Heritage Hack Connections
If you are not heading off to Ballarat for the AHA conference, you might like to join AHA member Tim Sherratt in Canberra for a free Heritage Hack Connections workshop at the University of Canberra, on Thursday 8 July.
Tag: digital history
AHA member receives 2015 Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History
AHA member Meg Foster is the recipient of the 2015 Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History for her essay ‘Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age’. The judges said that this essay ‘provides important insights into how digital technologies are democratising not only access to research materials but also Read more …
ADHO in Sydney for first time
DH2015, the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) will next be held in Sydney, 29 June–3 July 2015. This will be the first time that this conference is being held outside of Europe and North America in its 26-year history. The theme of ‘Global Digital Humanities’ acknowledges the field’s expansion Read more …
The Tiger’s Mouth: Thoughts on the History and Heritage of Chinese Australia
Kate Bagnall’s research focuses on the lives of Australians of Chinese descent in both Australia and China, the administration of the White Australia Policy and the cultural heritage of Australia’s Chinese communities. Herdoctoral research was the first major historical study of intimate relationships between Chinese men and white Australian women, while her other work focuses Read more …
Discontents
Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. He is currently half of the Trove management team at the National Library of Australia, and Associate Professor of Digital Heritage at the University of Canberra. Discontents