Latest Update: 2nd September 2008
2008 Conference website: http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ DRHA 2008 Cambridge Blog: http://drha08.blogspot.com
The programme, including a full list of speakers, for DRHA2008 has been published and is available from the DRHA08 website.
Registration closes on 22nd August; it is still possible to register online
DRHA 2008: 'New Communities of Knowledge and Practice'
Visit the website at http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ for more information and a link to the proposals website.
The deadline for submissions will be 30 April 2008.
The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by the University of Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from Sunday 14th September to Wednesday 17th September
The aim of the conference is to:
There will be a variety of sessions concerned with the above but also with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and theorising around practice. There will also be various installations and performances focussing on the same theme.
Keynote talks will be given by our plenary speakers who we are pleased to announce are Sher Doruff, Research Fellow (Art, Research and Theory Lectoraat) and Mentor at the Amsterdam School for the Arts, Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara and Sally Jane Norman, Director of the Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
In addition to this, there will be various round table discussions together with a panel relating to 'Second Life' and a special forum 'Engaging research and performance through pervasive and locative arts projects' led by Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham. Also planned is the opportunity for a more immediate and informal presentation of work in our 'Quickfire' style events. Whether papers, performance or other, all proposals should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA.
Visit the website at http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ for more information and a link to the proposals website.
The Deadline for submissions will be 30 April 2008.
Cambridge's venues range from the traditional to the contemporary all situated within walking distance of central departments, museums and galleries. The conference will be based around Cambridge University's Sedgwick Site, particularly the West Road concert hall, where delegates will have use of a wide range of facilities including a recital room and a 'black box' performance space, to cater for this year's parallel programming and performances.
Sue Broadhurst, DRHA Programme Chair
The proposed theme for the 2008 conference, to be held at the University of Cambridge is ;New Technologies of Knowledge: An Agenda for the 21st Century'. The aim would be to promote discussion around new forms of interaction afforded by ICT within the broader context of education and learning, where the potential for technology to support the creation of new knowledge and research methodologies and to redefine the relationship between author(s) and user(s) is rapidly expanding.
The conference is also interested in promoting the use of digital platforms to communicate and collaborate with different communities – locally, nationally and internationally – to build multi-faceted cultural exchange, understanding and knowledge. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include:
More details will follow in early 2008
DRHA2007 at Dartington - Visit Conference Website
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities
Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities
Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of meeting place: a space in which researchers, curators, and distributors of digital resources could meet and share perspectives on their complementary agendas.
Last year, that forum was expanded to include participants from the creative and performing arts, giving the event a new flavour and a new direction. This year, the conference aims to explore further major issues at the interface between traditional humanities scholarship and the creative arts, by focussing on their differing or complementary approaches to the deployment of digital technologies.
Can the Arts and the Humanities share expertise? Are they divided by a common tongue? To what extent are they developing common technical solutions to different problem areas? As in previous years, the conference will articulate these questions by showcasing the very best in current practice across the widest spectrum of digital applications in the arts and humanities and by fostering informed but accessible debate amongst professionals.
The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as:
Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in time and space; integration and deployment of existing digital resources in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital deployment, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0 and other new technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems.
Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance and installation events, software and product demonstrations, debates and training events. The atmosphere will be informal, the discussion energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of key funding agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the JISC, and the AHDS will be amongst the participants. We hope that from this occasion a new consensus will emerge based on real life experience of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities and Arts.
Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date for proposals is May 2nd 2007. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be included in the Conference preprint volume, and will also be considered for a post-conference publication.
Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all meals and accomodation as well as conference registration and proceedings will not exceed £400. Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-day or non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the conference website.
Further information: The conference web site at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ will be regularly updated, and includes full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now!