blog: Call for proposals to host DH2010
DH (Digital Humanities) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are ALLC, ACH and SDH/SEMI.
The committees of DH and its constituent organizations now invite proposals to host DH in 2010.
Conventionally the annual DH conference has alternated between North America and Europe and it is expected that the 2010 conference will be held in Europe.
The conference normally attracts 200-300 delegates with 3-4 days of papers and posters. There are normally 3-4 parallel sessions and a small number of plenary presentations. Meetings of the committees of the constituent organizations precede the conference.
The academic programme is organized by an international Programme Committee.
The local organizer at the host institution is responsible for the conference web site, provision of facilities, the production of a book of abstracts, a special dinner at the end of the conference, any other social events that the local host thinks would be appropriate, and, overall, the smooth running of the conference.
The conference is entirely self-financing through conference fees and such sponsorship or other financial contributions as the local organizer is able to arrange. No financial support is provided by ADHO or its constituent organizations, except in relation to the recipient of a major ADHO award, such as the Busa Prize.
In collaboration with the Programme Committee, the local organizer may invite other plenary speakers whose travel, subsistence and registration must be funded from the conference budget.
The local organizer is expected to set three levels of fees: members of ADHO constituent organizations, non-members, and students.The difference between the fee levels for members and non-members should be no less than the cost of an individual subscription to ADHO's main print journal, LLC.
ADHO is currently using the conference management system Conftool.
Proposals should include
* overview of facilities at the host institution - to include location of lecture rooms, poster sites, tea and coffee facilities, and technical support
* degree of local institutional engagement and support for the local organizer
* possible arrangements for social events, to include the conference dinner
* options for accommodation (with provisional costs)
* travel information
* a provisional budget, with a provisional registration fee
* options for payment (credit card, foreign currency etc) by participants
The local organizer must be a member of one of the ADHO constituent organizations (ALLC, ACH or SDH/SEMI).
The next Busa Prize will be awarded at DH2010. As well as funding the Busa Prize itself, AHDO will fund the travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Busa Prize recipient. The local organizer is expected to waive their registration fee. The award of the Prize and a lecture by the prizewinner will constitute one of the plenary sessions of the conference.
Proposers must be prepared to give a short presentation and to answer questions at the ADHO Steering Committee meeting at the DH2008 conference (http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/) in Oulu, Finland on 23 June 2008.
Past conference web sites can be viewed via the links at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/past.html.
For further information, see the ADHO Conference Protocol at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/Adho/SteerConferences.
Proposers are invited to discuss their plans informally with the ADHO Conference Co-ordinating Committee, via the Chair Susan Hockey (s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk). Formal proposals should reach her by Tuesday 27 May 2008.
