Entries tagged 'conference papers, talks & seminars'


Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023

Abstract and slides for my Miegunyah Public Lecture, 'Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023', delivered at the University of Melbourne, August 17th, 2023.

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Career Pathways in Arts & Humanities RSE in the UK and Beyond

Slides of my talk 'Career Pathways in Arts & Humanities RSE in the UK and Beyond '. Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering (RSE) Summer School, University of Cambridge / Zoom, 25 July 2023.

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Book Launch: Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data

Video of the panel discussion for the launch of the open access book, Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an interdisciplinary project (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). The roundtable discussion was led by hosts Professor Jane Winters and Professor James Smithies, with the authors, Professor Ruth Ahnert and Professor Emma Griffin. Unfortunately, Dr Mia Ridge and Dr Giorgia Tolfo were unable to join the discussion.

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MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Heritage in Jordan: Update & Issues

Slides of my Zoom talks with Prof. Fadi Balaawi 'MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Heritage in Jordan: A Brief Update', and 'Risks, Challenges & Opportunities' presented at our MaDiH (مديح) project workshop 'Identifying datasets on Jordanian Cultural Heritage: User feedback' on October 13th 2020, hosted by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).

 

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Life in New Times: Artificial Intelligence and Modernity

Slides of my talk 'Life in New Times: Artificial Intelligence and Modernity', presented at the NIght of Ideas, Alliance Française, Jersey, January 30th, 2020.

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Integrating DH into the longue durée: Research Laboratories, History, Methods

My talk 'Integrating DH into the longue durée: Research Laboratories, History, Methods', presented at the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2nd Humanities, Arts and Culture Data Summit and 3rd international DARIAH Beyond Europe workshop, 27 - 29 March, 2019.

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Digital History and the Digital Modern

The text of my keynote talk and slides, for the launch of the Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR), Aarhus University, 22nd February 2019.

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Interrogating Global Humanities Infrastructure

The text of my contribution to the Critical Infrastructure Studies panel at MLA 2018, New York (January 6th, 2018), 'Interrogating Global Humanities Infrastructure'.

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Four talks from 2017

A selection of four talks from 2017, at the Bodleian Library, DH2017 (Montreal), University of Cologne, and DPASSH 2017 (University of Sussex).

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Systems Development & Application / Data Lifecycle Management in King’s Digital Lab

The slides of my talk 'Systems Development &  Application / Data Lifecycle Management in King’s Digital Lab', Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, November 30th, 2017.

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Mechanizing the Humanities? King’s Digital Lab as Critical Experiment

The slides and text of my co-authored talk 'Mechanizing the Humanities? King’s Digital Lab as Critical Experiment', DH2017, Montreal, August 10th, 2017.

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Humans in the Loop: King’s Digital Lab as Socio-technical System

The slides of my talk 'Humans in the Loop: King’s Digital Lab as Socio-technical System', University of Cologne, July 26th, 2017.

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Preserving 30 years of Digital Humanities Work: The Experience of King’s Digital Lab

The slides and abstract of a talk at the DPASSH (Digital Preservation for Social Sciences and Humanities) conference, co-authored with Anna-Maria Sichani and Carina Westling, University of Sussex 14-15 June 2017.

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Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry PI

The text and slides of my presentation to the DH2016 conference, Kraków, July 11 - 16, 2016.

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Requirements for a New Zealand Humanities eResearch Infrastructure

This is the text of a talk given at eResearch 2013, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, July 03, 2013.

I can only offer a very formative overview of this subject here, but I’m keen to at least put it on the radar. As everyone knows, vast amounts of our cultural heritage are either being digitized and put online or being born online, and this has significant implications for the arts and humanities. In particular, it forces us to start increasing our understanding of, and capability with, the engineered technologies that deliver resources to us online. It will always be difficult getting the balance right – we’re never going to be engineers – but we need to start working through the issues.

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HIST 450 Digital History Seminar – Additional Reading

This list is intended as an additional resource for the University of Canterbury HIST 450: History as a Discipline (Honours) class. The Centre for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/) maintain another very useful list, many of which are represented below. Some historical method textbooks will also have sections on computing-related issues. The Zotero Digital History group influences is another essential resource.

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