Macquarie University

Keynote Speaker

We are honoured to be hosting Emeritus Professor, Erik Champion as our keynote this year!

Erik Champion

Erik is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, investigating serious games and digital cultural heritage, especially virtual heritage. He is also an Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. At Curtin he was UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage, as well as Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC). Prior to Curtin he was the Project Leader of DIGHUMLAB in Denmark. In the last three years he has also been a chief investigator on five national grants, all related to digital heritage or to digital humanities infrastructure research.  

Erik’s recent books include Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage (2015) for Routledge’s Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, and Playing with the Past (Springer, 2011) and Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019). In 2021, he edited the open access book Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Ubiquity Press, 2021) and in November this year Indiana University Press will launch the book Rethinking Virtual Places. He is also editor of The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (Routledge, 2018), Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press, 2012) and co-editor of Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2017). 



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All enquiries regarding the conference should be emailed to the Conference Convenors. 

Email: cache@mq.edu.au

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Balaclava Road
Macquarie University NSW 2109

City campus

Angel Place
Level 24, 123 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Event Contact

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