On 150th anniversary of the funeral of Scottish traveller David Livingstone researchers come together to discuss the legacy of imperialism in cultural heritage
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Kathryn Simpson, lecturer in Digital Humanities, will be joining a new consortium of 25 researchers to develop solutions for effective and ethical uses of AI.
“I am incredibly excited to be part of this innovative and culturally prescient project.” @drkatesimpson
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Great to be back with ol' friends and locations at #legacy150 Conference, with @jamescummings
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#legacy150 Another conference day @DLivingstoneBP Learning, sharing knowledge and engaging discussions.
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📢 Excited to back at @DLivingstoneBP today as part of @150Legacy to present and share Alasdair Campbell and I's recently published paper on "Collaborative Approach to Updating Object Records at the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum." #Legacy150
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Great first day of #Legacy150 conference yesterday @natlibscot thoroughly looking forward to today @
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“The museum will not be decolonised.” First day of conference @NLS Edinburgh. @DLivingstoneBP
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Technologies of Recovery and Discovery: The Poetics of “Artefacts”. This article discusses the ways that objects, specifically personal belongings, held in British collections have their stories muted to become imperial signifiers. docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/v…
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Next Friday, we will be joined by Dr Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja, Alasdair Campbell & Rachael Smith, and Freya Samuel & Chris Berriman for our second panel. More details here - dhi.ac.uk/blogs/legacy150/
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ALT DeepAI generated image. Prompt text is selected key words from panel paper titles: 'Worlding Museums’ Data, Collaborative Approach to Updating Object Records Museum, Regimental and Corps Museums, Re-thinking an Untapped Source of Ethnographic Collections'. Generated April 2024. AI image of a grand museum. Large paintings and sculptures are arranged along the walls. The sculptures look almost like people though they are blurred.
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Huge thanks to all our colleagues at the @Sorbonne_Univ_ Center for Artificial Intelligence for hosting our @ahrcpress @IrishResearch C21Editions Project, along with colleagues from @wshed and @EuropaCinemas
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@sgsah Discipline+Catalyst cultural and museum studies Event 18 & 19 April: eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-parc… - PhD students in the catalyst are especially invited to sign up.
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The Act of Parliament abolishing the British slave trade was finally passed on 25 March 1807. Among influential abolitionists was Ignatius Sancho, the first Black person to vote in Britain and upon his death, the first Black person to receive an obituary.
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Come and do a PhD with @ElsdenChris and me at @DesignInf, working with the magnificent @traversetheatre on digitally mediated theatre! Fully funded @sgsah studentship, for Sept entry. Apply here: eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ahr… Please RT!
We are delighted to announce, in partnership with @EdinburghUni a new Collaborative Doctoral Award: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Digitally-Mediated Theatre.
We'll be opening up our archives and offices in order to delve into digital theatre practice and how it has evolved.
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Postdoc Opportunity!
3rd SlaveVoyages Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at the University of California, Merced, and in connection with the UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives project "Routes of Enslavement in the Americas." Apply now! slavevoyages.org/blog/slavev…
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Flabbergasted that @LeicsMusStud has been shortlisted for @MandHShow award for their research project #TransInclusiveCulture - advice to the sector that solicitor @AudreySuffolk & I wrote, in September 23, could ‘expose museums to legal challenge.’
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Today is the day... ANNOUNCING THE #MandHAwards2024 SHORTLIST 🎉
A huge well done to everyone who made the list. We're so proud to be a part of such a passionate + dedicated sector.
Thank you so much to everyone who entered, good luck!
awards.museumsandheritage.co…
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So pleased that our brilliant @NatMuseumsNI ‘Museum on the Move’ programme is shortlisted in the learning category. From pandemic innovation to core programme that inclusively broadens the reach and impact of our education service 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼
Today is the day... ANNOUNCING THE #MandHAwards2024 SHORTLIST 🎉
A huge well done to everyone who made the list. We're so proud to be a part of such a passionate + dedicated sector.
Thank you so much to everyone who entered, good luck!
awards.museumsandheritage.co…
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By celebrating the stories of Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe, especially during Women's History Month, we challenge the prevailing narratives that have historically sidelined the contributions of Black women.
To read this post visit buff.ly/4a060jM
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONGRESS 2024
Call for Papers - Extended Deadline to 28th March
dhi.ac.uk/dhc2024/
Our keynotes will be:
Melissa Terras (@melissaterras)
Simon Mahony (@simon_mahony)
Paola Marchionni (@paolamarchionni) & Peter Findlay (@PFindlay_500)
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We have a new closing date for our 2x DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATE positions of 8th April:
jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN168/resear…
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15 joint funded PhD #scholarhips as part of a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Program, offered by @KingsCollegeLon + @mems_ukc. The scholarships aim to upskill a new generation of historians for the emerging digital age.
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