The possibilities of digital humanities (DH) appeal most to students when they are introduced by their own teachers with applications in their own field. The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has launched two ongoing Small Grants programs: one to promote the integration of digital humanities methods into the courses of the Faculty of Humanities and…

The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is looking for a lecturer in Digital Humanities (0.5 FTE) to teach Digital Humanities courses as well as support the advancement of digital research skills and tools at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University through workshops and other educational activities. In particular, they are looking for candidates that…

With a grant from the SIDN Fund, the Utrecht Data School built the BOLD Profiler. This application detects bias in commonly used knowledge bases such as Wikidata. Disinformation is not always spread with a deliberate plan, but can also (unintentionally) originate from incorrect information, missing data or misrepresentation. For example, Wikidata is considered very reliable,…

With their paper ‘Something Happened to the Future: Reconstructing Temporalities in Dutch Parliamentary Debate, 1814–2018’ assistant professor Pim Huijnen and professor Joris van Eijnatten won the Richard Deswarte Prize, awarded each year to the best of digital history internationally. Pim Huijnen is affiliated member and Joris van Eijnatten is advisory board member within the Center…

As of October 1, 2022, Antal van den Bosch has been officially appointed as strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Based on his extensive experience, Van den Bosch will advise the CDH in the field of future vision, interdisciplinary collaboration and focal points. He will focus in particular on the use of…

The Centre for Digital Humanities was pleased to receive a delegation of three professors from the humanities faculty of North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. The visitors wanted to explore the possibilities of integrating more digital humanities methods within several education tracks in their own faculty. To gain inspiration, they made a trip to various…

On Friday November 18th, Rainer Hegselmann, philosophy professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, will visit Utrecht to give a hybrid lecture for the Centre for Digital Humanities. Sign up now to join this lecture. Hegselmann is well-known in the field of Opinion Dynamics. Together with mathematician Ulrich Krause, he developed the Hegselmann-Krause…

This fall, the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) has decided to teach the Python workshop in four course days, with one week in between each of them. This gives the participants more opportunity to practice with the material and to make the knowledge stick better. After feedback from past semester on the Python workshop, the…

Interested in using digital humanities methods in media archives? During this webinar on Friday October 21, media researcher Berrie van der Molen will talk about the ‘leveled approach’ he has used for his dissertation on the use of the term ecstasy in the public debate in the Dutch media since the 1980s. For this research Van der…

DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS-KNAW) is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. They are a service provider that helps researchers to make their data available for reuse. With more than 200,000 datasets, dozens of European projects and a staff of 60, DANS is among the leading data repositories…

This year’s theme of the ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) 2022 conference in Denmark is ‘Rethink Impact’. The organization of the conference interviewed Mirko Schäfer on this theme. Schäfer is cofounder and Faculty of Science Lead of the Utrecht Data School and Associate Professor at UU. Read the interview here.

At the SHARP Conference 2022, the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) recently presented the results of the international READ-IT project. With the Horizon2020 grant of 250,000 euros the DHLab built an advanced interface for this project. READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Investigation Tool) is a large-scale study of reading culture in Europe from the 18th century to…