DHBenelux submissions 2014-2016
A while back I looked at the submissions for DHBenelux 2016 in a blogpost, and I promised to compare to the two earlier conferences. Today is finally the day I publish these comparisons, looking at...
View ArticleFirst time users
The past six months I have been on parental leave to enjoy our son Felix (born 13 December 2015), and today I am finally back at the university. In these months I have seen a baby grow from not being...
View ArticleIntroducing: A Republic of Emails
This year I will teach for the second time the Doing Digital History course for the History master at the University of Luxembourg. Just like last year, students will ask several W-questions. What is...
View ArticleA Republic of Emails: What are the contents?
In a previous blogpost, I introduced the project A Republic of Emails, where we created a dataset of the 30k Hillary Clinton Emails by scraping Wikileaks. Now that we have the data, we can start...
View ArticleDigital Humanities and Digital Physics
For my PhD research I will be using Galison’s concept of the “trading zone” to describe digital history projects where historians collaborate with people from other backgrounds. In his book, Image...
View ArticleWhat should we teach when teaching DH?
Recently a student approached me with extensive feedback on my course Doing Digital History of last year. The short summary was that he liked me as a teacher, that he liked the structure of the course,...
View ArticleWhy do we need a definition of DH?
Like all great debates in DH, the return of the “what is DH” debate started off with a tweet: It’s 2017 and still nobody knows what Digital Humanities is. — Ian Bogost (@ibogost) June 21, 2017 This is...
View ArticleModels of Infrastructures for the Humanities
Last week I was at ECHIC 2018 in Leuven, which focused on infrastructures in the humanities. The conference was small, allowing very integrated discussions in a single-session format, combining...
View ArticleThe mountain and the valley: 2019 will be exciting
2018 has been a great year for my wife and me. The most exciting moment was when we welcomed our second son Rowas into the world. Now that he’s almost one year already, the nights are getting easier,...
View ArticleDH Failures vs Findings
Recent discussions in digital humanities have drawn attention to “failure”. Projects can fail to deliver a tool or fail to innovate practices. But what practices are emphasised by speaking of...
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