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The Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities is 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.
- 2026: The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world
- By Melissa Terras
2 June 2026, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception
Previous lectures
Between 2015 and 2019, five lectures were held in this series; all of them have been recorded on video and are available for viewing.
- 2025: Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
- By Julianne Nyhan
22 May 2025, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception - 2019: Wider Horizons, Harder Borders or Whose data are they, anyway?
- By Charlotte Roueché
21 May 2019, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception
- 2018: What can be said, can be said clearly? The role of ontologies in the Digital Humanities
- By Carlo Meghini
30 May 2018, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception
- 2017: Where does the born- and reborn-digital material take the Digital Humanities?
- By Niels Brügger
18 May 2017, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception
- 2016: Graphic Provocations: What do digital humanists want from visualization?
- By Johanna Drucker
25 May 2016, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception
- 2015: Digital Humanities: Perspectives on Past, Present and Future
- By Susan Hockey
27 May 2015, 6pm, followed by a drinks reception