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We are very pleased to announce the second of our two keynotes, Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. Professor Borgmann is the author of two recent books from the MIT Press, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure and Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. An ideal speaker for us given the close affinity between MITH and Maryland’s own iSchool, she will bring a focus on cyberinfrastructure, scholarly communication, and digital libraries to the keynote events.

Take a peak at dh09’s program overview, which outlines a schedule for panels, plenary sessions and excursions to the National Mall and the new Air and Space Museum.

More to come shortly on travel and tourist attractions in the nearby Washington DC and Baltimore areas.

We are very pleased to announce the first of our two keynote speakers, Lev Manovich, Professor of Visual Arts and New Media at the University of California San Diego. Many will know Manovich for his pioneering book The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001) and his involvement in the burgeoning software studies movement. At the conference, Manovich will address his ongoing work in cultural analytics, using high performance computing and advanced visualization to study the web of contemporary culture.

A second keynote speaker will be announced shortly.

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Welcome to the official conference blog for Digital Humanities 2009, the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs, hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA.

We look forward to seeing you here next year. The CFP can be expected from the international program committee later this summer, and registration will open in January 2009. Please also check back soon for details on travel options, lodging, area attractions, and other essential information.