UC Arts Digital Lab

The University of Canterbury Digital Humanities (UCDH) Programme is excited to announce six weeks of Digital Humanities activity, anchored by the visit of Professor Alan Liu from the University of California Santa Barbara. Professor Liu will be visiting as a Fulbright Visiting Specialist from October 19 to November 29, with the… Read More »Professor Alan Liu, Visiting Fulbright Specialist: a 6-week festival of Digital Humanities in Aotearoa-New Zealand

The tenth seminar in our digital research series is a joint effort by Dr Zita Joyce (Language, Social and Political Science) and Erin Kimber (Macmillan Brown Library). Please note the different day and venue for this one! “This seminar will use the RDU archives – donated to the Macmillan Brown… Read More »Taping off the Radio: memory and identity in the RDU archive

Coming up in our Digital Research Seminar Series: a talk by Dr. Francis Yapp, Lecturer in Music. It is often said that music is the last of the arts to adopt new stylistic trends. In a similar vein, the discipline of musicology has been relatively late in adopting digital methodologies.… Read More »Number Made Audible, Made Digital: An introduction to digital musicology

The next talk in our digital research seminar series is by Political Science PhD candidate Geoff Ford. Geoff will discuss construction of a corpus of New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, what can be learned from the corpus about Parliament’s proceedings, and how political parties are using Parliament. He will discuss and illustrate… Read More »Parsing Parliament: Parliament’s proceedings as speech, text and data

Next week’s digital research seminar is being given by our Head of School, Professor Paul Millar. Paul will discuss his involvement in Digital Humanities activities going back to the early 1990s, and outline the often unpredictable trajectory of some of the projects he has been involved with. He will argue… Read More »Print Past. Digital Present. Predictable Future? Where will digital technology take the college of arts in the 21st century?

Our next upcoming seminar will describe two Omeka projects, developed by the Art History Department and supported by Digital Humanities. Barbara Garrie will describe her use of Omeka for teaching, and Richard Bullen will provide an overview of his Omeka research archive, which supports his Marsden funded project ‘China, Art,… Read More »Using Omeka Collections for Teaching and Research: Case Studies from Art History

At next week’s seminar (Monday 7 September, 11am in Psyc/Soci 151), Assoc. Professor Mike Grimshaw (UC Sociology) will discuss the linkages between digital society and capitalism, engaging with contemporary commentators and, in particular, the work of post-fordist economist Christian Marazzi. See the poster for further details.

We are delighted to announce that at our next seminar Professor Jen Hay (New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain and Behavior), winner of the 2015 University of Canterbury Research Medal, will give a talk about the LaBB-Cat software created at UC for managing and researching large annotated collections of transcribed… Read More »From Acetate Disc to Annotated Digital Archive: Tracking Sound Changes Through The History of NZ English

Next week’s seminar is in two parts. In part one, Dr Joanna Cobley (History, UC), Caroline Sydall (Macmillan Brown Library), and Melissa McMullan (UC Arts Intern) outline a project to arrange, describe and assess the Macmillan Brown Library’s Theatre & Concert Programme Ephemera Collection. In part two, Joanna will describe… Read More »Access, Description and Digital Presence / Steampunk Aestheticism

For our second seminar, Dr Thomas Köentges, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Leipzig University will present a paper on his current project, ArXetype, which employs a combination of machine learning and citizen science to digitise and better understand the entire corpus of Latin and Ancient Greek literature.