Digital Histories

Digital Histories Research Seminars

Learn about research projects that are being shaped by digital methodologies, and discuss the implications of this for how we understand, construct and communicate about the past.

No upcoming events are scheduled. You can watch recordings of previous seminars on our YouTube Channel.

2021 Program

8 April, Fiona Tweedie (UTS eResearch), 'OpenRefine Training Workshop: How to Clean Messy Data'

13 May, Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing), 'Time-layered Cultural Map: Mapping Tools for the Humanities in Australia'

10 June, Michael Lynch (UTS eResearch), 'Text Mining for the Humanities'

8 July, Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra, Digital Heritage), 'GLAM workbench: Tools for exploring digital collections of Australian heritage'

12 August, Deb Verhoeven (University of Alberta), Mike Jones (ANU), Alana Piper (UTS), 'Building connections between Australian Cultural Data in HuNI'

9 September, Richard Tuffin (UNE, Archaeology), 'Convict Landscapes: Mapping Australia’s convict past'

14 October, Alana Piper (UTS), 'How to build a crowdsourcing project on Zooniverse'

2020 Program

13 February – Marco Duranti (University of Sydney), Text mining human rights

12 March – Hart Cohen (Western Sydney University), Digital anthropology and the Strehlow collection 

9 April – Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (University of Tasmania), Digitising convict history

14 May – Shawn Ross (Macquarie University), Eight Years of FAIMS Mobile: Reflecting Backward, Looking Ahead

11 June –Ana Stevenson and Kristin Allukian, The Suffrage Postcard Project: Transatlantic Suffrage History and Feminist Digital Archiving

13 August – Kirsten Thorpe (University of Technology Sydney), Indigenous archives and digital humanities

10 September –  Julie Sommerfeldt (University of Sydney), Digital technologies and manuscripts

8 October – Heather Ford (University of Technology Sydney), 'Fact Factories: Wikipedia and Writing History as it Happens' Abstract

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.