Following his talk on Thursday 24 November, Professor Eric Meyer will also lead a workshop while he is at UC: Metrics and Measurement: The Impacts of Digital Resources and Collections Friday 25 November, 9am-12pm, Macmillan Brown PS 208 This workshop will present a framework and best practices for measuring usage and impact of… Read More »Metrics and Measurement: The Impacts of Digital Resources and Collections
The UC Arts Digital Lab is pleased to present a talk by Professor Eric Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute: Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities Thursday 24 November, 2-3pm, Karl Popper 612 In this talk, Eric Meyer will discuss his 2015 book Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of… Read More »Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
This Wednesday 18 November the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) is holding a Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar (PATS) at the University of Canterbury. Organised in conjunction with UC’s Festival of Digital Humanities, the seminar will focus on digital research methods for scholars in Medieval… Read More »Medieval and Early Modern Digital Humanities: Postgraduate Seminar at the University of Canterbury
This Thursday 12 November the UC Digital Humanities programme is hosting an afternoon of short seminars, followed by a workshop, centered on humanities systems infrastructure. Please note the venue has changed to Undercroft 101. The time is still 1pm – 5pm. The goal is to start thinking about what humanities… Read More »The Frontiers of DH: Humanities Systems Infrastructure
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
Coming up this Wednesday 21 October is a seminar by special guest Dr. Tim Sherratt. Dr. Sherratt is well known in the field of digital humanities, and recently received a standing ovation for his keynote presentation at DH2015, the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities. In his… Read More »Special Guest Seminar: Dr Tim Sherratt
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
