Eind juni 2015 werd het NWO-vrije competitie voorstel “The Imperative of Regulation: local and (trans-)national dynamics of drug regulatory regimes in the Netherlands since the Second World War” goedgekeurd. Het voorstel gaat onder andere gebruikmaken van de in Translantis ontwikkelde technologie. Aanvragers: Prof. J.C. Kennedy (UU) & Prof. T. Pieters (UU) Aanvang: september 2015

Report DH Benelux 2015, Antwerp by Jesper Verhoef and Melvin Wevers During the annual Digital Humanities Benelux conference, this year in Antwerp, it became clear that the focus of Digital Humanities (DH) has shifted in recent times. Earlier conferences and workshops on DH were dominated by the question whether tools should be put to use in humanities…

At the next Digital Humanities colloquium, Lisanne Walma will talk about using a collective memory studies approach to study reference cultures in digitized newspapers. Ann Rigney (Utrecht University) will respond to the talk. Date: Thursday 25 June, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

At the next Digital Humanities colloquium, we will have two presenters Willemien Sanders (Utrecht University) on developing a tool for online publication of audiovisual research, and Eleonora Maria Mazzoli (Utrecht University) on the online audiovisual essay as a scholarly publication form. Date: Thursday 4 June, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

At the next Digital Humanities colloquium, Nees Jan van Eck (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University) will talk about software tools for bibliometric analysis of scientific publications – in particular the tools VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer, which Van Eck co-developed. Date: Thursday 7 May, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Richard Zijdeman (International Institute of Social History) will talk about the NLGIS project, on plotting historical data on maps that incorporated the changing boundaries of the Netherlands of the past 200 years. Date: Thursday 19 March, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

Het THATCamp Utrecht wil een platform bieden aan alle geesteswetenschappers in Nederland om met dataproviders, IT’ers en elkaar ervaringen of vragen te delen rondom het gebruik van digitale middelen in hun onderzoek of onderwijs. Volgens de ‘regels’ van het THATCamp wordt het tweedaags programma op 28 en 29 januari 2015 grotendeels door de deelnemers zelf…

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Peter Verhaar (Leiden University) will talk about using digital humanities methods to analyze poetry. Date: Thursday 2 Octber, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Ben Wubs (Erasmus University) will compare the historical evolution of two competing fashion textile fairs: Première Vision in Paris and Interstoff in Frankfurt. Date: Thursday 2 Octber, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

Conference ‘Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires’ On 11, 12 and 13 June 2014 the conference ‘Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires from a Western perspective, 1850-2000’ will be held in Utrecht. Since a broad range of topics will be discussed by many international speakers this conference may be interesting to many of you. The conference is…