Herewith the 2025 aaDH Annual Report.
The report will be tabled at the AGM, which will take place from 1:00-1:30 at the National Film and Sound Archive, as part of Digital Humanities Australasia 2025. Members of the association are requested to attend.
The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to invite proposals for Digital Archipelagos DHA2025 .
DHA 2025 will take place from 3-5 December 2025 held in the Canberra on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people at the Australian National University. It will be hosted by the HASS Digital Research Hub and the College of Arts and Social Sciences.
This call for papers closes on Friday 6th June 11.55pm (AoE)
Please submit papers via ConfTool
If you have any questions or other enquires, please contact us via email at: dha2025conference@gmail.com
The DHA2025 theme is Digital Archipelagos. The Australasian region is home to myriad archipelagos with deep significance, from the Kulkalgal Nation islands in the middle of Torres Strait to the Wharekauri (‘Misty Sun’) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, east of Aotearoa’s South Island. Diverse, sacred, and yet increasingly under threat, these sites offer powerful examples of how land and sea are woven into cultural knowledge systems, social relations, and identities.
Archipelagos also serve our conference as a metaphor to spark dialogue about new directions and approaches in the Digital Humanities. They inspire us to conceptualise the fragmentation, clustering, dispersion, and interconnection of data in the Digital Humanities in discussions that prioritise local experiences and networks to challenge dominant narratives. In an age of algorithmic ubiquity, we aim to examine how seemingly isolated ‘islands’ of knowledge can remain distinct but intricately connected across evolving global contexts.
Like the diverse archipelagos that inspire our theme, we seek to engage the DH community around new topics and pathways, with papers and workshops from the wider arts, humanities, social sciences. We welcome contributions from scholars, librarians, archivists, artists, writers, practitioners, performers, activists, and others engaged with the intersections of Digital Humanities, sustainability, and social justice. We especially encourage submissions that propose novel, interdisciplinary frameworks and methods in DH and cognate fields.
Abstracts are to be submitted via ConfTool by Friday 6th June 11.55pm (AoE)
Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by Friday 11th July
Note: For the allied event on 2-3 December “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’” please see the CFP for the Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS). Submissions for the CAPOS event should be submitted separately.
The aaDH 2024 Annual Report (covering 2023 and 2024) is now available.
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:
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:
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 current aaDH Executive Committee includes:
President: Associate Professor Rachel Hendery, Western Sydney University
Vice-President: Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University
Secretary: Dr Simon Musgrave, Monash University
Communications Manager: Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne
Treasurer: Dr Susan Ford, Australian National University
Member: Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Australian National University
Member: Alexander Ritchie, University of Otago
Member: Professor Shawn Ross, Macquarie University
Congratulations and welcome to our new members and thanks to all!
The Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities will be held as an electronic forum on Wednesday, May 18 2022.
Minutes of previous Annual General Meeting
Minutes of 2018 AGM attached
Financial Report
Financial Statement attached
Ratification of election results
The positions of President and Vice-President have been filled by co-option:
President: Rachel Hendery
Vice President: Tully Barnett
Three people nominated for Ordinary Member vacancies; as there were three vacancies, all of these people are elected:
Shawn Ross
Tyne Daile Sumner
Terhi Nermiko-Fuller
This meant that the positions of Treasurer and Communications Manager remained vacant. Susan Ford has volunteered to serve as Treasurer and Tyne Daile Sumner has volunteered to serve as Communications Manager.
A late nomination as an Ordinary Member was accepted and Alexander Ritchie jons the committee in that capacity.
The Annual General Meeting is therefore invited to ratify the current committee of the Association as follows:
President: Rachel Hendery
Vice-President: Tully Barnett
Treasurer: Susan Ford
Secretary: Simon Musgrave
Communications Manager: Tyne Daile Sumner
Ordinary Member (3 year term): Shawn Ross
Ordinary Members (2 year term): Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Alexander Ritchie
The Ordinary Member position which was held by Susan Ford will remain vacant until the next election.
Statement for Consumer Affairs Victoria
Draft of statement attached
Special Business
a) Deadline for nominations in association elections
b) Annual statement to Consumer Affairs Victoria
Details attached
If you wish to participate in the meeting, please make the request via the Google Group.
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.
Nomination for Ordinary Member (2 year term): Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. She focuses on interdisciplinary experimentation into ways digital technologies can support and diversify research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and in relation to public culture (including Web Science, and the GLAM sector). She is a CI on two ARC projects (Nyingarn: a Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages, led by University of Melbourne, and Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment, led by University of Western Sydney). Terhi is a Research Fellow (2019-2021) of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; a member of the Territory Records Advisory Council, Australian Capital Territory Government; and a HASS DEVL Champion (2018) at eResearch South Australia. She’s a member of the Steering Committee for Linked Pasts (an international colloquium); and Chair of the Advisory Board for Conductive Music (a not-for-profit in the UK). Her book “Linked Data for the Digital Humanities” is under contract with Routledge. She’s currently working on Liberal Sydney, investigating the development of liberalism in Australian politics.
Nomination for Ordinary Member (3 year term): Shawn Ross
Shawn A Ross (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2001) is a Professor of History and Archaeology and the Director of Digitally Enabled Research at Macquarie University. Prof Rossʼs research interests include digital archaeology, the history and archaeology of pre-Classical Greece, oral tradition as history, the archaeology of Thrace, and the application of information technology to research. Since 2009, Prof Rossʼs work has focused on fundamental archaeological research in Bulgaria, where he co-supervises the Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project, a large-scale archaeological survey and palaeoenvironmental study. Since 2012 Prof Ross has also directed the Field Acquired Information Management Systems (FAIMS) project, which develops data capture and management systems for field research. He is also involved with two other field projects in Australia and one in Greece. Previously, Prof Ross worked at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad), and William Paterson University (Wayne, New Jersey).
Nomination for Ordinary Member (2 year term): Tyne Daile Sumner
Dr Tyne Daile Sumner is an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research operates at the intersection of literary studies, surveillance studies, and digital humanities. She has led national digital research infrastructure projects, taught a wide range of digital HASS tools across Australia, and is passionate about interdisciplinary community building and engagement. She is currently Cultural Data Research Fellow on an ARC LIEF project, The Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government (ACD-E) and co-founder of two research networks at the University of Melbourne: The Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars network (HADES) and the ‘Art, AI and Digital Ethics’ collaborative at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE). Her first monograph is Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge 2021), which presents new approaches to the study of surveillance with inroads to fields including political science, information science, literature, and digital humanities.
A message from Simon Musgrave, aaDH Secretary:
The terms of several members of the aaDH Executive Committee are concluding.
aaDH President Professor Paul Millar announced his decision to step down at the end of the 2021 DHA conference with one year left of his term, and the role has been filled by Associate Professor Rachel Hendery. The committee thanks Paul Millar for his service to the association.
The Executive Committee, as specified in the Rules of the association, consists of nine members, with the possibility of additional members being co-opted. Such an appointment had been in place, but at this election we will return to the nine-member model.
There are currently six vacancies to be filled with terms starting in 2022:
Nominations for these positions are now open.
The Rules of the association relevant to this process are:
25 Election of officers and ordinary members of the committee
25.1 To be considered valid, nominations of candidates for election as officers of the association or as ordinary members of the committee must be
25.1.1 made to the secretary by electronic transmission; and
25.1.2 transmitted to the secretary not less than 7 days before the date fixed for the holding of the annual elections; and
25.1.3 endorsed by at least one current officer of the association or ordinary member of the committee.
25.2 A candidate may nominate for one or more vacant positions on the committee.
25.3 If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies on the committee, the candidates nominated will be deemed to be elected and further nominations may be received at the annual general meeting.
25.4 If the number of nominations received is equal to the number of vacancies to be filled, the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected.
25.5 If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot must be held.
In relation to rule 25.1.3, I will endorse the nomination of any member in good standing (in the absence of endorsement from another committee member).
In relation to rule 25.5, if a ballot is necessary, it will be run electronically by OUP. To vote in such an election, it is necessary to be a member of the association in good standing (i.e., a financial member).
Although rule 25.1.2 allows for nominations up to 7 days before the election date, it would greatly assist OUP to have details of as many nominees as possible earlier than that date. In addition to sending your formal nomination to me, please also send a short candidate’s statement (ca. 150 words) which will be made available online.
The election will take place between January 31 2022 and February 4 2022; members eligible to vote will receive details from OUP before the election opens. Prospective candidates are welcome to contact Simon Musgrave or Tully Barnett (aaDH communications manager) at any time.
At the end of #DHA2021 – Digital Humanities Australasia, aaDH’s biennial conference – Paul Millar announced the end of his term as aaDH’s President after three years of service in the role and the hosting of a supremely successful conference. Millar has one year left on his term and, in accordance with the aaDH’s constitution, the Executive Committee called for nominations to fill the role from within the committee. As a result of this process, Associate Professor Rachel Hendery was elected as the President of aaDH.
Here’s some information about the new President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities:
I am Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University. My background is in linguistics, and I work on language contact and change, particularly in the Pacific, and how new digital tools and techniques allow us to research these in new ways. My research interests include historical linguistics, contact linguistics, typology, mapping, simulation, virtual reality, and data visualisation.
From 2011-2014 I held an Australian Research Council (ARC) postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research on the variety of English spoken on Palmerston Island, in the Cook Islands. I am currently a CI on several further ARC-funded projects: Howitt and Fison’s Archive: Insights into Australian Aboriginal Language, Kinship and Culture’ led by Helen Gardner at Deakin University, Mapping Print; Charting Enlightenment, led by Simon Burrows at Western Sydney University, Waves of Words: Mapping and modelling the history of Australia’s Asia-Pacific ties, and Seeing Yourself in Digital Cultural Heritage, both of which I lead at Western Sydney University.
I am also a member of the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, the Centre of Excellence for Language Dynamics and the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. I co-lead the Intergener8 Living Lab at Western Sydney University. I am the Treasurer for the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities and the NSW coordinator for the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.
The aaDH would like to thank Professor Paul Millar for his leadership during difficult times and wishes him well on his well-earned sabbatical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
The Annual General Meeting of aaDH will be held as an electronic meeting which will open on Monday December 4, 2023 and close on Monday December 11, 2023. The meeting will be conducted via a shared (google) document and the link to the document will be circulated on December 4 to open the meeting.
As specified in the rules of the Association, the business of the meeting will be:
If any member would like to raise a matter as Other Business, please let me know and I will add the item to the agenda.
Simon Musgrave
Secretary
The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) calls for nominations to fill roles on the aaDH Executive Committee, with an election called for 13 November, 2023.
The terms of several officers and members of the aaDH Executive Committee end this year, 2023.
Since Rachel Hendery stepped down as President earlier this year, Vice President Tully Barnett has been serving as acting president until the 2023 elections can be held; the association is very grateful to Tully for her service in that role and for her continuing service as Vice-President. Executive Committee roles can be filled on an interim basis only until the next annual election. The position of President is therefore now open.
My term as Secretary of the association also ends this year. Rule 23.5 of the association states that officers can only serve two consecutive terms in any role as an officer; I am completing my second term as Secretary and cannot stand for re-election. Therefore the position of Secretary is also now open. The Secretary must be resident in the state of Victoria, Australia, where aaDH is registered as an incorporated association.
The Executive Committee, as specified in the rules of the association consists of nine members, with the possibility of additional special members being co-opted. One Ordinary Member position is currently vacant and needs to be filled.
There are therefore three vacancies to be filled:
Nominations for these positions are now open. The rules of the association relevant to this process are:
25 Election of officers and ordinary members of the committee
25.1 To be considered valid, nominations of candidates for election as officers of the association or as ordinary members of the committee must be –
25.1.1 made to the secretary by electronic transmission; and
25.1.2 transmitted to the secretary not less than 14 days before the date fixed for the holding of the annual elections; and
25.1.3 endorsed by at least one current officer of the association or ordinary member of the committee.
25.2 A candidate may nominate for one or more vacant positions on the committee.
25.3 If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies on the committee, the candidates nominated will be deemed to be elected and further nominations may be received at the annual general meeting.
25.4 If the number of nominations received is equal to the number of vacancies to be filled, the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected.
25.5 If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot must be held.
In relation to rule 25.1.3, I will endorse the nomination of any member in good standing (in the absence of endorsement from another committee member).
In relation to rule 25.5, if a ballot is necessary, it will be run electronically by OUP commencing on November 13, 2023. To vote in such an election, it is necessary to be a member of the association in good standing (i.e. a financial member).
Although rule 25.1.2 allows for nominations up to 14 days (amended from seven days by the 2022 Annual General Meeting) before the election date, i.e. October 30, 2023, it would greatly assist OUP to have details of as many nominees as possible earlier than that date. In addition to sending your formal nomination to me at Simon.Musgrave@monash.edu, please also send a short candidate’s statement (c150 words) which will be made available here.
Nomination for the position of Secretary from Craig Bellamy:
As a founding member of the Australian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) and a seasoned academic learning designer and educator, I am excited to put forth my candidacy for the position of Secretary. My experience in the field of digital humanities, coupled with my current role at John Wiley and Sons, has equipped me with a unique blend of skills and insights that I believe will benefit the aaDH.
Throughout my career, I have been committed to fostering active learning and promoting digital literacy in the humanities. I have published and presented in various mediums and have been involved in numerous research and development projects. As a learning designer, I have developed online activities and tools, creating engaging and interactive student learning experiences. This experience has honed my skills in effective communication and organisation, which are crucial for the role of Secretary.
I am passionate about the potential of digital humanities to transform research and teaching, and I am committed to advocating for our field within the broader academic community and public. If elected, I will work diligently to represent the interests of our members, manage the effective operation of the aaDH, and foster a dynamic, active, and high-impact community.
I am eager to bring my energy, creativity, and broad understanding of the digital humanities to the role of Secretary. I am confident that together, we can continue advancing the field of digital humanities in Australia and beyond. Thank you for considering my candidacy.
Nomination for the position of President from Tyne Daile Sumner:
For the past fifteen years I have devoted a great deal of my scholarship, network building and social activities to ensuring that Digital Humanities and its adjacent fields are as open and accessible to as many researchers, teachers and students as possible. In particular, I have demonstrated my leadership of DH communities, events and initiatives with an emphasis on original and engaging approaches that pave new directions for the field. In my own research, I am interested in how DH labs, networks and infrastructures can be rethought, both by embracing radical new approaches to data and tools, but also by returning us to core Humanities concepts in fields ranging from poetics and linguistics to philosophy and the arts. In recent months I have taken up a position on The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Constituent Organization group to represent Australia and New Zealand as well as led national and international events, workshops and spoken on panels and at roundtables on the future of DH in Australia. I would be honoured to be able to continue doing this work as President of aaDH.
Nomination for the position of Ordinary Member from Paul Arthur:
I am committed to the development of the digital humanities in Australasia and internationally, and have been centrally engaged with the field as it has grown substantially over the past decade. I have contributed to aaDH in various roles since its inception, initially as founding president, and later as vice-president. I am aware of the wider context and governance of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, and presently have roles within ADHO including as co-chair of the Admissions Committee for new organisations wishing to join the alliance, and as aaDH representative on the ADHO Awards Committee. I am currently Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Edith Cowan University, and prior to this was Professor in Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University. If elected, I believe I would bring strong institutional knowledge and experience to the role of Ordinary Member, and also involvement in national infrastructure initiatives for the humanities. It would be a privilege to serve on the Executive Committee.
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:
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 current executive committee for aaDH is as follows:
President: Associate Professor Rachel Hendery, Western Sydney University
Vice-President: Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University
Secretary: Dr Simon Musgrave, Monash University
Communications Manager: Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne
Treasurer: Dr Susan Ford, Australian National University
Member: Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Australian National University
Member: Alexander Ritchie, University of Otago
Member: Professor Shawn Ross, Macquarie University
Congratulations and welcome to our new members and thanks to all!
The Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities will be held as an electronic forum on Wednesday May 18 2022.
Agenda
President: Rachel Hendery
Vice President: Tully Barnett
Three people nominated for Ordinary Member vacancies; as there were three vacancies, all of these people are elected:
Shawn Ross
Tyne Daile Sumner
Terhi Nermiko-Fuller
This meant that the positions of Treasurer and Communications Manager remained vacant. Susan Ford has volunteered to serve as Treasurer and Tyne Daile Sumner has volunteered to serve as Communications Manager.
A late nomination as an Ordinary Member was accepted and Alexander Ritchie jons the committee in that capacity.
The Annual General Meeting is therefore invited to ratify the current committee of the Association as follows:
President: Rachel Hendery
Vice-President: Tully Barnett
Treasurer: Susan Ford
Secretary: Simon Musgrave
Communications Manager: Tyne Daile Sumner
Ordinary Member (3 year term): Shawn Ross
Ordinary Members (2 year term): Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Alexander Ritchie
The Ordinary Member position which was held by Susan Ford will remain vacant until the next election.
4. Statement for Consumer Affairs Victoria
Draft of statement attached
5. Special Business
a) Deadline for nominations in association elections
b) Annual statement to Consumer Affairs Victoria
Details in attached document
If you wish to participate in the meeting, please contact me at Simon.Musgrave@monash.edu and I will add you to the email forum.
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