| History: | 1989- |
| Country: | International |
| Frequency: | annual |
The Digital Humanities conference is an academic conference for the field of digital humanities. It is hosted by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been held annually since 1989.
The first joint conference was held in 1989, at the University of Toronto—but that was the 16th annual meeting of ALLC, and the ninth annual meeting of the ACH-sponsored International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH).[1]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has called the conference "highly competitive" but "worth the price of admission," praising its participants' focus on best practices, the intellectual community it has fostered, and the tendency of its organizers to sponsor attendance of early-career scholars (important given the relative expense of attending it, as compared to other academic conferences).[2]
An analysis of the Digital Humanities conference abstracts between 2004 and 2014[3] highlights some trends evident in the evolution of the conference (such as the increasing rate of new authors entering the field, and the continuing disproportional predominance of authors from North America represented in the abstracts). An extended study (2000-2015) offer a feminist and critical engagement of Digital Humanities conferences with solutions for a more inclusive culture.[4] Scott B. Weingart has also published detailed analyses of submissions to Digital Humanities 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 on his blog.[5]
| Year | Location / Organizers | Links | Observations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | University of Siegen, Germany | program | June 4–9 | |
| 1991 | Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA | program | March 17–21 | |
| 1992 | Oxford University, Oxford, England | program | 5–9 April | |
| 1993 | Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA | program | June 16–19 | |
| 1994 | Sorbonne, Paris, France | program | April 19–23 | |
| 1995 | University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA | program | July 11–15 | |
| 1996 | University of Bergen, Norway | website | June 25–29 | |
| 1997 | Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada | website | June 3–7 | |
| 1998 | Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary | website | July 5–10 | |
| 1999 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA | website | June 9–13 | |
| 2000 | University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK | website | July 21–25 | |
| 2001 | New York University, USA | website, | June 13–16 | |
| 2002 | University of Tübingen, Germany | website | July 23–28 | |
| 2003 | University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA | website | May 29 - June 2 | |
| 2004 | University of Gothenburg, Sweden | website | June 11–16 | |
| 2005 | University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | website | June 15 - June 18 | |
| 2006 | Sorbonne, Paris, France | website | July 5–9 | |
| 2007 | University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA | website | June 2–8 | |
| 2008 | University of Oulu, Finland | website | June 25–29 | |
| 2009 | University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA | website | June 20–25 | |
| 2010 | King's College London, UK | website | July 7–10 | |
| 2011 | Stanford University, California, USA | website | June 19–22 | |
| 2012 | University of Hamburg, Germany | website | July 16–22 | |
| 2013 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA | website | July 16–19 | |
| 2014 | University of Lausanne and EPFL, Switzerland | website | July 8–12 | |
| 2015 | University of Western Sydney, Australia | website | June 29-July 3 | |
| 2016 | Jagiellonian University and Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland | website | July 10–16 | |
| 2017 | McGill University and University of Montréal, Canada | website | August 1–4 | |
| 2018 | El Colegio de México, UNAM, Mexico (Red de Humanidades Digitales / RedHD) | website | June 24-July 1 | |
| 2019 | Utrecht University, Netherlands | website | July 9–12 | |
| 2020 | Carleton University and University of Ottawa, Canada | website | July 22–24 | |
| 2021 | Local virtual conferences | website | ||
| 2022 | The University of Tokyo, Japan (online) | website | ||
| 2023 | University of Graz, Austria | website | ||
| 2024 | George Mason University, Washington DC, USA | website | ||
| 2025 | New University of Lisbon, Portugal | |||
| 2026 | Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea (KADH) |