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Expanding Realities: XR at the Intersection of Hidden Histories, Biosciences, and Creative Technologies [Online and in person, Nov 4th, 12pm]. University of Galway Centre for Creative Technologies.

Expanding Realities: XR at the Intersection of Hidden Histories, Biosciences, and Creative Technologies

This masterclass with visiting Fulbright Specialist, Thomas Tucker of Virginia Tech, explores how Extended Reality (XR), including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, has become a transformative tool across disciplines. Drawing from his own creative practice and collaborative research, he will present case studies that demonstrate how XR bridges cultural heritage, bioscience and veterinary research, and interactive art.

The session will combine project documentation, live examples, and conceptual framing to illustrate how XR operates as both a research methodology and a medium for storytelling. Attendees will gain insight into how immersive technologies are reshaping education, cultural preservation, scientific research, and artistic innovation.

Highlights

Creative Installations: Immersive XR artworks, including Drosera Obscura and Sound Arcade, which integrate animatronics, sound design, and sensory elements. These projects showcase how XR can provoke ecological awareness and emotional reflection while pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Historic Reconstructions: XR as a means of digitally repatriating artifacts and reconstructing lived environments, from WWI trenches and Civil War battlefields to overlooked rural landscapes. These projects illustrate how immersive experiences can expand access to cultural memory and hidden histories.

Bioscience and Veterinary Simulations: XR applications in veterinary training, animal care, and biological research—such as simulations of bat flight and sonar perception in China—highlight how immersive environments can serve both scientific understanding and empathy building for professionals and students.

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Registration: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-thomas-tucker

This masterclass is part of a series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway. 

ARTEMIS – Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for Historical Maps of the Scheldt Valley [Oct 15th @12 – online]

15 October 2025, 12-1pm (online)

ARTEMIS – Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for Historical Maps of the Scheldt Valley

Dr Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) and Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

Register via Eventbrite here. 

This presentation introduces Artemis, a Flemish research project that unlocks and interlinks historical Belgian maps for environmental and landscape research. The focus is on the Scheldt River Valley between Ghent and Antwerp, a region shaped by a long history of human interaction with the river. Artemis processes a selection of pre-1880 maps, including the Ferraris, Vandermaelen and cadastral series, using a combination of computer vision techniques and manual validation. The extracted data, such as toponyms and land use, will be made available as Linked Open Data through a IIIF-enabled online platform. This creates a reusable infrastructure for researchers and institutions. 

The second part of the talk highlights one of Artemis’s research scenarios: historical flooding and water management in the Scheldt basin. Using extracted map data together with sources such as newspapers and official reports, the study reconstructs changes in hydrography and identifies flood-prone areas between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on key landscape features including dikes, wetlands and floodplains, and explores how their transformation may have increased vulnerability to flooding. Special attention is given to the 1906 flood and the ways in which local communities perceived and responded to the event.

About EDHS

The Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar (EDHS) brings together scholars from across the humanities who use digital methods to understand environments past, present, and future. EDHS is inclusive of urban, rural, suburban spaces and places and while we explore environments globally, we also showcase local work from and about the North of England.

Organisers: Giulia Grisot (Manchester), Katherine McDonough (Lancaster), Luca Scholz (Manchester), Joanna Taylor (Manchester).

EDHS is supported by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media at the University of Manchester, the Digital Humanities Centre at Lancaster, the N8, the Lancaster Data Science Institute, CIDRAL, and the MCGIS research group at Manchester.

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Katie, on behalf of the organizers

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

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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

DARIAH-IE Seminar May 27th – Agenda

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11:00 – 12:30 on Tuesday May 27th, 2025

On Tuesday May 27th DARIAH-IE will be hosting an online event for members of the Irish Digital Arts and Humanities communities.

The aim of the seminar is to provide an introduction to DARIAH, the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, to highlight the affordances of DARIAH participation to Irish Digital Arts and Research communities and to demonstrate the variety of ways that DARIAH-IE might be structured at a national level to support engagement.

The seminar will also give an overview of DARIAH-IE and its hopes and aspirations for the next few years, and will offer attendees the opportunity to contribute to the development of the newly invigorated Ireland node.

Target Audience: Digital Arts and Humanities practitioners; Academic researchers, faculty, postgraduate students; Digital librarians, IT specialists (RSE), and university administrators (Research Funding/Impact).

Agenda

11:00 – 11:20               Welcome, introductions and overview

  • Dr Marina Milič, Research Ireland
  • Prof Jennifer Edmond, DARIAH-IE National Coordinator

11:20 – 11:35               Affordances of DARIAH engagement for Irish researchers

  • Dr Sarah Hoover, IADT (CLS INFRA)
  • Dr Michael Kurzmeir, DARIAH-EU (SSHOMP)

11:35 – 11:55               National node approaches

  • Sweden – Prof Koraljka Golub (DARIAH Sweden)
  • France – Nicolas Larrousse (DARIAH-FR/Huma-Num)
  • Austria – TBC (CLARIAH-AT)

12:00 – 12:20               Interactive session and panel discussion led by Prof Jennifer Edmond

12:20 – 12:30               Next steps and closing remarks

Please register your interest in attending using this link:

https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/oOpUz9pKRySbyPTeaHWT0g