CREATE in London
2016-04-14
Affiliate member dr. Bert van de Roemer was invited to give a lecture at the British Library on his digital historical research and the CREATE project.READ MORE
Next Digital History Workshop
2016-04-08
Data Visualization: Excel and beyond UvA Create Digital History Workshop Wednesday April 20, 2016, 13-15h E-lab Mediastudies, room 0.16 BG 1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam Most humanities scholars will agree that to understand their research object means to visualize it to some extent. This session ofREAD MORE
Coming up! Salon @ 19 April 2016 & Digital History Workshop @ 20 April
2016-04-07
Tuesday 19 April, Salon: Geocoding Historical Data, with Menno Den Engelse and Harm Nijboer. For more info click here. Wednesday 20 April, CREATE Digital History Workshop on Data Visualization. For more info click here.READ MORE
Lecture: “Vital Little Plans: Jane Jacobs on Cities, Economies, and Morals” (11 May 2016, Amsterdam)
2016-04-07
Guest Lecture by Prof. Samuel Zipp (Brown University): “Vital Little Plans: Jane Jacobs on Cities, Economies, and Morals” Time: Tuesday, May 11, 2016, 15.00-17.00 Location: University Theatre, Room 101A, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18, Amsterdam This lecture will elaborate on Jane Jacobs and her less well-known visionsREAD MORE
ONSTAGE at Lope de Vega Conference Barcelona
2015-12-17
Eighty years of war against the arch enemy Spain eventually brought freedom and autonomy for the Netherlands in 1648. Peace between the nations garanteed a new era of traffic, trade and exchange. This was the moment when another Spanish Armada went out to conquer Europe:READ MORE
Cfp: Creativity and the City 1600-2000: An E-Humanities Perspective (27-29 October 2015)
2015-11-10
Creativity and the City 1600-2000: An E-Humanities Perspective Call for papers, International Conference, Amsterdam, 27-29 October 2016 Organized by: Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Keynote speakers: Jo Guldi, Brown University Ilja Van Damme, Antwerp University Scott Weingart, CarnegieREAD MORE
11 February: Digital History Reading Group
2015-10-26
Thursday 11 february, 4-5.30 PM, @BG1, eLab Mediastudies, room 0.16 The ‘reading group’ is in a workshop setting. This time we will explore some tools for stylometrics. CREATE’s pre-PhD fellow Tessa Wijchmans will give a short introduction on these tools (especially AntConc) for the analysisREAD MORE
Cfp: Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage (Taiwan, 31 March – 4 April 2016)
2015-10-26
Second Call for Papers – Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage 31 March – 4 April, 2016 Taipei, Taiwan Second Call for Papers: 20 November 2015 www.inheritingthecity.wordpress.com In the context of rapid cultural and economic globalisation, over half of the World’s population nowREAD MORE
Early modern theater database ONSTAGE featured in eHumanities eMagazine
2015-10-07
On the 29th of August 2015, Kim Jautze, Leonor Álvarez Francés and Frans Blom presented at at the Conference “Werkgroep voor de Zeventiende Eeuw” in Nijmegen on an article they have written for the journal De Zeventiende Eeuw. In this article, which will be publishedREAD MORE
From a Pre-PhD student of CREATE to a PhD student in the Tuscan State ;)
2015-10-07
In February of this year I became one of CREATE’s pre-PhD students. My focus was on Historical Network Analysis for which I analysed correspondences between the Dutch Republic and Italy in the early modern period. This project allowed me not only to delve into dataREAD MORE