UCLDH Open House: Call for Re-engagement with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
10 February 2016, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Location
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Arts and Humanities Common Room, G24 Foster Court
Over the past five years, the cross-faculty research group UCL Centre for Digital Humanities has worked with the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the UCL Faculty of Engineering to bring together a vibrant network of people who work at the intersection of digital technologies and the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage. Described in the Times Higher (2015) as a "leading department" in this field in the UK, our mission is to champion, catalyse, promote, facilitate, undertake, advise and publicise activities in Digital Humanities (with as wide an interpretation of that phrase as possible) throughout the founding Faculties and UCL, in all areas of teaching, research, enabling, and public engagement. Our network allows for collaboration both across college and with world leading libraries, museums, and galleries; we've won major prizes for our research; we've successfully attracted major research funding from a range of research councils and charities; we've helped humanities scholars scope out the digital element of their humanities research projects, and helped those in the computational sciences develop approaches to benefit research problems in the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage. We host a well attended seminar series, and other events that bring together people in UCL, and beyond, working within this space.
Five years on from our founding, UCL has changed and grown immensely, and we'd like to make sure we are engaging with the research community as we plan our next five years of activity. Would you like to know more about UCLDH? Would you like to become part of our network? We are hosting an "Open House" event in order for us to meet others across UCL who may be interested in hearing more about UCLDH, and thinking about getting involved. Of course, as well as tapping into a well defined network of individuals across college who are working in the application of computational methods to culture and history, getting involved in UCLDH counts as interdisciplinary activity for appraisals and promotion. Involvement is not onerous, and becoming part of the network will tap you into resources and opportunities, allowing you to meet others across different faculties and services in college that can help drive forward the use of innovative digital methods in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage.
How can we help you in your work? How can you help us? We look forward to welcoming you to the UCLDH Open House to meet and discuss your, and our, work. Registration is required to confirm numbers, and if you can't make the date but would like to talk further, please contact Professor Melissa Terras, m.terras@ucl.ac.uk, Director of UCLDH, so we can talk to you at some other time.