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Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities, 23 February 2021
by Naomi Wells 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities 23 February 2021, 6.00pm - 7.00pm (GMT) https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 This event is part of 'Open for Discussion’, an annual series of conversations that brings multidisciplinary humanities perspectives to bear on critical social issues – issues with human dimensions frequently overlooked in current policy debates. The focus of this year’s series are those things that the COVID-19 pandemic has made visible, or rather what it has forced us to see more clearly. This conversation will explore the enormous value of digital tools and platforms in enabling, promoting and developing the humanities at a time of crisis, but it will also consider how the humanities can help us to examine the challenges and pitfalls of the digital. Speakers: * Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Houston) * Bethany Nowviskie (Dean of Libraries and Professor of English, James Madison University) * Roopika Risam (Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English at Salem State University) * Anasuya Sengupta (Co-founder and Co-director, Whose Knowledge) This event is free, but booking is required at the following link: https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 #OpenDigitalDiscussion: Over the next week (15-19 February), the Digital Humanities PhD community at the School of Advanced Study will be hosting a daily discussion on Twitter of some of the key issues and themes this event will address. Follow the hashtag to join the discussion and share your own experiences and perspectives on digital access, inclusion and the Humanities. ________________________________ Convened by Naomi Wells (Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities) and Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities), School of Advanced Study, University of London. Hosted by Michael Hayman, Honorary Professor of the Purpose Economy at the School of Advanced Study. Dr Naomi Wells Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Umanistica Digitale, 10: Call for papers
by Fabio Ciotti 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, Umanistica Digitale the journal of AIUCD (Italian DH Association) accepts submissions for number 10, to be published in Summer 2021. UD accepts original scientific articles (5-10.000 words), book or project reviews and event reports (1-3.500 words) in Italian and English on any subject and sub-field of Digital Humanities. The works must be submitted to the journal OJS website by February 28th, 2021. Details on format, style guides and editorial policy at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions FC -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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Digital Humanities - Theorie und Methodik "Data Literacy and Digital Humanities"
by Ulrike Fußbahn 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear all, we like to reinvite you to the lecture “IMAGES AS DATA” held by CAROL CHIODO (HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, USA) and LAUREN TILTON (UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, USA). The lecture will take place on Tuesday February 16th, 2020 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm (GMT +1) via Zoom. If you would like to attend this lecture, please sign up by using the following link: https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/ An abstract of the lecture and a short bio of Carol Chiodo and Lauren Tiltoncan be found in the calendar of events (https://fdhl.info/veranstaltungen/) of the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig. This lecture takes place within the context of the lecture series: DIGITAL HUMANITIES – THEORIE UND METHODIK “DATA LITERACY AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES” The digital universe is growing very fast and the amount of information contained in data is exploding. The mining of these data has ethical, social, and political consequences. In order to think through these consequences a new kind of literacy is needed, which could also be called ‘data literacy’ if we define it according to Chantel Ridsdale as “the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner”. BUT HOW SHOULD WE TEACH DATA LITERACY IN THE HUMANITIES? The Digital Humanities are characterized by a cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature, by project orientation, hands-on practices and the use of cultural heritage data, and by the aim to integrate and create domain-specific knowledge with computational methods and tools while reflecting their application and use critically. As such Digital Humanities would seem to offer everything that students need to become not only literate in their specific Humanities field, but to acquire at the same time data literacy and skills like problem solving, computational and critical thinking. As the data which play a role in Digital Humanities are themselves multiform and comprise among other types visual, audio, geospatial, temporal, and statistical data, we can even say that by studying Digital Humanities students become meta- or transliterate and thus able to employ their knowledge, competencies and skills in very diverse social and professional domains. In order to support the claim that doing Digital Humanities involves becoming (meta- / trans-) data literate and to illustrate the acquisition of data literacy in diverse Humanities-specific courses offered at different levels of university education, we have brought together an international group of specialists. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (see also https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/[1]) * 8 DECEMBER 2020 Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): “Data science and digital humanities: a feasible merge?” * 22 DECEMBER 2020 Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA): "Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning" * 19 JANUARY 2021 David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE): “Data Transliteracy: Creativity and Cooperation across Knowledge Cultures” * 2 FEBRUARY 2021 Denis Arnold / Bernhard Fisseni (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany): “(Digital) Research Data and Metadata” * 16 FEBRUARY 2021 Carol Chiodo (Harvard University Library, Cambridge, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): “Images as Data” The lectures (including ample time for discussions) will be given virtually via Zoom EVERY OTHER TUESDAY FROM 5:15PM TO 6:45PM (Berlin Time). The series starts on 8 December 2020. Interested participants are kindly asked to register here[2] AT THE LATEST by the Sunday before each event so that access data can be sent to them. The number of places is limited. The lecture series on “Data Literacy and Digital Humanities” is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the winter term 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broader scholarly public with theoretical and methodological questions which play a role in Digital Humanities. Elisabeth Burr Professor emeritus of French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Founder of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities Chair of the PC of EADH 2020-2021 President of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) President of the Constituent Organizations Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik [2] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/

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IRCDL 2021: Call for partecipation
by Gianmaria Silvello 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ** IRCDL 2021 - Call for Participation Registration (free) open! 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries Padova, Italy - 18-19 February 2021 http://ircdl2021.dei.unipd.it/index IRCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, including new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Representatives from academia, government, industry, research communities, research infrastructures, and others are invited to participate in this annual conference. The conference will run virtually this year, and it will take place online on February 18-19 2021 (9am to 15pm approx. [Central European Time (CET), UTC +1]). The participation to the conference is free of charge, with a required registration. The form for the registration can be found at this link: https://forms.gle/2B3ad2zYpp3UbZcFA The highlight of the IRCDL 2021 program are summarized as below: 1) Keynote of Prof. Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK). Title: The swings and roundabouts of a decade of fun and games with Research Objects 2) 11 Full papers, http://ircdl2021.dei.unipd.it/accepted-papers#fullpapers 3) 7 Short papers, http://ircdl2021.dei.unipd.it/accepted-papers#shortpapers 4) A panel about the future of DL and IRCDL Looking forward to meeting you (virtually) at the conference. Gianmaria Silvello IRCDL'21 Program Co-Chair Gianmaria Silvello, PhD Information Management System Research Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Tel: +39 049 827 7932 Skype: gianmaria.silvello Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~silvello/

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Digital Humanities - Theorie und Methodik "Data Literacy and Digital Humanities"
by Ulrike Fußbahn 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear all, we like to re-invite you to the lecture “(Digital) Research Data and Metadata” given by Denis Arnold and Bernhard Fisseni (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany). The lecture will take place on Tuesday 2 February 2021 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm (GMT +1) via Zoom. If you would like to attend this lecture, please sign up by using the following link: https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/ An abstract of the lecture and a short bio of Denis Arnold and Bernhard Fisseni will be available in the calendar of events (https://fdhl.info/veranstaltungen/) of the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig. This lecture takes place within the context of the lecture series: DIGITAL HUMANITIES – THEORIE UND METHODIK “DATA LITERACY AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES” The digital universe is growing very fast and the amount of information contained in data is exploding. The mining of these data has ethical, social, and political consequences. In order to think through these consequences a new kind of literacy is needed, which could also be called ‘data literacy’ if we define it according to Chantel Ridsdale as “the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner”. BUT HOW SHOULD WE TEACH DATA LITERACY IN THE HUMANITIES? The Digital Humanities are characterized by a cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature, by project orientation, hands-on practices and the use of cultural heritage data, and by the aim to integrate and create domain-specific knowledge with computational methods and tools while reflecting their application and use critically. As such Digital Humanities would seem to offer everything that students need to become not only literate in their specific Humanities field, but to acquire at the same time data literacy and skills like problem solving, computational and critical thinking. As the data which play a role in Digital Humanities are themselves multiform and comprise among other types visual, audio, geospatial, temporal, and statistical data, we can even say that by studying Digital Humanities students become meta- or transliterate and thus able to employ their knowledge, competencies and skills in very diverse social and professional domains. In order to support the claim that doing Digital Humanities involves becoming (meta- / trans-) data literate and to illustrate the acquisition of data literacy in diverse Humanities-specific courses offered at different levels of university education, we have brought together an international group of specialists. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (see also https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/) - 8 DECEMBER 2020 Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): “Data science and digital humanities: a feasible merge?” - 22 DECEMBER 2020 Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA): "Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning" - 19 JANUARY 2021 David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE): “Data Transliteracy: Creativity and Cooperation across Knowledge Cultures” - 2 FEBRUARY 2021 Denis Arnold / Bernhard Fisseni (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany): “(Digital) Research Data and Metadata” - 16 FEBRUARY 2021 Carol Chiodo (Harvard University Library, Cambridge, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): “Images as Data” More lectures in 2021 will be announced soon. The lectures (including ample time for discussions) will be given virtually via Zoom EVERY OTHER TUESDAY FROM 5:15PM TO 6:45PM (Berlin time). The series starts on 8 December 2020. Interested participants are kindly asked to register here [1]at the latest by the Sunday before each event so that access data can be sent to them. The number of places is limited. The lecture series on “Data Literacy and Digital Humanities” is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the winter term 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broader scholarly public with theoretical and methodological questions which play a role in Digital Humanities. Elisabeth Burr Professor emeritus of French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Founder of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities Chair of the PC of EADH 2020-2021 President of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) President of the Constituent Organizations Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/

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DH Awards 2020 -- Last chance to nominate!
by James Cummings 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

DH Awards 2020 – Call For Nominations There are translations of this page available in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish (from the website). The annual open *DH Awards 2020* is accepting nominations! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2020/nominations/ Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource in any language that you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. The open DH Awards are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. Although the working language of DH Awards is English, nominations may be for any resource in any language. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until *2021-01-31*. Voting will take place shortly after. *Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/update/created in 2020*. The categories for the open *DH Awards 2020* are: - *Best Use of DH for Fun* - *Best DH Data Visualization* - *Best Exploration of DH Failure/Limitations* - *Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts* - *Best Use of DH for Public Engagement* - *Best DH tool or Suite of Tools* - *Best DH Dataset* *And this year a special category of*: - *Best DH Response to COVID-19* To nominate something for the DH Awards 2020 use the form at: *https://forms.gle/svhTvotUTcskKguJA* <https://forms.gle/svhTvotUTcskKguJA> Many thanks, James

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Registration now open: Graph Technologies in the Humanities: 2021 Virtual Symposium on February 9, 2021 (3-6.15pm CET)
by Joris van Zundert 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, Let me please direct your attention to the following announcement that may be of interest to you… ---------------- We are delighted to announce that the registration is now open for the 2021 edition of the annual "Graph Technologies in the Humanities“. The event will be held online as a virtual symposium on February 9, 2021, 15:00 – 18:15 (CET). We are excited to have three talks by invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Ruth Ahnert, Dr. Philip Beeley, Dr. Esther van Raamsdonk, Dr. Yann Ryan: Networking Archives: Early modern letters and the promise of connected collections Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller: Can historical information be represented outside of a graph / hypergraph / network? Denny Vrandečić: From Knowledge Graphs to Abstract Wikipedia For attendees of the symposium, papers and presentations will be made available to read or watch in advance. The symposium will not feature full live talks. We will come together for the synchronous part of the online event, where the time will be used for summary presentation by the speakers and extended discussion. Please register by February 8, 2021 to get access to the Zoom meeting and the materials provided by the speakers in advance: https://www.adwmainz.de/graphentechnologien21.html Find the program on the blog of the AG Graphentechnologien: https://graphentechnologien.hypotheses.org/tagungen/graph-technologies-in-t… Sincerely, Franziska Diehr (on behalf of the program committee) Program Committee Prof. Dr. Tara Andrews Franziska Diehr Dr. Thomas Efer Dr. Andreas Kuczera Drs. Joris van Zundert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freie Universität Berlin EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective Research Area 5 "Building Digital Communities" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Franziska Diehr | IT-Researcher | Altensteinstraße 15 | Raum 005 | 14195 Berlin | +49 30 838 687 51 | f.diehr(a)fu-berlin.de | https://www.temporal-communities.de/people/diehr ________________________________________

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Survey - What is your experience of Google Arts and Culture? - new study
by TERRAS Melissa 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Dear EADH folks, (Apologies for cross posting, and I hope this is of interest to the list, given many of you work in/with the GLAM sector). Google Arts and Culture (GA&C) is now a major portal through which users can experience artworks and cultural artifacts from over 2000 galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM), from over 80 countries, worldwide. While the portal attracts large audiences, there has been next-to-no published research on the GLAM sector experience of GA&C. What is attractive about the platform to institutions? What benefits does it provide to the partner organisation? What was the experience of preparing and submitting material to GA&C? What issues are there regarding labour, permissions, copyright, and sustainability? What lasting effects will it have on the sector? We’re undertaking a study regarding the GLAM sector’s experience of GA&C, and perceptions of GA&C. We’re looking for those working within the sector to provide their anonymous opinion. We are asking for anonymous responses to give anyone in the GLAM sector freedom to comment. The survey will close on 15th Feb 2021. Take the survey: https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/google-arts-and-culture-the-glam-sect… (We’re aware that there are some issues with this in Chrome, but it works in other browsers). The survey should take 20 minutes, and we’ll write the results up into an academic article, which will be a follow up to our recently published paper "Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture” (For an overview, see https://melissaterras.org/2021/01/18/new-paper-digital-cultural-colonialism…) I would appreciate if you could share this with colleagues, and we’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts and insights. Thank you! Melissa ———— Professor Melissa Terras University of Edinburgh, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences @melissaterras The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Call for papers: Digital humanities subtopic at SEMANTiCS2021
by Albert Meroño Peñuela 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Dear all, [apologies for cross-posting] The call for papers below (also at [1]) may be of interest to the members of this list. Please feel free to share with your colleagues. Thanks, Barbara and Albert [1] https://tinyurl.com/y6azfulx --- Call for Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage SEMANTiCS 2021 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 6 - 9, 2021 https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/ Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage As a thematic extension of the general call of the SEMANTiCS2021 conference, this sub-topic invites high quality submissions that show how Semantic technologies have been applied to develop and improve humanities and cultural heritage research and practice. We invite both research papers describing novel approaches and insights as well as case studies and industry submissions. Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: - Cultural Heritage Ontologies and Vocabularies - Semantic technologies for Digital Humanities - Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs and Digital Humanities - Semantic Search for Humanities and Digital Heritage - Geo-semantics for Humanities and Digital Heritage - Natural Language Processing for cultural heritage - Approaches to support Humanities scholars accessing Semantic data - Social Semantics for Humanities data - Semantic technologies for Audio-Visual Data - Historical Entity reconciliation on the Semantic Web - Semantics and Hermeneutics - Semantic Social Networks in Heritage data - Semantic technologies in Digital Libraries - Ethics & Semantics: humanising knowledge graphs, ethically-aware semantic tech Author Guidelines and Submission for paper submissions There are three tracks for which we invite submissions: - Research and Innovation - Posters and Demos - Industry Contributions Please find the calls and the Author Guidelines for each track at https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp. Please select the special sub-topic “Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage” when submitting your paper. Accepted research papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Posters & demos will be published in CEUR. Presentations of industry contributions will be published on the conference website. We deviate from the main track in the following ways: - We encourage the submission of short data papers (i.e. 1000-word descriptions of a dataset associated with the submitted papers) to the Journal of Open Humanities Data at the same time as the submission of research papers to the conference. The short data papers will be peer-reviewed according to the criteria of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/) and published in a special collection of the Journal. Please note that there is an Article Publishing charge associated with the publication in the journal. - Best R&I DH paper award. Authors of the best papers submitted to the special sub-topic will be offered the possibility to submit an extended version of their work as a submission to the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue: Cultural Heritage and Semantic Web ( http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-cultural… ). These will be reviewed in a fast-track considering the extensions. Review and Evaluation Criteria for paper submissions Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing process is single-blind. Papers submitted to this sub-topic will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - Appropriateness - Originality, novelty, and innovativeness - Impact of results - Soundness of the evaluation - Proper comparison to related work - Clarity and quality of writing Important Dates (Research & Innovation Track) Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Paper Submission Deadline: March 29, 2021 (11:59 pm,Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Posters & Demos) Paper Submission Deadline: May 24, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: July 05, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Important Dates (Industry Track) Presentation Submission Deadline: April 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m.,Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Presentation: July 26, 2021 (11:59 p.m., Hawaii time) Submission of scientific papers, posters & demos via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem21eu# Submission of industry papers via http://2021-eu.semantics.cc/submission-industry-presentations Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2021 EU are planned to be published by Springer LNCS for the Research & Innovation papers and CEUR for Posters & Demos. Presentations of industry submissions will be made available on the conference page. We are looking forward to your contribution! Special Sub-Topic Chairs: Barbara McGillivray, University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute, UK Albert Meroño Peñuela, King’s College London, UK

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Assistant Professor in DH and CS
by WARWICK, CLAIRE L. 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to say that Durham University is advertising another assistant professor position in the computational aspects of DH, hosted in our Department of Computer Science, following our previous two successful appointments in this area. Please use the following link for further details. The closing date is 22 February. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CDN849/assistant-professor-in-computer-science-d… Best wishes, Claire ---------- Claire Warwick, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Professor of Digital Humanities Department of English Studies Durham University

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