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Key Trends in DH & their challenge to the idea of the Humanities

To kick off a 6-week Festival of Digital Humanities, our visiting Fulbright Specialist Professor Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara) is presenting the first in a series of seminars and workshops, tomorrow (Wednesday 28 October) at 4pm. Professor Liu is a highly distinguished figure within Digital Humanities circles, and… Read More »Key Trends in DH & their challenge to the idea of the Humanities

Professor Alan Liu, Visiting Fulbright Specialist: a 6-week festival of Digital Humanities in Aotearoa-New Zealand

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

Number Made Audible, Made Digital: An introduction to digital musicology

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

Parsing Parliament: Parliament’s proceedings as speech, text and data

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

Print Past. Digital Present. Predictable Future? Where will digital technology take the college of arts in the 21st century?

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?

Using Omeka Collections for Teaching and Research: Case Studies from Art History

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