The conference of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) in Israel

Humanities and social sciences in Israel have been increasingly using computational methods. Gradually, they are organizing into a community that shares various methods used to investigate an increased variety of materials, including not only old and new texts but also images, sounds, and videos. However, much remains to be done to consolidate this community in order to develop tools and research collaboratively, especially beyond the Social Sciences/Humanities divide. The aim of the first conference of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) in Israel is precisely to work in this direction, stimulating innovations and collaborations, and also to collectively contemplate the larger epistemological implications of the shift to digital methods. The conference will be built around multidisciplinary panels presenting research, including work in progress and research projects, offering an opportunity to meet colleagues and introduce new researchers and graduate students to the field. The conference is designed to encompass as wide a range of disciplines as possible and explore a variety of research objects and, more broadly, what it means to conduct research in the social sciences and humanities in an increasingly digitized universe, within and beyond the Academia. The conference is held in collaboration with the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Tel Aviv University (TAD Center), the Israeli Data Science Initiative (IDSI) and the World Union of Jewish Studies.