The phenomenological mediation of the screen can make it very hard to tell these different kinds of connector apart. In a recent post, the historian of belief Francis Young makes an intriguing argument which expands on this. Young argues that the reception of AI, across the public and the scholarly spheres, has shifted society towards […]
I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and […]
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend HigherEd PodCon, the first conference devoted to podcasting across higher ed. Thanks to UPCEA, which sponsors my Intentional Teaching podcast, for sending me to Chicago for this very engaging conference! I thought I would share a few highlights from the conference here on the blog. See full […]
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AI and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive. Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly. See full post.
Have you noticed the GIS button on our main page? It will lead you to gis.periegesis.org – our very own ArcGIS Hub Site. “An ArcGIS what?” or “a what Hub Site?”, I can almost hear some of you say! Let me clarify… Read full post here.
The Humanities contribute to society in many different ways; most of them are indirect and thus hard to measure. While there are good reasons for this state of affairs, at CREATE we are investigating whether we can quantify and qualify a specific form of impact: work on timely issues and open societal challenges. At this […]
In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts and Culture (GA&C), with an objective to make culture more accessible. The platform (and the content on its app) has dramatically grown since then, and currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution images of artworks from approximately 2,500 museums and galleries in […]
Several months ago, some of my colleagues in Japan launched an online portal through which it is possible to explore from one’s own office the complex of the Mamluk sultan Qalawun (d. 1290), in Cairo (see: Qalawun VR Tour or the project’s site). In this post, I will present a brief overview of the portal […]
On Wednesday 19th November I attended the UK Web Archive (UKWA) mini-conference 2020, my first conference as a Graduate Trainee Digital Archivist. It was hosted by Jason Webber, Engagement Manager at the UKWA and, as normal in these COVID times, it was hosted on Zoom (my first ever Zoom experience!) Read full post here.
This online event is a follow-up to the workshop “Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption during the Second World War” (Leuven, 2018) and the “Movie Theatres in Wartime” symposium (June 2020, scheduled to take place in Amsterdam, but due to Covid-19 downsized into a smaller online event). The sessions, which can be attended through online videoconferencing […]
