Digital Humanities

Next year’s Digital Humanities conference (the ACH/ALLC joint conference) is in Paris. Details available. The digital humanities dot org site is a new umbrella site reflecting a new umbrella organisation, The Alliance of Digital Humanities (ADHO). I’m an underperforming member of the Association of Computing Humanities, though what I do generally appears to be on the edges of most of the work these organisations do. They are serious set of computational philologists, and they’re all happy to converse in (any of) English, French, German and, I suspect, Latin!

(I’m on their margins because there is a broad concentration on text here that often expresses the oldest, grandest, anxieties about images.)

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digital humanities and humanities computing is a growing field, as humanities are generally being cut from western curriculums in high school's and colleges. The merger of the technical and humanistic disciplines is opening up a new arena for research, but as Adrian points out, the current construction of this form of humanistic studies is one of the word and text... presenting anything else will usually be ignored by the older participants.