A small group of Digital Humanities enthusiasts met at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Carlton to discuss all things digital in the humanities. We did this in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities in London, who hold a similar monthly event.
As it was the first week of Semester at the University of Melbourne, the Pub chosen was unfortunately on the route of a College pub crawl, so we were competing with crowds of fresh undergrads, complete with a loudspeaker!
We did manage to discuss some of the activities of the Digital Humanities at Melbourne, including a proposed workshop in the Faculty of Arts showcasing some of the digital projects being developed. As a field, the ‘Digital Humanities’ is not as coherent in Australia as it is in some countries. However, there is still much work happening in various research areas. We discussed the possibility of establishing an ‘Australian Association for the Digital Humanities’ to bring together existing digital projects and forums in the humanities, with the possibility of holding a small conference sometime next year.
Although those present did view the video of this year’s Plenary Digital Humanities conference by Dr Melissa Terrace (the homework), we didn’t really discuss it at length because of the loudspeaker and pub-crawling students. Next time we will bring our own loudspeaker.
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