FREE LECTURE: Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Humanities

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents an International Research Seminar led by distinguished visiting scholar in digital humanities, Professor Harold Short (King’s College London).

What are the particular challenges faced by scholars engaged in collaborative inter-disciplnary research? This is a significant question for the Digital Humanities, whose own disciplinary identity and character are so intrinsically multidisciplinary.

Drawing on the twenty years’ experience in multidisciplinary research projects of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, Harold Short will present some reflections on the challenges faced in large collaborative projects and possible approaches to meeting those challenges. Particular emphasis will be given to the points of stress, the continuing areas of difficulty and the problems faced by collaborative research in the arts and humanities in a wider academic culture that is slow to change.

The intention is that most of the session will be given over to wide- ranging discussion of collaborative digital scholarship, not limited to the issues that are raised in the presentation.

This is a free event, open to all interested postgraduates and staff members.

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