This was a day of talks and discussions for staff and PhD students in HSS, to inspire and share ideas for digital research, teaching and scholarship. An exciting programme of invited speakers working in the field of digital scholarship presented their ideas and their work.
You can see videos of the day of ideas presentations on YouTube.
You can also enjoy the Twitter record and Nicola Osborne’s liveblog of the event.
date: Thursday 23 February 2012
time: 9.30-5.15
venue: The Business School, Buccleuch Place
programme:
| 9.30 | coffee and registration |
| 10.00 | Introduction: Prof Dorothy Miell |
| 10.15 | Digital humanities Dr Melissa Terras, Reader in Electronic Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London
The Vision After the Sermon: establishing an institutional digital humanities presence chair: Dr Sian Bayne |
| 11.15 | Digital ethnographies Dr TL Taylor, Associate Professor in the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen
chair: Prof Charlie Jeffery |
| 12.15 | lunch |
| 1.30 | Digital collections Prof Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
The 1641 Depositions: the growth of a flagship project chair: Prof Alvin Jackson |
| 2.30 | Digitality across the disciplines Dr Chris Speed, Lecturer and Reader in Digital Architecture, eca, University of Edinburgh
Liquid Media: trans-disciplinary projects in digital technology chair: Prof Chris Breward |
| 3.30 | tea |
| 4.00 | Digital data Dr Erez Lieberman-Aiden, fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Visiting Faculty at Google
Culturomics: quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books chair: Dr Miles Osborne |
| 5.00 | conclusion: Dr Sian Bayne and Dr Sarah Anderson |
| 5.15 | finish |