Congress Award of the City of Graz goes to Digital Humanities

At the Congress Award ceremony, Mayor Elke Kahr (right) brought the team from the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz before the curtain: Elisabeth Steiner, Elisabeth Raunig, Georg Vogeler, Walter and Martina Scholger (from left) Photo: MCG/Wiesner

The Digital Humanities Conference, which took place at the University of Graz in July 2023, won in the "exceptional events" category. Mayor Elke Kahr presented the award in the Stefaniensaal on Wednesday evening.

30 workshops, 80 sessions, 100 poster presentations and around 800 participants from 44 countries on site: this is the summary of the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, which took place last year as a hybrid event at the University of Graz. Under the title "Collaboration as Opportunity", a wide range of issues relating to the application of computer-aided methods for researching cultural heritage were discussed.

Here is a short video recap:

Recap video DH2023

Dagmar Eklaude

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