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.
The first seminar in the 2015 Digital Research Seminar Series will be given by Dr Jenny Macleod (University of Hull) and Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury). They will reflect on some of the ways in which digital sources and methods can enhance research into the history of the First… Read More »A Digital Centenary: Using Technology to Study the First World War
UC Digital Humanities is pleased to advise that the lectures for DIGI 401: Digital Methods, 2015, will be open to all-comers. The course provides an overview of digital tools and methods applicable to all arts, humanities, and social science disciplines. We’re conscious many students, and staff, might like to attend… Read More »DIGI 401: Digital Methods lecture outline and open invite
Alison Watkins, ‘The spatial turn in research: An introduction to GIS in the Humanities’ Thursday 22nd and 29th May, KG06, 2-3 pm Our culture and memory are consistently and thoroughly interwoven with the concepts of space and place, ensuring that spatial information and questions are important to researchers from many… Read More »UCDH Hacking the Humanities Series: GIS
The UC Digital Humanities Programme is pleased to announce ‘A Conversation with Professor Harold Short’, Professor of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and the University of Western Sydney. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the Digital Humanities to discuss the present and future of this exciting field with… Read More »A Conversation with Professor Harold Short, April 8th 2014
The UC Digital Humanities Programme and School of Humanities and Creative Arts is pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Meyer, from the Oxford Internet Institute. Eric is staying with us as a Canterbury / Erskine Fellow. See below for his open lectures. Dr Meyer is a Senior Research Fellow at the… Read More »Visiting Fellow, Dr. Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute
