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The UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture 2025

22 May 2025, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

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UCLDH is delighted to welcome Julianne Nyhan, Emeritus Professor of Information Studies at UCL, to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

UCLDH

Location

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Professor Nyhan's research focuses on the history of Digital Humanities, especially in terms of researching non-canonical histories and the role that participatory approaches can play in this. Her particular interest is on uncovering 'hidden', overlooked or devalued contributions to the field's emergence and development.

This is the sixth lecture in the UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture series, named after Susan Hockey, Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies at UCL, and a leading figure in the establishment of Humanities Computing as an academic discipline. As chair of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing from 1984 to 1997, she founded the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing, now the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and is widely published in this field. The aim of this annual public lecture series is to celebrate and promote work in Digital Humanities: the application of computational techniques within the arts, humanities, culture and heritage.

All welcome but registration is required and will open soon.


This event is organised by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. UCLDH draws on UCL's world-class research strength especially in information studies, computing science, and the arts and humanities. It supports and coordinates work in many institutional settings throughout the university, including the library services, museums and collections. The research facilitated by UCLDH takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities. It produces applications and models that make possible new kinds of research, both in the humanities disciplines and in computer science and its applied technologies. It also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, museums, libraries, archives, and culture at large. 

About the Speaker

Julianne Nyhan

Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at Institute of History, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Julianne Nyhan’s research seeks to understand more about the social, cultural, intellectual and technical processes and conditions that have shaped the remediation and analysis of Humanities and Cultural Heritage sources as data. Accordingly, her research is interdisciplinary and often undertaken at the interface of computing, the humanities and cultural heritage. Areas of particular research interest include: digital humanities, digital history, oral history, the history of computing (especially in the humanities), collections as data and the history of information.

More about Julianne Nyhan