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Registration is now open for Digital Humanities 2007, at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Please see information below on discounts for registration and on housing. Early registration discounts expire May 14th, and room blocks in local hotels expire May 1st, so please make your arrangements early, for the best price and availability. The preliminary conference web site is at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ and detailed program is available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/sessions.html The main academic program for the conference will be held from June 4-7, 2007. Registrants for DH2007 may also attend the 2007 annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America, from June 7-10 in Champaign-Urbana, at no additional cost. The optional social program will include a visit to Springfield, to see an early Frank Lloyd Wright house and the Lincoln Museum, and a trip to the Allerton estate, with a guided tour of the sculpture and grounds. The banquet will be on Wednesday evening, June 6th, and it will feature the local bluegrass band High Cotton. The opening keynote will be delivered by Franco Moretti, The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford University. Professor Moretti is also the author of Graphs, Maps, Trees (2003) and The Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998). The Busa Award lecture will be delivered by Professor Wilhelm Ott, creator of TUSTEP, long-time director of the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, and host of 90 seminars over several decades in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften. DH2007 is the same conference that has been meeting annually since the late 1980s, as a joint effort of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. This year, the conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science with support from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Registration: Full-price registration for non-members, at any time up to the conference dates, is $400. Members of ACH or ALLC may register for $250 up until May 14th, 2007 and for $350 thereafter. Student members may register for $100 up until May 14th, and for $150 thereafter. Students who are not members may register for $200 at any time. Membership in ACH and/or ALLC is obtained by subscribing to Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press. If you are a member, you will need your member number in order to register with the members' discount, If you have an up-to-date email address registered with Oxford University Press, you should recently have received an email with your member number. If you have not registered an email address with them, you can find your member number on the address label that comes with your next issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing, or you can find it online by registering with OUP at https://access.oxfordjournals.org/oup/login/local.do If you are not a subscriber, and you wish to subscribe (and having done so, become eligible for the member discount for conference registration) you can subscribe at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html Regular-price subscriptions may be completed online; discount subscriptions (student or senior rate) require that you print the subscription form and mail or fax it to OUP. If such a delay in obtaining a member number presents a problem in registering for the conference, or if you have trouble locating your member number, or for any other difficulty with registration for DH2007, please contact dh2007 at digitalhumanities.org and we will be glad to assist you. Housing: Hotel room blocks have been arranged for conference participants at three hotels near the University campus. Lodging reservations and payment are the responsibility of individual participants. Mention ?Digital Humanities? or :dh2007: when making your reservation. After the rooms are released, May 1, 2007, rooms will be on space-available basis only. Please call the hotels directly to make reservations. And if you have problems with housing, contact dh2007 at digitalhumanities.org. Illini Union 1401 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1241 Rates: $86/$99 Located in the heart of campus. Hampton Inn 1200 West University Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.337.1100; toll free 800.426.7866 Rates: $89 Located just north of campus; within walking distance. Busey Evans Residence Halls 1111 West Nevada, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1766 ask for guest housing. You may email, conference at uiuc.edu for reservations or or book on-line at https://webtools.uiuc.edu/formBuilder/Secure?id=8467652. Rates: $25.65 shared room; $39.45 single; bathrooms are community style. Reservations may be made until May 27, 2007. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you at Digital Humanities 2007. John Unsworth, Local Organizer Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
