Dr. Adela Fofiu
Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences
Babes-Bolyai University