Virtual Seminar recorded on Zoom, 25th of November 2020. Speaker: Erik Champion, Honorary Research Fellow at University of Western Australia and Honorary Professor at ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research. Abstract: From virtual museums to virtual worlds, the word “virtual” is both a popular and a vague term. Although popularised by computer science and science […]
Continue readingVirtual Seminar recorded on Zoom, 18th of November 2020. Speaker: Lina Eklund, Department of Informatics and Media Lina Eklund is a lecturer in Human Computer Interaction at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University. Lina’s research focuses on the intersections between technology as a designed structure affording behaviour and the agency of users to […]
Continue readingVirtual Seminar recorded on Zoom, 4th of November 2020. Title: Censuses of Gustavia 1835-1872: Digital Mapping of Diversity and Division in the Swedish Caribbean Speaker: Ale Pålsson, Department of History In recent years, renewed interest in the Swedish-Caribbean colony of St Barthélemy has sparked new research, as well as digitalization efforts to organize and make […]
Continue readingBenjamin G. Martin, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University Recent years have seen a burst of interest in “global intellectual history.” Practitioners debate the precise meaning of this phrase, but it evidently reflects an ambition to take a more inclusive approach to the history of ideas around the world—beyond the Western European […]
Continue readingDr. Agiatis BenardouDigital Curation Unit, ATHENA Research Center and Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business Despite reservations expressed sporadically about the applications of digital methods and immersive technologies (3D modeling, artificial intelligence, augmented and mixed reality) in enhancing, complementing and augmenting human remains for educational or similar purposes in the context of […]
Continue readingRecordings from Enriching metadata – Enriching Research are now available online! The webinar series was organized by The Swedish National Heritage Board in collaboration with DH Uppsala and with support from the Europeana Research Grants Programme. The event, which was held in June 2020, was aimed at researchers, students and professionals working with museum and […]
Continue readingEvent recorded on Zoom on the 9th of September 2020. Invited speakers: Jan von Bonsdorff at the Department of Art History David Sumpter at the Department of Information Technology Anna-Sara Lind at the Department of Law (not in the video) Fredrik Wahlberg at the Department of Linguistics and Philology Artificial Intelligence has been trending in […]
Continue readingVirtual Seminar recorded on Zoom, 4th September 2020. Also check out the blog post by Yannick! Death in a Digital World: the (re)construction of a Bronze Age tomb from Ayios Vasileios, Greece, using Virtual Reality Speaker: Yannick de Raaff (presenter); project with Sofia Voutsaki, Theo Verlaan, Gary Nobles, with help from the Reality Centre at […]
Continue readingYannick de Raaff, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen In this blogpost I would like to illustrate how and why we have applied digital techniques (photogrammetry and Virtual Reality) to solve a specific archaeological problem. Our study concerns the architecture of a Bronze Age (early Mycenaean; ca. 1700-1420 BCE) tomb from the North Cemetery […]
Continue readingThe conference “Integrating Digital History, 3rd Digital History in Sweden Conference (DHiS2020)”, has published a Call for Papers. The deadline is on the 2nd of October 2020. Read more on the conference site!
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