aaDH is seeking a Communications Manager to join our Executive Committee!

The role will work closely with the aaDH President to develop ideas for DH workshops, events, and promotion of the Association’s activities. The Communications Manager will also work alongside the President to manage aaDH social media activities. Time commitment: approx. 1 hour per week + 1 hour committee meeting every 2-3 months.

To apply: send a 150 word EOI about why you would like to do this role + a CV to Tyne Sumner by 20th September tyne.sumner@anu.edu.au

The Algorithmic Humanities

4pm - 5pm Wednesday 16 October 2024

Sir Roland Wilson Building, Room 2.02 Australian National University

Chaired by: Dr Tyne Daile Sumner (ARC DECRA Fellow, English & Digital Humanities, Australian National University)

Panelists:

• Professor James Smithies (Director, HASS Digital Research Hub, Australian National University)
• Associate Professor Tully Barnett (Creative Industries, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University)
• Professor Mitchell Whitelaw (Head of School of Art and Design, Australian National University)
• Dr Jessica Herrington (Futures Specialist, Neuroscientist & Artist, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University)
• Junran Lei (Senior Research Software Engineer, HASS Digital Research Hub, Australian National University)

Thorny ethical, social, and cultural dilemmas have begun to emerge as the use of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ tools becomes increasingly common across the Arts and Humanities. With novel methods and new infrastructural possibilities has also come the increasing automation, commodification and surveillance of research and education. What role will critical thinking, close reading, creativity, artistic integrity, and scholarly honesty play in the rapidly transforming humanities? How can we best embrace and prepare for the AI inundation? What remains steadfast and unchanged despite the extractive economic logic of generative AI? This roundtable and networking event will present five distinct responses to the concept of the ‘Algorithmic Humanities’ and offer a space for articulating perspectives and provocations from a range of disciplines and practices.

Please contact Tyne Daile Sumner to reserve a place.

Expressions of Interest are now open to host the 2023 Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) Conference in Australia or New Zealand.

The Executive Committee of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites proposals to host the Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) Conference in Australia or New Zealand in 2023. DHA is the major conference of the aaDH, which was formed in March 2011.

Prior DHA Conferences have been 2-4 days in duration. The host organisation is welcome to design the conference program and scope in a way best suited to their local context.

There are normally parallel sessions, a small number of plenary presentations, workshops, tutorials, posters and a postgraduate support event. A meeting of the aaDH committee will occur during the conference, and lunchtime slots are normally used for meetings of associated working groups or sub-committees.

The aaDH Executive Committee provides guidance and assistance to the host institution and can advise on aspects relating to the conference website, facilities, book of abstracts, and any social events the local host thinks would be appropriate.

The conference is self-financed through conference fees and any other financial contributions that the local organiser is able to arrange. aaDH expects no payment from the local host in the event that the conference makes a profit, but no financial support is provided for the conference by aaDH, except in relation to possible awards, such as named prizes and a bursaries for postgraduate students.

The local organiser is expected to set (and verify) three levels of fees: members of aaDH, non-members, and students (negotiable).

There should be a clear process for peer-reviewing paper, poster and panel proposals.

Proposals should include:

• Proposed dates (it is anticipated the conference will be between August – October 2023, however, there is some flexibility)
• Overview of facilities at the host institution
• Overview of local institutional engagement and support which the host institution expects to be available
• Sponsorship
• Indicative local organising committee
• AV/Computer, Internet access/wireless facilities
• Social events, including the conference banquet
• Options for accommodation (with provisional costs)
• Travel information and advice
• A provisional budget, with a provisional registration fee
• Options for payment (credit card, foreign currency etc) by participants

Shortlisted hosts will be invited to meet with the aaDH Executive Committee to discuss their proposal. Budgets and other information from previous conferences, where available, can be made available on request, for planning purposes.

For further information, proposers are invited to discuss their proposals informally with members of aaDH Executive Committee including Vice-President Tully Barnett tully.barnett@flinders.edu.au or Communications Manager Tyne Sumner tdsumner@unimelb.edu.au

Proposals should be submitted to the Committee (via one of the above email addresses) by 28 October 2022.

The 2021 Digital Humanities Australia conference, the biennial conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, was hosted by Canterbury University with the theme ‘Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities’.

While the quality of the research shared across the whole conference was very high, the conference committee awarded a series of highly commended papers as outlined below:

Caelum Greaves, Ursula Standring Bellugue, Chris Lam from Otago University was Highly Commended for their panel ‘What are literary games, and why do they matter?’. The conference committee valued the panel’s originality, creativity and high quality presentations.

Katya Krylova, University of Canterbury, was Highly Commended for the paper, ‘More-Than-Human Tongues: Talking Animals and Their Agencies in Technocultural Networks’.

Finn Petrie, Otago University, was Highly Commended for the paper ‘Houses for Plants by Plants: Making With Plants and Speculations on a Community Biosemiotics’.

David Green, Otago University, was Highly Commended for the paper ‘Fragility and Responsiveness: Bruno’s Thin Skin’.

Joshua Black, University of Canterbury, was Highly Commended for the paper ‘Philosophical Writing in Early New Zealand Newspapers: A Case Study of Corpus Construction from Large Digitised Newspaper Datasets’.

Congraulations to these five recipients of a Highly Commended paper or panel award.

Thanks to all presenters whose excellent work made for such a rewarding conference experience. And thanks to the members of the conference committee and aaDH executive committee for engaging in the commended paper process.

The DHA2021 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to 27 September 2021

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to invite proposals for DHA2021 (our COVID-delayed conference formerly known as DHA2020).

DHA2021 will be a virtual conference running from 22-25 November 2021 (New Zealand time zone).

Proposals from any country will be considered, but conference participants will need to be members of aaDH, or one of the other constituent organisations belonging to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), at the time of the conference. Student members of aaDH will not be required to pay a conference fee for participation.

This call for proposals closes on 27 September 2021.

Please email proposals to: dha2020@canterbury.ac.nz.

The DHA2021 conference theme is ‘Ka Renarena Te Taukaea / Creating Communities’. This theme invites close examination of what connects DH scholars and practitioners to each other and to communities. We welcome a strong local focus on expanding the ways to develop and interconnect research activities within and beyond the Digital Humanities in Australasia and the Pacific. Given the extreme events our region has been experiencing – including terrorist hate crimes, pandemic disruption, and the ongoing environmental catastrophe – it also seems timely to think carefully and courageously about the role DH might play in creating communities capable of leading and contributing meaningfully to global conversations about a safe, equitable’ and sustainable future.

We hope DHA2021 will focus on how digital technologies can not only create connections but support diversity, creativity, community building, wellbeing, and resilience in a world of rapidly evolving challenges. We believe it is a strength of our evolving discipline that DH is constantly revising and renewing its connections with others, often acting as an institutional, methodological, or discursive link between fields of research, professional practices, and programmes within cultural heritage, and we expect many contributions will reflect this. At the same time, our location in the South Pacific creates a unique opportunity and responsibility to engage DH in rethinking the place of the humanities locally, regionally, and in relation to the major social and environmental challenges we face globally.

Recent years have seen the growth of initiatives that expand DH’s boundaries in areas such as computational humanities, Indigenous and postcolonial studies, spatial humanities, critical making, and infrastructure studies. In short, the breadth of these research and pedagogical interests makes it timely to consider the ways ‘community’ shapes and is shaped by DH.

We invite contributors to address the conference theme through the following sub-topics:

• DH and First Nations and Indigenous communities
• Diversity in DH – ensuring inclusion, promoting varied perspectives, giving marginalised communities a voice
• Regional and global communities – DH scholarship across places and cultures, especially the divides of postcolonial legacies, geopolitical or environmental boundaries
• Social and methodological scales of research in DH:
  • How does DH examine social scales – the personal, the family, the institution, the city;
  • How do these relate to methodological questions such as close vs. distant reading?
• DH as public humanities – how do we communicate humanities research and seek the attention and participation of wider communities with research activities?
• DH within topical issue communities, such as environmental humanities, critical race studies, or countering online extremism
• Communities as objects of study, e.g. online communities, interpretive communities
• DH within event communities, such as DH in post-disaster research
• Collaborations across strongly ‘disciplined’ boundaries or research communities, such as between DH and physical or mathematical sciences
• Research groups and labs as communities
• DH communities within (or across) institutions and between DHers in academic, library, software development and other professional roles.
• Creative and artistic communities: digital art, literature, and creative media as DH practice, and a way to interrogate shared critical and cultural concerns
• Pedagogical communities – teachers + students. The real learning happens through contact with students.
• Any other topic relevant to Digital Humanities in the Australasian / Indo-Pacific / Asian region.

We welcome the following types of contributions, all of which will be able to be delivered virtually:

1. Posters

Posters are intended for presenting work-in-progress as well as demonstrations of digital projects or software. Some version of a poster session will take place during the conference, with presenters available to explain and discuss their work. This may include both traditional A1 print posters, and ‘3-slides, with 3-minute video/audio’ posters for on-line display. The exact presentation requirements will be advised in due course.

2. Short papers

Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

3. Long papers

Long papers are allocated 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research, significantly developed or completed digital projects, or theoretical / methodological advances. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

4. Multi-paper Panels

Panels should bring together three to five papers in order to address a single topic related to the conference theme. The aaDH 2020 Programme Committee adopts the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ (ADHO) commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive global research community, and panel organisers should consider this carefully when selecting panel members. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract of no more than 500 words, in addition to individual paper abstracts of no more than 500 words each. Panel organisers are encouraged to contact the chairs of the aaDH Programme Committee to discuss their proposals in advance. Innovative ideas for virtual or hybrid panels are welcome.

5. Workshops

Workshop proposals may be for half-day, whole-day, or programmed on-line sessions, on any topic relevant to Digital Humanities. These may include discussion and/or computing activities on specific software, tools or programming techniques; DH research methodologies, frameworks or theories; or introductions to specific research problems or domains. These proposals should be no longer than 1500 words, and should include a title, full contact details for all workshop presenters, an outline of the workshop structure, a list of facilities or resources required, and any constraints (such as maximum number of participants, software needed etc.).

Please note the following requirements for all proposals

• Abstracts for posters, short papers, and long papers may be no more than 1000 words (panel and workshop proposals may be longer, as specified above).
• The aaDH Programme Committee may offer to accept a proposal in a different category from the one you have chosen.
• All abstracts should cite relevant literature and supporting information (citations and references are not included in the word count).
• You should indicate the intended category for your proposal in the subject line: ‘POSTER’, ‘SHORT’, ‘LONG’, ‘PANEL’, ‘WORKSHOP’.

Registering for DHA2021

Full details on how to register for DHA2021 will be available on the conference web site soon, with our aim being to make participation as economical as possible.

Student members of aaDH will not be required to pay a conference fee for participation.

To participate in the conference you must be a member of aaDH or one of the other constituent organisations belonging to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), at the time of the conference.

Please read the whole page before you click the ‘membership’ link as the Oxford University Press website which you will be directed to can be a bit confusing.

DHA2021 Call for Proposals (revised)

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to invite proposals for DHA2021 (our COVID-delayed conference formerly known as DHA2020).

DHA2021 will be a virtual conference running from 22-25 November 2021 (New Zealand time zone).

Proposals from any country will be considered, but conference participants will need to be members of aaDH, or one of the other constituent organisations belonging to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), at the time of the conference. Student members of aaDH will not be required to pay a conference fee for participation.

This call for proposals closes on 27 August 2021.

Please email proposals to: dha2020@canterbury.ac.nz.

The DHA2021 conference theme is ‘Ka Renarena Te Taukaea / Creating Communities’. This theme invites close examination of what connects DH scholars and practitioners to each other and to communities. We welcome a strong local focus on expanding the ways to develop and interconnect research activities within and beyond the Digital Humanities in Australasia and the Pacific. Given the extreme events our region has been experiencing – including terrorist hate crimes, pandemic disruption, and the ongoing environmental catastrophe – it also seems timely to think carefully and courageously about the role DH might play in creating communities capable of leading and contributing meaningfully to global conversations about a safe, equitable’ and sustainable future.

We hope DHA2021 will focus on how digital technologies can not only create connections but support diversity, creativity, community building, wellbeing, and resilience in a world of rapidly evolving challenges. We believe it is a strength of our evolving discipline that DH is constantly revising and renewing its connections with others, often acting as an institutional, methodological, or discursive link between fields of research, professional practices, and programmes within cultural heritage, and we expect many contributions will reflect this. At the same time, our location in the South Pacific creates a unique opportunity and responsibility to engage DH in rethinking the place of the humanities locally, regionally, and in relation to the major social and environmental challenges we face globally.

Recent years have seen the growth of initiatives that expand DH’s boundaries in areas such as computational humanities, Indigenous and postcolonial studies, spatial humanities, critical making, and infrastructure studies. In short, the breadth of these research and pedagogical interests makes it timely to consider the ways ‘community’ shapes and is shaped by DH.

We invite contributors to address the conference theme through the following sub-topics:

• DH and First Nations and Indigenous communities
• Diversity in DH – ensuring inclusion, promoting varied perspectives, giving marginalised communities a voice
• Regional and global communities – DH scholarship across places and cultures, especially the divides of postcolonial legacies, geopolitical or environmental boundaries
• Social and methodological scales of research in DH:
  • How does DH examine social scales – the personal, the family, the institution, the city;
  • How do these relate to methodological questions such as close vs. distant reading?
• DH as public humanities – how do we communicate humanities research and seek the attention and participation of wider communities with research activities?
• DH within topical issue communities, such as environmental humanities, critical race studies, or countering online extremism
• Communities as objects of study, e.g. online communities, interpretive communities
• DH within event communities, such as DH in post-disaster research
• Collaborations across strongly ‘disciplined’ boundaries or research communities, such as between DH and physical or mathematical sciences
• Research groups and labs as communities
• DH communities within (or across) institutions and between DHers in academic, library, software development and other professional roles.
• Creative and artistic communities: digital art, literature, and creative media as DH practice, and a way to interrogate shared critical and cultural concerns
• Pedagogical communities – teachers + students. The real learning happens through contact with students.
• Any other topic relevant to Digital Humanities in the Australasian / Indo-Pacific / Asian region.

We welcome the following types of contributions, all of which will be able to be delivered virtually:

1. Posters

Posters are intended for presenting work-in-progress as well as demonstrations of digital projects or software. Some version of a poster session will take place during the conference, with presenters available to explain and discuss their work. This may include both traditional A1 print posters, and ‘3-slides, with 3-minute video/audio’ posters for on-line display. The exact presentation requirements will be advised in due course.

2. Short papers

Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

3. Long papers

Long papers are allocated 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research, significantly developed or completed digital projects, or theoretical / methodological advances. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

4. Multi-paper Panels

Panels should bring together three to five papers in order to address a single topic related to the conference theme. The aaDH 2020 Programme Committee adopts the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ (ADHO) commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive global research community, and panel organisers should consider this carefully when selecting panel members. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract of no more than 500 words, in addition to individual paper abstracts of no more than 500 words each. Panel organisers are encouraged to contact the chairs of the aaDH Programme Committee to discuss their proposals in advance. Innovative ideas for virtual or hybrid panels are welcome.

5. Workshops

Workshop proposals may be for half-day, whole-day, or programmed on-line sessions, on any topic relevant to Digital Humanities. These may include discussion and/or computing activities on specific software, tools or programming techniques; DH research methodologies, frameworks or theories; or introductions to specific research problems or domains. These proposals should be no longer than 1500 words, and should include a title, full contact details for all workshop presenters, an outline of the workshop structure, a list of facilities or resources required, and any constraints (such as maximum number of participants, software needed etc.).

Please note the following requirements for all proposals

• Abstracts for posters, short papers, and long papers may be no more than 1000 words (panel and workshop proposals may be longer, as specified above).
• The aaDH Programme Committee may offer to accept a proposal in a different category from the one you have chosen.
• All abstracts should cite relevant literature and supporting information (citations and references are not included in the word count).
• You should indicate the intended category for your proposal in the subject line: ‘POSTER’, ‘SHORT’, ‘LONG’, ‘PANEL’, ‘WORKSHOP’.

Registering for DHA2021

Full details on how to register for DHA2021 will be available on the conference web site soon, with our aim being to make participation as economical as possible.

Student members of aaDH will not be required to pay a conference fee for participation.

To participate in the conference you must be a member of aaDH or one of the other constituent organisations belonging to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), at the time of the conference.

Please read the whole page before you click the ‘membership’ link as the Oxford University Press website which you will be directed to can be a bit confusing.

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to invite proposals for DHA2021 (our COVID-delayed conference formerly known as DHA2020).

DHA 2021 will take place from 22-25 November 2021. To allow for COVID-19 uncertainty, it will be a hybrid ‘In-person’ / ‘On-line’ conference held simultaneously in the city of Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, and virtually.

This call for proposals closes on 20 August 2021.

Please email proposals to: dha2020@canterbury.ac.nz.

The DHA2021 conference theme is ‘Ka Renarena Te Taukaea / Creating Communities’. This theme invites close examination of what connects DH scholars and practitioners to each other and to communities. We welcome a strong local focus on expanding the ways to develop and interconnect research activities within and beyond the Digital Humanities in Australasia and the Pacific. Given the extreme events our region has been experiencing – including terrorist hate crimes, pandemic disruption, and the ongoing environmental catastrophe – it also seems timely to think carefully and courageously about the role DH might play in creating communities capable of leading and contributing meaningfully to global conversations about a safe, equitable’ and sustainable future.

We hope DHA2021 will focus on how digital technologies can not only create connections but support diversity, creativity, community building, wellbeing, and resilience in a world of rapidly evolving challenges. We believe it is a strength of our evolving discipline that DH is constantly revising and renewing its connections with others, often acting as an institutional, methodological, or discursive link between fields of research, professional practices, and programmes within cultural heritage, and we expect many contributions will reflect this. At the same time, our location in the South Pacific creates a unique opportunity and responsibility to engage DH in rethinking the place of the humanities locally, regionally, and in relation to the major social and environmental challenges we face globally.

Recent years have seen the growth of initiatives that expand DH’s boundaries in areas such as computational humanities, Indigenous and postcolonial studies, spatial humanities, critical making, and infrastructure studies. In short, the breadth of these research and pedagogical interests makes it timely to consider the ways ‘community’ shapes and is shaped by DH.

We invite contributors to address the conference theme through the following sub-topics:

• DH and First Nations and Indigenous communities
• Diversity in DH – ensuring inclusion, promoting varied perspectives, giving marginalised communities a voice
• Regional and global communities – DH scholarship across places and cultures, especially the divides of postcolonial legacies, geopolitical or environmental boundaries
• Social and methodological scales of research in DH:
  • How does DH examine social scales – the personal, the family, the institution, the city;
  • How do these relate to methodological questions such as close vs. distant reading?
• DH as public humanities – how do we communicate humanities research and seek the attention and participation of wider communities with research activities?
• DH within topical issue communities, such as environmental humanities, critical race studies, or countering online extremism
• Communities as objects of study, e.g. online communities, interpretive communities
• DH within event communities, such as DH in post-disaster research
• Collaborations across strongly ‘disciplined’ boundaries or research communities, such as between DH and physical or mathematical sciences
• Research groups and labs as communities
• DH communities within (or across) institutions and between DHers in academic, library, software development and other professional roles.
• Creative and artistic communities: digital art, literature, and creative media as DH practice, and a way to interrogate shared critical and cultural concerns
• Pedagogical communities – teachers + students. The real learning happens through contact with students.
• Any other topic relevant to Digital Humanities in the Australasian / Indo-Pacific / Asian region.

We welcome the following types of contributions, all of which will be able to be delivered either virtually or in-person:

1. Posters

Posters are intended for presenting work-in-progress as well as demonstrations of digital projects or software. Some version of a poster session will take place during the conference, with presenters available to explain and discuss their work. This may include both traditional A1 print posters, and ‘3-slides, with 3-minute video/audio’ posters for on-line display. The exact presentation requirements will be advised in due course.

2. Short papers

Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

3. Long papers

Long papers are allocated 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research, significantly developed or completed digital projects, or theoretical / methodological advances. On-line participants will have the option to present live, or record presentations in advance for delivery during the session time followed by participation in a live Q&A session.

4. Multi-paper Panels

Panels should bring together three to five papers in order to address a single topic related to the conference theme. The aaDH 2020 Programme Committee adopts the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ (ADHO) commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive global research community, and panel organisers should consider this carefully when selecting panel members. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract of no more than 500 words, in addition to individual paper abstracts of no more than 500 words each. Panel organisers are encouraged to contact the chairs of the aaDH Programme Committee to discuss their proposals in advance. Innovative ideas for virtual or hybrid panels are welcome.

5. Workshops

Workshop proposals may be for half-day, whole-day, or programmed on-line sessions, on any topic relevant to Digital Humanities. These may include discussion and/or computing activities on specific software, tools or programming techniques; DH research methodologies, frameworks or theories; or introductions to specific research problems or domains. These proposals should be no longer than 1500 words, and should include a title, full contact details for all workshop presenters, an outline of the workshop structure, a list of facilities or resources required, and any constraints (such as maximum number of participants, software needed etc.).

Please note the following requirements for all proposals

• Abstracts for posters, short papers, and long papers may be no more than 1000 words (panel and workshop proposals may be longer, as specified above).
• The aaDH Programme Committee may offer to accept a proposal in a different category from the one you have chosen.
• All abstracts should cite relevant literature and supporting information (citations and references are not included in the word count)
• You should indicate the intended category for your proposal in the subject line: ‘POSTER’, ‘SHORT’, ‘LONG’, ‘PANEL’, ‘WORKSHOP’ and ‘In-person’ or ‘On-line’

Registering for DHA2021

Full details on how to register for DHA2021 will be available on the conference web site soon, with our aim being to make participation for students and virtual attendees as economical as possible.

To present at the conference, whether virtually or in person, you must be a member of aaDH at the time of the conference. Membership instructions are at https://aadh.au/join/.

Please read the whole page before you click the ‘membership’ link as the Oxford University Press website which you will be directed to can be a bit confusing.