Digital Humanities at the Australian National University

New publication: Champion, E., Nurmikko-Fuller, T., and Grant, K. (2022) "Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim" . In Houghton, R. (Ed.). Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact (Vol. 11). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

9 Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim 9 Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim was published in Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games on page 175.

https://ausi.anu.edu.au/news/dr-terhi-nurmikko-fuller-awarded-gale-scholar-asia-pacific-digital-humanities-oxford-fellowship

Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller awarded Gale Scholar Asia Pacific Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowship Congratulations to Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller from the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, on being awarded a Gale Scholar Asia Pacific Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowship. During her Fellowship, Terhi will undertake an important Australian Studies project, ‘Transnational Liberalism: A Link...

Delighted to announce not one but TWO 3D modelling workshops as part of the MetoDHology Series for 2022!

1) 3D Imaging: Applied Photogrammetry 22/09/2022 am session (9:30 - 12:30)
2) Manual Retopology of Scanned 3D Models 22/09/2022 pm session (13:30 -16:30)

You can one one, the other, or both!

Links to register for the events below:

1) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/metodhology-series-2022-3d-imaging-applied-photogrammetry-tickets-416439671267

2) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metodhology-series-2022-manual-retopology-of-scanned-3d-models-tickets-416460904777

MetoDHology Series 2022 - Manual Retopology of Scanned 3D Models Learn how to transform your scanned heritage objects into 3D models that can be repurposed for various uses!

Huge thank you to our wonderful students for all their help and enthusiasm on Open Day on last Saturday! It was so fun to listen to you all describe the discipline and your studies with such excitement and passion!

Thank you to Chery, Jed, Ting, Kit, Angel, Sophia and Kit! Adding the post-it notes was such a good idea!!

The graduate student rebellion by Tom Gauld

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336017-tom-gauld-on-graduate-students/

...Swooping season is upon us....

How to survive magpie swooping season Your guide to making it through swoopy boi spring.

We would like to warn our international students about a sophisticated financial scam.

Scammers are posing as government officials and asking for large sums of money to be transferred, threatening deportation and imprisonment.

ANU is here to support you, so please do not send any money or provide your personal, credit card or online account details to scammers over the phone.

If you have been targeted by this scam, follow these steps:

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3. Report to the scam to ScamWatch at www.scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam

While this scam is mainly targeting international students, it is an important reminder to all our community to stay vigilant and protected.

Check out ScamWatch’s useful tips to help prevent you from becoming a victim of a scam: www.scamwatch.gov.au/get-help/protect-yourself-from-scams

We understand this may be very distressing to our community, so encourage you to seek support.

Centre staff and students on 🌈💜

Coming up: Thursday, Sep. 1, 2022, 5-8pm Queensland, 10am-1pm Finland, 8-11am UK

The workshop Computational Thinking in the Humanities is a 3-hour online workshop featuring two plenary talks, lightning presentations, as well as a panel discussion. The workshop is co-organized by the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP), FIN-CLARIAH and its UEF representatives, and the Australian Digital Observatory.

Computational Thinking in the Humanities

Lot's of CDHR folk in this book, including Dr Katrina Grant (who is also in the podcast), Robert Fleet, and Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-08-19/sick-codes-hacks-john-deere-tractor-plays-video-game-doom-defcon/101345586

An Aussie hacker installed DOOM on a tractor, but says cybersecurity is not a game The hacker Sick Codes fires a warning shot at the security of computerised farm equipment after breaking into the controls of a John Deere tractor to install the video game DOOM.