H-Digital-History Talk: A decade in Digital Humanities (Melissa Terras, 27 May 2014)

Discussion published by Ulrich Tiedau on Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Tonight (6.30pm BST, London time), Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Humanities at University College London, will be giving her Inaugural Lecture titled A decade in Digital Humanities. Although now sold out, this event will be streamed live online at and in the Garwood Lecture Theatre from 6.30pm (1st Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT). See also the coverage in the Times Higher Education supplement.

A Decade in Digital Humanities

In 2004, Blackwell published their Companion to Digital Humanities, lending a new name to the use of computing in the arts, humanities and heritage sectors: the term “Digital Humanities” has been much used, and much criticized, since. In this lecture, Melissa Terras looks back at the decade she has spent at UCL working in the area of applying computing to different areas of humanistic research, ranging from ’s manuscripts, to Roman documents from Hadrian’s Wall, to 3D scanning of museum collections, to an app for text analysis. A decade on from the coining of the term Digital Humanities, what do we now understand about the potential and issues for the application of computing in the arts and humanities?

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Melissa Terras is the Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities in UCL's Department of Information Studies. With a background in Classical Art History, English Literature, Computing Science (MA, MSc, ), and Engineering (DPhil, ) her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts and humanities that would otherwise be impossible. You can generally find her on twitter @melissaterras.

Citation: Ulrich Tiedau. Talk: A decade in Digital Humanities (Melissa Terras, 27 May 2014). H-Digital-History. 08-15-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/3276/discussions/28046/talk-decade-digital-humanities-melissa-terras-27-may-2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1