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
Open Invitation to the International EHRI Conference: Holocaust Studies and its Social Setting
Date: Wednesday, 3 July 2019 Venue: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Duration: 9.30 – 18.30 Go to Registration Holocaust Studies is a dynamic multidisciplinary research field that is dedicated to the Holocaust itself but also includes aspects of the post-Holocaust world such as memory,READ MORE
Open Invitation to the EHRI Academic Conference: Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age
Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age. What’s New? Date: Tuesday, 2 July 2019 Location: Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Duration: 9.30-18.00 Go to Registration Holocaust studies: academic and public Holocaust Studies is a dynamic multidisciplinary research field that is dedicated to the HolocaustREAD MORE
EARLY MODERN DIGITAL HUMANITIES. CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, and POSTERS
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 17-20, 2019 DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2019 SCSC welcomes papers, panels, and poster presentations on any topic relevant to “Early Modern Digital Humanities.” Digital projects might include interpretive scholarly papers, discussions of electronic editions of sources, digital pedagogy, digitalREAD MORE
Unleashing big data of the past: Europe builds a ‘time machine’
Funding awarded for large-scale European research initiative The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of six proposals to develop a large-scale research initiative. The European Time Machine project will receive 1 million euros in funding to prepare a detailed roadmap of the initiative.READ MORE
CREATE Salon: ‘Interfaces for reusing historical research data’
This CREATE salon follows up on its previous edition in February on citizen science, but focuses on a different aspect of public engagement with digital history: the reuse of historical datasets. Ideally, research data are neatly deposited for reuse before a project ends. And increasingly,READ MORE
Recap ACHI and CUS Network Day
The network day, jointly sponsored by ACHI and CUS, between urban scholars based at the social sciences and humanities, was, to say the least, an energetic experience! After a convivial start around the lunch table we were treated with an exhilarating torrent of one-minute presentationsREAD MORE