EVENTS

Our approach to events over the last year has been shaped in dialogue with the world around us. We have continued to host events predominantly online and, as restrictions waxed and waned, we've experimented with hybrid formats that will allow both in-person and remote attendance. In autumn 2021, we held our first ever themed seminar series: we brought together historians, artists, social scientists, financial analysts and humanists to share their work on climate data and digital research into environmental issues, with the aim of amplifying the discussions taking place at COP26. We've also used this year to think carefully about what our post-pandemic events policy will look like, and set out our aim to run a diverse, inclusive and low carbon programme going forwards.

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Data as Power: The Next 100 Generations of Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Our second annual lecture was delivered by anthropologist and activist Professor Keolu Fox (University of California, San Diego). Exploring how genomic health data from Indigenous communities can be harnessed and put to the service of those communities, Keolu discussed new tools to enable equitable Indigenous data futures and how Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS), circular economic systems, and place-based innovation can provide means to achieving a more equitable future. Over 100 people attended, joining the lecture from around the world.

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SEMinar series

Autumn 2021

28th Sep	Computation at the Service of Social Sciences: Investigating IPCC Leadership through Network Analysis and Machine Learning - Tommaso Venturini
13th Oct	Analysing Climate Change Narratives Past and Present - Amy Coombs, Robert Suits and Jo Guldi
27th Oct	Using Climate Data in Financial Decision Making - Matthew Brander and Atreya Dey
3rd Nov	Digital Materialities / Digital Imaginaries - Heba Y. Amin, Helen V. Pritchard, Nathan Ensmenger and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
24th Nov	Data Citizens and the Right to Data - Jennifer Gabrys

"I thoroughly enjoyed the variety of approaches presented by the panellists. The moderator's questions were perfect." - Seminar Attendee

spring 2022

12th Jan	A Migrant’s Story: Designing Against Unconscious Bias in Digitised Historical Archives - Adam Crymble
26th Jan	Cruising, Curious & Casual? What user studies can tell us about the use of Digital Cultural Heritage Collections - Claire Bailey Ross
9th Feb	From the CNN Effect to the SNN Effect - Kate Wright
23rd Feb	Heritage-based tribalism in big data ecologies and the role of ‘experts’ - Chiara Bonacchi
9th Mar	NFTs and Museums: Current Uses and Debates - Foteini Valeonti
30th Mar	Platform Monopolisation: Inside the Permissive Mobile Ecosystem - Jennifer Pybus
6th Apr	The Being and Becoming of Rhizomatic Digital Humanities in Majority Worlds - Dibyadyuti Roy
27th Apr	Working without a map: Co-production as a driver of research pathways in the Digital Humanities and beyond - Seth Mehl
11th May	Poetic Computation: Improvisation and Social Praxis - Victor Peterson II

our audience

Our events programme continues to inspire engagement from diverse places and sectors: most of our seminars are open to the public, and typically only around half our audience is made up of colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. Our weekly events digest goes to over 1300 people, and we've got an active community following us on social media. This year we've also put a new events policy in place, so that our audience knows what to expect from us going forward.

Read our events policy

Collaborative Events

Your Computer is on Fire

A seminar with Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip, hosted by the Digital Social Science Cluster.

Greening DH

A community workshop organised by CDCS in partnership with the University of Sussex Humanities Lab and the University of Southampton DH.

CURATR Workshop

We worked with University College Dublin to host a workshop on the CURATR tool they have developed for searching the British Library books collection.

Archive of tomorrow

A workshop on web archiving hosted as part of the Archive of Tomorrow project, involving University of Edinburgh colleagues and the National Library

Grounded Speculation

Professor Tracy Ireland gave a talk for the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster.

selfie democracy

A talk by Professor Elizabeth Losh, hosted by the Digital Social Science cluster.

Fikas & Socials

We love to get together with our community, and providing opportunities for researchers to network is important to the kind of development work we do. As we are all aware, this has been harder than ever to facilitate with the move online in the last couple of years, so we are delighted to have been able to hold a few in-person fikas and socials, as restrictions have permitted. They provide an excellent opportunity to meet other researchers working with digital methods and to say hi to the CDCS team.

A really great session covering interesting material and presented in an engaging way

- Seminar Attendee, Autumn 2021