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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities and the Network Turn
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the third Digital Humanities discussion event on Wednesday 8 February 2023\, focusing on Social Network Analysis.\nPlease note\, this event is open only to University of Reading researchers and certain invited guests. If you are interested in any of the presentations\, please contact Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk). \nThe event will be taking place on campus\, but there is a hybrid option in order to ensure ongoing accessibility for those especially vulnerable to Covid-19 as well as colleagues with caring responsibilities. If you would like to attend virtually\, please get in touch to request the link for access. \nIf you are not already a member\, you are welcome to join the Digital Humanities Community of Practice via our MS Teams channel. (This link will take you to the Teams channel. If you are not already a member\, you will be presented with a dialogue box that says ‘Join’. Click this to send a request\, which will be approved if you are a member of the University of Reading. If you are already a member of the Team\, this link just takes you directly to the ‘General’ channel.) \nWithin the COP\, you will be able to introduce yourself\, share your research\, and access information about funding opportunities\, support\, and events. Read more here. \nOur events are open to all researchers\, staff\, and PGRs from any subject – we welcome interdisciplinary collaboration! \nTo attend the event (in person or via Teams)\, or if you have any other questions\, please contact the DH Academic Champion\, Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk). \nProgramme \n14.00 Welcome and Intro – Roberta Gilchrist and Mara Oliva \n14.10 Keynote address: Professor Ruth Ahnert (QMUL and Turing Institute) – ‘The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities’ \n14.50 Break \n15.00 Roundtable: \n\nDr Amy Richardson (University of Reading) – Social Network Analysis and the archaeology of Iraq: networks of materials and practice in pre- and proto-history\nDr Fiona Coward (Bournemouth University) – The Connected Past\nDr Valentina Vavassori (National Archives) – tbc\n\n15.30 Q&A \n15.55 What’s next (DH CoP and Hub – future events) & close \n~~~ \nAbstract: Keynote Address – Professor Ruth Ahnert\nThe Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities \nWe live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks\, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and quantitative analysis to shed light on aspects of culture and society hitherto concealed. This paper will argue that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers\, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. Moreover\, we are at a moment in time when it is crucial that arts and humanities scholars join the critique of how large-scale network data and advanced network analysis are being harnessed for the purposes of power\, surveillance\, and commercial gain. To illustrate the potential of the frameworks and methods of network analysis\, this paper will draw from the findings of two recent projects that I led\, Tudor Networks of Power\, and Networking Archives. \n~~~ \nSpeaker information\nProfessor Ruth Ahnert is Professor of Literary History and Digital Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. Her research background is in early modern history\, with a particular interest in book history and epistolary culture. More recently she has explored the application of quantitative network analysis to the study of early modern letters\, and is currently Principal Investigator on the large interdisciplinary project Living with Machines based at the British Library and Alan Turing Institute. \nDr Amy Richardson is a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on the analysis of new and archival archaeological datasets to examine networks of people and materials in the Middle East\, applying materials and network analysis to assemblages of clay and stone artefacts. She is also a University of Reading Open Research Champion. \nDr Fiona Coward is Associate Professor in Archaeological Sciences at Bournemouth University. Her work focuses on the evolution of human social life and cognition throughout the Palaeolithic but also throughout the shift from mobile foraging to more settled and agricultural lifeways in the early Holocene. She employs a multidisciplinary approach\, emphasising the interrelations between humanity’s physical and social environments\, as well as a variety of techniques including network analysis\, GIS and agent-based modelling. \nDr Valentina Vavassori is a Digital Scholarship Researcher at the National Archives. She is interested in the development of User Interfaces for Linked Open Data\, ontologies and data modelling. She completed her PhD\, on ‘Digital Narratives in Physical Museums. Narrative Construction with Contextual Technologies’\, at King’s College London\, where she also worked on the project ‘Reframing Art: Opening up Art Dealers’ Archives to Multi-Disciplinary Research’ in collaboration with the National Gallery.
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SUMMARY:IFNH 5th Annual Forum: Shaping sustainable food systems for future generations
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Institute for Food\, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) is delighted to invite you to our 5th Annual Forum\, which will take place online on Wednesday 8th  February 2023 from 14.00 – 17.00 (GMT). \nThis year’s theme is about shaping sustainable food systems for future generations\, including the combination of improved knowledge and innovative policies to enhance behaviour change by food producers\, food processors\, food distributors\, and consumers. \nThe event is free to attend\, please register your attendance and share this with your networks.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nDownload the programme of events (PDF)\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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