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Keynote Speaker: Dr Giles Bergel (Oxford), Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2024
Time: 13.00 to 14.30
Place: EMG27 and Online
Programme
Coffee and Tea available from 13.00
| 13.00 | Welcome and Intro – Dr Mara Oliva (DH Champion) and Dr Dawn Kanter (DH Officer) |
| 13.10 | Keynote address: Dr Giles Bergel, Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities, Department of Engineering Science – “Do Humanists have Data?” |
| 13.40 | Roundtable: Dr Amy Richardson, Archaeology, “Data-driven approaches in the archaeology of the Middle East” Dr Rhi Smith, UMASCS, “Museum data: tackling legacies and making connections” Dr Dawn Kanter, DH Hub, “Collecting and Connecting Portrait-Sitting Data” |
| 14.00 | Q&A |
| 14.10 | How to go about it: Dr Dawn Kanter and Dr Robert Darby with Dr Marjorie Gerhardt |
| 14.30 | What’s next (DH CoP and Hub – future events) & close – Dr Mara Oliva |
Keynote address: Dr Giles Bergel, Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities, Department of Engineering Science – “Do Humanists have Data?”
Abstract: The question that this talk addresses might be put in two different senses. In a practical sense, the question asks if humanists work with or create data that is immediately available for computational use. On a more theoretical level it could be asked if humanists have data at all. Both questions are fundamental given (for example) AI’s voracious appetite for training data and as, in an age of academic precarity, the humanities seek both a realistic future and a usable past. The talk will address both questions through the example of the speaker’s experience on Digital Humanities projects in textual studies, book history and computer vision.
Bio: Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. A book historian by training, he manages an engagement programme in the humanities for the EPSRC-funded Visual AI project, while also pursuing research in the computational analysis of the printed page, currently including for the AHRC-funded Envisioning Dante project.
This event is being run by the Digital Humanities Community of Practice, in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Hub. The DH CoP and the DH Hub work together in supporting researchers to build knowledge and skills in DH, to develop and undertake DH research projects, and to maintain digital research outcomes.
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