Events

DH Seminar: Digital Scholarship @ Oxford: Convergence in Theory and Practice

Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Howard Hotson (University of Oxford): 'Digital Scholarship @ Oxford: Convergence in Theory and Practice'. Location: hybrid (DH Lab Seminar Room 1 and online).

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Abstract

Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc) is a five-year, £2.4 million, inter-disciplinary project, launched on 15 November 2021 and aimed at transforming the application of digital technology to teaching and research in the Humanities. At the centre of the project is a strategy of convergence. In essence this proposes to use the dense cluster of digital assets -- in the Bodleian Library, the University’s museums, the Oxford University Press, and the vast range of digitally enhanced research projects in the Humanities Division -- as a laboratory for experimenting with different strategies for joining cognate initiatives in and outside Oxford into increasingly coherent, mutually supportive, convergent, and sustainable clusters. This presentation will sketch the thinking underlying the project and illustrate it with a number of representative examples.

Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at Oxford, a Fellow of St Anne's College, Academic Director of Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, and has been PI of a number of major digital projects, including Cultures of Knowledge, Early Modern Letters Online, Reassembling the Republic of Letters, Networking Archives, and Cabinet.

This is a hybrid event; please join us in-person in the Exeter Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1, or use the following link to join online:

https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/99374694946?pwd=SWl1L05Ock5jZm5lREJCMzBxYW1ZQT09
Meeting ID: 993 7469 4946
Password: 715860

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