We are pleased to present the Fall Education Program 2024 of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Take your first steps into the world of digital humanities or refine your existing skills. Registration is now open!
Every six months, we launch a new series of workshops and lectures within the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The sessions in the CDH Education Program are free, mostly at entry level and require a relatively modest time investment.
All staff members of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU) are warmly invited to register for our free events. Some of our events are especially tailored to educators, while others are more suitable for researchers. Students are also welcome to participate in most of the activities. Please register early to secure your place, as spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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We are kicking off the season on 16 September with a lunch seminar on Digital Humanities (DH) resources in education, which you can also join online. If you are a teacher at the Faculty of Humanities, make sure not to miss this one! This session is specifically designed by the CDH and the DH Team at the University Library to help you integrate digital skills for students into your courses.
We offer a diverse range of workshops, featuring DH topics such as formatting professional documents in LaTeX, Python for beginners (with DCU compensation), exploring cultural datasets, searching through extensive online newspaper archives, automatic speech recognition, qualitative data analysis using NVivo software, data ethics, and network visualization.
Dr. Lia Costiner, Assistant Professor in the History of Art (Digital Art History) at Utrecht University, will deliver a brand-new workshop on AI Image Generation for teachers on 18 October. Do you use images in your teaching? Are you curious how to get your students more engaged by using AI tools? Then you are very welcome to join this workshop on ‘Digital Creativity in the Classroom, an Introduction to AI Image Generation’ either in person or online.
Prof. Tobias Blanke, University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, will deliver a hybrid lecture on digital humanities on 28 November. He is working on an exciting new project about ‘deep culture’. This lecture is open to all those interested in joining either in person or online.
Would you like guidance or advice on how to successfully integrating DH methods into your research & funding proposal? We offer you the opportunity to brainstorm one-on-one with DH specialists in computational and quantitative methods.
You can sign up for a personalized consultancy session on computational methods hosted by CDH strategic advisor prof. Antal van den Bosch, accompanied by a scientific developer from the CDH Research Software Lab and a DH expert from Utrecht University Library.
If you wish to explore quantitative methods for your research, you can register for a personalized consultancy session on quantitative methods with CDH director prof. dr. Hugo Quené and statistical advisor Kirsten Schutter.
Are you just getting started in the field of digital humanities and do you need some expert guidance to shape your research or education? Or do you have a more specific question about research software, digital sources, programming, or statistics?
All humanities teachers, researchers and students are welcome to visit our weekly Digital Humanities walk-in hours. You do not need an appointment, feel free to join us on Thursdays from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs in the Digital Humanities Workspace or online! The DH walk-in hours will resume on Thursday, 12 September.
During her research Lorena De Vita stumbled upon the personal diaries, spanning from 1932 to 1989, of Otto Küster, a German jurist who dedicated a significant portion of his professional career seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors. His handwriting, however, was almost illegible. De Vita participated in a Trankskribus workshop offered by the UB and CDH and put together a research team to start transcribing the diaries.
On 20 March 2024 De Vita and her postdoc Laura Fahnenbruck will deliver a CDH lecture. This is followed by an optional Transkribus workshop provided by the DH-UB Team.
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is pleased to present the staff education program for Spring 2024. Take your first steps into the world of digital humanities methods or refine your existing skills. Registration is open!
Our program includes a variety of brand new workshops, featuring an introduction to web scraping, formatting professional documents in LaTeX, and searching through extensive online newspaper archives. Additionally, we are introducing a new workshop on the fundamental steps of collecting, constructing, and exploring datasets. The classics are also on the agenda, such as the popular programming language Python, and qualitative data analysis using NVivo software.
Don’t miss Lorena De Vita’s lecture who recently gained access to the personal diaries of a German jurist seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors. Through an NWO grant, De Vita initiated a project to utilize Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) technology to decrypt the diaries.
Due to the previous success, CDH strategic advisor Antal van den Bosch will once again host one-on-one brainstorming and consultancy sessions on how to successfully integrate computational methods in your research design.
Most workshops are tailored for staff and students of the Faculty of Humanities. All sessions are free, mostly at entry level and require a relatively modest time investment. The lectures are open to all.
Take a look at the new course offerings.
In 2021 KU Leuven Libraries Artes is participating in 5 Evidence Based Acquisition Projects. This results in over 100.000 e-books being accessible for a period of 12 months. At the end of this period, a smaller selection of titles will be acquired (perpetual access) by the library according to collection profiles and in consultation with the academic staff, and (this is why the acquisition method is called evidence based) reinforced by usage statistics. When the EBA Project ends, the library is free to engage for another term of 12 months, thus keeping the larger (not purchased) EBA-collection accessible.
Started in January 2021
Cambridge University Press: full collection* of e-books HSS (CUP + publishing partners)
Cambridge Core – Journals & Books Online | Cambridge University Press (kuleuven.be)
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): defined set of a limited number of preselected titles
Home | Taylor & Francis Group (kuleuven.be)
New from April 2021 onwards
de Gruyter: full collection of e-books (de Gruyter + publishing partners)*
De Gruyter (kuleuven.be)
Brill: full collection of e-books
Brill | Over three centuries of scholarly publishing (kuleuven.be)
Benjamins: full collection of e-books
Books | John Benjamins (kuleuven.be)
*not included: HTML text books, Cambridge Companions, Cambridge Histories
Library Central Services is working hard in order to make all individual titles accessible through Limo. There may, however, be a delay of up to one month in adding newly published titles. In the meantime, those titles can be accessed directly on the publisher’s platform.
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