Programme Day 1

Wednesday, 19th March 2014

(DHA 2014 Day 1 programme is now available to download)
8:30am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: University Club Ground Floor Terrace
9:00am
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9:20am
Opening 

Professor Paul Johnson, Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia and traditional Welcome to Country by Barry McGuire
Location: University Club Auditorium
9:20am
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10:30am
Keynote - Professor Neil FraistatThe Promise(s) of Digital Humanities

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, USA.Neil currently chairs the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (AHDO), is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers, and is Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.Neil is Co-Founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website and has published widely on the subjects of Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in various articles and in the ten books he has authored or edited.

Neil’s most recent publications are The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship and Volume III of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

Chair: Professor Paul Arthur, University of Western Sydney / President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities.

Location: University Club Auditorium
10:30am
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11:00am
Morning Tea
Location: Ground Floor Terrace / Lower Colonnade
11:00am
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12:30pm
1.1- Language & Text I

Location: Case Study Room
Chair: Ian Johnson, University of Sydney
1.2- Print Cultures

Location: Seminar Room 1
Chair: Katherine Bode, Australian National University
1.3- Online Engagement & Communities

Location: Seminar Room 2
Chair: Cate Dowd, University of New England
12:30pm
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1:20pm
Lunch
Location: Ground Floor Terrace / Lower Colonnade
1:20pm
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2:50pm
2.1- Language & Text II

Location: Case Study Room

Chair: Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne

2.2- Archives & Collections I

Location: Seminar Room 1
Chair: Philip Mead, University of Western Australia
2.3- BOF- The Altruistic Crowd – The Ethics of Using Social Data in Humanist Research

Location: Seminar Room 2
Location: Seminar Room 2
2:50pm
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3:20pm
Afternoon Tea
Location: Ground Floor Terrace / Lower Colonnade
3:20pm
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4:50pm
3.1- Language & Text III

Location: Case Study Room
Chair: Sydney Shep, Victoria University Wellington
3.2- Archives & Collections II

Location: Seminar Room 1
Chair: Linda Barwick, University of Sydney
Location: Seminar Room 2
5:00pm
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7:15pm
Visualisation evening reception
Location: John Curtin Gallery

Buses depart 5.00pm from front of the University Club for the John Curtin Galley, and return at 7.15pm, dropping off in the city, then UWA