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 University of Aberdeen 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, University of Aberdeen

2:05pm: Mr Simon Bains, University Librarian, University of Aberdeen
2:35pm: Dr Jen Walklate, SocSci, University of Aberdeen
3:05pm: Dr Jackson Armstrong, DHPA, and Dr Claire Hawes, RIISS and Research & Innovation, University of Aberdeen
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, University of Aberdeen

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, University of Aberdeen
12:05pm: Professor Ali Lumsden, LLMVC, University of Aberdeen
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, University of Aberdeen

2:05pm: Ms Emma Morrison, Research & Innovation, University of Aberdeen
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, University of Aberdeen

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, University of Aberdeen

2:05pm: Mr Brian Henderson, Director of Digital & Information Services, University of Aberdeen
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, University of Aberdeen
4:35pm: Open Discussion

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Hosted by: University of Aberdeen
Venue: The Sir Duncan Rice Library