Hi Sam, you had to come back early in March from a research fellowship at the University of Kiel. What were your original plans there? Hi, yes, unfortunately my fellowship was cut short. I had planned to do research on comparative Germanic linguistics and onomastics. The Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel has very well stocked libraries on these … Continued
DTU-PhD researcher Shohreh Haddadan can look back on a very successful last year. To honour her accomplishements, we paused a bit the day-to-day work and took some minutes to reminisce: Shohreh, as a PhD researcher you mainly see what is still in front of you, however, 2019 was quite a successful year for you. What … Continued
Thoughts on a promising relationship Originally developed by the Adler Planetarium in Chicago in 2007 to map the stars with the help of internet users on a global scale, the crowdsourcing platform Zooniverse now hosts more than 110 peer-reviewed projects and has 1.7 million users worldwide. Zooniverse calls its concept “people-powered research”; its aim … Continued
Some general thoughts for starting a Tool Criticism Blog The pervasiveness of technology and digital tools poses new forms of challenges that can seldom be addressed by a single discipline alone. Through our series on tool criticism we would like to consider opportunities to leverage on the digital as an opportunity to bridge disciplines that … Continued
Digital Hermeneutics at DH Benelux 2019 DTU-DHH offered three contributions at last week’s Digital Humanities Benelux conference in Liège (11-13 September), setting out to discuss interpretations of oral history video testimonies, digital humanities curricula, and overcoming OCR problems in distant reading techniques. On the first day, doctoral researcher Jakub Bronec conducted the workshop “Making sense … Continued
Our team retreat on 29 August brought us to Trier, our neighbouring city in Germany, where we visited four locations. First, we were invited by our German academic partners, the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, to learn about their work in two presentations that were held by Dr. Thomas Burch and Frank Queens. Later, Dr. … Continued
After the summer break, the Digital History and Hermeneutics DTU assembled for its Summer Colloquium on 28 August. The programme promised a strategic first part and a topic oriented second part. Juliane Tatarinov (Post-Doc coordinator DTU-DHH), introduced the team to the newly developed communication strategy after establishing the DTU project website as the major dissemination … Continued
The DTU held up its first Writing Café to focus on writing an entire day in an informal but structured setting. Working eight hours straight and writing efficiently from nine to five? Who can accomplish that during the writing phase of the PhD every day? Well, it can work if you have the right setting. … Continued
On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom HaShoah in Luxembourg, DTU-PhD researcher Jakub Bronec was asked to speak. In his talk he asked: “Où vont les Juifs du Luxembourg?” and presented his intergenerational approach within his internationally designed project that is framed by a collaboration between the C²DH and the University of Prague. … Continued
Just back from his doublestrike in the United States: Christopher Morse in action presenting his PhD project Experiencing Art: Emotional Design for (Digital) Cultural Heritage at the ArtTechPsyche Symposium at Harvard University on 29th of March 2019 and a week later on 6th of April 2019 the Art-in-Rich-Prospect at Museums and the Web Conference in … Continued