| Dec 11, 2025 | I have an article out today in The Conversation. I argue that the AI Bubble might partly be caused by ancient myths—and it might not be the first time such myths have been taken seriously. Check it out! |
| Nov 30, 2025 | DHA25 is this week, as is the annual CAPOS meeting. I’ll be giving lots of presentations, and enjoying the fabulous keynotes from Jill Walker Rettberg and Kat Gledhill-Tucker. Lots of other goodies in store too. |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Registration is now open for Settler Poetry in the Age of Harpur, a 1.5-day symposium at the University of Melbourne. Charles Harpur is one of the most talented and troubling poets of Australia’s early white settlement. Armed with the new editions of his poems and letters, speakers at the conference will explore his troublous works. |
| Sep 08, 2025 | Registration is now open for DHA25. If you can, do join us in Canberra/Ngambri for the biennial meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities. |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Registration is now open for the Madness in Method workshop, the main event of the homo calculans project. The workshop takes place at the University of Melbourne on September 10, and features keynotes from Prof Kath Bode and Dr Luca Sholz. |
| Jul 13, 2025 | Today we launch the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research. The Manifesto lays out a roadmap for critical scholarship of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Read our blog post for details, or our commentary in Big Data & Society for a deeper dive. |
| Apr 02, 2025 | Call for Papers: The CFP for Digital Humanities Australasia ‘25 is out. Please join us in Canberra/Ngambri from December 2-5 to discuss all things digital and humanistic. |
| Nov 06, 2024 | Digital Humanities in the India Rim was released to today by Open Book Publishers. This is the main output for our SPARC project linking Digital Humanities scholars across the Indian Ocean. I wrote the Afterword. |
| Oct 29, 2024 | We published the latest report of the wikihistories project today. Read about our analysis of 35,000 articles about Australian places in this piece for The Conversation. |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Call for papers: Settler Poetry in the Age of Harpur. Join us in October 2025 for a symposium on the life and work of Charles Harpur, which will become a book in the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series. |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Romanticism and the Contingent Self has been launched by Prof Jennie Batchelor and Prof Peter Otto. For the month of September, you can buy the book for 20%, using the discount code on this poster. |
| May 24, 2024 | Romanticism and the Contingent Self is out! |
| May 23, 2024 | Save the date: Book launch for Romanticism and the Contingent Self on August 29th in Naarm, Australia. |