Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools […]
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous posts on OCR/HTR, particularly our launch of the first public Syriac HTR model on Transkribus: From Vienna to the World…) into the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today’s post explores a powerful new possibility: […]
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has created both opportunities and challenges for assessment design and academic integrity. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS), developed by Perkins, Furze, Roe, and MacVaugh, provides a practical framework to guide educators in making purposeful, evidence-based decisions about appropriate AI use in assessments. Rather than treating AI as a threat to be […]
What follows is an introduction to that greater mass of information, and an invitation to others to take a look and use it. With lots of help, and trial and error, I’ve learned a bit about how to use ArcGIS software, and have crafted a story map that, I hope, introduces the data that I […]
UCLDH is proud to announce its support for Programming Historian, by joining their Institutional Partnership Programme. For the past decade, Programming Historian has been an integral part of the digital humanities teaching and learning infrastructure, with more than 140 open access peer-reviewed tutorials published in 4 languages. With many universities around the world still not […]
I have a new book out. It’s called “Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data.” The goal of the book is to change the terms of debate surrounding the place of computational literary analysis within the field literary studies. Most of these debates have and continue to centre […]
More and more academics have turned to digital humanities to interrogate early modern history, which has led to an influx of 3D modeling projects of early urban spaces. Serena Zabin’s video game, Witness to the Revolution, is one great example. Set in 1770 Boston right after the Boston Massacre, the game investigates many historical questions […]
From the post: Focusing in particular on the arts and humanities, this article asks how, and under what conditions, the digitally mediated long-form academic publication might hold a viable future. It examines digital disruption and innovation within humanities publishing, contrasts different models and outlines some of the key challenges facing scholarly publishing in the humanities. […]
From the CFP: sx archipelagos is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special section “Slavery in the Machine,” guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson. This special section aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. Topics may include but are not limited to: black code studies through a hemispheric lens…plantation […]
“Diversity” has become a managerial directive for the twenty-first century university in the United States. In its endless pursuit of diversity, the contemporary academy has required faculty, staff, and administrators to perform diversity work, marshaling the labor of employees to undertake diversity initiatives, often in addition to their stated job descriptions. Participating in diversity work […]
