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.

Our center is happy to be one of the sponsors of this one-day conference on the relationships between humans and machines organized by our membre Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Carla Canullo and Tiberio Uricchio (Università di Macerata) :

What is a machine? What is a human being? Is there a clear, stable boundary between the two? The many discussions about AI have recently renewed interest in these questions, which have haunted us for centuries. It would seem that in our relationship with machines, in the way we define and understand them, and above all in the way we identify how they are different from us, our very essence is at stake. As human beings, we define ourselves in opposition to machines. This symposium aims to question this demarcation line by challenging the oppositions between human and machine, artificial and natural, quantifiable and non-quantifiable, calculable and non-calculable.

The full program is available on the conference website.

Notre centre est heureux d’accueillir Dino Felluga (Purdue University) pour une conférence intitulée « Open Assembly and the Collective: Digital Humanities after the Collapse of the Humanities » à l’Université Concordia le jeudi 28 mars à 16h :

Given the ways that universities and government agencies have increasingly limited the amount of money available for humanities projects, this talk asks, “how can we build sustainable resources at a time of collapse?” Rather than bemoan the current situation, the talk proposes that we need to rethink how we fund and maintain the work that we do.

Bio: Dino Franco Felluga is Professor of English at Purdue University. He is also the general editor of BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History at http://branchcollective.org and of COVE: Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education at http://covecollective.org. His talk extends the argument of his next book, Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form (forthcoming Oxford UP, 2024), to the building of real-world, digital-humanities resources.

[Prof. Felluga donnera aussi un atelier sur le projet COVE le mardi 26 mars à l’université de Montréal.]

Notre centre est heureux d’être un des partenaires de la conférence « Horizons de la philologie numérique: L’Anthologie grecque pour repenser [formats], [paradigmes] et [collaboration] »,  subventionné par le CRSH et organisé par nos membres Elsa Bouchard et Marcello Vitali-Rosati, avec Mathilde Verstraete et Serena Cannevale. Durant ces trois journées d’étude consacrées à l’actualité de la philologie à l’ère du numérique, à partir de l’Anthologie grecque, les questions suivantes seront abordées :

Quelles implications découlent de la rencontre entre des textes millénaires et des environnements numériques complexes ? Comment devrions-nous traiter les données engendrées par les projets issus des Digital Classics ? Comment pouvons-nous envisager leur structuration pour les rendre accessibles, les valoriser et les réutiliser ? Ces questions constituent le cœur des trois journées d’étude « Horizons de la philologie numérique. L’Anthologie grecque pour repenser formats, paradigmes et collaboration » (16-18 avril 2024, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II & Université de Montréal). L’objectif de cet événement est d’engager réflexions et discussions sur les fondements épistémologiques des projets d’édition ou d’étude de textes classiques à l’ère numérique, questionnant notamment les choix et utilisations d’outils particuliers, la mise en œuvre de la collaboration, la gestion des données, etc. Cette rencontre se concentrera sur l’étude de cas de l’Anthologie grecque, permettant de valoriser la plateforme et les données issues du projet d’édition numérique et collaborative de l’Anthologie grecque, mené à la Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur les Écritures Numériques depuis 2014. Chaque journée sera dédiée à un des trois axes de l’événement ; les matinées seront dédiées à des conférences et les après-midi à des ateliers pratiques permettant d’explorer concrètement les concepts discutés et d’appliquer certaines des méthodologies présentées.

[Le programme complet est disponible sur le site de la conférence.]

Dans le cadre d’un événement organisé avec le Carrefour en culture et création numériques (C3N) de la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal, Glenn Roe (Paris Sorbonne) fera une conférence intitulée « Modéliser les Lumières : Les réseaux de réutilisation des textes dans la France du XVIIIe siècle » le lundi 22 avril à 9h :

Financé par l’ERC, le projet ModERN (Modelling Enlightenment. Reassembling Networks of Modernity through data-driven research) est un projet de cinq ans dont l’objectif principal est d’établir une nouvelle histoire littéraire et intellectuelle « basée sur les données » des Lumières françaises ; une approche à la fois plus complète et plus systématique en termes de relation avec le registre culturel numérique existant, et une qui remet en question les récits ultérieurs de la modernité européenne. Pour y parvenir, ModERN déploie une combinaison unique de technologies informatiques de pointe, un cadre conceptuel qui fusionne la théorie des acteurs-réseaux avec la découverte basée sur les données, et des méthodes critiques et textuelles traditionnelles, qui sont toutes utilisées pour examiner les archives numériques de La période des Lumières en France et ses conséquences. Plus précisément, le projet utilise de nouvelles techniques d’analyse de texte à grande échelle et de modélisation linguistique de réseaux neuronaux profonds développées dans les communautés des humanités numériques et de l’intelligence artificielle pour identifier et analyser les réseaux conceptuels et intertextuels sur une collection sans précédent de textes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Cette conférence sera suivi, après une pause café, d’une table-ronde présidée par notre directeur à 10h30 avec des présentations de collègues de la FAS : Lisa Dillon (démographie), Marie Martel (école de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information) et Pierrich Plusquellec (École de Psychoéducation).

Un dîner-réseautage sera ensuite offert sur place.

En collaboration avec le département de communication de l’Université de Montréal et nos membres Juliette de Mayer et Ghislain Thibault, notre centre est heureux d’accueillir Katharina Niemeyer et Magali Uhl pour leur conférence intitulée « Les terrains de la solastalgie » :

La solastalgie désigne une forme de détresse qui s’exprime par l’angoisse de voir son milieu de vie (territoire, paysage, habitat, écosystème) disparaitre. Peut-elle aussi être une ressource constructive pour le futur? Dans cette conférence nous retracerons le cheminement épistémologique et scientifique de la solastalgie afin d’introduire le projet collectif Solastalgies Créatrices mené aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine entre 2022 et 2023. Nous allons mettre l’emphase sur les démarches méthodologiques déployées en amont, pendant et en aval des activités menées aux Îles; allant de l’analyse d’une communauté en ligne très active aux Îles et de l’écoute des fonds marins à la fabrication de caméras sténopés et des souvenirs du futur.  La réflexion portera également sur l’apport critique de la solastalgie pour les humanités numériques.

Bio: Magali Uhl est professeure au département de sociologie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM, Canada), membre chercheuse au CELAT et chercheure principale du projet Solastalgies Créatrices. Le rôle des images et de l’art dans la connaissance du social est au centre de son programme de recherche, au même titre que les méthodologies créatives et les nouvelles écritures sociologiques.

Katharina Niemeyer, co-chercheure du projet Solastalgies Créatrices, est professeure à l’École des médias à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), membre du CELAT et co-responsable du mXlab en recherche-création médiatique. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur les rapports entre médias et technologies, mémoire et histoire.

En collaboration avec le département de communication de l’Université de Montréal et nos membres Juliette de Mayer et Ghislain Thibault, notre centre est heureux d’accueillir Whitney Trettien pour sa conférence intitulée « The Deep History of Digital Encoding » :

The story of how the machines we now call “computers” emerged from government-funded research during World War II is well known. But before the mainframe computer could be built, inventors had to work out something more fundamental: how to encode text in electrical pulses and holes punched onto paper cards. In other words, they had to invent a new symbolic system of communication between humans and machines.

In this talk, I sketch the deep history of encoding text. Beginning with late eighteenth-century experiments in weaving and telegraphy, I trace the origins of binary encoding schemes to nineteenth-century innovations in the printing industry, especially to mechanical typesetting machines and printing techniques for the blind. As this history shows, industrial-era printing technologies, designed for European alphabets, nontrivially shaped early encoding schemes and still underlie digital textuality today.

Bio: Whitney Trettien is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches book history and digital humanities. Her first book is Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), available both in print and staged digitally on the Manifold platform. She is currently working on the deep history of text encoding and a digital project on printing in prisons.

Michael Sinatra, CRIHN director, invites you to the third annual Stéfan Sinclair-CRIHN lecture on Tuesday 12 March 2024 @ 3.30pm at the Université de Montréal.

Named in honour of Stéfan Sinclair, one of the founders of CRIHN in 2013, this third annual conference will feature a keynote delivered by Constance Crompton, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa, entitled: « Sticking with the things you make: the pleasures and challenges of long-term Digital Humanities development ». 

Pascale Dangoisse, recipient of the 2023 Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship will also present her doctoral research at this event.

Rendez-vous le mercredi 31 janvier 2024 à l’Ouvroir de 11h30 à 13h00 pour le premier Midi-Causerie met à l’honneur Andrea Gozzi, chercheur post-doctorant en recherche-création (UdeM), qui nous parlera de ces travaux au croisement des Humanités Numériques, de la muséologie et des études sur la perception et la musique :

Les sons et les paysages sonores ont un impact profond sur notre vie quotidienne, façonnant nos activités et nos souvenirs. En raison de sa nature évocatrice, éphémère et intangible, le son a le pouvoir d’évoquer le passé et d’enrichir le présent. Les expériences auditives peuvent offrir un accès transparent au patrimoine culturel et artistique grâce à des projets de réalité augmentée sonore (RAS), en utilisant des écouteurs à conduction osseuse (BCH). Les BCH permettent la fusion harmonieuse des couches de son réel et virtuel, renforçant le réalisme des objets sonores virtuels. Cette recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines numériques – fusionnant le patrimoine culturel, les études sonores, l’archéoacoustique et les études muséales – introduit l’histoire et les dispositifs à conduction osseuse pour explorer les dernières expériences RAS avec des BCH. Des cas d’utilisation de projets achevés pour des musées et des théâtres en Italie sont présentés, développés par Mezzo Forte, une entreprise spécialisée en RA et RV. Parmi les exemples : conception sonore et audioguides pour Palazzo Vecchio et Museo degli Inno- centi (Florence), Fondazione Primo Conti, Théâtre romain et zone archéologique (Fiesole), Rocca Malatestiana (Verucchio) ; audioguides augmentés et géolocalisés pour le Parco delle Biancane de l’UNESCO (Monterotondo Marittimo) ; composition musicale et audioguides pour les voies navigables historiques de Livourne ; acoustique virtuelle pour le Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence) ; et une pièce de théâtre interactive RAS, SOS fantôme, pour la zone Ex ILVA à Follonica.

Bio: Musicien et musicologue. Chercheur postdoctoral Mitacs à l’Université de Montréal – Faculté musique; Ph.D. en humanités numériques, musique et nouvelles technologies au SAGAS, Université de Florence; diplômé en musique de l’Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Membre de l’équipe du centre de recherche Tempo Reale (Florence) et cofondateur de Mezzo Forte, société spécialisée en réalité aug- mentée sonore. En tant que musicien, il a collaboré avec artistes internationaux, live et en studio, parti- cipant à des événements tels que LIVE 8 à Rome (2005). Comme compositeur pour le théâtre, il colla- bore activement avec le Théâtre Français de Toronto. Il a publié des livres et des essais sur l’histoire du rock et des biographies musicales en Italie et au Canada.

Notre centre est heureux d’accueillir Stefanie Haustein (U d’Ottawa) qui fera une présentation intitulée : « Réutilisation et citation des données de recherche — résultats de méthodes mixtes du projet de recherche ‘Meaningful Data Counts’ » :

Les citations de données sont de plus en plus considérées comme un moyen important de suivre la réutilisation des données et d’encourager leur partage en tant que pratique de la science ouverte. Le projet « Meaningful Data Counts »,  qui fait partie de l’initiative plus large « Make Data Count », a utilisé une approche mixte pour étudier la réutilisation et la citation des données de recherche ainsi que les motivations des chercheur.e.s à les citer ou à ne pas les citer dans différentes disciplines. Cette présentation survolera les résultats d’une analyse bibliométrique des métadonnées de DataCite, d’une enquête représentative des chercheur.e.s sur leurs pratiques, leurs préférences et leurs motivations de citation des données, ainsi que les résultats préliminaires d’entretiens approfondis avec 20 chercheur.e.s en sciences humaines, sociales, naturelles, de l’ingénierie et de la recherche biomédicale.

Bio: Stefanie Haustein est professeure agrégée à l’École des sciences de l’information à l’Université d’Ottawa et codirectrice du ScholCommLab, un groupe interdisciplinaire de chercheur.e.s basés à Ottawa et à Vancouver qui analysent la communication savante à l’ère numérique. Ses recherches portent sur la communication savante, l’évaluation de la recherche et de la science ouverte, y compris le libre accès, le partage et la réutilisation des données de recherche. 

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.