In the following post, Dr. Michaela Vance writes about her pilot project undertaken with the CDHU–an author attribution study of Frances Brooke’s libretto, Marian. About six months ago, in a moment of unbridled optimism, I set out to investigate whether the second, performed version of Frances Brooke’s libretto Marian was actually and truly written by […]
Continue readingThe Neoliberalism in the Nordics programme, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, met at the Sigtuna Foundation in February 2022 with 20 participants from the Nordic countries and from similar research programs in the Netherlands and Germany. For three days, research presentations were interspersed with methodological discussion and joint work on research timelines, source texts, and stakeholder-networks. […]
Continue readingCDHU is a member of three research infrastructure consortia that were awarded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet): SveDigArk, led by Archaeology at UU, HumInfra (led by HumLab at Lund University), and Infravis (via the Centre for Image Analysis at Uppsala University and led by Chalmers University of Technology). In the following post, Director of the centre, […]
Continue readingWe are happy to begin Autumn 2021 by welcoming several staff members to the CDHU! The research engineers, coordinators, and staff at the Centre for Digital Humanities work together offering consultation, practical, and technical support for world-class research that integrates digital methods and tools. Our staff can support different stages of the research process—from research […]
Continue readingAlexandra Petrulevich, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University Is there a common solution for editing of West Norse and East Norse manuscripts in the digital age? How do digital repositories impact public and scholarly engagement with manuscript material online? Do current mainstream approaches to digitalisation and digital cataloguing necessarily aid researchers to attain innovative and, […]
Continue readingVirtual 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 […]
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