Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury

Volume 4 Issue 1 of the online open access journal Pacific Dynamics is now live! This is the first issue to be published with the journal's new editorial manager Dr Rosemarie Martin, and contains a timely piece on security in the Pacific co-authored by Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies's Ashalyna Noa. Have a read here: http://pacificdynamics.nz/

Pacific Dynamics – Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

DH postdoc Geoff Ford also presented at NDF, on his experiences building and analysing a 57-million-word annotated corpus based on the official online version of the New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (or Hansard)

Geoffrey Ford: Parsing parliament: parliament's proceedings as researchers' data Wednesday November 21st, 12:00pm-12:25pm @ Rangimarie 1 - Breakout Room This presentation draws on my experiences building and analysing a 57-million-word an...

Last month at the National Digital Forum conference at Te Papa, UC Arts Digital Lab staff Jennifer, Jenny and Samuel presented a paper on the Lab's latest project, an app to help researchers build a map of stories and memories from the residential red zone.

S Hope, J Rees, J Middendorf: Understanding Place: A participatory archival project mapping stori... Understanding Place: A participatory archival project mapping stories in the Residential Red Zone Tuesday November 20th, 1:30pm-1:55pm @ Angus - Breakout Roo...

This summer Digital Humanities is offering a new course, DIGI210 Big Data in Society: Navigating concepts, methods and critical perspectives. If you're looking for a summer school paper, this will be a great way to explore a topic of increasing social impact and concern.

For course details see:
https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/courseinfo/GetCourseDetails.aspx?course=DIGI210&occurrence=18SU2(C)&year=2018

Okay, it is from last year, but this is still the absolute BEST source of last-minute suggestions for your Halloween costume.

A neural network designs Halloween costumes It’s hard to come up with ideas for Halloween costumes, especially when it seems like all the good ones are taken. And don’t you hate showing up at a party only to discover that there’s *another* pajama cardinalfish? I train neural networks, a type of machine learning algorithm, to write humor...

Last couple of days of early bird registrations for DH Downunder @ University of Sydney

DH Downunder 2018 | Western Sydney University Hosted by Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney, at the University of Sydney's historic Camperdown Campus.

Congratulations Kara!

Huge congratulations to Kara Kennedy, who completely aced her PhD oral examination today. Kara's thesis is the first substantive study of women in Frank Herbert's Dune series, and it gives an in-depth and compelling account of agency and Bene Gesserit sisterhood through the lens of second-wave feminist thought. The examiners found the project to be persuasive and incisive, and had no hesitation in recommending that Kara be awarded her doctorate. Ngā mihi nui, Dr Kennedy!

Join us on Thursday for our next DH Meetup.

Digital Humanities Meetup: Methods for Parsing Spatial and Temporal Data When: 3-5pm, 11th October Where: Poutama Room 388, Puaka-James Hight Library, University of Canterbury Dr Ben Adams (UC Geography) “A massive amount of geographic (spatial) and historical (temporal) information exists in document collections online and in libraries. Because these datasets are ofte...

On Wednesday Dr Wan Chi Leung from Media and Communications is presenting on "Network Analysis". This talk is part of the COMS and UC Arts Digital Lab "Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series". Join us Wednesday @ 1pm, Locke 611A.

Here in Te Pokapū Aronui ā-Matihiko | UC Arts Digital Lab we've been enjoying exploring te reo Māori with Kupu (https://kupu.co.nz/) - an app which uses image recognition to teach the names of common objects in te reo.

Such a cool idea to apply some digital technology to Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!