| Karin van Es interim CDH director (July 2025) |
| | New CDH affiliated member: Fabian Ferrari |
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| Dr. Karin van Es will temporarily fulfill the role of Centre for Digital Humanities director whilst prof. dr. Hugo Quené is on sabbatical. He will be on research leave in the USA and Canada for approximately six months, starting in July 2025. |
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| The CDH team is proud to welcome dr. Fabian Ferrari as an affiliated member. He is an Assistant Professor in Cultural AI at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU), and a member of the UU focus area Governing the Digital Society. |
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In het lab van het Institute for Language Sciences (ILS Labs) wordt experimenteel onderzoek gedaan naar hoe mensen gesproken en geschreven taal begrijpen en produceren. Voor dit lab zijn we op zoek naar een technisch student-assistent voor 12 uur per week, vanaf 3 maart (voor 6 maanden met mogelijkheid tot verlenging). Solliciteer vóór maandag 10 februari als je interesse hebt in deze functie.
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| On Wednesday, 22 January, we celebrated the book launch of Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. We hosted a range of excellent speakers and an interesting roundtable. The participants were a mix of academics as well as professionals - ideal for collaborative research. The book is freely available in open-access and, among others, DUB has published an extended book review full of praise. |
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| French newspaper 'Le Figaro' added to I-Analyzer |
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| The scientific developers of the CDH Research Software Lab have added the French newspaper Le Figaro to the online text and data mining tool I-Analyzer. This is the first corpus added to I-Analyzer in a different language than English or Dutch. We recommend historians and other researchers to use this new interesting source in I-Analyzer for their research. The I-Analyzer interface is designed to be accessible for users of all skill levels.
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| MedievalMe: Digital escape room |
| | DH team & teacher nomination UU awards |
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How do you spark excitement for medieval history in secondary school students? Sanne Frequin, art historian and Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, has the answer: MedievalMe. This innovative Dutch serious game immerses students in the medieval worldview. “We wanted to create a game that teachers could use straight away,” Frequin says, “and that’s what we did.”
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| To stimulate and reward cooperation in the field of education at UU, the UU Team Award for Education is awarded annually to a team that has made an exceptional contribution to education at UU. This year, a team with a focus on digital humanities has been nominated: Team Summer School Digital Art History. One of the organisers has also been nominated for the UU Outstanding Teacher Award.
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| Friday, 7 February: Guest lecture by Pasi Ihalainen |
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Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from Prof. dr. Pasi Ihalainen! He will be visiting Utrecht to give a guest lecture hosted by the CDH on Friday, 7 February. He is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), and he will discuss merging conceptual and digital history to study the transnational evolution of parliamentary democracy.
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| After his lecture, scientific developers from the CDH Research Software Lab will teach a workshop about how to use I-Analyzer to explore the corpus 'People & Parliament', which Pasi Ihalainen also used in his research. Both the lecture and workshop are open to all, and you can choose to join on location (UU Library City Centre) or online via Teams. We look forward to seeing you there! |
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| | New UU Open Access Toolkit |
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DUB, the independent UU news site, has published two new articles on AI. The first is a blog about AI from the perspective of a non-STEM student. The second article is about the new guidelines of research funder NWO. NWO employees should not use AI programmes such as ChatGPT and Perplexity when distributing research money.
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UU has published an interview with Open Science specialist drs. Jeroen Bosman about OpenAlex, the new database for scientific output. Its focus on full openness and availability is why OpenAlex fits in well with the principle of Open Science: the striving for an academic world in which knowledge and research is freely accesible and reusable for everybody.
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| The UU Publishing Support Department presents the Open Access Toolkit. This tool is for UU/UMC staff to get acquainted with the possibilities of publishing a research article or book (chapters) open access. It helps the reader to make trade-offs, e.g. in terms of budget and licenses, and offers checklists and descriptions of available University Library support. |
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| 5 February 2025 | In-person | Open to all (full, register for waitlist) |
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| 7 February 2025 | In-person & online | Open to all |
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| 7 February 2025 | In-person & online | Open to all |
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| 21 February 2025 | In-person | For humanities staff & students |
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| 6 March 2025 | In-person | For humanities staff & students |
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| 18 March 2025 | Online | For humanities staff & students |
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| 20 March 2025 | In-person | Open to all |
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| 28 March 2025 | In-person | Open to all |
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| 7 & 8 April 2025 | In-person | Open to all |
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| 8 May 2025 | Online | Open to all |
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| 12 May 2025 | In-person | For humanities staff & students |
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| 19 May 2025 | In-person | For humanities staff & students |
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| 4 June 2025 | In-person | For humanities staff & students |
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