With significant advances in accessibility of data and computing power, more and more academic institutions are realising the potential to expand the scope of their humanities offering by supporting research in, and teaching of, Digital Humanities.
On 2nd May 2019 we hosted our inaugural DH Day at the British Library. A diverse and popular line up of speakers representing DH scholarship and academic libraries from around the world including North America, Japan, Australia and the UK, presented the international scope of digital humanities research; how it is being applied to large content sets like newspapers, how it is being taught in the classroom and what the library is doing to support DH within their institutions.
In addition, we heard how academic/corporate partnerships are helping fund innovation, provide access to big datasets and promote standards in both data and pedagogy through initiatives like the Gale Digital Scholar Lab to make Digital Humanities available to everyone, regardless of experience.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL INFORMATION STUDIES | UCL, UK
FULL PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL HISTORY AND CHAIR | UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS
DIRECTOR ACCESS SERVICES | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARY, AUSTRALIA
DIRECTOR OF THE STANFORD LITERARY LAB & ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES | STANFORD UNIVERSITY, USA
LECTURER IN DIGITAL HISTORY | LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, UK
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY | OSAKA UNIVERSITY, JAPAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, USA
LECTURER AND PROFESSOR IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES & EGYPTOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, USA
Coffee and Registration: 9.30 -10.00
Welcome and Opening remarks: 10.00 - 10.10
Session 1 Literature & Distant Reading
'Microgenres: Models of Disciplinarity in the Novel' | Mark Algee-Hewitt 10.10 - 10.50
and
'Reading texts non-linearly: Classic British fiction and Dickens' | Tomoji Tabata 10.50 - 11.30
Questions 11.30 - 11.35
Chair: Seth Cayley
Break: 11.35 - 11.50
Session 2 Computers Reading the News
'Unexpected uses of heritage and historical data' | Melodee Beals 11.50 - 12.30
and
‘On Principles and Values. Mining for Conservative Rhetoric in the London Times, 1785-2010’ | Joris van Eijnatten 12.30 - 13.10
Questions 13.10 - 13.15
Chair: Chris Houghton
Lunch: 13.15 - 14.00
Session 3 Digital Humanities in the Classroom
‘Introducing Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom: Strategies, Solutions and Pedagogical Practices using Gale Digital Scholar Lab’ | Sarah Ketchley 14.00 - 14.35
and
'Teaching Humanistic Data Analysis' | Ryan Cordell 14.35 - 15.15
Questions 15.15 - 15.20
Chair: Nicholas Berg
Break: 15.20 - 15.40
Session 4 Institutional support and infrastructure for Digital Humanities
'Reflections on infrastructures for mining nineteenth century newspaper data' | Julianne Nyhan 15.40 - 16.20
and
'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose. Building Library capacity to support digital research at the University of Sydney' | Lisa McIntosh 16.20 - 16.40
Questions 16.40 - 16.50
Chair: Marc Cormier
Closing remarks: 16.50 - 17.00
Where to find the Knowledge Centre Theatre at The British Library:
JULIANNE NYHAN
JORIS VAN EIJNATTEN
LISA MCINTOSH
MARK ALGEE-HEWITT
MELODEE BEALS
TOMOJI TABATA
RYAN CORDELL
SARAH KETCHLEY