Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of CanterburyAotearoa New Zealand22-25 November, 2021 The fifth biennial DHA conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) will be held in November 2021 and will be virtual / on-line only. This will be the first… Read More »DHA2021 Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities
Seminar cancelled Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, this seminar has had to be cancelled. The pluses and minuses of corpus analysis for studying interviews Donald Matheson, Media and Communication/Arts Digital Lab Corpus analysis is a useful digital humanities tool for studying discourse, particularly when used in combination with… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: The pluses and minuses of corpus analysis for studying interviews
Research Assistant Reflections Semester One, 2021 A total of 17 Research Assistants have worked in the Arts Digital Lab this semester on a variety of projects. In this rapid-fire series of three-minute talks, our current Research Assistants will each reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Research Assistant Reflections, Semester One, 2021
When it comes to dancing, pulling a sled, climbing stairs or doing tricks, “Spot” is definitely a good dog. It can navigate the built environment and perform a range of tasks, clearly demonstrating its flexibility as a software and hardware platform for commercial use. Viral videos of Boston Dynamics’ robotic… Read More »Is ‘Spot’ a good dog? Why we’re right to worry about unleashing robot quadrupeds
Seminar cancelled Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, Professor Hendery’s seminar has had to be cancelled. Arts Digital Lab Seminar Digital Humanities approaches to digitising, repatriating and exploring an historical Australian colonial archive Associate Professor Rachel Hendery, University of Western Sydney Over 100 years ago First Peoples in Australia… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Digital Humanities approaches to digitising, repatriating and exploring an historical Australian colonial archive
Dr Geoff Ford, Digital Humanities / Political Science and International RelationsAssociate Professor Jeremy Moses, Political Science and International Relations In this seminar we will discuss our recent research on robot quadrupeds and drone swarms. This research has involved collecting and analysing large data-sets of texts using digital methods. We will… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: From robot quadrupeds to drone swarms: using digital methods to analyse debates on lethal autonomous weapons
Kia ora Koutou, As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated Ōtautahi Christchurch, we remember those who were lost, and send our deepest aroha to those who have suffered. Nine years ago on this day the Christchurch Press published an ‘In Memoriam Special Feature’ telling the… Read More »Remembering 22 February 2011
Arts Digital Lab Seminar Learning Lessons from Disasters:Is there any point in creating post-disaster digital archives? Paul Millar, Jennifer Middendorf “United Nations: Earth on course to become ‘uninhabitable hell for millions‘” – Stuff, 13/10/20 “150 million people estimated to be impacted by climate disasters by 2030” – Stuff, 20/9/19 The… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Learning Lessons from Disasters: Is there any point in creating post-disaster digital archives?
Arts Digital Lab Seminar Unrolling a Sanskrit Scroll Sahana Cidambi, Aditya Jha, Clemency Montelle One of the more unusual, and thus noteworthy, acquisitions of the University of Canterbury library in their South Asian collections is an 18th century Sanskrit astrological scroll that is between 6 and 7 meters long. This… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Unrolling a Sanskrit Scroll
The talk that Jennifer Middendorf and Samuel Hope presented at the National Digital Forum in Wellington in November, titled “Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling”, is now available to view on YouTube. In the talk, Samuel and Jennifer discuss some of the ethical challenges faced by the Understanding Place… Read More »National Digital Forum 2019 presentation: Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling
