Monthly Archives: August 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]