We are pleased to announce the final programme for the “Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age” conference, as set out below (updated 29/08/15). Registration for the conference is free but please sign up here if you would like to attend.
Graduate Student Travel Bursaries – A number of travel bursaries are available for graduate students who wish to attend this conference from outside Cambridge. If you would like to apply for a bursary towards the cost of your travel please email doinghistoryinpublic@gmail.com. All applications should include your name, stage of research (e.g. MA, PhD), amount requested and a short summary of why you would like to attend the conference (max. 200 words). Receipts for travel expenses will need to be brought with you on the day of the conference and bursaries will be refunded after this date.
Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age
Conference Programme
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
9 September 2015
9.00 Registration and refreshments
9.30 Keynote – Big Data for Historical Research: from Hansard to the UK Web Archive
Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research
10.30 Tea & Coffee
10.45 Panel Session 1 – Methodological Approaches to Big Data
Chair: Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge
“We have never been modem: towards a historisation of digital history”, Alexander von Lünen, University of Huddersfield
“The limits of Big Data for historical research – and how to overcome them”, Pim Huijnen, Utrecht University
“Researching the history of the WWW through web archives: thoughts on a methodology”, Richard Deswarte, University of East Anglia
“This is the future: a history of UK companies on the web”, Marta Musso, University of Cambridge
12.45 Lunch
13.30 The Casebooks Project – Digitising Elisabeth Hartwell’s Clumpers of Blood: CASE12702 and the Challenges of Digital Humanities
Lauren Kassell and Michael Hawkins, Director and Technical Director, Casebooks Project, University of Cambridge
Chair: Leigh Denault, University of Cambridge
14.00 Panel Session 2 – Mapping, GIS and Data Visualisation
Chair: Adam Crymble, University of Hertfordshire
“‘Stories as maps so far’: digitally visualising”, Karen Smyth, University of East Anglia
“Using text analysis and GIS to investigate the representation of public health in nineteenth century newspapers”, Catherine Porter, Lancaster University
“Long run regional economic development and population density in Imperial China (1776-1953)”, Cheng Yang, University of Cambridge
15.30 Tea & Coffee
15.45 Panel Session 3 – Big Data Case Studies: Social History and Public Policy
Chair: Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
“Detecting interdisciplinary practices in a corpus of PhD dissertations”, Federico Nanni, University of Bologna
“Digital History and family prosopography: a study of Irish immigrant families”, John Herson, Honorary Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University
16.45 Tea & Coffee
17.00 Roundtable and Plenary Session
17.45 Drinks Reception
19.00 Conference Dinner – Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0AA
Supported by the Digital Humanities Network and the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Organised by Doing History in Public
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