Category Archives: Conference
frequently asked questions
Summer has started in Hamburg, July is coming soon, and we’ve already received numerous registrations for DH2012! In order to make planning your trip to Hamburg more comfortable, we’ve compiled the most frequently asked questions that reached us during the last weeks – concerning your registration, accommodation, tours & excursions.
Read Morecome aboard!
Online registration for DH2012 is open! You can now register for a stimulating and exciting DH event – in addition to 200 academic papers, workshops and posters the DH 2012 offers three receptions, a conference banquet aboard a historical sailing ship and exciting tours through Hamburg and to Lübeck. The early bird rate for members is € 220, for student members € 50.
Read Morepreliminary conference programme
We’re happy to announce that the preliminary conference schedule and programme overview for the upcoming DH 2012 at Hamburg University are now available! From 16 to 20 July a total of 198 workshops, panels, papers and poster presentations have been scheduled – it’s truly bound to be a conference that lives up to its motto, “Digital Diversity – Cultures, Languages, Methods”!
Read Morestudent assistant bursaries – new deadline
Similarly to the bursary scheme of the DH2010 in London, and in the spirit of our conference theme, we are offering student assistant bursaries. These bursaries will enable up to 12 international students to participate in the DH2012 at the University of Hamburg. Attention, please: In response to the large number of requests from the community, we have decided to postpone the deadline for submitting the applications to March 25, 2012. You find further details here.
Read Moreprogramme
Our Call for Papers for the DH2012 attracted a record number of submissions (393, to be precise), which is why we decided to expand to 5 strands this year. However, irrespective of the increased number of available ‘slots’ the programme committee, after detailed and careful deliberation of multiple reviews received for every of the 393 proposals, could in the end only accept a selection of contributions. Notifications for Long paper, Short paper, Panel and Poster submissions have now been sent out, congrats to all! You can book your accommodation for the conference via the online hotel booking form.
Read Moretwitter hashtag
Our former twitter hashtag #dh12 has been hijacked by sporting enthusiasts, relating to the nickname of the NBA basketball player Dwight Howard. To avoid any competition with this huge guy and his fan crowd, we call a strategic hashtag withdrawal. So, Digital Humanities Folk: We are de-camping from #dh12 to #dh2012!
Read MoreADHO conference bursary awards
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) makes bursary awards to students and young scholars who have submissions accepted for presentation at the Digital Humanities 2012 conference. These awards are to encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities and to involve new participants in the application of information technology in humanities research.
Read Moredhd founding ‘unconference’
The VolkswagenStiftung has granted generous financial support for the inaugural “unconference” aimed at establishing a German regional association “Digital Humanities Deutschland”. This founding meeting will be held at the University of Hamburg on 17 July 2012 in conjunction with the DH 2012 and will conclude immediately prior to its opening.
Read Moresneak preview
Are you tired of reading? Do you need a break? Why not enjoy an informative short film about the University of Hamburg to learn more about your host and the venue for DH2012 – the video can be found here. The sequence from 00:10 – 00:30 shows the University’s main building where the DH conference will be held.
Read Moredigital diversity
Take a glimpse at how digital tools can raise awareness for cultural and lingual diversity: we’ve fed the Call for Papers for the DH2012 to a multi-lingual word cloud generator that cycles through all the possible combinations across eight languages. The output can be seen here.
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