DHC 2018

Programme

Thursday — 6th September 2018

09:30 - 11:30

Registration Reception

11:30 - 13:00

Introductions and Plenary 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Lessons from the Digital Panopticon Bob Shoemaker University of Sheffield

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Bar

14:00 - 15:30

Session 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 2 High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 3 High Tor 4 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Who wrote the Jack the Ripper letters? A stylometric analysis Andrea Nini University of Manchester	Digital Text Analysis of Herman Melville’s Marginalia in Shakespeare Christopher Ohge Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London	Mapping Museums and Managing Patchy Data Fiona Candlin, Alex Poulovassilis Birkbeck College
Exploring Contagion and Migration in European Cultural Memory via Text Mining Susan Leavy, Derek Greene, Karen Wade, Maria Mulvany, Gerardine Meaney University College Dublin	Abundance and Access: Early Modern Letters in Contemporary and Digital Archives Elizabeth Williamson University of Exeter	City through empires. Toruń (Poland) in ontology of historical geographic information system from 10th to 20th century Wieslawa Duzy Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
The history of a database and the digital afterlife of books Stephen H. Gregg Bath Spa University	Recovering narratives: reading through the digital library Kate Simpson Edinburgh Napier University	Revisiting Historical Literacy: the Potential of Digital Humanities Approaches Mark Hailwood, Colin Greenstreet

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Bar

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 5 High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 6 High Tor 4 Chair: George Ionita
Modelling Eighteenth-Century Epistolarity: Unsupervised Classification of the Voltaire Correspondence Glenn Roe, Clovis Gladstone	How to be a fake girl in the Chinese speaking world Shih-chen Chao University of Manchester	DH Websites and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Jamie McLaughlin University of Sheffield
Visualizing Literary Style: The Case of Milton, Bunyan, and the Bible Harvey Quamen University of Alberta	Digital Art History Projects Maria Golovteeva University of St Andrews	Classification of digital objects in scientific philosophy Eva Seidlmayer, Brigitte Mathiak University for Applied Studies Cologne
Developing the Oxford English Dictionary as a toolkit for DH research James McCracken Oxford University Press	Non-Linear Timelines: Modelling Time in Speculative Fiction Sebastian Zimmer Cologne Center for eHumanities	Digital Humanities: Project Funding versus Continuity of Research. Some Remarks on the Problem from the Polish Perspective Bartłomiej Szleszyński Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

17:40 - 18:10

Presentation by Gale, a Cengage company — Accessing Digital Humanities With Gale High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Accessing Digital Humanities With Gale Chris Houghton Gale, a Cengage company

18:10

Drinks Reception - Courtesy of Gale, a Cengage company Bar

Friday — 7th September 2018

09:30 - 11:00

Session 7 High Tor 2 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin	Session 8 High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 9 High Tor 4 Chair: Michael Pidd
Semi-automatic Multilevel annotation of vagueness in historical texts Cristina Vertan University of Hamburg	Challenging interactions: on what Digital Humanities and Modern Languages can learn from each other Paul Spence, Renata Brandão King’s College London	Adjusting scholarly edition to the digital environment - the problem of annotations Konrad Nicinski Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
The Emergence of Titling in the Nineteenth-Century French Art World: A Quantitative Analysis Mike Bowman Birkbeck College	Business as Usual? Reflections on University English in the Age of Digitality Clare Hutton Loughborough University	Natural Language Generation: Negotiating Text Production in our Digital Humanity Leah Henrickson Loughborough University
How language technology can assist legal scholarly research Wim Peters, Louisa Parkes, Mitchell Lennan University of Strathclyde, Glasgow	Linguistic and Cultural Hegemony in the Digital Humanities Simon Mahony, Jin Gao University College London	Between the Lines. A Digital Critique of Literary Representation Roel Smeets Radboud University Nijmegen

11:00 - 11:30

Tea break Bar

11:30 - 13:00

Session 10 — Discursive ways with historical language data High Tor 2 Chair: George Ionita	Session 11 — Digital dialogues at the BSR: Accessing Italian Cultural Heritage High Tor 3 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin	Session 12 High Tor 4 Chair: Michael Pidd
Finding meaning through linguistic probability in 60,000 early modern English texts: Innovations from the Linguistic DNA project Seth Mehl University of Sheffield	Digital imaging, imagining and imitation of historic interiors Graeme Earl King's College London	A Corpus Linguistic Study of “Models” and “Modelling”: intellectual and technical challenges Chris Pak King's Digital Lab
A distant history of Libraries: “Is this the librarye that thou haddest chosen”? Iona Hine University of Sheffield	The Archaeology of Portus Massive Open Online Course Eleonora Gandolfi University of Southampton	User Experience in scholar editions. Case study of New Panorama of Polish Literature (Nplp.pl and Tei.nplp.pl) Agnieszka Kochańska Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Fuzzy Dating and Ambiguous Courting: Accounting for varying metadata precision in historical semantic development Fraser Dallachy University of Glasgow	Creating a Digital Portal: repositioning the BSR’s Digital Collections Alessandra Giovenco, Beatrice Gelosia, Valerie Scott British School at Rome	Crowdsourcing at the British Library: lessons learnt and future directions Mia Ridge The British Library
	Eye-tracking architecture: using digital eye-tracking technology to investigate the viewing of baroque architecture in Rome. Patrick O’Keeffe British School at Rome

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Bar

14:00 - 15:30

Session 13 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 14 — Archivo Storico Ricordi: Bringing 200 years of music online High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 15 High Tor 4 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Modeling linked cultural events: design and application Claartje Rasterhoff University of Amsterdam	The letters of Casa Ricordi as a hub to explore a large and varied historical heritage Patrizia Rebulla Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan	On the use of DOT/GraphViz diagrams for the representation of artefacts with complex stratigraphy and biography Eleni Kotoula University of Lincoln
Bernoulli-Euler Online: Presentation of early modern mathematical Correspondence on the Web Tobias Schweizer, Sepideh Alassi Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel	Transforming a paper legacy into a live database Valeria Luti Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan	The problem of literary space: Using word embeddings with GIS software to explore spatial imaginaries Anouk Lang University of Edinburgh
What Academics Express About Their Sense of Self on social media? A computational linguistic analysis Paolo Casani Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London	Re-modelling legacy datasets: how to retrofit a data model Katherine Rogers University of Sheffield	Quantifying the phenomenon of immersion in virtual environments Maja Gutman, Qiujing Lu, Vwani Roychowdhury University of California, Los Angeles
	Tooling up for scholarly editing George Ionita University of Sheffield

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Bar

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary 2 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Infrastructure or Interstructure? Supporting the digitality of the Humanities, at scale and in the long tail Jennifer Edmond Trinity College Dublin

19:00

Conference Dinner Inox Dine

Saturday — 8th September 2018

10:00 - 11:30

Session 16 High Tor 2 Chair: George Ionita	Session 17 High Tor 3 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 18 High Tor 4 Chair: Katherine Rogers
What do we write about in the Digital Humanities? A comparative study of Chinese and English publications Jin Gao, Simon Mahony, Oliver Duke-Williams, Julianne Nyhan University College London	Using data ontology to understand the relational dynamics of film audiences Peter Merrington, Matthew Hanchard University of Glasgow	Trends in digital humanities: insights from digital resources for the study of papyri Lucia Vannini Institute of Classical Studies
The conceptual foundations of the idea of government in the modern British eighteenth century: A distributional concept analysis Paul Nulty University of Cambridge	Hospital Ships, HGIS, and the Interconnectivity of British Naval Medicine in the Napoleonic War Erin Spinney University of Oxford	Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the “Mapping Manuscript Migrations” Project Toby Burrows University of Oxford
A Question of Style: corpus building and stylistic analysis of the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, 1814-1820 Francesca Benatti, David King Open University	“A Lordship of the Feete [and] likewise of the Eye”: Using 3D-GIS to recreate ‘promenades’ and ‘prospects’ within English designed landscapes, c.1550-1660 Elizabeth Stewart University of East Anglia	How do catalogues make history? Jo Pugh The National Archives, Kew

11:30 - 12:00

Tea Break Bar

12:00 - 13:30

Plenary 3 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Archival variants in the ‘age of experience’ Sarah Kenderdine École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch Bar

14:30 - 15:00

Conference closes

Programme

University of Sheffield

University of Manchester

Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Birkbeck College

University College Dublin

University of Exeter

Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences

Bath Spa University

Edinburgh Napier University

University of Manchester

University of Sheffield

University of Alberta

University of St Andrews

University for Applied Studies Cologne

Oxford University Press

Cologne Center for eHumanities

Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Gale, a Cengage company

University of Hamburg

King’s College London

Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences

Birkbeck College

Loughborough University

Loughborough University

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

University College London

Radboud University Nijmegen

University of Sheffield

King's College London

King's Digital Lab

University of Sheffield

University of Southampton

Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

University of Glasgow

British School at Rome

The British Library

British School at Rome

University of Amsterdam

Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan

University of Lincoln

Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel

Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan

University of Edinburgh

Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London

University of Sheffield

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Sheffield

Trinity College Dublin

University College London

University of Glasgow

Institute of Classical Studies

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Open University

University of East Anglia

The National Archives, Kew

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne