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.
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