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DH’s Hidden Histories

 Conferences, digital humanities, Events, History, information studies, Storytelling, Workshops  No Responses »
Feb 122011
 
We are delighted to report that Julianne Nyhan and Anne Welsh, of UCL Information Studies and UCLDH have been awarded funding from the University of Trier’s Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) for a project entitled ‘Digital Humanities as Wissensraum: uncovering hidden histories (c. 1949-1980)’. The application of computing to the Humanities is not new and can be [...]

Crowd Sourcing Jeremy Bentham: London seminar #4

 digital humanities, Events, Research Projects, social media  No Responses »
Feb 032011
 
On Thursday 10 February Professor Philip Schofield and Valerie Wallace of UCL Laws will be talking about ‘Transcribe Bentham: Taking the Bentham Edition into the Digital Age‘. Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor) from 17:30 – 19:30. Transcribe Bentham is a very exciting project that we at UCLDH are proud to be part of. [...]

Web Comics: London Seminar #4

 comics, digital humanities, Events, graphic novels, materiality, Media  No Responses »
Jan 072011
 
We are proud to announce that Ernesto Priego, one of our UCLDH PhD students who has just submitted his thesis will be giving a seminar on Comic Book Markup Language: Challenges and Opportunities on Thursday 13 January in room G32 of Senate House at 5.30. Ernesto is passionate about comics, their phenomenology, and their new [...]

CELM: Summary and reflections on London seminar #3

 Events, Historical Bibliography, Manuscript Studies, Research Papers, Research Projects  Comments Off
Dec 062010
 
Despite the snow we had a remarkably good turnout for the third London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, which proved thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you to everyone who got there! However, some of our usual attendees couldn’t make it but were sufficiently intrigued, when following the tweets, to want to find out more about what [...]

English Literary Manuscripts: London Seminar #3

 digital humanities, Digital Resources, Historical Bibliography, Manuscript Studies  Comments Off
Nov 182010
 
Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Dean of UCL Arts and Humanities and member of UCLDH executive will be giving a paper on the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts project. This will be a strictly non-techie discussion of the project, so you don’t need to be a geek to be there. Henry will be discussing the prototype interface [...]

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

 digital humanities, Early career fellowship, Vacancies  Comments Off
Oct 222010
 
I’ve been thinking about the plight of PhD students, after Claire Ross’ excellent blog entry. I thought it might be useful to consider what might happen at the other end of the PhD. At UCLDH we are part of the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities who have agreed to contribute to the costs of [...]

PhD studentship at UCL Information Studies

 Courses, digital humanities, PhD studentship  Comments Off
Oct 222010
 
Regular readers will know how much we love PhD students here at UCLDH. We can’t get enough of them, almost literally. This time the studentship on offer is for the whole of the department in which UCLDH sits, that’s the iSchool for the benefit of our North American readers. So obviously this is going to [...]

Designing the e-book

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Oct 192010
 
Please join us on Thursday 21 October for the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, at which Dr Stan Ruecker will be presenting his work on designing effective digital environments for reading. ‘In, Around, and Beyond the Electronic Book: INKE designs and prototypes to make working with digital text more enjoyable and rewarding’ Stan [...]

Digital Humanities at Bangor

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Sep 172010
 
Today I am giving a keynote lecture at Bangor University as part of their AHRC funded CEDAR (Collaborative Digital Research in the Humanities) doctoral programme. Today is the final symposium and the whole programme seems to have been an interesting way to introduce graduate students to digital methods and allow them to present about their [...]
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