• Review: Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford

    Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford University, June 2011 Conal Tuohy and myself recently attended the Digital Humanities conference 2011 at Stanford University in California (19-22 June). In its 23rd year, the conference is the peak conference for the application of computing to humanities research with the numerous digital humanities associations holding their annual general meetings at…

  • Digital classics

    Here is a interview with Gabriel Bodard of King’s College London (my old drinking buddy) by Elton Barker (one of my new drinking buddies). Gabriel is particulary good at articulating where computing fits within classical studies. Well worth a look…

  • Digital humanities video showcase

    Stefan Sinclair produced these videos for the recent Centrenet/CNHI meeting that I attended at the Jackman Institute at the University of Toronto. There are a whole bunch of them and they give a pretty good outline of some of the work in the field. I have embedded one here and links to the rest can…

  • Back to back digital humanities events

    After almost a month of Digital Humanities events, I am finally back at my desk and am able to address the mounting pile of information in front of me that I must cognate and make sense of and then send out again to a further pile of information that will probably again come back at…

  • Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH)

    We are pleased to announce the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). http://aa-dh.org/ The formation of the Association is the outcome of a workshop, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held on 22 March 2011 at the Australian National University . The workshop brought together 40 leading researchers, project directors and sector representatives…

  • Decoding Digital Humanities #5 (Thursday 2 June 5.30PM)

    We will be holding out first Decoding Digital Humanities event for the year this Thursday night at 530PM (Just before Conal Tuohy and myself go to the Digital Humanities conference at Stanford). Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal (monthly-ish) get together in the pub to discuss all things digital in the humanities. This is an…