‘Reviewing – Commenting – Blogging: How will humanities scholars communicate in the digital future?’heast European Studies Regensburg, invites you to the

Conference ‘Reviewing – Commenting – Blogging: How will humanities scholars communicate in the digital future?’
31 Jan – 1 Feb 2013, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schloßrondell 23, 80638 Munich

Conference Programme

That scholarly publishing is in the middle of a profound change even in the humanities is out of question. Publishers try out monographs in open access, magazines are published online as well as in hybrid forms and make use of various peer review techniques. Voices lamenting that the Internet as a place of publication was qua medium responsible for a loss of quality regarding the contents or that the rapid developments of this medium ran counter to professional  claims on utilization are silenced by the structural progress and the developments of our time. If the modi of scholarly publishing change, the tools with which the publications are evaluated by the specialist community change as well. In the current time of transition, both the modus of publishing and of evaluating are still in a trial phase and will be discussed at the conference. recensio.net – review platform for European History back the conflation of traditional reviews and the trial of a web 2.0 based technique on a joint platform to answer the question of a contemporary evaluation tool. The occasion for this conference is the two years anniversary of recensio.net. Which balance can be drawn? Is the range of offered international traditional reviews accepted in the same way as the new equipment digitally restoring the ‘old’ genre of ‘voluntary declaration’ and extending it towards a ‘vivid review’ with the help of expert’s comments? Will the traditional review persist in light of new publishing techniques? And if so, in which form? The underlying reasons for this transition, for example the question of the changed idea of the ‘expert’ on the Internet, shall be discussed – as well as the problems in these changes, namely the existing fears of contact with these means of communication which are not opened only for the known and closed circle of experts but which are generally non-hierarchical. These and other preoccupations vary in intensity within Europe and shall be look upon from the perspectives of various countries.

The organizers urge those interested to register personally by 24 Jan 2013 with eva.kraus [at] bsb-muenchen.de (eva[dot]kraus[at]bsb-muenchen[dot]de)

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