Interfaculty projects at Utrecht University (UU) that innovate and improve education are made possible annually by the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund (USO, ‘Utrechts Stimuleringsfonds Onderwijsvernieuwing’ in Dutch). USO Innovation projects: Themes This year, three themes have been defined in which projects up to €250,000 can be applied for: Terms and conditions These cross-faculty USO projects […] Read more
We are pleased to present the Fall Education Program 2024 of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Take your first steps into the world of digital humanities or refine your existing skills. Registration is now open! Every six months, we launch a new series of workshops and lectures within the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The sessions in […] Read more
Data School has published a call to action for Impact Projects: support for impact-focused research projects in the humanities with societal partners. For the past 10 years, Data School has been at the forefront of researching the impact of AI in society. Working across disciplines and in close collaboration with external partners we conduct research around […] Read more
Data School often appears in the media with innovative and news-worthy data research. PhD candidate Joris Veerbeek (Data School) regularly shares interesting findigs from his data research in the independent and progressive Dutch weekly news magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. Recently, two more articles based on his research were published: More Data School in the media […] Read more
Authors Julia Straatman and Lysa Ngouateu have published a (Dutch) blog post on the Data School website about Data School‘s visit to the yearly Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. This year, the conference took place in Brussels (Belgium) from 22-24 May. Data School moderated two panels and hosted an interactive workshop. Data School at CPDP 2024 […] Read more
“Digital research is the future, also in humanities” Professor Leonard Rutgers and his colleagues research how Jewish migrants spread over Europe in Roman times. Thanks to a grant of the FAIR Research IT programme, the team was able to digitise a large number of sources and incorporate them into an interactive map. Other scholars can now use […] Read more
Prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch has given an interview to SURF, the cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions. The interview is titled ‘AI lets scientists work magic with language’. In the interview, he speaks about his career in AI and his thoughts on the future of AI. He also shares his ideas […] Read more
From 5-9 August 2024, Data School offers a full week of hands-on workshops and inspiring guest lectures at Utrecht University during the summer course Exploring Culture Through Data: Digital methods & Data practices. By the end of this week you will be able to work with digital methods to collect, analyze and visualize complex data […] Read more
The Italian-German Historic Institute (ISIG) and Università Roma Tre are co-hosting a one-year fellowship in Digital History to collaborate with the ERC Project HOLYLAB in Trento, Italy. The project studies the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, a thirteenth-century organisation funded to maintain the Holy Sepulchre and the friars’ presence in the Holy Land. HOLYLAB […] Read more
The Centre for Digital Humanites (Utrecht University) has officially reached 1,000 followers on LinkedIn! If you are not one of them yet, please follow us on LinkedIn here. You may also be interested in following the LinkedIn pages of Data School and Utrecht University – Faculty of Humanities. You can subscribe to the monthly CDH newsletter here to receive […] Read more