At next week’s meetup, Karin Stahel and Kaspar Middendorf will be reporting back on a recent trip they took to the USA, where they visited three different Digital Humanities programmes, at CUNY’s Graduate Center, University of Connecticut’s Greenhouse Studios, and George Mason’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: DH Labs in the USA
This summer has been a busy one in the Arts Digital Lab, with eight students working in the Lab as Research Assistants, as Summer Scholars or on their own research. In this rapid-fire series of five-minute talks, students will reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Student Reflections, Summer 2023
Professor Paul Millar is the winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2022 Pou Aronui Award, for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time. We’re thrilled to acknowledge Paul’s achievement and very pleased to see the work he has done at UC, particularly with the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes… Read More »Paul Millar – Royal Society Pou Aronui Award 2022
Recorded sessions from the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference, DHA2021 Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, are now available to view on YouTube: See the full playlist here.
DHA2021: Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, the biennial conference of the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (aaDH), begins on Monday 22nd, hosted by the University of Canterbury. Professor Paul Millar, President of aaDH, says that the conference theme is a response to the extreme events our region has been experiencing—including… Read More »Distinguished All-Women Panel on Indigenous Data Sovereignty to open Australasian Digital Humanities Conference
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
On Tuesday the UC Arts Digital Lab, main office of the CEISMIC earthquake digital archive, hosted Hon Clare Curran, the current Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media, and Minister of Government Digital Services. The Minister was welcomed to campus by Vice Chancellor Rod Carr and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Arts… Read More »Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media visits the Lab
At the National Digital Forum in Wellington last month, Jennifer, along with Jonathan Hunt from Catalyst IT, gave a presentation on progress with migrating QuakeStudies to the new Islandora platform:
Chris Thomson, with Joanna Szczepanski from the Canterbury Museum, gave a presentation to NDF2017 last week, describing the Macdonald Dictionary Crowdsourcing project, a recent collaboration between the Lab and the Museum. Watch their presentation:
The recent fires in the Christchurch Port Hills caused enormous destruction and disturbance to those living in the area. Tragically a life was lost fighting the blaze, and there was major disruption when about 450 houses were evacuated, 11 homes destroyed, and over 1800 hectares scorched in the region between… Read More »Community formation that transcends politics in the age of filter bubbles – an example from Facebook
