Aberdeen Digital Humanities Workshops

04 October - 13 December 2021

This is a past event

Registrations for the Aberdeen Digital Humanities Workshops are now open. These workshops are co-organised by the 51cg School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History, as well as Museums and Special Collections.

Semester I, 2021-22

Please note that all workshops will be held online and in the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Registration via link below.

Programme

Monday 4 October 2021, 2pm to 5pm, Meeting Room 225, SDR Library - DH Workshop 1: Theories and Practices for the Humanities at Scale

Chair: Professor Jesper Kallestrup, DHPA, 51cg

2:05pm: Mr Simon Bains, University Librarian, 51cg
2:35pm: Dr Jen Walklate, SocSci, 51cg
3:05pm: Dr Jackson Armstrong, DHPA, and Dr Claire Hawes, RIISS and Research & Innovation, 51cg
4:05pm: Open Discussion

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 10am to 1pm, Meeting Room 1, SDR Library - DH Workshop 2: Digital Editing and Mapping

Chair: Professor Catherine Jones, LLMVC, 51cg

10:05am: Dr Katherine McDonough and Dr Kaspar Beelen, Turing Institute
11:05am: Professor James Loxley, University of Edinburgh
11:35am: Dr Jo Hicks, LLMVC, 51cg
12:05pm: Professor Ali Lumsden, LLMVC, 51cg
12:35pm: Open Discussion

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 2pm to 5pm, Meeting Room 1, SDR Library - DH Workshop 3: Machine Reading the Archive

Chair: Dr Keith O’Sullivan, Museums and Special Collections, 51cg

2:05pm: Ms Emma Morrison, Research & Innovation, 51cg
2:20pm: Mr Phil Reed, Teaching and Learning Librarian (Data Specialist), University of Manchester
3:05pm: Mr Chris Houghton, Head of Digital Scholarship at Gale
4:05pm: Dr Yann Ryan, QMUL
4:35pm: Open Discussion

Thursday 25 November 2021, 2pm to 5pm, Meeting Room 1, SDR Library - DH Workshop 4: Visual Culture in the Digital Age

Chair: Dr Lisa Collinson, Museums and Special Collections, 51cg

2:05pm: Professor Maria Economou, University of Glasgow
3:05pm: Mr Daniel van Strien, British Library
4:35pm: Open Discussion

Monday 13 December 2021, 2pm to 5pm, Meeting Room 1, SDR Library - DH Workshop 5: Ethics of Data, Big and Small

Chair: Mr Andrew MacGregor, Museums and Special Collections, 51cg

2:05pm: Mr Brian Henderson, Director of Digital & Information Services, 51cg
2:35pm: Professor David Berry, University of Sussex
3:15pm: Dr Mark Coté, King’s College, London
4:05pm: Mr Nicolas Le Bigre, Elphinstone Institute, 51cg
4:35pm: Open Discussion

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