Tag: digital humanities
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Review: Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology
One of the most productive things I have done during Melbourne’s lockdown is read Thomas Piketty’s latest work, Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press, 2020). It is undoubtedly not the most leisurely book to read, at 1150 pages, dense with footnotes, appendices, and graphs, spanning a three-hundred-year period, multiple countries, and the fields of economics…
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Towards an inconvenient Digital Humanities
Next year will be a reasonably big year on the Digital Humanities calendar in Australia. In March, we will hold THATCamp here at the University of Melbourne and also, and we will establish our very own Digital Humanities Association in the first quarter of 2011. In the year’s second half, I will run a symposium…
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Decoding Digital Humanities #4 (November 25)
Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal monthly get together in the pub to discuss all things digital in the humanities. This is an opportunity to meet others working on digital projects (or thinking of starting one) and is open to staff, students, and faculty. This week we will discuss the recent article in the NY…
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Supporting Digital Humanities
A conference is being held in Vienna, Austria titled ‘Supporting Digital Humanities’ (19-20 October). It is the first joint conference between the two major European digital humanities infrastructure projects, CLARIN and DARIAH. There is a crucial distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities. Accordingly, the conference’s aims are…
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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)
For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities…
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Decoding Digital Humanities (Melbourne Chapter)
In conjunction with University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal monthly get together in the pub to discuss all things digital in the humanities. This is an opportunity to meet others working on digital projects and is open to staff, students, and faculty. The first meeting of this semester…