Topic: Digital tools

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    Recording of the roundtable “Different cultures in Digital History”

    On the 8 June, the C²DH (University of Luxembourg) and the Center for Digital Humanities (Perm State University, Russia) organised an international round table entitled “Different Cultures in Digital History”

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    Lecture by Smiljana Antonijević ” Scholars as Bricoleurs: The Plurality of Digital Humanities”. Recording and interview.

    Lecture ” Scholars as Bricoleurs: The Plurality of Digital Humanities ” by Dr. Smiljana Antonijević, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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    Solving the Shoebox Syndrome: “Digital” Oral History Content Management

    This workshop centred on digital methods for working with oral history and provided a survey of emerging practices for better discoverability within and across oral history collections. It facilitated sharing of approaches for oral history work at multiple stages, for collections published for posterity and for ongoing research projects.

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    Modernity meets History in Luxembourg

    On the futuristically redesigned industrial site of Belval, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Betto van Waarden explored the latest digital methods for conducting historical research at the C²DH.

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    Lecture by Melvin Wevers: “Signals and Noise: Extracting Patterns of Cultural Expressions from Digitized Sources”. Recording and interview.

    Lecture by Dr. Melvin Wevers, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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    A guide to using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources

    The impresso team has prepared a guide for scholars on using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources, published on the PARTHENOS platform.

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    International Oral History Workshop

    This July 2019 workshop at C²DH was focused on digital oral history in the United States, its evolution over the past 20 years, and the prominent tools and methods currently available in the field. We used a combination of demonstrations, hands-on exercises, contributions from participants, and open discussion to facilitate an intercontinental dialogue, all aimed…

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    Nibbling at text: identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling

    How can computer-assisted methods help us to solve problems that are fundamental to historical research? In a series of two blog posts we discuss a research pilot that aims to identify anti-modernist discourses on Europe in historical Swiss newspapers from the period 1939-1945.

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    Lecture Tim Hitchcock – Beyond Close and Distant Reading: recording and interview

    Lecture by Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.

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    Experimenting with the use of interactive digital storytelling in academia

    On 19 and 20 March, the C²DH hosted a two-day hands-on workshop on the use of interactive digital storytelling for academic historians with Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the leading experts in interactive storytelling and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.

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