Digital Historian is a group dedicated to the discussion of all issues relating to the use of technology for historical scholarship. It features a series of interviews with practitioners who are actively involved in this field and users are encouraged to comment on these postings and all other material. Users may wish to begin by contributing to a working paper entitled Tools and Methods for Historical Research which we hope will become the basis of a community resource.
event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) 'From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives'
Submitted by Richard on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 09:10Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) 'From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives'
Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT+1
Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
"From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal
Lives"
Between 1803 and 1853 some 59,000 men and 13,500 women were shipped to the
Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land as convicts. Upon landing a [read more...]
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Round Table 'The Future of the Past'
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 19/03/2012 - 20:24Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History
Round Table, 'The Future of the Past'
Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT (People from US watching the live stream keep in mind time difference is 1 hour less than usual)
Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk [read more...]
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event: The Institute of Ideas Academy
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 16/03/2012 - 14:26The Institute of Ideas Academy is a three day residential retreat from Friday 20th July to Monday 23rd July, in which we aim to get away from the overly prescriptive nature of debate in society at large, and be unashamedly esoteric and intellectual for a weekend, in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. This year, there are three separate lecture series on Classics, Literature and History as well as a plenary series on Free will and Determinism. [read more...]
event: CeRch seminar, 13 March: Dissenting Academies Online. Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 12:34Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London
Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum. Followed by drinks.
Register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658496635
Do you tweet? Please use hashtag #cerchseminars [read more...]
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Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Call for Papers
Digital Humanities Congress 2012
University of Sheffield, 6th - 8th September 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th - 8th September 2012. [read more...]
event: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Call for Papers
Submitted by michaelpidd on Wed, 07/03/2012 - 21:58Digital Humanities Congress 2012
University of Sheffield, 6th - 8th September 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 6th - 8th September 2012. [read more...]
- Archaeology
- Architecture: History, Theory & Practice
- Classics and Ancient History
- Community Arts (including Art and Health)
- Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
- Dance Studies
- Design
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- English Language and Literature
- History
- Law
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- Linguistics
- Media
- Modern Languages
- Music
- Philosophy
- Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
- Visual Arts
- international conference
event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Dan Cohen 'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 05/03/2012 - 17:09Venue: Rm 261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk (Please note this is a different room to last time)
Time: Tuesday, 6 March, 5.15 pm GMT
Dan Cohen (George Mason University)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
Dan Cohen, Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, will be presenting on his work on text mining Victorian literature. [read more...]
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event: CeRch seminar, 28th Feb: Building an Ontology of Creativity
Submitted by stuartdunn on Tue, 21/02/2012 - 18:13Creativity is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that encompasses
many related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours and can be
viewed from many different perspectives. Difficulties in identifying a
comprehensive, widely-accepted definition of creativity have hindered
progress in computational creativity research as researchers have no
baseline to evaluate against or standards to aim towards. An important,
related issue is that of defining creativity in a machine-readable
format, such that a computational creativity system has a sufficient [read more...]
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- Community Arts (including Art and Health)
- Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
- Dance Studies
- Design
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- English Language and Literature
- History
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- Media
- Music
- Philosophy
- Visual Arts
- computational
- creativity
- linked data
- ontology
- semantic web
event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Magnus Huber (Giessen) 'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 20/02/2012 - 17:31Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, 21 February, 5.15 pm GMT
Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Magnus Huber will be discussing the use of historical court records in the investigation of langauge change. A full abstract can be found below.
Abstract:
The 'Proceedings of the Old Bailey', London's central criminal court, were
published between 1674 and 1913 and constitute a large body of texts from [read more...]
event: IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 20/02/2012 - 17:11IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series
Tuesdays 5:15pm Senate House (various locations), University of London
21 February Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Room ST276, Stewart House, second floor
6 March Dan Cohen (George Mason)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
S261 (Senate House, second floor)
20 March Adam Farquhar(British Library), Andrew Prescott(KCL), Melissa Terras(UCL)
The Future of the Past (round table session)
S261 (Senate House, second floor) [read more...]
event: Digital Humanities at King's College London: Talks and Lectures
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 10/01/2012 - 16:57To mark the merger of the Centre for e-Research with the Department of Digital Humanities and the appointment of Professor Andrew Prescott as Head of the
Department of Digital Humanities, a series of events will take place at King’s College London on Wednesday 25 January. Admission is free and all are welcome to all or any of the events.
Please help us in estimating numbers for catering by booking in advance at the
Eventbrite urls given below.
- Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations across [read more...]
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History - 'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)
Submitted by sdenbo on Fri, 02/12/2011 - 15:03Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History
'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)
Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, December 6, 5.15 pm GMT
The central theme of the seminar series, is how digital technologies have enabled researchers into the past to gain new insights, new views and new perspectives on their subject which would otherwise be missed. This presentation will discuss such technologies in the context of two major projects carried out by MOLA, and will consider how digital technologies have effected the capture, manipulation and presentation of various types of data concentrating on the spatial. [read more...]
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Matt Thompson (University of York) 'From Which to Taste a Vicarious Holiday'; railway marketing, digital history and collaboration
Submitted by sdenbo on Mon, 31/10/2011 - 17:03Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, November 1, 5.15 pm GMT
Matt Thompson (York)
'From Which to Taste a Vicarious Holiday'; railway marketing, digital history and collaboration [read more...]
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event: Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Conference "Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge"
Submitted by CAHR on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 14:55For more information and to register, please visit: http://wallich.eventbrite.com
Conference Abstract:
This international, interdisciplinary conference will be held on the 6th and 7th December, 2011 at The Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the general theme of South Asian natural history collections, with a special emphasis on those of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854). Wallich is a major figure in the history and development of botany in the nineteenth century. As Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden between 1817 and 1846, he undertook botanical expeditions, described new plant species, collected thousands of plant specimens amassing a large herbarium, and commissioned local artists to draw beautiful botanical watercolours. His work has therefore been extremely influential in South Asian natural history research. [read more...]
Location
- History
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- botanical illustration
- botany
- british empire
- british india
- calcutta
- Digital
- digital archive
- digitising collections
- empire
- history of art
- history of science
- illustration
- kew
- kew gardens
- kolkata
- museum
- nathaniel wallich
- natural history
- natural history museum
- nepal
- royal botanic gardens kew
- science illustration
- wallich and indian natural history
event: DHLU Symposium 2012 ‘Websites as sources’
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 03/10/2011 - 15:17WEBSITES AS SOURCES:
How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? [read more...]
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CfP: Digital Humanities Australasia 2012
CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011
REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012 [read more...]
event: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 30/09/2011 - 14:38DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting
The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012
Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. [read more...]
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CfP: The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Organisers: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Carl Knappett and Professor Alex Bentley [read more...]
event: The Connected Past
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 16/09/2011 - 12:19The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history
A two-day collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium
The University of Southampton
24-25 March 2012 [read more...]
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event: Workshop: Imaging Inscriptions in Manchester
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 01/09/2011 - 10:29Reflectance Transformation Imaging of Inscriptions: a workshop at the
Manchester Museum; Wednesday 21st September, 10am - 4pm.
Dr George Bevan and Prof Daryn Lehoux (Queen's University, Canada) will
lead a workshop demonstrating the use of 'reflectance transformation
imaging' in the study of inscribed objects (on metal and stone). The
aim of the day is both to provide a general introduction to the
technique and its potential, and to provide opportunities for hands-on
practice (using material from the collections of the Manchester Museum). [read more...]