Why we need the Digital Humanities

Monday 7 February 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Venue

Online (Microsoft Teams)

Open to

All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, Undergraduates

Registration

Free to attend - registration required

Registration Info

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Event Details

NOVA Lancaster Seminar: Digital futures

Topic: Why we need the Digital Humanities

Free to attend, click here to join the seminar on Monday 7 February 12-1pm.

Speakers

Daniel Alves

Nova University

Dr Daniel Alves is the Director of the Digital Humanties Lab at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He is also an Assistant Professor within the History Department in the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) and a researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC).

Gregory Ian

History, Lancaster University

Professor Ian Gregory is Co-Director of the Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. As a result of the growth of Digital Humanities, Ian has become particularly interested in using GIS with texts as well as the more traditional quantitative sources.

Murrieta-Flores Patricia

History, Lancaster University

Patricia is Co-Director of the Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. Originally an archaeologist, her interest lies in the application of technologies for Humanities and her primary research area is the Spatial Humanities. Her main focus is the investigation of different aspects of space, place and time using a range of technologies including GIS, NLP, Machine Learning and Corpus Linguistics approaches.

Contact Details

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nova@lancaster.ac.uk