At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Mark Thompson and Joanne van der Woude (University of Groningen), will introduce, explain and demonstrate the application Amerigo, which allows users to explore connections through space and time between the Netherlands, the United States, and the Atlantic World at large. Date: Thursday 26 June, 15.30-17.00Place: Muntstraat 2a (room 1.11), Utrecht

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Marc Bron (information and computing sciences, Utrecht University), will give a talk titled Exploration and contextualization: towards reusable tools for the humanities. Date: Thursday 22 May, 15.30-17.00Place: Muntstraat 2a (room 1.11), Utrecht

Moving beyond Ctrl-F: Cultural Text Mining and other Digital Utopia’s Jaap Verheul, Utrecht University KNAW series “New Trends in e-Humanities” Amsterdam, 24 April 2014, 3PM This talk will explore the many possibilities – and some limitations — of digital humanities from the perspective of cultural history. It will explore how the different conceptual questions that…

How to deal with a large collection of digitized texts? At the next Translantis/AsymEnc Colloquium, Thursday 1 May, Pieter Francois (University of Oxford) will talk about the Sample Generator for Digitized Texts, a tool he co-developed in the British Library Labs. AbstractThis presentation introduces the ‘Sample Generator’, a digital tool which allows users to generate…

Translantis Colloquium Donderdag 20 maart 2014, 9:00-10:45 uur, Janskerkhof 13, Stijlzaal 0.06 Digital Humanities tools

Translantis colloquium Donderdag 13 maart, 9-10:45 uur, Drift 25, 1.05 prof.dr. Charles van den Heuvel, The Visualization of Uncertainty  

Translantis Colloquium Thursday 9 January 2014, 10-11:45am ISLA, Science Park, Amsterdam Tom Kenter, “Over de ‘D’ in DH”

Translantis Colloquium Thursday 12 December 2013, 9-11am, Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal dr. Hieke Huistra: Risking lives: Constructing risk group identities in Dutch public discourse, 1890–1990 In my research, I investigate the construction of (health) risk groups in Dutch society in the twentieth century (1890–1990), in order to improve our understanding of identity formation in public discourse, and…

Translantis Colloquium Thursday 21 November 2013, 9-11am, location TBA Bram Mellink: The Good Society: The United States as a Reference Culture for State, Civil Society and the Citizen

Translantis Colloquium 17 October, 9:00-11:00 am, Drift 23, 1.03 Melvin Wevers: Consuming America:  Public discourses about American consumer goods and consumerism in the Netherlands, 1890-1990