Conference

The ADHO organizes and sponsors an annual conference under the leadership of the Conference Coordinating Committee. The first joint conference was held in 1989 at the University of Toronto. That event was the 16th annual meeting of ALLC and the ninth annual meeting of the ACH-sponsored International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH). Since then, the joint conference has grown to include additional organizations, and it has been held in cities around the world:

Documents

The following documents describe in detail the way conference sites are selected, how to bid to host the conference, what you need to know as a local organizer of the conference, how the program committee is supposed to operate, how to chair a session, how to present at a session, and other matters. There is also a memo of understanding that is meant to be signed by local hosts and the ADHO Constituent Organisations Board. 

• Conference Protocol
• ADHO Code of Conduct
• Conference Evaluation Criteria
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Guidelines for Proposal Authors and Reviewers
• Guidelines for Local Organizers
• Guidelines for Presenters
• Guidelines for Session Chairs

If you would like further information, please contact adho@adho.org.

Upcoming Conferences

• Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (15-18 July 2025)
• Daejeon, South Korea (27 July – 1 August 2026)
• University of Galway, Galway, Ireland (28 June 28 – 3 July, 2027)

Past Conferences

• George Mason University, Washington, DC, USA (6-9 August 2024)
• University of Graz, Graz, Austria (10-14 July 2023)
• University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (25-29 July 2022)
• 2021 Regional Conferences
• Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (22-24 July 2020)
  • Virtual Conference Website.
• Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (9-12 July 2019)
• El Colegio de México, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), Mexico City, Mexico (24-30 June 2018)
• McGill University and l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (8-11 August 2017)
• Jagiellonian University and the Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland (11-16 July 2016)
• University of Western Sydney, Australia (29 June – 3 July 2015)
• University of Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland (7-12 July 2014)
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (16-19 July 2013)
• University of Hamburg, Germany (16-22 July 2012)
• Stanford University, USA (19-22 June 2011)
• King’s College London, UK (7-10 July 2010)
• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (22-25 June 2009)
• University of Oulu, Finland (25-29 June 2008)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2-8 June 2007)
• The Sorbonne, Paris, France (5-9 July 2006)
• University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (15-18 June 2005)
• Goteborg University, Sweden (11-16 June 2004)
• University of Georgia, USA (29 May – 2 June 2003)
• University of Tubingen, Germany (23-28 July 2002)
• New York University, USA (13-16 July 2001)
• University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (21-25 July 2000)
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (9-13 June 1999)
• Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (5-10 July 1998)
• Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (3-7 June 1997)
• University of Bergen, Norway (25-29 June 1996)
• University of California, Santa Barbara, California (11-15 July 1995)
• The Sorbonne, Paris, France (19-23 July 1994)
• Georgetown University, Washington, DC (16-19 June 1993)
• Oxford University, Oxford, England (5-9 April 1992)
• Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (17-21 March 1991)
• University of Siegen, Germany (4-9 June 1990)

Abstracts from previous DH conferences can be accessed on Github; if you are planning to submit an abstract for a future conference, you may want to consult this collection. Note that the collection does not yet contain all past abstracts, but additional years will be added from time to time. Also, be advised that more recent abstracts are probably a better guide to current practice than older ones might be.

In-Name Sponsorship for Conferences

ADHO is pleased to provide in-name sponsorship to digital humanities conferences. Please contact the Conference Coordinating Committee to submit a request.