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Decoding Digital Humanities Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) is a series of informal monthly meetings for anyone interested in research at the intersection of computational technologies and the humanities. Founded at University College London, these gatherings provide an opportunity to discuss readings and raise questions, but also to mingle and share ideas with others in the field of digital humanities.

DDH Global

DDH has now gone global, with new chapters launching all over the world:

The Roundup gathers everyone's most recent updates, so you don't have to.

DDH Organisation

If you have any suggestions for subjects to discuss or articles to read, please send them to decodingdh@ucl.ac.uk. Please write to the same address if you would like to set up a DDH Global chapter.

DDHLondon was set up and started by Kathryn Piquette, Claire Ross and Simon Mahony (who now act as advisers) and is currently being run by graduates students from several London Universities.

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DDHLondon meets monthly in the pub. 

These meetings were originally intended for UCL staff and Students but now welcome anyone interested. If you are not from UCL you are most welcome to join us. No registration is needed. We often have suggested readings for discussion and can send you that in a PDF if you wish.

Archive of DDH Programme

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DDH #10 London

Start: Jan 18, 2011 5:30:00 PM
End: Jan 18, 2011 7:30:00 PM

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For our tenth meetup and the first of 2011 we though we would try something different. Rather than having a fixed reading we have opted for a New Year DH Open Forum where we could talk about multiple topics. We might also reflect on how far we have come over the last year and possible future directions. We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

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DDH-L Archives

The following DDH meetings have taken place:

For a full archive and write up of these meetings see the organisers' Google site

  • 19th October 2010: Virtual Research Environments [announcement]
  • 21 September 2010: The Humanities: A Technical Profession [announcement | write-up]
  • 24th August 2010: The Free Software movement-Richard Stallman’s The GNU Project and The General Public License [announcement]
  • 14 July 2010: Melissa Terras, "Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon" [announcement]
  • 21 June 2010: James Murdoch, "Tomorrow's Humanities" [announcement | write-up]
  • 19 April 2010: Richard Coyne: "Digital Utopias" [announcment | write-up]
  • 30 March 2010: Michael Mateas, "Procedural Literacy: Educating the New Media Practitioner" [announcement | write-up]
  • 16 March 2010: Digital Humanities and Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" [announcement | write-up]

UCLDH: James Cronin presents No “radical new beginning”: DH and SoTL

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:09:48 +0000

// UCLDH is pleased to announce the following lecture by James Cronin on 13th December 2012 at 17:30. Lecture: No “radical new beginning”: How can Digital Humanities benefit from engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning community? Speaker: James G. R. Cronin, University College Cork, Ireland Abstract: In this presentation, James Cronin, an Ionad Bairre Fellow in [...]

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DDHL: The Residue of Uniqueness

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:42:48 +0000

// Received from the Decoding Digital Humanities London mailing list: DDH London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 30 May 18:00 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH This month we will be reading: McCarty, Willard (forthcoming). “The residue of uniqueness”. The Cologne Dialogue on Digital Humanities @ Wahn Manor House, 2012. Historical Social Research – Historische Sozialforschung. [pre-print [...]

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