The Academy of the Humanities welcomes the establishment of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH).
The Academy has taken an active interest in the digital humanities field for a number of years and sponsored a workshop on 22 March 2011 at the Australian National University. The establishment of the association is the outcome of that workshop, which brought together 40 leading researchers, project directors and sector representatives. Two international guests, Professor Ray Siemens (Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at Victoria University) and Dr Patrik Svensson (Director of HUMlab, the digital research centre at Umeå University, Sweden) gave keynote lectures that positioned Australasian digital humanities research in a global context.
The Association will act to strengthen the digital humanities research community in our region and work with other international associations within the field. More information about the new association is available on their
website.