Movie Theatres in Wartime (WWII)
Film Distribution and Exhibition During World War II Online convention: Nov 19-20, 2020 This online event is a follow-up to the workshop “Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption during the Second World War” (Leuven, 2018) and the “Movie Theatres in Wartime” symposium (June 2020, scheduled toREAD MORE
NWA Idea Generator Grant Giovanni Colavizza for improved access to historical texts
This Summer, Giovanni Colavizza, coordinator of CREATE’s research theme ‘AI for Cultural Heritage’, has been awarded funding from NWO in the Idea Generator scheme of the Dutch Research Agenda NWA for his project “Improving the accessibility of textual historical collections via transfer learning.” Abstract: DigitizedREAD MORE
Save the dates! CREATE events 2020-2021
The next academic semester brings new and inspiring CREATE events. Please save the dates for our 2020-2021 Salon and Masterclass serie. More information on topics and speakers will be available soon! Wednesday 23 September 15:00-17:00 (digital)Virtual Interiors Thursday 22 October 15:00-17:00Virtual Teaching and Digital MethodsREAD MORE
Report: Cinema Context datasprint
On Thursday 28 May, a group of enthusiasts gathered on Zoom for a Cinema Context datasprint, aimed at cleaning and enriching programming data obtained via automatic extraction from digitised newspapers. For the occasion, a ‘Digifil Editor’ was created, a tool structuring the information that participantsREAD MORE
Cinema Context Virtual Datasprint
CREATE invites you to a virtual datasprint on Thursday 28 May. Challenged by the corona-crisis, we want to take the opportunity to experiment with new ways for hands-on collaborative work on digital data in humanities research. In this dataprint, we will focus on Dutch filmREAD MORE
UvA researchers document how citizens experience corona times
Tobias Blanke (professor of Humanities and AI) and Julia Noordegraaf (CREATE, professor of Digital Heritage) have taken the initiative to collect sources related to the COVID-19 crisis. This mainly involves collecting and archiving ephemeral sources that document how individuals and communities experience the corona crisis. The aim is to quickly develop anREAD MORE
NWO has awarded a ‘Corona: fast-track data’ grant to Giovanni Colavizza (UvA, CREATE)
The call ‘Corona: fast-track data’ is developed by the NWO domains, Applied and Engineering Sciences, Science and Social Sciences and Humanities to collect data that can only be conducted now, during the COVID-19 crisis, and specifically research into issues that arise in society during theREAD MORE
Melvin Wevers, the new assistant professor ‘Urban History and Digital Methods’
On August 1, Melvin Wevers will take up the position as assistant professor ‘Urban History and Digital Methods’. Currently, he is working as a postdoc in the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster. Melvin has a background in American Studies and Psychology and his current researchREAD MORE
Updates on coronavirus
Dear colleagues, On Monday, 23 March, the government took additional measures to tackle the coronavirus. In line with these extra measures, there will be no CREATE activities until further notice. The CREATE staff continues working virtually, so we continue the research support by the Lab team toREAD MORE
Recap Urban Studies Network Day 30 January 2020
On the 30th of January, we hosted the fourth edition of the Urban Studies Network Day at the Lloyd Hotel. CREATE co-hosted this networking event for urban scholars with The Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History (ACUH), and the AmsterdamREAD MORE