About

Cambridge Digital Humanities, established in 2017, is an interdisciplinary research centre, homed in the School of Arts and Humanities, shared with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, crossing multiple Schools and other units including the University Library, Cambridge collections and other research centres. It is currently hosted administratively by CRASSH, and has, in 2022, welcomed its first cohort of students for the MPhil in Digital Humanities, based in the Faculty of English. The first cohort of research students for the PhD in Digital Humanities arrives in 2024.

Research

CDH collaborates with researchers to generate and develop Digital Humanities scholarship across the arts and humanities. We create and deliver research projects, explore emerging research areas, and collaborate with international partners. We work with Cambridge University Library, Cambridge University collections, and multiple faculties and research centres. We collaborate with a wide range of international partners in Europe and the US, and a priority is to develop deeper Global South links. Our aim is to further an expansive form of Digital Humanities that encompasses work with collections, literature as digital humanities, global digital humanities, critical media theorisation, digital media, methodological advancement, future and emerging technologies including AI and machine learning. Discover our team and associates here.

Learning

Alongside our core research programme, CDH Learning facilitates the development of digitally informed research through its research learning programmes – including a Methods Fellow programme, short courses, fortnight-long Data Schools, and themed workshop series. CDH Labs, based in the Library, supports and collaborates in digital research and learning and provides technical (Research Software Engineer) expertise and infra-structural assistance. Please contact labs@cdh.cam.ac.uk for all Labs enquiries.

Study

The MPhil in Digital Humanities will contribute greatly to the research culture CDH is building, and will provide a stepping-stone to increasing doctoral-level research within the Centre. The course will produce postgraduates with a clear understanding of digital culture’s epistemological, ethical and political stakes, and practical digital humanities work. It will allow them to design projects involving DH tools and provide them with the practical skills to engage with them at introductory levels. This is not an advanced ‘coding’ course. It provides critical and practical literacy, the chance to advance an extant specialisation by re-contextualising it in relation to advanced theoretical work, and the chance to develop as a DH scholar. Successful students may stay with DH, return to a ‘home’ discipline for advanced study, or find a career in media and creative arts, GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), archival, digital or other sectors.

The PhD in Digital Humanities enables students from all areas of the Arts and Humanities to to engage at doctoral level with projects demanding the use of digital methods, tools, or adopting critical and theoretical orientations. Areas of specialism include: the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacy and surveillance, virtual cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice and digital histories, digital art, collections and heritage.

Find out more

Cambridge Digital Humanities as a whole aims to offer both a dynamic framework to support the most advanced research in the field and a creative space for exploring and exchanging new ideas. It thrives on the input and engagement of the diverse community that defines it, with the potential to create and shape knowledge and to influence the ways in which we view the world around us.

Visit the Cambridge Digital Humanities website and have a look at our list of events.

Events

Cambridge Digital Humanities
Digital Research Project Design for Beginners
17 Oct 2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network at CRASSH/

Curating your own Digital Archive
16 Nov 2017 11:00am - 1:00pm, S3, Alison Richard Bulding, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

Webscraping for Beginners
21 Nov 2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Digital Humanites Network.

The Ethics of Doing Research in the Digital Age
27 Nov 2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm, SG2 Alison Richard Building

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Can Social Media Work for Me?
5 Dec 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm, S1, Alison Richard Building

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Beyond Words: Workshop 1 (Mapping the Conceptual Terrain)
15 Dec 2017 11:30am - 3:30pm, GR06/07 Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Introduction to APIs: how to get bulk data from websites
16 Jan 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm, S3, Alison Richard Bulding, Sidgwick Site

An event by the Digital Humanites Network.

Democracy by Design: Activists, Apps and Activist Apps
22 Jan 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

An workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

Introduction to OCR: tools for turning pdfs into machine-readable data
23 Jan 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm, S3, Alison Richard Bulding, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

Protest Event Analysis: a practical introduction
25 Jan 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, B4 Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

Beyond Words Workshop 2 (Technical Challenges)
6 Feb 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, Raleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, West Cambridge Site

A workshop oganised by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Social Media Data and Research Ethics: challenges and opportunities
13 Feb 2018 1:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 5, Mill Lane lecture rooms, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

CANCELLED Academic Social Networking Sites: a user’s guide
20 Feb 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm, SG2 Alison Richard Buiding, Sidgwick Site

 A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Academic Research, Data, and the Law: An introduction to General Data Protection Regulation
6 Mar 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm, SG2 Alison Richard Buiding, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Digital Humanities Network.

Digital Imaging, Modelling, Making and Interpretation of 3D Cultural Heritage Objects and Replicas
15 Mar 2018 10:00am - 4:30pm, New Court Funtion Room, Christ's College and Education Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Museum

a workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Automatic Text Recognition: an introduction to Transkribus
26 Mar 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Automatic Text Recognition: diving into the background
27 Mar 2018 11:00am - 1:00pm, S1, Alison Richard Building

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Text-mining the Archive 1
24 Apr 2018 11:00am - 1:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Text-mining the Archive 2
1 May 2018 11:00am - 1:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Introduction to Omeka: build and publish a simple digital archive
8 May 2018 11:00am - 1:00pm, Room B3, Institute of Criminology

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Collaborating with the Machine: Opportunities, Challenges, and Caveats
15 May 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, Room B4, Institute of Criminology

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Lenses or Mirrors? How Algorithms Affect Ways of Seeing Race and Gender
21 May 2018 12:00pm - 4:00pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambrdige Digital Humanities Network.

Digital Collaboration Tools
5 Jun 2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Social Network Analysis in Social Media
11 Jun 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Re:search – do search engines shape scholarship?
12 Jun 2018 2:00pm - 4:00pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A worshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

Machine Reading the Archive End-of-Programme Workshop 2018
14 Jun 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network.

‘Scores of Scores’: Possibilities and Pitfalls with Musical Corpora
19 Jun 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm, The Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Ave,

A workshop by the Cambrige Digital Humanities Network, Cambridge Big Data Strategic Research and the Faculty of Music.

Academic Social Networking Sites: a user’s guide
25 Jun 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities and the University Library.

From Sources to Data: Historical People in the Digital Archive
4 Jul 2018 11:00am - 2:00pm, Boardroom, Faculty of History

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Searching Questions
11 Jul 2018 10:00am - 5:45pm, West Road Concert Hall Building

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Introduction to Podcasting
12 Oct 2018 11:00am - 3:00pm, Comms Room 1, Aoi Pavilion, Cambridge University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities

The Library as Data: Introduction to Cambridge University’s Digital Collections
15 Oct 2018 1:30pm - 3:00pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Introduction to Archival Photography
30 Oct 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm, Digital Content Unit, Cambridge University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Blogging for Researchers: behind the scenes with Doing History in Public
7 Nov 2018 12:00pm - 1:30pm, S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Creating Databases from Historical Sources
8 Nov 2018 10:45am - 11:45am, Comms Room 1: Aoi Pavilion, University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Blogging for Researchers: integrating social media with your blog
12 Nov 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Using Images at Scale to Understand Environments and Behaviours
21 Nov 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, GR06/07, Faculty of English

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Generative Adversarial Networks Experimentation Lab
11 Dec 2018 11:30am - 3:30pm, S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Machine Feeling
14 Jan 2019 - 16 Jan 2019 9:30am, Room S1 in the Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site tbc

A workshop convened by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

The Undetection of the New: An Overview of Machine Learning Limitations and their Social Impact
14 Jan 2019 5:30pm - 7:00pm, Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site

A public talk by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

A Feeling for Worlds: Encountering Animals as Sensors
15 Jan 2019 5:30pm - 7:00pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A public talk by  Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Digital Research Design, Methods and Ethics
21 Jan 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop convened by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Digital Data Collection
28 Jan 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop convened by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Data Wrangling
4 Feb 2019 10:30am - 11:30am, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop convened by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Reuse, Recycling and Ownership in Ancient Egypt: framing our understanding
7 Feb 2019 - 8 Feb 2019 9:00am, McDonald Institute

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR): An Introduction
11 Feb 2019 11:00am - 12:30pm, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Creating Databases from Historical Sources
25 Feb 2019 11:00am - 12:30pm, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Looking Back and Thinking Ahead: Humanistic Methods and/in Digital Humanities
1 May 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Old Divinity School, St John's College

The inaugural talk in the CDH Distinguished Lecturer Series.

Seeing/Knowing: Using Visualisation as a Research Instrument
1 May 2019 11:30am - 3:00pm, Room B3, Institute of Criminology

A workshop by Cambrdige Digital Humanities.

Computer Vision and the Digital Humanities: An Overview
13 May 2019 1:00pm - 2:30pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A presentation by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Computer Vision and the Digital Humanities: Practical Applications
14 May 2019 1:00pm - 4:00pm, IT Training Room, University Library

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities

Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? How Digital Changed the Music Industry
17 May 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Old Divinity School, St John's College

Distinguished lecture series by Cambridge Digital Humanities

Explaining Complexity: Using Animation, Illustration and Interactive Media to Communicate Research
20 May 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A training course by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Telling Stories about Data
4 Jun 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site (Please note change of room)

A lecture convened by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Social Media as an Historical Source: Methods, Challenges, Ethics
17 Jun 2019 11:30am - 4:00pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site
Machine Reading the Archive 2019: End of Programme Workshop
18 Jun 2019 11:30am - 3:30pm, SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Film-making for Beginners (Level 2)
24 Jun 2019 - 26 Jun 2019 9:00am, Phoenix Training Suite, New Museums Site

A training course by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Digital Mapping for Historians
26 Jun 2019 - 27 Jun 2019 9:30pm, Seminar Room, Department of Geography

A training course by Cambridge Digita Humanities

Automating the Crowd: Workshop 2
16 Jul 2019 11:30am - 3:30pm, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge Site, Cambridge. CB3 0HE

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Who are the real people behind artificial intelligence?
16 Jul 2019 5:30pm - 7:00pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A panel talk  by Cambridge Digital Humanities

The Letters Connection: Social Network Analysis in the Scientific Correspondence Collection 1
18 Sep 2019 11:30am - 4:30pm, S3, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

A workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

The Letters Connection: Social Network Analysis in the Scientific Correspondence Collection 2
25 Sep 2019 11:30am - 4:30pm, S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site

The second session of a workshop by Cambridge Digital Humanities.

CANCELLED Play as Research Practice? Thinking with (and about) Games – Game Design Worksop
2 Dec 2019 - 3 Dec 2019 All day, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library

CDH game design workshop

Digital Research Design and Data Ethics
7 Jan 2020 11:30am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Digital Data Collection and Wrangling
14 Jan 2020 11:30am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Qualitative Research in Online Environments
21 Jan 2020 11:30am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Network Analysis for Humanities Scholars
27 Jan 2020 12:30pm - 2:30pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Digital Landscapes: Archival Representation with Computational Methods
27 Jan 2020 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Data Presentation and Preservation
28 Jan 2020 11:30am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

How To Do Digital Humanities – CDH Open
28 Jan 2020 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Atrium, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 1
4 Feb 2020 11:00am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 2
11 Feb 2020 11:00am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Film-making for Beginners 1
17 Feb 2020 All day, Phoenix Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QY

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 3
18 Feb 2020 11:00am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Film-making for Beginners 2
18 Feb 2020 All day, Phoenix Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QY

Cambridge Digital Humanities

CANCELLED: Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 4
25 Feb 2020 11:00am - 1:00pm, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR
Cambridge Digital Humanities: Building Critical Mass
6 Mar 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Board Room, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Cambridge Digital Humanities

POSTPONED: Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School
16 Mar 2020 - 20 Mar 2020 All day, IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library
POSTPONED: Turning Cultural Heritage and Archival Collections Inside Out
17 Mar 2020 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library, West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Cambridge Digital Humanities

POSTPONED GIS for Historical Trade Routes: Between Archaeology and History
24 Mar 2020 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Munby Room, King’s College, King's Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST
WEBINAR Best Wishes: A Psychophilology of Supplications
20 May 2020 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Online event
ONLINE Distance and Depth, Computers and Close Reading
27 May 2020 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Online event
WEBINAR Distance and Depth, Computers and Close Reading
27 May 2020 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Online
WEBINAR Surveillance for Your Own Good: A Discussion and Debate
10 Jun 2020 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Online event
ONLINE Machine Reading the Archive – End of Programme Workshop
15 Jun 2020 3:30pm - 4:30pm, Online
ONLINE Game Design: An Introduction for Researchers
17 Jun 2020 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Online
WEBINAR The Computational Production of the New: On Aesthetics, Creativity and Digital Technologies
24 Jun 2020 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Online
WEBINAR Programming the Planet and Reconfiguring Sense
1 Jul 2020 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Online
Dr Tulp and the Theatre of Zoom
16 Jul 2020 - 17 Jul 2020 All day, Online
Doing Digital Literary History – Delving into Massive Digital Archives
16 Sep 2020 - 7 Oct 2020 All day, Online
Delving into Massive Digital Archives – Guided Project
12 Oct 2020 - 2 Nov 2020 All day, Online

CDH

Humanities Data: A Basic Introduction
13 Oct 2020 10:00am - 11:00am, Online

CDH

Ghost Fictions – Guided Project
26 Oct 2020 - 23 Nov 2020 All day, Online

CDH

Sorting Things Out: Why Metadata Matters
27 Oct 2020 10:00am - 11:00am, Online

CDH

Re:search
10 Nov 2020 10:00am - 11:00am, Online

CDH

Digital Research Design and Data Ethics
24 Nov 2020 10:00am - 11:00am, Online

CDH

Methods Workshop: Automated Writing in the Age of Machine Learning
7 Dec 2020 All day, Online

CDH

Interaction with Machine Learning – Guided Project
26 Jan 2021 All day, Online

CDH

CDH Basics – Bulk Data Capture: An Overview
23 Feb 2021 10:00am - 11:00am, Online
CDH Basics – Cleaning up Your Messy Data: An Introduction to OpenRefine
2 Mar 2021 10:00am - 11:00am, Online
CDH Cultural Heritage Data School
17 Mar 2021 - 30 Mar 2021 All day, ONLINE

The Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School, led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, is an online intensive teaching programme which aims to bring together participants from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector and academia to explore the methods used to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections.

CDH Labs | Introduction to Gale Digital Scholar Lab
6 May 2021 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Online
CDH Labs | Digital Scholar Lab sessions: Tools in Depth
7 May 2021 10:00am - 11:00am, Online
CDH Labs | Introduction to Gale Digital Scholar Lab
10 May 2021 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Online
CDH Basics | Working with Image Collections at Scale: An Introduction to IIIF
11 May 2021 10:00am - 11:00am, Online
CDH Labs | Digital Scholar Lab sessions: Tools in Depth
13 May 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Online
Ghost Fictions: Automatic Writing in the Age of Machine Learning
20 May 2021 10:30am - 2:30pm, Online
CDH Methods Workshops | Best Practices in Coding for Digital Humanities
20 May 2021 11:00am - 12:00pm, Online
CDH Basics | Computer Vision: A Critical Introduction
25 May 2021 10:00am - 11:00am, Online
(Un)Real Digital Futures: Games, Theatres and ‘the’ Metaverse
25 May 2021 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Online
CDH Methods Workshops | Best Practices in Coding for Digital Humanities
27 May 2021 11:00am - 12:00pm, Online
Methods Fellow Workshop: Tracing Meaning Through Time with Digital Methods: Darwin’s Language
8 Jun 2021 All day, Online
Postcolonial Print Cultures and their Digital Afterlives: A Roundtable Discussion
8 Jun 2021 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Online
Methods Fellow Workshop: Tracing Meaning Through Time with Digital Methods: Darwin’s Language
15 Jun 2021 All day,
Cambridge Digital Humanities Social Data School 2021
16 Jun 2021 - 29 Jun 2021 All day, Online
Digitising David Jones – Jim Ede Correspondence
21 Jun 2021 - 25 Jun 2021 All day, Online
How Machine Learning Systems Shape the Media
22 Jun 2021 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Online
New Lands: sacred spaces and the digital
6 Oct 2021 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Magdalene College & Online

Sacred spaces and the digital: a panel on embodiment, rituals and the creation of augmented space

Singing the Nation: memory and the afterlives of Lift Every Voice and Sing
9 Nov 2021 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Online
Digital worlds of hidden texts
16 Nov 2021 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Online
Affinity before Amazon: using topic modelling to approach genre and taste formation in twentieth-century literary culture
1 Feb 2022 16:00 - 17:30, Online event
History, the archive, persistent identifiers, and the knowable past
9 Feb 2022 17:00 - 18:30, Online event
Gaming at war: the rise of the first-person military shooter
23 Feb 2022 16:00 - 17:30, Online
(Anti)Colonial archives in the digital age
8 Mar 2022 14:00 - 16:00, Online

Event on how collection-holding institutions and researchers deal with the challenges of presenting colonial archival materials.

Neural vision models as models of visual culture: digital art history and bias in AI
4 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00, Online
(In)Accessible archive(s): Hackathon
9 May 2022 - 11 May 2022 09:00 - 17:00, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT

A digital humanities hackathon organised by CDH in collaboration with Cambridge University Libraries.

Radical Secrecy: radical transparency
10 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00, Online event
Visualising computational literary criticism
17 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00, Online event
Digital investigations: towards a transformative practice
24 May 2022 15:30 - 17:00, Online event
Digital transformation – a revolution in the humanities?
26 May 2022 17:30 - 18:30, Online event
Oral History Archives online: the connected histories of the BBC
7 Jun 2022 14:00 - 16:00, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Post-publishing: experimenting with living books
10 Jun 2022 13:30 - 15:00, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
UNBIND: Reimagining the academic monograph
10 Jun 2022 09:30 - 18:00, Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
The magics and mechanics of virtual travel
17 Jun 2022 16:00 - 17:30, Sook Space, Grafton Centre, Cambridge
Grassroots data wranglers
22 Jun 2022 15:30-17:00, Online event

A public event showcasing some of the initiatives which employ grassroots methods for data inquiry.

An introduction to geolocation tools for open source investigations
23 Jun 2022 14:00-15:00, Online event

Cambridge’s Digital Verification Corps showcase practical tools to evaluate digital content, integrating considerations of ethics and power.

Building empires of data
18 Oct 2022 17:30 - 18:30, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
Digital borders, digital bodies: postcolonial Digital Humanities in practice
19 Oct 2022 17:30 - 18:30, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
On digital intelligence
26 Oct 2022 17:00-19:00, The Diamond Room, Cripps Court, Selwyn College
Open day: MPhil in Digital Humanities Q&A
31 Oct 2022 17:00 - 17:45, Online event
DigiHum & donuts: MPhil information session
1 Nov 2022 14:00 - 16:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
POSTPONED Machine learning political orders
1 Nov 2022 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond Room, Cripps Court, Selwyn College
MPhil: Do I have the right background?
2 Nov 2022 19:00 - 20:00, Online event
Q&A session: Cultural Heritage Data School
2 Nov 2022 14:00 - 15:00, Online event
COP27 in Egypt: Between data colonialism and climate justice 
16 Nov 2022 16:00 - 18:00 (GMT), Online
Visual search for exploring and dating collections: lessons from Spanish chapbooks
22 Nov 2022 09:30 - 11:30, Online or in-person at the University Library
Methodologies for mining meaning from text
1 Dec 2022 17:00 - 19:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge
Q&A session: Cambridge Digital Humanities Social Data School
5 Dec 2022 14:30 - 15:30 (GMT), Online event
Cultural Heritage Data School
12 Dec 2022 - 16 Dec 2022 11:00 - 16:00 daily (GMT), Online event
Mapping the road towards archival justice: inclusive terminology and colonial archives
14 Dec 2022 16:15 - 17:45 (GMT), Online
Cambridge Digital Humanities Social Data School
9 Jan 2023 - 13 Jan 2023 11:00 - 16:00 (GMT) Daily, Online
CDH Methods Workshop | Harvesting data and visualising cultural transmission
30 Jan 2023 14:00 - 16:00, IT Training Room, University Library, Cambridge
6 Feb 2023 14:00 - 16:00, IT Training Room, University Library, Cambridge
Learning experiments in computer vision and visual literacy: Geoff Cox
7 Feb 2023 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond Room, Cripps Court, Grange Road, Selwyn College, Cambridge CB3 9DQ
CDH Methods Workshop | Creative-critical methods: bearing witness to personal and collective trauma
13 Feb 2023 14:00 - 16:00, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
20 Feb 2023 14:00 - 16:00, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
After Abstraction: become part of the Cross-Connections exhibition
25 Feb 2023 14:00, Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG
17 Mar 2023 17:00, Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG
CDH Methods Workshop | Digital archival photography
3 Mar 2023 10:30 - 12:30, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
CDH Methods Workshop | Digital archival photography in-depth
6 Mar 2023 10:30 - 12:30, Digital Content Unit, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
13 Mar 2023 10:30 - 12:30, Digital Content Unit, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
CDH Methods Workshop | Seeing the database differently: qualitative data analysis in cultural heritage
6 Mar 2023 13:00 - 17:00, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
Machine learning political orders: Louise Amoore
7 Mar 2023 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond Room, Cripps Court, Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9DQ
CDH Methods Workshop | Theorising transparency in digital culture
8 Mar 2023 10:00 - 14:00, Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
CDH Methods Workshop | Making meaning out of data: machine learning for Humanities research
13 Mar 2023 13:00 - 17:00, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
Best practices in coding for Digital Humanities
28 Mar 2023 9:00 - 13:00, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Cambridge Digital Humanities short Cultural Heritage Data School
17 Apr 2023 - 18 Apr 2023 All day, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge
Using artificial intelligence for language documentation
21 Apr 2023 15:00 - 16:30, Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Machine learning systems: a critical introduction
24 Apr 2023 13:00 - 17:00, IT Training Room, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
Mark Algee-Hewitt: Truth in (climate) fiction
3 May 2023 17:45 - 19:15, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Cambridge Theatre Hackathon
19 May 2023 16:00 - 23:00, Sidgwick Site, tbc
20 May 2023 09:00 - 23:00, Sidgwick Site, tbc
Zürich Digital Visual Studies workshop
29 May 2023 14:00 - 17:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Hyperdigital designs workshop
14 Jun 2023 09:00 - 17:00, Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Accessibility in the cyberspace: teaching 3-D digitisation methods for cultural preservation
17 Jun 2023 12:00 - 16:30, Central Library, 7 Lion Yard, Cambridge CB2 3QD
Cambridge Digital Humanities Social Data School
26 Jun 2023 - 30 Jun 2023 09:00 - 17:00, Cambridge
CDH | Online Cultural Heritage Data School: information session for applicants
6 Sep 2023 14:00 - 15:00, Online
Persistent Identifiers as infrastructure in Cambridge
13 Sep 2023 9:30 - 17:30, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Operator | Is that all there is? digital art as spectacle critical reflection on technology
4 Oct 2023 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond Room, Cripps Court, Selwyn College, Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9DQ
CDH | Online Social Data School: information session for applicants
11 Oct 2023 14:00 - 15:00, Online
The cultural politics of code reading group: an introduction to critical code studies
11 Oct 2023 17:00 - 18:00, Hybrid / Room GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge
Governance and interdependence in AI supply chains
20 Oct 2023 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond, Cripps Court, Selwyn College Grange Road Cambridge CB3 9DQ
The ethico-politics of design toolkits: the case of responsible AI
3 Nov 2023 17:00 - 19:00, The Diamond, Cripps Court, Selwyn College, Cambridge CB3 9DQ
CDH | Online Cultural Heritage Data School 2023
6 Nov 2023 - 14 Nov 2023 13:00 - 16:00 daily (GMT), Online
Utopian cycles in archiving practices: past, present, and future histories
8 Nov 2023 16:00 - 17:30, Online
‘The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence’ A book presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli
8 Nov 2023 18:00 - 19:30, Room GR 06/07, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Editing anti-slavery archives and modelling sustainable publications: the case of Mary Anne Rawson’s The Bow in the Cloud (1834)
17 Nov 2023 17:00 - 19:00, Chadwick, Selwyn College, Grange Road Cambridge CB3 9DQ
Designing VR and Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage to Promote Social Cohesion
1 Dec 2023 17:00 - 19:00, GR 06/07, English Faculty, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
CDH | Online Social Data School 2023
11 Dec 2023 - 19 Dec 2023 13:00 - 16:00, Online
Responsible AI for journalism
13 Dec 2023 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, Online event
The role of the SAT Buddhist Scripture Database project in Japanese Digital Humanities
19 Feb 2024 11:00 - 12:30, Room S1, Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Understanding, detecting and designing for the ‘human gap’ upstream in a world of generative AI
1 Mar 2024 17:00 - 19:00, Chadwick, Selwyn College, Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9DQ

A Cambridge Digital Humanities event with Dr Chantelle Brandt Larsen (Aarau, Switzerland)

“My perfect platform would be telepathy” – Facilitating autistic sociality through participatory design workshops
12 Mar 2024 13:00 - 14:00, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
‘Is Digital Humanities anticritical?’ Disciplined curiosity and commonsense
14 Mar 2024 17:00 - 19:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Am I normal?
15 Mar 2024 11:00 -17:30, Room GR04, Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Exhibition by Tristan Dot for the Cambridge Festival

Faust Shop: discover your artificial double
16 Mar 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Cambridge Central Library, 7 Lion Yard, Cambridge CB2 3QD

An augmented theatrical experience for the Cambridge Festival

Walking with Constable: the Cambridge Edition
20 Mar 2024 13:00 - 16:00, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR

A university-wide research project led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University Digital Library

Share your expertise: a Wikipedia edit-a-thon
23 Mar 2024 10:30 - 12:30, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Edit-a-thon run by Cambridge Digital Humanities

CDH | Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School
8 Apr 2024 - 12 Apr 2024 10:00 - 17:00, Cambridge, UK
CDH | Cambridge Social Data School (September 2024): information session for applicants
16 Apr 2024 14:00 - 14:45, Online
Textile – digital
23 Apr 2024 14:00 - 17:00, S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
AI Café for Humanities and Social Science research
25 Apr 2024 12:00 - 14:30, SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Generative AI and the automation of creative labour
25 Apr 2024 15:00 - 17:00, S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge Cb3 9DP
The Network Social Abstraction: for a genealogy of the computational social sciences
2 May 2024 17:30-19:30, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Code as conversation: transmedia dialogues around critical code studies
1 Jun 2024 08:45 - 17:00, SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024
2 Jul 2024 - 5 Jul 2024 TBA, Edinburgh Futures Institute
CDH | Social Data School: September 2024
9 Sep 2024 - 13 Sep 2024 9am - 5pm, Cambridge, UK

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