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14-17 September 2008: DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge
and Practice'

The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts)
conference is held annually at various academic venues
throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote
discussion around new collaborative environments, collective
knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The
conference, hosted by the University of Cambridge with its
fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from
Sunday 14th September to Wednesday 17th September

The aim of the conference is to:

- Establish a site for mutually creative exchanges of knowledge.
- Promote discussion around new collaborative environments and
collective knowledge.
- Encourage and celebrate the connections and tensions within
the liminal spaces that exist between the Arts and Humanities.
- Redefine disciplinary boundaries.
- Create a forum for debate around notions of the 'solitary' and
the collaborative across the Arts and Humanities.
- Explore the impact of the Arts and Humanities on ICT: design
and narrative structures and visa versa.

There will be a variety of sessions concerned with the above but
also with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary
collaboration and theorising around practice. There will also be
various installations and performances focussing on the same
theme.

Keynote talks will be given by our plenary speakers who we are
pleased to announce are Sher Doruff, Research Fellow (Art,
Research and Theory Lectoraat) and Mentor at the Amsterdam
School for the Arts, Alan Liu, Professor of English, University
of California Santa Barbara and Sally Jane Norman, Director of
the Culture Lab, Newcastle University.

In addition to this, there will be various round table
discussions together with a panel relating to 'Second Life' and
a special forum 'Engaging research and performance through
pervasive and locative arts projects' led by Steve Benford,
Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham.
Also planned is the opportunity for a more immediate and
informal presentation of work in our 'Quickfire' style events.
Whether papers, performance or other, all proposals should
reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA.

http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08

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