CREATE Salon: ‘Digital social history and practice-based approaches’
This CREATE Salon puts the spotlight on new approaches in social history that have been greatly facilitated by the digital turn. Two research projects focusing on the long-term history of everyday life explain how they use digital tools to study practices, and show how systematic analysesREAD MORE
Best paper award at DH Benelux 2019 for paper on temporal exploration of audiovisual sources
By Hugo Huurdeman During the Digital Humanities Benelux 2019 conference in Liège, a paper created in the context of CLARIAH received the best paper award. This paper looked at novel and visual ways to support scholars’ interpretation of audiovisual sources through temporal content exploration. FromREAD MORE
Save the dates!
The start of the new academic semester brings new and inspiring CREATE events! Please save the dates for our 2019-2020 Salon serie (Thursday 3-5 PM in the eLab of Mediastudies). More information on topics and speakers will be available soon. 31/10/2019 28/11/2019 30/01/2020 27/02/2020READ MORE
Seven projects funded under the Smart Culture – Art and Culture programme
Seven research projects have received total funding of nearly 3 million euros with the aim of making connections between innovative artistic and cultural practices on the one hand, and scientific and societal issues on the other. The projects have been funded under the unique researchREAD MORE
Jackelopes visit Create: Historical network analysis of film programming
By Thunnis van Oort In 2016 and 2017 a series of meetings took place of an international group of cinema history scholars, made possible through a grant from the Swedish Riksbanken Jubileumsfond. Julia Noordegraaf participated in these meetings on behalf of the Create programme. OnREAD MORE
Research valorisation: Dutch National Opera & Ballet interested in CREATE Opera data model
By Thunnis van Oort The Dutch National Opera & Ballet holds an important archive that documents its history of post-war opera and ballet productions. In order to manage and preserve that collection and improve its accessibility, both for a wider audience but also for (re)useREAD MORE
Open Call: Joint Seed Grant Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI) and Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
In this second round, grants will be awarded of between €2.500 and €5.000 per grant, up to a total call budget of €15.000. With a well-developed argument grants higher than €5.000 can be also considered. Grants can be submitted continuously, between now and the finalREAD MORE
Salon 6 june: Digital Art history
By Thunnis van Oort The last Salon of the season was dedicated to Digital Art History. Not the history of digital art, but on various uses of digital methods and data for studying art history. One overarching element in this broad topic was thatREAD MORE
Mascha van Nieuwkerk wins Hélène Nolthenius Prize!
During the Fourth Annual Student Research in Music Conference, coorganised by IASPM Benelux, Universiteit Utrecht, student society Hucbald, and KVNM, the first Hélène Nolthenius Prize for master theses in in musicology was awarded to former CREATE researcher Mascha van Nieuwkerk for her thesis ‘Een vergeten repertoire: De concertprogrammering van Felix Meritis in deREAD MORE
Workshop: “Thinking like a database: Digitizing and analysing data in the Humanities”
Scholars in the humanities work with many different kinds of materials and sources. We risk being overwhelmed with the available amount of information, and our organizational computer skills rarely go beyond organizing files in a hierarchy of folders and sub-folders. Working within large amounts ofREAD MORE