Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 95.
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Date: 2024-08-10 12:11:56+00:00
From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.93: EADH
Thanks Fabio - wonderful to hear from you, and great that you are doing well,
and so professionally active.
EADH isn’t one person though - it is a UK charity established in 1980
(https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-
search/-/charity-details/279971/charity-overview), governed by UK charity law,
and responsible for circa £100k a year annual income, and c. £100k reserves,
which financially props up much Digital Humanities activity in publication and
person worldwide. One person who couldn’t make a meeting could delegate
responsibility to someone else in the organisation, as set out in the
constitution.
It’s been interesting talking to the community over the past few days at DH2024.
I understand that there were no elections this year for EADH officers (which
doesn’t abide by the constitution: https://eadh.org/about/constitution). I was
told that there hasn’t been a meeting of the executive for over a year (which
doesn’t abide by the constitution). Financial returns were filed late last year.
Where are any plans for an EADH annual conference? Etc etc.
I think to remedy this, it would be great if we could have a timetable set out
for when the EADH AGM will be, and when the elections will be in running up to
the AGM, and when we can see financial returns for reporting year 2023.
Best wishes, and I look forward to you, Fabio, as Chair, communicating when the
AGM will be, the schedule for elections in the run up to the AGM, and
establishing when we can see the annual accounts. If you could set out this
timetable by the end of August, and circulate it both here to Humanist and to
EADH lists, that will give everyone comfort. There’s no need for this
conversation to happen in private - none of us have anything to hide?
Thanks!
Melissa
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Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 93.
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Date: 2024-08-09 10:08:37+00:00
From: Fabio Ciotti <fabio.ciotti@uniroma2.it>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.90: EADH?
Dear Melissa,
this year for me it was not possible to attend DH since I had an invitation
to present and chair a session at the World Congress of Philosophy in Roma.
I will organize an online asynchronous AGM later in the Autumn. As for the
other issues, I will contact you personally.
Fabio
Il giorno ven 9 ago 2024 alle ore 10:22 Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org>
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 90.
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Date: 2024-08-08 15:25:41+00:00
From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Whatever happened to EADH?
Hi folks,
Hello from DH2024, which I’m enjoying very much - so good to see so many
folks,
and hear about such great work.
I was wondering if anyone knew what was happening to EADH? It doesn’t have
a
presence at the annual ADHO conference here at DH2024, there is no members
meeting, and there is no AGM. There have been no social network posts for
months, and the website is at least a year out of date. I’ve been trying to
contact the executive, and no-one has approved my message to the list, or
replied to my query (see email chain below).
This isn’t just about the fact that EADH isn’t engaging or supporting with
its
membership, and hasn’t turned up to the annual ADHO conference - its also
about
the governance of significant amounts of money tied to the DSH journal
subscriptions, from both individuals and institutional subscriptions.
Is everything ok with EADH? Does anyone know what is going on….? Is anyone
else
concerned?
Melissa
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Professor Melissa Terras
Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Melissa Terras <m.terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Is EADH Ok? Fwd: EADH members/AGM meeting at DH2024?
Date: 7 August 2024 at 11:05:35 GMT-4
Dear EADH Executive,
I asked this question yesterday on the EADH list and it has not been
approved to
be sent.
Please can you tell me when and where the AGM of EADH members will take
place?
Will there be a meeting at DH2024 for the community? If not, why not? If
the
AGM isn’t here - when and when were it will be?
This isn’t just about the organisation of a scholarly association: it’s
also
about the appropriate governance of a substantial amount of membership
fees,
that support various mechanisms in our community.
Is there a crisis in EADH? Nothing has been posted to the social media for
some
time, no-one is approving the email list posts, and there seems to be no
community representation at DH2024. Can someone tell me what is going on?
Melissa
————
Professor Melissa Terras
Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Melissa Terras <m.terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: EADH members/AGM meeting at DH2024?
Date: 6 August 2024 at 19:33:21 GMT-4
To: eadh-members@lists.digitalhumanities.org
Cc: eadh-exec@lists.digitalhumanities.org
Hi folks,
I was surprised to not find an AGM meeting listed on the DH2024 programme
in
Washington DC this week. Is there going to be a meeting of EADH members?
And if
the AGM isn’t here at the Digital Humanities conference this week, where
and
when will it be?
Thanks!
Melissa
————
Professor Melissa Terras
Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras
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Professor Fabio Ciotti
Dept. "Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte" , University of
Roma "Tor Vergata"
Director MA program "Scienze dell'informazione della comunicazione e
dell'editoria"
Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)
Editor-in-Chief, "Umanistica Digitale" https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outloo
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