The first joint conference was held in 1989, at the University of Toronto, coinciding with the 16th annual meeting of ALLC and the 9th annual meeting of the ACH-sponsored International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH). Information about the joint international conferences held from 1989 to 2011 may be found here. The theme of DH 2014 will be “Digital Cultural Empowerment.” University of Lausanne and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne share a vast and green campus by the Lake, and together host more than 20,000 students and approximately 800 professors. Each institution has its own Digital Humanities laboratory: The DHLAB (http://dhlab.epfl.ch) and the LADHUL (http://www.unil.ch/ladhul). They have conducted collaborative interdisciplinary research in this area for several years.