Nederlab grant for Tessa Wijckmans and Ivan Kisjes
Ivan Kisjes (CREATE) and Tessa Wijckmans (COLEM) will start a research project at Nederlab about orthographic variation in in Early Modern texts in January 2017. Historical Dutch texts are characterized by its unstable orthographies, which troubles automatic processing and analyzing of the texts. By usingREAD MORE
‘Rubenianum’ lecture 18 December
“In which parts of Antwerp did all those artists live and work in the 16th and 17th centuries?” A lecture by the researcher Dr Petra Maclot (University of Leuven) Sunday 18 December 2016 – 11:00 Location: Rubenianum, Kolveniersstraat 20, 2000 Antwerp Registration Please register forREAD MORE
Next CREATE Digital History Workshop: Networks #3
In this final session of the CREATE Digital History Workshop miniseries on Network Analysis we will continue working with the popular software for network analysis and visualization Gephi. The session will be led by Anne Helmond, Assistant Professor and Program Director of the MA NewREAD MORE
Call for Applications: Coding Dürer
Cultural data analysis and visualization are important methods and research fields both for art historians and information scientists. Thus, the goal of this Spring School is to bring art historians and information scientists together to work on data. Art history is on the brink ofREAD MORE
International conference: ‘Changing the Nature of Art and Science. Intersections with Maria Sibylla Merian
In commemoration of her death three hundred years ago, the Maria Sibylla Merian Society is organizing in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam, the Artis Academy and the Artis Library an international conference on 7, 8 and 9 June 2017, titled Changing the Nature of ArtREAD MORE
Next CREATE Salon 13 December: Visual Analytics
We’ll explore the exciting field of Visual Analytics in Historical Research, with presentations by: * prof. dr. Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam) on the project Visual Analytics Approach for the Stylistic History of Painting (VISTORY) * dr. Harm Nijboer (University of Amsterdam/CREATE) on Wikidata andREAD MORE
Fuse music
The playlist of the performance of Fuse during the last session on our conference: (traditional) Klezmer dans Maurice Ravel – Alborada del Gracioso Chick Corea – Spain Claude Chalhoub – Recitative a la Baroque JS Bach – Brandenburg concerto no. 5 Nils Frahm- Hammers Chris ThileREAD MORE
THATCamp Amsterdam: happy afterthoughts
On 27 October 2016, the University of Amsterdam opened its doors to The Humanities And Technology Camp (THATCamp). In recent years the THATCamp formula has crossed the Atlantic and spread over Europe. At THATCamp Amsterdam we came to fully understand the reason for THATCamp’s success:READ MORE