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Workshop: Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice (30th June- 1st July 2025)

2 June 2025
Esther Wright

Esther Wright

We are now inviting applications (from PG students and ECAs) to take part in a new Workshop run by staff within the Centre, to be held at Cardiff University, 30 June – 1 July 2025.

About the Workshop

Living in an age of digital transformation, we stand at the threshold of various opportunities, challenges and risks. In response to this, today’s humanities researchers must engage with a range of questions, including: the influence of digitalization on everyday life and learning; questions of preservation and sustainability around cultural artifacts; and the relationship between work and play, as we move from the Information Age towards the so-called Imagination Age.  

This two-day workshop responds to these broad themes by combining contextual/conceptual sessions and hands-on activities. The intended audience is postgraduate researchers and early career academics, as well as other potential stakeholders (e.g. from the creative industries and the galleries, libraries and museums sector). Sessions will be delivered by experts based in Cardiff University’s recently launched Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultures Research. 

  • Day 1 comprises four discussion-led all-cohort sessions on a range of topics relevant to the humanities: 1) The History of Digitalization; 2) Living in and Thinking about the Digital; 3) Archives and Data; 4) Play and Creativity in Our Digital Futures. 
  • For Day 2, delegates can pre-register for morning and afternoon workshops on the following themes: 1) Distant Reading and Close-up Tagging OR Digitization and the Visual World; 2) From Digitizing the Archive to Archiving the Digital OR Games and Research in a Digital Age.

How to Apply

The workshop is free but numbers are limited. For those living outside of Cardiff, travel bursaries of up to £50 are available upon application. This event has been made possible by Cardiff University’s College of Arts and Humanities People, Cultures and Environment Fund; bursaries are provided by Cardiff University’s Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research.  

You can find out more about the event and reserve a place by visiting: https://forms.office.com/e/n3Y0PDCWRU.  

Learn more about the Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultures Research here.