Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, in consultation with the DH2020 Local Organizers and Program Committee, has decided to cancel this year’s in-person conference in Ottawa, which was scheduled for 19-25 July 2020. This has been an exceptionally difficult decision, but individual and communal health is our priority. An in-person conference would endanger attendees and members of the general public.
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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, in consultation with the DH2020 conference organizers and program committee, is closely following the unfolding international situation regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus). Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the virus. Because the situation is changing quickly, we are planning for how best to ensure the health and well-being of conference attendees and organizers while taking into account the labour and financial commitments made.
Join our team! The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its two 2020 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of €500 (Euros).
As part of the restructuring of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), we seek nominations for committed individuals who would like to actively help further DH in all its breadth and diversity on a global scale for the following positions:
- ADHO Deputy Treasurer
- ADHO Communications Officer
- ADHO Infrastructure Committee Chair
As part of the restructuring of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), we seek nominations for committed individuals who would like to actively help further DH in all its breadth and diversity on a global scale for an ADHO Deputy Treasurer. In the near future, we will issue calls for other positions.
The minutes for the annual meeting of the ADHO Steering Committee have been published. The meeting took place on 7 and 9 July and included the transition from the old governance model to the new one. The meeting concluded with the first meeting of the new Constituent Organization Board (COB).
At the close of the DH2019 conference in Utrecht, ADHO implemented a number of governance changes. The organization’s governing body had been a Steering Committee, which was comprised of voting representatives from each of the Constituent Organizations (COs), as well as ADHO Officers and the chairs of various committees.
The new governance structure is bipartite with a Constituent Organization Board (COB) and an Executive Board:
During the closing ceremony of DH2019, the Centre for Digital Humanities of Utrecht University presented three different poster awards.
At the closing ceremony of DH2019, the winners of this year's Paul Fortier Prize were announced. The Awards Committee made two awards this year. The first went to Ariane Pinche, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Thibault Clérice for "Stylometry for Noisy Medieval Data: Evaluating Paul Meyer's Hagiographic Hypothesis." The second went to Sean A. Yeager for "Visualizing the Temporal Space of Narratives."
The various locations with bids to host the DH2022 conference have been made public. The three locations bidding to host DH2022 are, in alphabetical order:
- Graz, Austria
- Lyon, France
- Riga, Latvia
The ADHO Steering Committee will make the selection for the 2022 conference during its meetings in Utrecht. The host for the conference will be announced at DH2019's closing plenary on Friday, 12 July.
