The Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities will be held as an electronic forum on Wednesday, May 18 2022.

Agenda

1. Minutes of previous Annual General Meeting

   Minutes of 2018 AGM attached

2. Financial Report

   Financial Statement attached

3. 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.

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 attached

If you wish to participate in the meeting, please make the request via the Google Group.

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.

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:

• to confirm the minutes of the previous annual general meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting; and
• to receive from the committee reports upon the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year; and
• to ratify the election of officers of the Association and the ordinary members of the committee following the annual ballot; and
• to receive and consider a draft of the statement submitted by the Association in accordance with the Act.

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

Nominations

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:  

• President  
• Secretary  
• 1 Ordinary Member  

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. 

The Annual General Meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities will be held as an electronic forum on Wednesday May 18 2022.

Agenda

1. Minutes of previous Annual General Meeting
   
   Minutes of 2018 AGM attached
   
2. Financial Report
   
   Financial Statement attached
   
3. 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.

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.

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. 

(Updated 24/01/2022.)