New book by Claartje Rasterhoff on early modern painting & publishing industries
The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book asks the question of how such a small nation could become such aREAD MORE
Bursary deadline approaching on 14th November
‘Cinema, Memory and the Community’ – First free workshop – 15th December Registration now open – Travel bursaries available This project, funded by the British Academy, will use two free workshops and a dedicated online portal to bring together academics, public groups and private businessesREAD MORE
Next Digital History Workshop: Networks #2
In this session of the CREATE Digital History Workshop we will practice working with Gephi, the popular software for Network Analysis. The session will be led by Anne Helmond, Assistant Professor and Program Director of the MA New Media & Digital Culture at the UniversityREAD MORE
Video Keynote Lecture by Scott Weingart: Punched-Card Humanities
Punched-Card Humanities. Lessons From Digital History’s Antecedents Keynote lecture by Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University), held at the conference Creativity & the City 1600 – Present: An E-Humanities Perspective, 28-29 October 2016. Organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI) and theREAD MORE
Next CREATE Salon: 15 November
After the inspiring Creativity and the City conference of last week, we look forward to continuing the conversation in the next Salon on shared research infrastructure. Two topics that will be discussed are: 1. Harmonisation of census data. Use case: building a GIS on cinemaREAD MORE
Creativity & the City Conference
Many many thanks to all speakers, chairs, participants and sponsors! A visual report will be published on this blog shortly, as will the fabulous keynote lecture of Scott Weingart on what we may learn from early computational historical research. For now, you can find theREAD MORE
Romy Beck: “Preparations are in full swing”
In two weeks our ACHI-CREATE conference will take place. Preparations to facilitate this international and interdisciplinary conference are in full swing. The full program and info on the venues are now available online. If you would like to visit our Conference, please fill in theREAD MORE