A seminar series: Digital Humanities and Materiality, organized by Gabriel Brooks and Rada Varga, will take place from autumn 2021–spring 2022. “The series will present a range of discussions around material culture and the research possibilities offered by digital methods and approaches.” Sessions for Autumn 2021 include:
- Tuesday October 19, 2021, 16:00 GMT: Andrew Reinhard (New York University), Mapping the Unmappable: GIS, Material Culture, and the Archaeology of Human-Digital Spaces (BOOK HERE)
- Tuesday November 2, 2021, 16:00 GMT: Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland), Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (BOOK HERE)
- Tuesday November 16, 2021, 16:00 GMT: Voica Pușcașiu (Cluj-Napoca), Mapping political discourse and inequalities in present-day Romania through public monuments (BOOK HERE)
- Tuesday November 30, 2021, 16:00 GMT: Paula Granados García (British Museum), Digital approaches to documenting material knowledge: implications and concerns (BOOK HERE)
The event will be co-hosted by the Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London, UK, and Star-UBB Institute of Advanced Studies, University Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Registration is free of charge but required for participation. All sessions are online.