One of ADHO’s most visible activities is its annual international conference, usually held in July or August in venues around the world.
The Conference Coordinating Committee (CCC) is responsible for developing, improving and maintaining the ADHO Conference Protocol and accompanying guidelines, and coordinating the annual conference. The CCC is overseen by a Chair, a Chair-Elect and an Incoming Chair-Elect, all appointed by the COB. This position has a three-year term with the first year as Incoming Chair-Elect, the second year as Chair-Elect, and the final year as Chair.
The role of Incoming Chair-Elect would be appropriate for people somewhat new to the ADHO community who are willing to serve and have the benefit of two years experience before becoming Chair. Therefore, no previous experience attending an ADHO conference is necessary, and we encourage anyone who is interested and willing to learn during a three year commitment.
Responsibilities (in collaboration with the Chair and Chair-Elect):
- Maintaining the Conference Protocols and ensuring that they are followed by the Local Organizers (LOs), Program Committee (PC), and others involved in the annual Digital Humanities Conference;
- Issuing the call for bids for the ADHO international conference, providing detailed information to those who are interested in bidding for the conference, providing feedback to initial bids; determining whether revised bids should be passed on to the COB and the EB, and making recommendations to the COB and EB about revised bids;
- Maintaining an annually updated list of the pool of reviewers for the conference;
- Working in consultation with the PC to determine the form of the proposal review process (e.g., double-anonymous, reviewer-anonymous, or open);
- Maintaining the draft-model call for proposals from which the PCs draft each year’s individual CFP, and ensuring email lists are established for each year’s PC and that PC members are promptly subscribed to it;
- Reviewing requests for additional languages to be added for a particular conference and innovations to the conference format;
- Reviewing requests for in-name sponsorship of digital humanities conferences, and approving presentations by sponsors together with the PC;
- Maintaining the draft-model report of the conference, receiving preliminary and final reports from LOs and PC chairs, and conveying them to the COB and EB for review;
- Conducting a brief survey of conference participants after its conclusion.
Period: 2024-2026
Deadline for submission: Please consider the position and apply before 30 September 2024.
To express your interest, please fill out the Application form and upload a CV (2 pages long). You may also nominate somebody for this position by completing the Nomination form.
Please contact the ADHO Secretary at secretary@adho.org with any questions.