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Report of the Steering Committee Chair (July 2016 – July 2017) - 25 Sep 2017

After the very successful conference in Montréal, the work of the ADHO Steering Committee mostly deals with looking forward and preparing for next year’s conference in Mexico City. In this message I’d like to give a short overview of my main tasks in the past year as chair of the Steering Committee.

Diversity and inclusivity are still one of the most prominent issues on my agenda as chair of the Steering Committee. I have addressed this in several ways and I will only mention the most important ones.

ADHO Welcomes New Organizations - 22 Aug 2017

ADHO is excited to announce the admission of 2 new Constituent Organizations and a new Special Interest Group! The Taiwanese Association of Digital Humanities and Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa have been admitted provisionally in observer status for 1 year pending ADHO’s governance changes in 2018. The Digital Literary Stylistics Special Interest Group is actively seeking participants. Read on for more about each organization.

Welcome 2017-18 Communications Fellows - 1 Aug 2017

Each year, two early career scholars are selected through a competitive process to work with ADHO’s Communications Chair to promote ADHO and its constituents’ outreach mission through the publication of news releases, blog posts, listserv announcements, and social media posts. We are pleased to announce ADHO's 2017-18 Communications Fellows:

Join the ADHO Steering Committee! - 18 Jul 2017

The Alliance of Digital Humanities (ADHO) is looking for enthusiastic Digital Humanists who would like to actively help further DH in all its breadth and diversity on a global scale. The ADHO Steering Committee (SC) has several vacancies to be filled, starting August 8, 2017, until July 1st 2018 (when the governance structure of ADHO will change). Extensions of service in some comparable roles after July 1, 2018, may be considered.

Fabio Ciotti and Elena Pierazzo appointed PC co-Chairs DH2019 in Utrecht (NL) - 10 May 2017

The ADHO steering committee, based on propositions by the EADH steering committee, has appointed as Program Committee co-Chairs DH2019 Elena Pierazzo and Fabio Ciotti. Below are short bios and profiles of their careers. ADHO thanks them warmly for their engagement in this important service for our community.

Call for Nominations: 2019 Busa Prize - 25 Apr 2017

The Roberto Busa Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). It is named in honour of Father Roberto Busa, the first pioneer of humanities computing, who in 1949 began experiments in linguistic automation, with the support of the IBM offices in New York and Milan, as part of his analytical research on the writings of Thomas Aquinas. The computational work was central to the thirty years of research whose published output was the 56-volume Index Thomisticus, completed in 1980.

Registration for DH2017 - 20 Apr 2017

Registration is now open for the DH2017 conference at McGill University, Montréal, Quebec from 8-11 August 2017. Details below, and on the DH2017 site.
 
Registration for DH2017 is now open via conftool. Early registration fees are available until June 7th. Registration will close on August 1st. Fees for workshops can be paid at the same time. (Participants in workshops must be registered for the conference.) 

Call for Applicants: 2017-18 Communications Fellowships - 18 Apr 2017

Join our team! The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its 2017-18 Communications Fellowship.
 

Announcing DH2017 Keynotes - 1 Mar 2017

The Program Committee are delighted to have Kim Christen and Marin Dacos as keynote speakers for DH2017. They have been invited as internationally renowned scholars working on issues of access (the conference theme).

Statement on International Conference Travel - 10 Feb 2017

The Chair of the ADHO Steering Committee writes: ADHO is sharply aware of the uncertain political situation in the US, especially in relation to the travel restrictions that were announced, and of the impact this may have on DH in general and all DH conferences to come.
 

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