Category: 2021-2022

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday 26 October 2021 – Harry Raffal (Royal Air Force Museum) – History in the Round: Virtual Reality and Historical Understanding

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST, live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DLkOeOobA. Session chair: James Baker Abstract: The use of events or experiences raises questions as to how these representations of the past...

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday 9th November 2021- Ben Lee (University of Washington) – Newspaper Navigator: Reimagining Digitized Newspapers with Machine Learning

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GMT, live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRUEZ6x5LU. Session Chair: Tessa Hauswedell Abstract: The millions of digitized historic newspaper pages within Chronicling America, a joint initiative between the Library...

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday, 7th December 2021 – Dr Nina Janz, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History – WARLUX: Mapping war experiences of Luxembourgish recruits during WWII

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GMT, live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPsyP-Y4jeY Session Chair: James Baker Abstract: Project WARLUX – Soldiers and their Communities in WWII The Impact and Legacy of War Experiences in...

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday 18 January 2022 – Postgraduate Panel I – Megan Kelleher (Kent), Alice Kinghorn (Bristol), Bob Pierik (Amsterdam)

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GMT, live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyRxcrbD0XA. Session chair: Tessa Hauswedell The IHR Digital History Postgraduate Panels showcase historical research using digital methods that is taking place in the...

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday, 15th February 2022 – Dr Waitman Wade Beorn (Northumbria) – Scales of Persecution: Digitally Mapping the Holocaust through the Janowska Camp

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GMT, live on Zoom https://bit.ly/3HTpHMg (and available on YouTube after the event). Session Chair: Mia Ridge Scales of Persecution: Digitally Mapping the Holocaust through the Janowska...

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday 29th March 2022 – Dr Adam Crymble (UCL) – Trans-Atlantic Digital History and the Spatial Turn of Practice (as viewed from London)

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST at the Institute of Historical Research and live on YouTube. Session Chair: Justin Colson Adam Crymble is a Lecturer of Digital Humanities at UCL and...

Tuesday 10th May 2022 – Jessica Parr (Simmons University, Programming Historian) Slavery, Citizenship, and Double-Consciousness in the Black Atlantic: A Textual Analysis of Racialized Language in Early Modern Discourse

2021-2022

16 September 2021

Tuesday 10th May 2022 – Jessica Parr (Simmons University, Programming Historian) Slavery, Citizenship, and Double-Consciousness in the Black Atlantic: A Textual Analysis of Racialized Language in Early Modern Discourse

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST, live on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86722736492?pwd=NEx0dkJhWXpsMC9uYzgzOFBXQ3hxdz09. Session Chair: Mia Ridge Abstract: Black writers navigating the politics of the Early Modern Atlantic required specific forms of double-consciousness (Gilroy,...