23 May 2023 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – During this entry level demo-workshop the Digital Humanities support team at the University Library will demonstrate and teach how to use Optical Character Recognition software and Transkribus on example texts or material …

04 April 2023 – 25 April 2023 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – This entry level course in Python consists of four hands-on training days on Tuesdays starting 4 April 2023. The course will be provided by the scientific developers of the Digital …

21 March 2023 @ 13:00 – 17:00 – In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, and Sander Prins, teaching and research assistant, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, …

16 February 2023 @ 15:00 – 16:15 – During this duo presentation, professor Antal van den Bosch and assistant professor Dong Nguyen will discuss from their own different perspectives – Humanities and Computer Science – the impact of …

From January 2023, the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours will shift from Wednesdays to Thursdays. The time from 14:00 to 15:00 hrs will remain the same. All humanities staff and students are welcome to visit the Digital Humanities Walk-in Hours for face-to-face advice about all kinds of questions related to research data, digital humanities software, Python, statistics and…

Iris Muis has just returned from a trip to the European Parliament, where she presented the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA) together with Mirko Schäfer from Utrecht Data School (UDS). Muis: ‘Organizations are increasingly using algorithms to make work more efficient and to hire fewer people. But if you use technology, you also…

On November 17 and 18, scholars and developers from all over Europe will come to Utrecht to discuss Digital Humanities-analysis and infrastructure on the final conference of the ERD project SKILLNET ‘Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters: text-mining, network analysis and infrastructures’. The Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab collaborated on this project. This two-day conference…

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 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…