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 trying new things without being sure you understand them.
 Our theme of &quot;play&quot; celebrates experimentation and immersion in the experience of digital humanities.
 While we welcome proposals that address our conference theme,
-presentations need not address the theme directly, but may address any aspect of digital humanities broadly conceived.</p>
+presentations need not address the theme directly, and may address any aspect of digital humanities broadly conceived.</p>
+<p>We are planning 90-minute panel blocks (as usual for this conference). Proposers may submit proposals for individual ~15-minute presentations or
+for fully a formed &quot;roundtable&quot; panel with multiple identified participants.</p>
 <p>As with previous Keystone DH conferences, we welcome a range of proposals, including:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>Presentations to share digital and public humanities scholarship;</li>
+<li>Presentations to share digital and public humanities projects;</li>
 <li>Presentations on DH pedagogy / research exploring, critiquing, applying, developing generative AI;</li>
+<li>Progress / methods in developing digital scholarly editions</li>
 <li>Roundtable discussions on new directions and potential energies in humanities work digitally practiced;</li>
 <li>Workshops to share/get advice on projects in progress, which this year may take the form of
 <ul>
 <li>short immersive installations of 3D projects</li>
 <li>interface work for browser exploration of digital scholarship</li>
-<li>investigations of a method (e.g. text mining, network analysis, mapping).</li>
+<li>investigations of a method (e.g. data sonification, analyzing/curating/classifying visual arts, natural language processing, network analysis, mapping time and space).</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
-<p>We ask for submissions by <strong>March 1</strong>, and will respond by March 15.
+<p>We ask for submissions by <strong>March 1</strong>, and plan to respond by March 15.
 The submission form will be posted here soon!</p>
 
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-            <p>Keystone DH is a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic.
-This year, the Keystone DH conference will be hosted by the <a href="https://digit-psb.github.io/DIGIT/">DIGIT</a> program
+            <p>The 2024 Keystone DH conference will be hosted by the <a href="https://digit-psb.github.io/DIGIT/">DIGIT</a> program
 at <a href="https://behrend.psu.edu/">Penn State Erie, The Behrend College</a> on  <strong>May 20 - 22, 2024</strong>.</p>
-<p>This year's conference theme is <strong>play</strong>: the fun of exploring, gaming,
-trying new things without being sure you understand them.
+<p>Our theme is <strong>play</strong>: the fun of exploring, gaming, trying new things without being sure you understand them.
 Our theme of &quot;play&quot; celebrates experimentation and immersion in the experience of digital humanities.
 Presentations need not address this theme directly, but the conference organizers invite
-opportunities to play with the newly developing Retro Game and Virtual Augmented Reality labs at Penn State Behrend.</p>
+opportunities to play with newly developing Retro Game and Virtual Augmented Reality labs at Penn State Behrend.</p>
+<p>Students, early-career and non-traditional scholars, faculty researchers, digital scholarship librarians,
+designers, developers, explorers experimenting with “digital humanities” are all welcome to apply at our <a href="cfp.html">Call for Papers</a>.</p>
+<h3>Keynotes!</h3>
 <p>We are delighted to welcome our distinguished keynote presenters, <strong>Amanda Licastro</strong> and <strong>Micki Kaufman</strong>!
 Kaufman and Licastro will lead a new kind of immersive keynote event at this year's conference,
 to offer participants an opportunity to explore
 digital humanities projects designed and developed in virtual / augmented reality.</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Kaufman will present her &quot;Quantifying Kissinger&quot; project: a scholarly archive designed for 3D abstract interactive immersion via game engine technology.</li>
-<li>Licastro's presentation, titled &quot;Embracing the Glitch&quot;, will address supporting Extended Reality (XR) across the curriculum, and will feature work from her course
-Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds) highlighting student projects.</li>
+<li>Licastro's presentation, &quot;Embracing the Glitch&quot;, will address supporting Extended Reality (XR) across the curriculum, and will feature student work from her course
+(Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds).</li>
 </ul>
 <p>Participants will have multiple
 options for experiencing / viewing the immersive events. They may opt
 to try headsets and immerse themselves with guidance in a virtual constructed space, or they may watch the
 virtual world projected on monitors.</p>
-<p>Please watch this space for details on paper / project submissions, workshops, and conference details!</p>
+<h3>Accessing the conference</h3>
+<p>Like last year's successful event, the 2024 conference will be <strong>fully in person</strong>. We ask all participants to join us on site at Penn State Behrend's campus.
+(In case of problems / disrupted travel, please be in touch with your
+session chair / co-panelists who may be able to facilitate a virtual connection on site.)</p>
+<ul>
+<li>We plan to provide low-cost accommodations on Behrend campus, in easy walking range of conference events.</li>
+<li>Hotels are available near campus or on the waterfront in Erie, but most will require transit or be easier with car transport. We'll provide travel guidance on this site!</li>
+<li>Please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">write to the organizers</a> with questions about access.</li>
+</ul>
 
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