Digital Humanities Research Hub

A reminder about our new Digital Cultural Heritage series. We're working on the design for this exciting new short-form #OpenAccess series.

See the details incl the full editorial advisory board:

uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

#DigitalHumanities #Publishing #OpenResearch #DigitalCulturalHeritage

We are inviting proposals for the 2025 round of the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme. Please submit your expression of interest by Monday 4 August! More information: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November...

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social:

uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...

#OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

We are looking for three new members of our governing collective to help shape the development of the Association. If you think this could be you, please submit a brief expression of interest by Friday 11 July. forms.office.com/e/4Zfmu6eG4L
Find out more: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2025/05/30/o...

Introduction to Letterpress Workshop

We're running an introduction to letterpress printing with @isabellaviega.bsky.social - come and get your hands inky with us!

1 May
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Senate House MakerSpace (in-person)

@ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social #DHmakes

And @beatricecannelli.bsky.social gets a shout out!

Tech Life - Jamming and spoofing - BBC Sounds UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.

One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture.

Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.

We've gone with #BDCAM25 but it's mostly still new to us too, so suggestions welcome!

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, 2-4 April 2025.

We're so excited to be welcoming everyone - both online and in London - to the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference this week! #BDCAM25

Excited to see many of you coming to Born Digital Collections, Archives, and Memory conference in London (easychair.org/smart-progra...), hosted by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. I promise to bring a bunch of big red Xs from Arizona.

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory is a conference that seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms research.

I'll be in London next week for Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory at @dh-researchhub.bsky.social ✨

I'll be presenting on how public libraries are navigating & resisting the increasing dominance of commercial platforms 📖✊

Looking forward to seeing friends & colleagues, new & old :)

Peer Review This session is aimed at doctoral and early career researchers, and will provide an introduction to the basics of peer review.

Learn all about #PeerReview in our free online training session for researchers.

📅 27 Mar 2025, 2pm

The session will be led by @emmagallon.bsky.social and Amaan Hyder (both from University of London Press) and Dr Peter Collinge (Keele University).

Sign up here:

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

There's still time to register for our next 3D Printing training!

Digital treatment of African cultural heritage: Shifting landmarks and implications for copyright exceptions for archives

Our next online seminar for Material Digital Humanities is on Monday March 24 at 15:00–16:00 GMT!

Prof. Chijioke Okorie (University of Pretoria), Digital treatment of African cultural heritage.
Hosted by Furman Uni and @dh-researchhub.bsky.social.

Register here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Whose bias? Demystifying human and machine interactions in Machine Learning

We're celebrating Pi Day this week! 🥧

To mark the date, we'll be hosting an interactive exhibit exploring bias in machine learning using Raspberry Pi computers. Come join us in Senate House on Friday!

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Registration is now open for the Humanities Summits 2025! Join a vital discussion about the future of the humanities with colleagues from across the UK. Manchester & London, 15 & 22 May. Register now: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Looking Back Through Opaque Glasses: What Born-Digital Archives Can Learn from Analog This talk seeks to take a step back from the immediacy of born-digital archives, and to examine them within the larger context of how and why we’ve created archives for centuries.

Join us on Wed 2 April as @dorothyjberry.bsky.social delivers a public lecture as part of the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference.

Looking Back Through Opaque Glasses: What Born-Digital Archives Can Learn from Analog

Free and open to all. In-person. Drinks reception after.

Last week, a group of our BRAID researchers led by Dr Paula Westenberger & Dr Anna-Maria Sichani submitted a response to the UK govt #copyright & #AI consultation, advocating for the rights of creatives & transparency in AI development. Read the response: zenodo.org/records/1494... Well done team!

Call for participants: focus group on responsible AI training provision for the cultural heritage community. #responsibleAI #HeritageSector

Taster Session: 3D Printing In this session, we will introduce you to the basic principles of 3D printing. You’ll learn where to find a 3D object online and how to prepare it for printing.

Join us for our next in-person training session on Thursday 27 March as we provide an introduction to 3D printing in the Senate House MakerSpace.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Whose bias? Demystifying human and machine interactions in Machine Learning

Come join us at the Senate House MakerSpace on 14 March to celebrate Raspberry Pi Day! @dh-researchhub.bsky.social www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yes - recordings will be available to attendees after the event.

There's still time to register for our next, free in-person training session! Come along for an introduction to working with humanities data!

📅 Mon 24 Feb
🕥 11:00-12:30
📍Senate House MakerSpace, London WC1E 7HU

sas.sym-online.com/registration...

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social @geophilologist.bsky.social #DH

A close-up view of a computer chip.

Material Digital Humanities is back with some exciting events for 2025!

Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data online
5 Mar
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Limits to Green Growth: Rematerialising UK’s Pathway to Net Zero
10 Mar
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A person is a suit writing on a world map with the words "Mapping the Arts and Humanities in the United Kingdom" written across the map. There is a URL for humanities.org.uk in the bottom right corner.

Our colleagues at the School of Advanced Study have put together an amazing dataset that maps the the UK’s diverse arts & humanities research ecosystems!

www.humanities.org.uk/map

🗺️ Want to be on the map? Get in touch: mapping@sas.ac.uk

Good to see such timely and insightful reflections from one of our favourite collaborators @sarahpyke.bsky.social and co-author @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social

journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

Call for proposals: Humanities Futures book series - University of London Press We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions.  Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfull...

'the humanities are relevant and they matter...They matter as we consider climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, the values we hold, & what kind of society we want to be.'

We've launched a new #OpenAccess series, Humanities Futures:

uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

Using UK Census Data for Research The workshop provides an overview of how to access and use open-source census data for humanities research.

Are you interested in learning how to use census data for your research? Want to get more comfortable with some basis data analysis tools?

Join us for our first taster session of the year with @skelding.bsky.social at the Senate House MakerSpace on 24 March

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

V nice to see the exhibition I put together with @leilakassir.bsky.social highlighted by @bibsoc.bsky.social as Council's Choice for LGBT+ History Month. (Thank you, Lucy!)