The Faculty of Arts hosts a series of ‘Digital Humanities in Practice’ seminars. Join us to find out more about ongoing digital projects within the OU and beyond, and to engage in debate and critical evaluation.
Please register with Heather Scott (H.Scott@open.ac.uk) before the event.
These seminars are also webcast on the OU intranet http://stadium.open.ac.uk/webcast-ou/ and are available to OU staff after the event as recordings.
Transforming Scholarly Communications: Open Access Journals in the Humanities
Thursday 31 May 2012, 12.00pm - 1.30pm
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1,2,3
Open Access publishing is an area of growing interest in the academic community. This seminar brings together scholars, librarians and publishers to discuss how Open Access publishing, especially in the area of journals, can contribute to the transformation of scholarly communications in the Humanities.
Speakers:
Nicola Dowson and Chris Biggs, Library ORO Team, 'Open access: The OU Library perspective'
Trevor Fear and Jessica Hughes, Classical Studies Department, Open University, ‘Editors' perspectives: New Voices in Classical Reception Studies and Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies’
Paul Harwood, JISC Collections, ‘Still Open for business?' Scholarly publishers and OA in the humanities’
Roundtable discussion including Louise Dutnell, Oxford University Press.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided, to book a place please email Heather Scott h.scott@open.ac.uk by 29 May 2012
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 12pm-1.30pm
Library Presentation Room
Joe Smith (list of speakers tbc)
Title (tbc)
Please register with Heather Scott (H.Scott@open.ac.uk) before the event.
Thursday 26 April 2012, 12pm-1.30pm
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1,2,3
Discover the range of projects being developed in the Faculty of Arts, and reflect on how the Digital Humanities are enabling new modes of research in the humanities.
Speakers:
Shafquat Towheed and Edmund King: The Reading Experience Database
Florian Stadtler: Beyond the Frame: Indian British Connections
Sandip Hazareesingh: The Commodities of Empire Project
Leon Wainwright: The Open Arts Journal.
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 12 noon -2pm
Ambient Lab, Jennie Lee Building
Martin Weller (Institute of Educational Technology) - Digital Scholarship: 10 lessons in 10 videos
Jan Parker (Institute of Educational Technology) - Digital Literacies in the Humanities
Liz Fitzgerald (Institute of Educational Technology) - The Pelagios project experience
Thursday 26 January 2012
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
Luciano Floridi (University of Hertforshire)
Enveloping the World: Understanding the Constraining Success of Smart Technologies
This seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
Prof Brian Bocking (University College Cork)
Piecing Together: Captain Daylight, the Buddhist Bishop of Rangoon, and collaborative digital research
This seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording
Key Issues in Digital Humanities
13 October 2011
A workshop discussion introduced by Lorna Hardwick (Arts), Allan Jones (Maths, Computing and Technology), Jan Parker (Institute of Education Technology) and Mia Ridge (Arts, Digital Humanities research student) further exploring key themes discussed in the July colloquium.
Digital Humanities Colloquium: ‘Digital technologies: help or hindrance for the humanities?’
Friday 8th July 2011, The Open University
The Faculty of Arts hosted a one day colloquium to explore key strategic issues in the practice of digital humanities.
Programme and abstracts are available here.
The proceedings in CMR11 are also available as a video recording (OU staff only).
Monday 21st March 2011 12-3pm
Central Meeting Room 11
Professor Gill Perry, Art History, The Open University Faculty of Arts and Fouad Zablith, KMi on The Open Arts Archive
Dr. Graeme Earl, Senior Lecturer in Archaelogy, University of Southampton 'Reflections on computing and archaeological fieldwork: the AHRC Portus Project'
Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
Professor Trevor Herbert, Music Dept, The Open University Faculty of Arts
‘Databases and digital images in music history research: some case studies’
Dr Claire Warwick, Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
'No field of dreams: designing digital resources for humanities users'
This seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording.
November 22nd 2010
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
Robert Shoemaker, Professor of Eighteenth-Century British History, University of Sheffield
'Connected Histories and Data Mining: New Tools for the Digital Humanities'
This seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording.
Thursday 14th October 2010 12 - 3.00pm
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University
'What I learnt at Googleplex'
Dr. Ian Gregory, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Lancaster University
'Space and place, texts and images: Using Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities.'
This seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording.
Following on from the Social Media Launch event, Arts Faculty staff were invited to attend three Social Media Workshops. These are informal drop-in sessions, each focusing on a particular social media tool. Please bring your lap-top if you have one.
Thursday June 10th, 2010 - Delicious social bookmarking and online reference management
Monday July 12th, 2010– Twitter microblogging and academic networking site academia.edu
Thursday September 9th, 2010– subscribing to website and blog updates using RSS feeds and collecting them together using Google Reader
Tuesday 29th June 2010 12 - 3.30pm
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
OU Arts speakers: The challenges of digital
Dr. Sandip Hazareesingh and Dr. Roberto Davini: the Encyclopedia of Global Commodities 1800-2000.
Guest speakers: Preserving and sustaining access to digitised research material
Dr Janet Topp-Fargion, Curator, World and Traditional Music,
The British Library Sound Archive
Dr Rembrandt Duits,
Assistant Curator (Photographic Collection),
Renaissance Art and Material Culture, The Warburg Institute,
University of London
The seminar is available to OU staff as a video recording.
Social Media Sessions: Launch Event
Tuesday 11th May 12 - 2pm
Wilson A Meeting Rooms 1-3
The Faculty of Arts is launching a social media evaluation project at this event. Members of arts staff will talk about their personal experience of social media and of how it has helped them (or not!) in their work. Colleagues from IET will talk about the subsequent sessions, which will enable staff to familiarise themselves with social media tools and encourage evaluation of their academic-related potential.
Tuesday 2nd March 12.00 – 15.00
Arts Meeting Rooms 1-3 (Ground floor Wilson A)
OU Arts speakers: Dr. Rehana Ahmed and Dr. Florian Stadtler: the Making Britain project
Dr Elton Barker (Classical Studies): HESTIA.
Guest speaker: Professor Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King’s College London.
‘Pursuing digital epigraphy: an intellectual journey and its implications’
This seminar is available online to OU staff.
Wednesday 20th January 12.00 – 15.00
Arts Meeting Rooms 1-3 (Ground floor Wilson A)
Professor Lorna Hardwick, Director of Classical Receptions in Late Twentieth Century Drama and Poetry in English
Dr. Shafquat Towheed, Project Supervisor of The Reading Experience Database
Guest speaker: Arthur Burns, Professor of Modern British History, King’s College London: ‘Opportunities and costs for the archival researcher in a digital world: the case of the Clergy of the Church of England Database’
This seminar is available online to OU staff only.