Category: digital humanities
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‘Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities’
During a meeting in Canberra yesterday, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a group of us decided to move forward the formation of an formal lobby group and scholarly society to advance the Digital Humanities in the region. I will write more details in a few days after THATCamp Melbourne on Friday.
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Submission Open THATCamp Melbourne
Submission are now open for THATCamp Melbourne (The Humanities and Technology Camp) that will be held at the University of Melbourne on March 25-26, 2011. http://www.thatcampmelbourne.org/ THATCamp is an ‘un-conference’ that brings together technologist and humanities scholars in an informal setting to make and discuss technologies in the humanities. As part of THATCamp, there will…
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Teaching the Digital Humanities (Interdisciplinary) Journey
Like many interdisciplinary fields within the humanities, the Digital Humanities consists of a broad range of researchers arriving within its fold from a range of disciplinary practices. These may include disciplines as diverse as Papyrology, Musicology, Classics, Epigraphy, Medieval Studies, history and Classical Archaeology. The Digital Humanities, through its journals, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, conferences,…
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Transcribe Bentham in the NY Times
Another article in a series of articles in the New York Time about the Digital Humanities. This time it is about the Transcribe Bentham project from UCL. Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings —…
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About Networks
I am associated with a group called 4Humanities that is a Digital Humanities advocacy group based in the US that is advocating for the Humanities. The economic reality of the recession in the US and Europe has put enormous pressures on Humanities schools and many are closing or losing staff. The group is doing a…