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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">America 250 & Florida Digital Humanities: Local, National, & International Connections</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Florida Digital Humanities Consortium 2026 Conference</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Date</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">: Friday, October 30, 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Location</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">: University of South Florida St. Petersburg</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Sponsors:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH), Florida
Humanities Council </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium invites scholars, researchers, educators, technologists, cultural practitioners, and public historians to submit proposals for papers,
panels, roundtables, workshops, and poster presentations that explore how digital tools and innovative practices are reshaping the humanities and expanding public engagement.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This year’s conference foregrounds the role of digital humanities in gathering, curating, interpreting, preserving, and sharing the humanities for diverse audiences. We seek
contributions that demonstrate emerging methodologies, practices, platforms, and tools, that help bring history, literature, culture, ethics, and lived experience into the public sphere in meaningful and accessible ways.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Thematic Focus</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In alignment with the national commemoration of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffloridahumanities.org%2Famerica-250-everlasting-florida%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cfla-facrl%40lists.fsu.edu%7C5f3b3f6529684ad08fe008de63408b05%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639057326018481230%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=B8bAhrbecGQu66GNpytx58cZ%2FeLKRruMHp%2BRTVkQ7xw%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://floridahumanities.org/america-250-everlasting-florida/" title="https://floridahumanities.org/america-250-everlasting-florida/" data-outlook-id="a43fbccd-1d00-4b75-bc54-53c6d35daf66" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> America
250</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, proposals that examine Florida’s role in the American story—past, present, and future—are especially encouraged. Submissions may address Florida’s local histories,
Indigenous and diasporic narratives, environmental humanities, cultural memory, migration, civic identity, or regional expressions of the American experiment.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">While America 250 is a preferred theme, broader Florida-based humanities topics and digital humanities projects not explicitly tied to the anniversary are also welcome.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics of Interest Include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Digital tools for advanced preservation and conservation</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Innovations in audience development and community engagement</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Interactive platforms and participatory humanities</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Real-time engagement and feedback in public humanities projects</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Virtual and immersive education (AR/VR, online exhibitions, digital classrooms)</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Ethical frameworks and public understanding of the values and limits of AI</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Digital storytelling, mapping, and visualization</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Oral history, archives, and community-centered data practices</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Accessibility, inclusion, and equity in digital humanities design</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Submission Formats</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Paper Presentations (15 minutes)</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Workshops or Panels or Roundtables (60 minutes, interactive, skill-based, or project-focused)</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Poster Presentations (research, works-in-progress, or community collaborations)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions should clearly articulate the humanities question or insight, the digital tool or method employed, and the public impact or pedagogical value of the work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Audience</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The conference brings together academics, cultural institutions, libraries, museums, educators, technologists, students, and community partners. Proposals that emphasize cross-sector
collaboration and public accessibility are strongly encouraged.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Submission Guidelines</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Deadline for proposal submission: April 3, 2026</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Notification of acceptance: Early June</span></p>
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