New CDH Training Programme Spring 2025 (in-person & online): register now for workshops, lectures & more!
We are pleased to present the Training Programme of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) for the first half of 2025. Take your first steps into the world of digital humanities or refine your existing skills. Make sure to reserve your spot, registration is now open for all CDH events!
Every six months, we launch a new series of workshops and lectures within the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The sessions in the CDH Training Programme are free, mostly at entry level and require a relatively modest time investment.
For whom?
All staff members of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU) are warmly invited to register for our free events. Some of our events are especially tailored to educators, while others are more suitable for researchers. Students are also welcome to participate in most of the activities and some events are open to all. Please register early to secure your place, as spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Data School: book launch & conference on Collaborative Research
On 22 January 2025, we will celebrate the book launch of Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (2024, Amsterdam University Press, open-access volume available), edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Karin van Es, and Tracey P. Lauriault.
The book launch is open to all who are interested to join an afternoon with expert keynote speakers, roundtable participants and networking opportunities in the field of collaborative research.
On 7 & 8 April 2025, Data School is also organizing the transdisciplinary conference Making a Difference. Societal Impact through Collaborative Research, for which registration is open now.
Special guests
Prof. dr. Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). On 7 February 2025, he will be giving a guest lecture on merging conceptual and digital history to study the transnational evolution of parliamentary democracy. After his lecture, he will join scientific developers from the CDH Research Software Lab in a workshop on parliamentary data in I-Analyzer. Both the lecture and the workshop are open to all and can be followed on location (Utrecht) or online.
Prof. dr. Annette Markham, Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement (Utrecht University), will give an online guest lecture on digital and media literacy on 8 May 2025. She has been researching the impact of digitalization on identity and organizing practices since 1995 and now holds specializations in the lived experience of human/machine interactions, impact of datafication and algorithmic logics on social practices, and critical approaches to digital and algorithmic identity.
Digital humanities workshops for staff & students
We offer a diverse range of entry-level workshops, featuring DH topics such as network visualization with Gephi & Python, research data storage with Yoda, qualitative data analysis using NVivo software, collecting and analysing social media data with 4CAT, and the fundamental steps of data exploration for cultural data.
We are glad to include some new workshops this semester as well: learn to work with the nodegoat research environment for humanities, and get into IIIF for working with digital images & georeferencing. If you’re an advanced Python user, you are very welcome to join our brand-new Python ‘bring your own code’ workshop with scientific developers from the CDH Research Software Lab.
Weekly DH walk-in hours
Are you just getting started in the field of digital humanities and do you need some expert guidance to shape your research or education? Or do you have a more specific question about research software, digital sources, programming, or statistics?
All humanities teachers, researchers and students are welcome to visit our weekly Digital Humanities walk-in hours. You do not need an appointment, feel free to join us on Thursdays from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs in the Digital Humanities Workspace or online! The DH walk-in hours will resume on Thursday, 16 January 2025.