Aggregating the conversations of the Digital Humanities

CALL for Paper: Digital Humanities 2010, Stanford, 19-22 June

Posted: September 2nd, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off Wow, it seems like I was just there. Here is the call for paper for next years Digital Humanities conference in Stanford Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Papers Hosted by Stanford University 19-22 June 2011 http://dh2011.stanford.edu Abstract deadline:  November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT). Please note:  The Program Committee will not [...]

Decoding Digital Humanities (Melbourne)

Posted: August 27th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off We held our second DDH last night in the Price Alfred Hotel in Carlton. Individuals from the Public Records Office, the University of Melbourne, Victoria University, and VeRSI showed up. As it was no longer the beginning of semester, the pub was safe from pub-crawling students.  We discussed issues such as history online (and its [...]

ARC Centre for Excellence in History of Emotions

Posted: August 25th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off What an amazing boost to the Australian humanities! A Digital Humanities Centre of Excellence should be next! “This exploration is framed by a series of seminal questions,” Professor Trigg says. “What happens when European emotional regimes are transported into a colonial context? What role do emotions play in the development of Australian national identity? How [...]

Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group

Posted: August 24th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off One of the most important ‘digital humanities’ groups working in Australia is the Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopaedia group. They have a meeting coming up soon; possibly in Melbourne. Keep an eye on there web-site or subscribe to their list. The Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopaedia Group (ANZDEG) is a loose affiliation of [...]

Decoding Digital Humanities #2, August 26

Posted: August 19th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off Dear Digital Humanists, Next Thursday 26th , 5.30-7.30 we will meet again in the Prince Albert Hotel, 191 Grattan Street, Carlton, to discuss digital humanities in the pub. ‘Decoding Digital Humanities’ is an informal monthly get together in to discuss all things digital in the humanities.  This is an opportunity to meet others working on [...]

Internet meets Society (politics on the web links)

Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off I gave a lecture today in a first year breath subject at the University of Melbourne on the web and its use within politics. I have listed the sites shown here (from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 approaches) (link to ppt. presentation) Melbourne Indymedia http://indymedia.org.au/melbourne S11.org(ant-globalisation protest movement website…on the Pandora Archive) http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2000/S2000-Sep-14//www.s11.org/ Realjeff.com (1999 [...]

The Anxiety of Digital Humanities

Posted: August 11th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off Digital humanities is an anxiety-ridden set of practices at the intersection of humanities research and computer technology. But the worst thing that could befall DH is forced collective psychotherapy or free prescriptions for Prozac. As long as we are anxious, we will try to find new and interesting things to do (link) Thanks to Toma [...]

Internet meets Society (web resources)

Posted: August 9th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off I gave a lecture today in a first year breath subject at the University of Melbourne on the web and its use within politics. I have listed the sites shown here. Melbourne Indymedia http://indymedia.org.au/melbourne S11.org(ant-globalisation protest movement website…on the Pandora Archive) http://pandora.nla.gov.au/parchive/2000/S2000-Sep-14//www.s11.org/ Realjeff.com (1999 Victorian State Election…on the Pandora Archive) http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/Z1999-Sep-24/http://www.realjeff.com/index.htm Engage Media (Local Melbourne [...]

Google digital humanities project: GAP Project

Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off A new Google digital humanities project has been awarded to Leif Isaksen and Elton Barker of the HESTIA project whose workshop I attended recently at Oxford. Having good humanities scholars such as this drive Googles agenda on access and interpretation of the ancient texts they have digitised can only be a positive thing (link). Elton [...]

Decoding Digital Humanities (Melbourne)

Posted: August 2nd, 2010 | Author: Craig | Filed under: Humanities Computing, digital humanities, eresearch | Tags: , | Comments Off A small group of Digital Humanities enthusiasts met at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Carlton to discuss all things digital in the humanities.  We did this in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities in London who hold a similar monthly event. As it was the first week of Semester at the University of Melbourne, [...]