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Les 22-23 octobre 2020 se tiendra à l'université d'Anvers un colloque intitulé "Children's Literature and Digital Humanities", à l'initiative de Vanessa Joosen et Wouter Haverals. Nous en reproduisons ici l'appel à communications.In recent years, Digital Humanities has had a big impact on the field ofliterary studies as a whole, but its presence in children's literature studieshas been limited so far. This two-day conference seeks to unite scholars usingdigital tools for the analysis of children's literature, culture and media toreflect on the state of the art, exchange methodological expertise, discussavenues and issues for further research and build networks. We welcome abstractsfor 20-minute papers, 1-hour round-table discussions and poster presentations onthe following topics:Building and using digital archives of children's booksMethodological opportunities and challenges in applying DH tochildren's literatureMacroanalytic approaches to children's literature (with a focus one.g. canonisation, cultural change, diversity)Topic modelling and children's booksStylometric approaches to children's literatureNetwork analysis and children's literature (both content analysisand network analyses of the field)Digital analyses of visuals in children's booksDigital scholarly editing of children's booksMethodologies for exploring digital adaptations of children'sliterature (e-books, audio books, animated picture books)Bridging the gap between computational approaches to children'sliterature and the dissemination of results to a wide audienceDigital tools to organize and facilitate children's literatureresearchSend 400-word abstracts and short bios to childlit@uantwerpen.bebefore 15 March 2020. Indicate if you want to give a paper, host a round-table discussion or present a poster. Selected participants will be notified before 1 April 2020.This conference is hosted by the Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities andLiterary Criticism (ACDC), in collaboration with the research team of the ERC-funded project Constructing Age for Young Readers (CAFYR). The conferenceorganisers are Vanessa Joosen and Wouter Haverals.