Author: Joan Murphy

DisCouRSE Network’s Flexible Funding scheme open for applications. [Info webinar Monday 6th Oct]

DisCouRSE Network’s Flexible Funding scheme is open for applications. [Info webinar: 6th Oct]

DisCouRSE is a new UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and connected community equipped to shape the future of digital research.

The funding is mainly UK-based but note international collaboration is possible.

Submission Deadline: November 14th, 2025

Further information can be found here: https://discourse-network.github.io/funding/round-1

The DisCouRSE Network+ project aims to encourage and support the development of leaders of all kinds across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, primarily within the UK, resulting in an empowered and connected community equipped to shape the future of digital research. We have a twin focus on leadership training and dRTP career pathways – preparing the next generation of leaders and ensuring roles exist for them to lead within.

Our flexible fund supports community-led projects aligned with this goal, enabling aspiring leaders to trial approaches to enhancing skills and career opportunities within their local contexts, build new connections through joint initiatives, and strategically assess options for future investment and activity.

Funding calls will be released approximately every 6 months between autumn 2025 and autumn 2027. Later calls may be more targeted based on lessons learned from earlier projects and core DisCouRSE activities. They will also allow for longer or larger proposals than this initial ‘pathfinder’ call.

Reframing the Past: Transforming Research and Teaching in Chinese History with Digital Tools [17th Oct @2pm – in person]

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Reframing the Past: Transforming Research and Teaching in Chinese History with Digital Tools

17 October 2025, 14:00 – 16:00 [In person event, registration required] Neill Theatre, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

This workshop led by Prof. Lik Hang Tsui offers a forum for sharing insights and collaboratively exploring how digital tools are reshaping historical research and teaching in Chinese studies. We will begin with a concise introduction to foundational concepts in digital humanities, using Chinese historical research as core examples to demonstrate applicable methods. The session will include practical demonstrations of using digital tools to locate and analyze historical figures and place names in classical Chinese texts and records from imperial China, followed by a discussion of how text markup and collaborative annotation can deepen engagement with these sources. We draw on open resources such as the China Biographical Database (CBDB), the China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS), and the Chinese Text Project (CTEXT). We will also examine the transformative potential of LLMs, considering how AI can support text generation, question design, and the creation of engaging educational content for Chinese history. Throughout, we emphasize integrating digital humanities tools into the research and learning of Chinese history, addressing both the challenges and opportunities presented by digitization and artificial intelligence.

Lik Hang Tsui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Associate Director of the Talent and Education Development Office. Prior to joining CityU, he worked as a Departmental Lecturer in Classical Chinese at the University of Oxford and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with the China Biographical Database (CBDB). He has published on middle period Chinese history, especially on epistolary culture and urban history, as well as on digital humanities methods for studying Chinese history. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He has also held fellowships at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and University of Western Australia in Perth. Tsui co-edits book reviews for Cultural History and serves as an associate editor for IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities. He is also the co-convenor of the Digital Learning and Literacy cluster in his College in CityU.

Workshop co-organised by Centre for Asian Studies and Centre for Digital Humanities

Register Here

Navigating Wicked problems and Misinformation: Exploring Systems Thinking & Learning in Interactive Digital Narratives

Navigating Wicked problems and Misinformation: Exploring Systems Thinking & Learning in Interactive Digital Narratives

Oct 7th, 2025, 12-13:45pm, University of Galway [in person and online – registration required]

This session explores the diverse practice and research foundations underpinning a transdisciplinary and systems thinking approach to navigating information literacy and wicked problems in socio-ecological systems. This master class will delve into the concept so Interactive Digital Narratives IDNs, and systems mapping and thinking in educational settings. It introduces the concept of Systemic Learning IDNs: Interactive Digital Narrative experiences explicitly designed to support learners in exploring, understanding, and reflecting on complex systems and interdependencies.

Speakers

  • Dr. Rahmin Bender-Salazar, University of Galway
  • Breanne Pitt, Trinity College Dublin
  • Dr. Christian Roth, HKU Utrecht

Registration: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-digital-narratives

This masterclass is part of a series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway. Further information about the series can be found at: https://universityofgalway.ie/creative-tech/training/masterclasses/ 

WiNoDa Knowledge Lab webinar series launches

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WiNoDa Knowledge Lab at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has launched a new season of webinars, on topics ranging from data journals and participatory research to hands-on tools to harmonise your datasets and build sound recognition software. Primarily targeted at those working with Natural History collections, the webinar topics deal with research data management challenges that are also encountered by many in the Arts and Humanities research community. All webinars are free of charge and in English but registration is necessary. For further information visit their website: https://winoda.de/en/events/

Projection Mapping – An Introduction (Galway)

17 September 2025, 10:00–13:00 [In person workshop, registration required]

Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway

Projection Mapping Workshop hosted by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway, in partnership with the French Embassy in Ireland.

In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of mapping digital visuals onto real-world surfaces.

We will explore the technical tools, creative workflows, production challenges, and various possibilities of this medium. No prior experience is required — just curiosity, a willingness to experiment, and your laptop!

By the end, you will create your own mini projection mapping piece to share with the group.

The workshop will be run by Maxime Touroute (https://maximetouroute.com/)

The workshop is hosted by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway, in partnership with the French Embassy in Ireland.

Registration information: https://ti.to/creative-tech/projection-mapping-2025

Caught in the web: Digitising Arachnid Collections

16 September 2025, 11:00–12:00 [Online]

Caught in the Web: Navigating Challenges in Digitising the Arachnid and Myriapod Collections

Dr. Jason Dunlop, curator of the Arachnida and Myriapoda collections at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, will share insights into the complex process of digitising natural history collections and present the approach taken. While the focus of this online lecture is natural history artefacts it may also be of interest to those working with Cultural Heritage collections and the Collections as Data paradigm.

The presentation will address:

·               Transferring metadata from catalogues into usable digital formats

·               Ensuring data consistency

·               The importance of curatorial expertise in digitisation workflows

·               Ensuring long-term data integrity through committed curation efforts 

For more information about the talk and the link for registration: https://winoda.de/en/event/caught-in-the-web/

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

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When: 25 September 16:00 to 18:30.

Free hybrid event – registration required.

This event, organised by the Humanities and Data Science Turing Special Interest Group and hosted by the Bodleian Libraries, marks a moment of reflection and renewal. It will look back at how far the special interest group have come in building infrastructure, knowledge, and communities of practice, and look ahead to what’s next. What is the role of the humanities in an increasingly datafied world? What forms of digital scholarship and collaboration will the next decade demand? And how do they, as a network, continue to support and shape those futures?

In person registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/in-person-registration-network-power
Online registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/online-registration-network-power

Launch of 𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database

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As part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge | Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages conference on the 11 and 12 of September 2025 at the Royal Academy of Ireland, Dublin, the team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project will be launching the revised & updated 𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database.

15:30 – 16.45  Seoladh/Taispeántas | Launch/Show

OG(H)AM – David Stifter et al. (Glaschú / Má Nuad)

The conference is a collaboration between the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge and the Committee for Irish Language and Celtic Studies.

More information: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1759077

Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge | Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages

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A conference will be held on the 11 and 12 of September 2025 at the Royal Academy of Ireland, Dublin, to discuss Teangoelaíocht na Gaeilge/Cananachas na Gàidhlig/The Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages. The conference is a collaboration between the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge and the Committee for Irish Language and Celtic Studies.

The Thursday will conclude with a reception and book launch, Craobh eolais – a Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn, edited by Gregory Toner, Lára Ní Mhaoláin & Fionntán de Brún

Tionólfar comhdháil ar an 11ú agus 12ú lá de Mheán Fómhair 2025 in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, Baile Átha Cliath, ina gcuirfear Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge/Cananachas na Gàidhlig/The Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages faoi chaibidil. Beidh an chomhdháil á reáchtáil faoi choimirce Fhoclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge agus Coiste Léann na Gaeilge agus an Léinn Cheiltigh, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann.

Críochnóidh an Déardaoin le fáiltiú agus seoladh leabhair, Craobh eolais – a Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn, in eagar ag Gregory Toner, Lára Ní Mhaoláin & Fionntán de Brún.

To register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1759077

EOI – UK-IE DHA

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Open Call:
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is seeking three new members to join their governing collective during a pivotal transition period leading to their first open elections in 2026.
UK-IE DHA is looking for:
Passionate advocates for digital humanities
Diverse voices from across DH communities
Commitment to a 3-year term through the governance transition
Representatives from both the UK and Ireland

For more on the call:
UK-IE DHA Governance Call

To submit a brief Expression of Interest use their online form by Friday, July 11th, 2025:
Expression of Interest – UK-IE DHA

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the future of digital humanities in the UK and Ireland. Current collective members are available to discuss what’s involved.

Decision timeline: End of August 2025