Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities is rich in expertise in fields such as philosophy, religious studies, history, art history, literature, linguistics and area studies covering nearly every region of the world. With its staff of 995, the faculty provides 27 master’s and 25 bachelor’s programmes for over 7000 students based at locations in Leiden’s historic city centre and in modern buildings in The Hague. For more information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities.

LUCDH cooperates with the Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Leiden Centre of Data Science. LUCDH encourages, and where necessary coordinates activities in the area of Digital Humanities within study programs and institutes. LUCDH harbours original research in the field of Digital Humanities and offers advice and support to researchers in the Faculty of Humanities who are, or will be, active in this area.

Leiden University’s humanities faculty features an impressive number of scholars who are working on Digital Humanities projects, ranging from the analysis of large-scale text corpora, image databases, and historical sources to the culture and politics of contemporary social media. The assistant professor will collaborate with the Institutes in the Humanities Faculty (Area Studies and Religious Studies, History, Linguistics, Arts and Society, Philosophy), the Leiden University Library, the Leiden Data Science Centre and the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science to develop research projects and teaching programmes.

More info:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2019/q2/19-244-6249-assistant-professor-digital-humanities-with-focus-on-text-analysis

If you like working with Python and want to expand your knowledge, you might be interested in our upcoming workshop. This Friday, we will look into library building and Object Oriented Programming. This workshop will be highly practical in nature and focussing on how you can implement this in your particular field of interest. After an afternoon of practising, you are more than welcome to join us at the Pakhuis for some drinks.

Details can be found following this link:

Studium Digitale: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Library building in Python for Humanities Scholars Studium Digitale is a pilot for a workshop series that provides introductory or advanced knowledge on digital tools that benefit humanities Research. In the second installment of the workshop series we will introduce several advanced topics in Python programming that will help you create reusab...

After the success of the last Studium Digitale pilot workshop, the LUCDH will organize a second workshop in the brand-new series! This workshop will focus on Object Oriented Programming as well as Library Building in Python.
All details can be found on our website (LUCDH.nl) as well as on this link:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2019/05/workshop-studium-digitale-object-oriented-porgramming-and-python-library-building

We hope to see many of you there!

Studium Digitale: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Library building in Python for Humanities Scholars Studium Digitale is a pilot for a workshop series that provides introductory or advanced knowledge on digital tools that benefit humanities Research. In the second installment of the workshop series we will introduce several advanced topics in Python programming that will help you create reusab...

On the first of February, Sander Stolk (one of our small grant awardees) organizes the first of a series of workshops:

"EASE: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Eloquence"

The aim of the EASE workshop series is to draw attention to the new digital platform Evoke, created at Leiden University, and to explore its value for various fields of research. This platform is meant to open up historical thesauri for research. The first thesaurus that Evoke supports is the Thesaurus of Old English, which allows scholars to take a closer look at Anglo-Saxon language and culture. This workshop series aims to explore the kinds of inquiries that researchers would want to make using these two resources and to ensure that such efforts can be accomplished with relative ease. For a first glance at the Evoke platform in combination with the Thesaurus of Old English, see http://evoke.ullet.net .

Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities Small Grants

The Leiden University Centre for the Digital Humanities (LUCDH) invites applications from Leiden University staff and students for funding aimed at developing Digital Humanities activities. Funding can be used for

a. Developing a proof of concept
The proposal can be in any field of the humanities and can engage any aspect of the digital, including research on digital media or the development of digital text or audiovisual sources and methods. These funds are intended to help the applicant develop a proof of concept that can lead to larger individual or collaborative grant proposals. Funds can be used for research assistance, equipment or software, infrastructural support, events such as planning meetings or consultations. Funds can be combined with other internal or external sources of funding. Priority will be given to new projects. The maximum amount that can be requested is 3500 Euro.

b. Personal development
This funding covers costs associated with participation in a summer school, workshop, or other training related to Digital Humanities. The maximum amount that can be requested is 1000 Euro.

In some cases the funding committee may elect to award a portion of the requested budget to promising projects in instances where the committee feels a lower level of funding is suitable.

The deadline for applications is November 30, 2018.

Please submit your application here:

Form

The KB, National Library, has recently opened a call for proposals for a paid researcher-in-residence (PhD-student in the final phase or obtained a PhD a maximum of 5 years ago) with an interest in their digital collection. These could be for instance historical newspapers, the web archive or anonymized user data.

They don’t ask for a specific theme and are open for everyone with an interesting proposal, but do ask that digital methods are used in the research.

Details can be found here:
https://www.kb.nl/organisatie/vacatures-en-stages/researcher-in-residence

If you have any specific questions, please reach out to us by email.

Werken bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek? Researcher-in-residence

Yesterday, Paul Vierthaler gave an impromptu workshop on annotating manuscripts & images in 'The Ten Thousand Rooms Project', with MA & PHD students!

https://tenthousandrooms.yale.edu/