Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm EDT Register here As scholars, practitioners, and activists have widely discussed, AI and other generative technologies require a rethinking of how workers can be protected. These technologies gather and use data generated by workers, generating issues such as wage discrimination and, in the long run, replacement of labor. In this…Continue reading.
Welcome our new Deputy Secretary/Secretary, Claudia Berger! Claudia Berger (they/she) is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Sarah Lawrence College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute teaching digital humanities in the School of Information. Their research centers around critical making in digital humanities research and digital environmental humanities. They also serve as an editor of dh+lib. When not doing…Continue reading.
We’re please to announce the results of the 2024 ACH elections. We had many excellent candidates who ran for office this year, and we’re grateful to have such an engaged community! Our Vice President(s)/President(s) Elect will be Liz Grumbach and Pamella Lach. They will serve as co-VP from 2024-2026 and co-presidents from 2026-2028. Our newly…Continue reading.
Vice President/President Elect 1. Liz Grumbach and Pamella Lach (co-Vice President/President Elect team) Bios: Liz Grumbach (she/her/hers) is the Director of Digital Humanities and Research in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University, occupying the ancestral territories of the O’Odham and Piipaash peoples. At ASU Lincoln, an organization committed to exploring participatory strategies for…Continue reading.
ACH seeks three new Executive Council Representatives to serve a 4-year term (2024-2028) and a (co)Vice President(s)/President(s) Elect. Nominations are due February 1, 2024 via the brief nomination form. What does an ACH Executive Council Representative do? As an organization, ACH regularly runs a conference, a series of mentoring events, and distributes bursaries and other…Continue reading.
The ACH is leaving Twitter: we’re locking our Twitter account, and will no longer post, read, nor reply there. ACH members and the broader digital humanities community can find us on Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/ach.bsky.social), Mastodon (hcommons.social/@ach), our website (ach.org); and for ACH members, our newsletter (members.ach.org/join). Why we’re leaving Twitter We leave Twitter because of its…Continue reading.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities is sad to share the news of Angel David Nieves’ passing on December 5, 2023. Angel served on the ACH Executive Council from 2019-2021. While on the exec, Angel was involved with the mentoring program. Most recently, Angel was Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor…Continue reading.
For our session at the 2024 MLA Convention, ACH featured presentations related to the use of spatial technologies as they broadly pertain to research and teaching related to language, literature, and related fields. At their most basic, spatial technologies offer a way to bring in useful context when researching or teaching literature. But to what…Continue reading.
This call is now closed, but we’re leaving the post up for archival purposes. The ACH seeks someone to participate in ACH’s leadership and the broader work of the ACH Executive Council, while serving as a key contributor to keeping the ACH running as ACH Deputy Secretary/Secretary. You are very likely eligible! Our key needs…Continue reading.
As announced at the ACH 2023 conference, ACH is soliciting working group proposals for the upcoming academic year. We’ve posted guidelines for proposals here, along with more information about the benefits of forming a working group. Each working group must have co-chairs who are ACH members. We hope that the ACH working group framework will…Continue reading.