Cambridge Digital Humanities

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🔎 What is a Digital Humanities PhD?
🗓️ Monday 9 March
🕟 16:30-18:00
📍 Zoom
💻 Register online: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Check out our three contributions ⬇️

Our MORPHSS colleagues have been busy ⬇️

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Our researchers are delivering not one, not two, but three events at the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social this March ⭐️

Find out more and book tickets via our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

📷 C R Hedayati

Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

There are very few tickets remaining for the CDH Distinguished Lecture with Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.

Please only register if you are committed to turning up. And if for some reason you cannot make it, cancel ASAP so we can give your spot to someone else.

We can't wait for this one!

How do you lead ethically in unethical times?

Listen to CDH PhD student Reham Aboud debate this question with fellow Gates Scholar Amy Zhang in the latest episode of the @gatescambridge.bsky.social podcast 📻

Bright pink poster with green highlights featuring details for the Critical AI Data School. Photo includes collage of objects including chalk, blackboard, toy cars, floppy disk, small dinosaur figures.

As one Data School application window closes, another one opens!

Our brand new Data School, launching this July, explores teaching and learning critically in an age of generative AI.

Find out more and register for our virtual info session on 2 Feb: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School: April 2026 - CDH The Cultural Heritage Data School is an application-only on-campus programme which aims to bring together participants from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts (GLAMA) sectors a...

Happy New Year to all our followers! Applications for our next Cultural Heritage Data School close tomorrow (13th) at 23:59 UK time.

There's still time to apply. Find out more on our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40538/

One ticket left...

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Alessandro Trevisan kicked off our Methods Fellow programme this week with a brilliant workshop on LLMs and the philosophy of language 🔤

The programme continues next term with workshops on diffraction theatre, Python, IIIF, cultural heritage digitisation and more 🐍

Browse what's on: bit.ly/4oTue76

Headshot of Denise Wong with title of paper overlaid.

The abstract for the talk, which can be found at the link in the post.

Our last CDH Open of the year kicks off next week!

Join us on 27 November to explore 'Technologies of Self in the Postdigital Novel' with Dr Denise Wong, Postdoctoral Researcher on Reading Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital @jlugiessen.bsky.social

RSVP: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40347/

MPhil in Digital Humanities: Applicant Information Webinar - CDH Join the CDH team at one of our online information sessions this autumn to find out more about the MPhil in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge. Visit our MPhil application page for furt...

Interested in returning to education to propel your career? Our MPhil in Digital Humanities is open to applicants from all disciplines and areas of expertise, who have a critical interest in the digital world.

Join the info session on 24 November to learn more: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39967/

CDH Open: Technological and Regulatory Challenges in the PGP Web of Trust Dr Ashwin Mathew joins us for a lively discussion at the CDH Open.

We have space for any last minute guests at the CDH Open tonight with Dr Ashwin Mathew, who will be discussing about the Pretty Good Privacy Web of Trust.

Head to Lecture Block, Room 1, on the Sidgwick Site at 5pm 🍁

Find all the info you need here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdh-open-t...

Digital Archival Photography in-depth - CDH Convenor: Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory, Cambridge University Library Following the introductory Methods Workshops, held on 17 November 2025, this session will f...

Our Digital Archival Photography workshops are back on 17 and 24 November 📷

Join Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theul.bsky.social, to explore advanced techniques for digitising and preserving archival material.

Registration: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40883/

There's still time to sign up to the Q&A for our Cultural Heritage Data School on Monday 💫

Register on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/45031a...

Stacks and intersections! New article on intersectional feminist DH by our director and colleagues now available to read in @dhquarterly.bsky.social ⬇️

Group shot of MPhil in DIgital Humanities cohort of 2025, University of Cambridge.

Group shot of PhD in Digital Humanities cohort of 2025, University of Cambridge.

Want to be part of our brilliant MPhil and PhD in Digital Humanities cohorts next year?

Come along to our mixed subject session online today at 5pm to find out more!

Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40209/

YouTube video by The Philosopher "How Data Happened: From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms": C. Wiggins & M. L. Jones

Good news! Episodes from 'AI and the Digital' seminar series, convened by CDH postdoc Dr Audrey Borowski, are now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESd...

Image by Eleanor Dare. Photos within image (L-R): Anastasia Shuraeva, BOM KIM; Stacey Koenitz; Ryan Garry.

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The application portal for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Data School is officially open 🥁

Join us from 13-17 April 2026 to explore the theme 'Critically Engaging Audiences with Cultural Heritage Data'.

Early bird deadline: 23 Nov
Virtual Q&A: 10 Nov

Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

Just a quick reminder that our first two virtual info sessions start tomorrow (25th) and there's still time to sign up 🖊️

Register for the MPhil session (2pm): www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39967/

Register for the PhD session (3pm): www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39969/

See you there!

People study in the reading rooms of Cambridge University Library. Text overlaid reads: LAST CHANCE TO APPLY.

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY:

🟢 Associate Professor/Professor of Digital Humanities: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

🟣 Postdoctoral Research Associate (AI and Creativity): www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Applications must be submitted no later that 23:59 BST on Sunday 21 September. Get cracking!

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CDH Basics are back for Cambridge staff and graduate students plus OOC-DTP students!

Join us on Tuesday afternoons to learn how to apply digital methods and use digital tools in your research.

Book sessions individually or take the whole course.

Register online:
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/?type...

Key dates poster featuring image of four students conversing in a Cambridge University cafe. Copyright: University of Cambridge.

We are delighted to share that applications for the MPhil and PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge are now open 🥳

Join our virtual information sessions on 25 September and 24 November to find out more.

Read the full announcement: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Now Hiring: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities - CDH Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is currently recruiting for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment may be made a...

ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at @camdighum.bsky.social. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Investigating the Human and Environmental Impacts of Unbridled Corporate Power - CDH A public event at the Cambridge Social Data School About SOMO speakers Lydia de Leeuw and Aintzane Márquez will discuss their work investigating the human and environmental impacts of unbridled corpor...

We're thrilled to welcome our Social Data School participants, who join us today for a week of learning and collaboration!

Everyone is welcome to join the public event tomorrow evening with @somoamsterdam.bsky.social (tickets still available): www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40071/

Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Just over two weeks left to apply for this post - a rare opportunity where one position is open for application at two levels. Don't hesitate to take your shot!

Collaboration Beyond Boundaries: A Hybrid Dérive - CDH The Digital Humanities community gathered in Glasgow this June to explore the theme of Collaboration Beyond Boundaries or Co-obrachadh thar Chrìoch at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association’s 2...

What can Glasgow teach us about ‘collaboration beyond boundaries’?

CDH Associate Andy Corrigan delivered a hybrid dérive at the @ukiedh.bsky.social annual event, inviting participants on a journey through the city.

Read more about the activity in this article: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...