Events at the Department of Digital Humanities

The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London hosts an ongoing seminar series on “critical inquiry with and about the digital”. If you’d like to get notifications of future events you can sign up to this mailing list. You can find all of the dates on this calendar, which you can subscribe to. Our upcoming events can also be found on our EventBrite page. Abstracts, bios, venue details and registration links can be found on the event pages listed below. If you post about the events you can use the #kingsdh hashtag or mention @kingsdh on mastodon/twitter. You may also be interested in events at the Centre for Digital Culture and as part of the Going Global Research Seminar Series.

Upcoming events

• Ellen Charlesworth Research Seminar • 5 June 2023
• Webinar: Forgotten knights and unseen sailors • 13 June 2023

Past events

• Webinar: placing Greek inscriptions with machine learning • 23 May 2023
• Webinar: Historical Language Models and their application to Word Sense Disambiguation • 9 May 2023
• Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus with Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania), 11 May 2023, 5:30-6:30pm. https://shannon-mattern.eventbrite.co.uk/
• Webinar: Latin BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation • 16 May 2023
• Machinic critique: Web epistemological approaches in contemporary historical perspective with Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam), 1st December 2022, 4.00-5.30pm. Details and registration at: https://machinic-critique.eventbrite.co.uk/
• Algorithmic Reason with Claudia Aradau (King’s College London) and Tobias Blanke (University of Amsterdam), 2nd November 2022, 4.00-5.30pm. Details and registration at: https://algorithmic-reason.eventbrite.co.uk
• SIM Card Belongings Workshop. 19th May 2022. Details and registration here.
• Symposium on “Ecologies and Infrastructures: Cultural Techniques of Environmental Management” with Arizona State University, 22nd April 2022. Read more here.
• Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) and Lauren Klein (Emory University), Wednesday 17th March 2021, 4.30-5.30pm (UK). http://data-feminism-launch.eventbrite.co.uk/
• [ Aesthetics of Noise ] Michael Goddard, Militant Insanity Against Video Police: Anti-Psychiatry & Noise in 1970s Italian Audiovisual Media. Respondent Laurence Kent. Thursday 24 June 2021. Registration.
• [ Aesthetics of Noise ] Patrick ffrench, Informe / Information: The Noise of Georges Bataille. Respondent Giovanni Menegalle. Thursday 26 November 2020. 17:00-19:00. Registration.
• [ Aesthetics of Noise ] Mark Coté, Calculating Infinitesimals: Machine Learning from Lucretius to Deleuze and Simondon. Respondent Cécile Malaspina. Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-19:00. Registration.
• Department of Digital Humanities PhD Conference 2020: Loathing: Digital Tensions, Fragmentations and Polarisations in Times of Pandemic, Friday 26 June 2020. Homepage, Registration.
• Disrupting Digital Monolingualism, June 16-17 2020, https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monolingualism/
• 20 Years of Seeing with GPS: Perspectives and Future Directions (Symposium), Friday 12th June 2020, online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20-years-of-seeing-with-gps-perspectives-and-future-directions-tickets-104428019016
• Locative media, climate change and (im)mobility during the COVID19 pandemic: exploring collaborative spatial narratives in the arts and education (workshop), Friday 29 May 2020, 9am-5:15pm, online via Zoom, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/locative-media-climate-change-and-immobility-during-the-covid19-pandemic-tickets-104550150314
• [POSTPONED] Experimental Environments: Data/Infrastructures in Cities and Forests with Güneş Tavmen (KCL) and Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge), Wednesday 20 May 2020, 4-6pm: https://experimental-environments.eventbrite.co.uk
• [POSTPONED] Platforms and Cultural Production with Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam), David B. Nieborg (University of Toronto) and Brooke Erin Duffy (Cornell University), Wednesday 15 April 2020, 5-7pm: https://platforms-culture.eventbrite.co.uk
• [POSTPONED] The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World with Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen Business School), Jennifer Pybus (KCL) and Clare Birchall (KCL), Wednesday 18th March 2020, 4.30-6.30pm: https://digital-prism.eventbrite.co.uk
• Walking with GPS, Personal Cartographies and Digital Place with Jeremy Wood (artist), Cristina Goldschmidt Kiminami (KCL), Claire Reddleman (KCL) and Stuart Dunn (KCL), Wed Wednesday 12 February 2020, 6-8pm. https://gps-digital-place.eventbrite.co.uk
• How digital archives change history research – the case of Sardinia, with Kerstin Arnold (Archives Portal Europe), Stella Barbarossa (University of Cagliari), Arianna Ciula (King’s Digital Lab), Erica Luciano (University of Cagliari), Kristen Schuster (King’s College London). Wednesday 12 February 2020, 2-5pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-digital-archives-change-history-research-the-case-of-sardinia-tickets-93895276299
• Digital Modern Languages seminar: Digital Humanities for Arabic Book History: First Work on Models by the KITAB Project by Sarah Bowen Savant (Aga Khan University). Wednesday 6-8pm, 5 February 2020, Room 1.01, Bush House South East Wing, King’s College London
  https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/wednesday-5-february-sarah-bowen-savant-aga-khan-university-digital-humanities-for-arabic-book-history-first-work-on-models-by-the-kitab-project/
• Ethical Tech: Bias, Algorithms and Social Justice with Dr Shauna Concannon (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) and Dr Clara Crivellaro (University of Newcastle), 5 February 2020, 5.30-8pm. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethical-tech-bias-algorithms-and-social-justice-tickets-89999411663
• Launch of Sharing Mobilities: Questioning Our Right to the City by Mike Duggan (KCL) and Davide Arcidiacono (University of Catania), Tues 4 February 2020, 6-8pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-sharing-mobilities-questioning-our-right-to-the-city-tickets-85776326301
• Algorithms for Her? Feminist Approaches to Digital Infrastructures, Cultures and Economies (Symposium) Friday 17th January 2020: https://algorithmsforher.wordpress.com
• Algorithmic Politics: Analyzing Strategies of Disruption and Mainstreaming in the Canadian Alt-Right with Greg Elmer (Ryerson University) and Ganaele Langlois (York University), Wednesday 18 December 2019, 5-7pm: https://algorithmic-politics.eventbrite.co.uk.
• Interfacing Data: Dashboards as Media Formats with Nate Tkacz (Warwick) and Caroline Bassett (Cambridge), Wednesday 23 October 2019, 5-7pm: https://dashboards-data.eventbrite.co.uk.
• Who are we online? On the ‘Digital Subject’ and online personhood with Olga Goriunova (Royal Holloway), Patrick ffrench (KCL) and Scott Wark (Warwick), Thursday 14 November 2019, 6-8pm: https://digital-subjects.eventbrite.co.uk.
• Happy Packet Switching! 50 Years of Internet with KCL DDH’s Stuart Dunn, Mercedes Bunz, Claire Reddleman, Conor McKeown, Daniel Nemenyi, Kristen Schuster, Photini Vrikki, Ashwin Mathew and Marta Musso. Wednesday 6 November 2019. Photos and slides.
• “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Why the Digital is Blessing and Curse for Endangered Languages” (Mandana Seyfeddinipur, SOAS), Tuesday 25 June 2019, 6-8pm. Further details and registration can be found here.
• Willard McCarty Fellowship event on Language and Space in Public Imagination that includes the lecture on Visualizing St Petersburg Based on Russian Language Corpus by Fellow Antonina Puchkovskaia (Associate Professor, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and three short talks by the staff of the DDH, King’s College. Further details and registration can be found here.
• “How Language Became DataPatrick ffrench Informe / Information: The Noise of Georges Bataille: Speech Recognition and Computational Knowledge” (Xiaochang Li, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Wed 22nd May 2019, 4.30pm to 6pm: https://how-language-became-data.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Points of Intersection: Digital Modern Languages” (Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool), Tue 21st May 2019, 6-8pm. Further details and registration can be found here. [Digital Modern Languages seminar, co-convened by AHRC-funded Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects]
• “Good Data” (Book Launch), Thu 9th May 2019, 4pm: https://good-data-london.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Taking Stock: Researching Generic Images across Representation, Circulation and Recontextualization” (Giorgia Aiello, University of Leeds), Wed 1st May 2019, 4pm: https://generic-images.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Neurons Spike Back. The Invention of the Inductive Machine and the Artificial Intelligence Controversy” (Dominique Cardon, Sciences Po), Wed 24th Apr 2019, 5pm: https://neurons-spike-back.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Digital Actor-Network Theory (ANT): The Agency of Replications” (Dominique Boullier, Sciences Po + Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Wed 27th Mar 2019, 3.30pm: https://digital-ant.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The Spotify Teardown” (Patrick Vonderau, Martin Luther University Halle), Wed 10th April 2019, 4pm: https://spotify-teardown.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Talking Trees: Four Perspectives on ecological media and media ecologies” (Birgit Schneider, University of Potsdam), Wed 20th March 2019, 4pm: https://ecological-media.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Datafied, Data-Driven, Data-Critical: Data Journalism Within Broader Processes of Datafication” (Wiebke Loosen, Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung), Thu 14th March 2019, 6-7pm: https://data-journalism-datafication.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The Platform Society” (Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam), Wed 6th Mar 2019, 4pm: https://platform-society.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Data Collaboratives: The Emergence of Public-Private Partnerships around Data for Social Good” (Stefaan Verhulst, GovLab at NYU), Tue 26th Feb 2019, 4pm: http://data-collaboratives.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Broken Data” (Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki), Wed 13th Feb 2019, 4pm: https://broken-data.eventbrite.co.uk
• “#DeleteFacebook and Facebook’s Bonds” (Tero Karppi, University of Toronto), Thu 7th Feb 2019, 4pm: https://delete-facebook.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Surveillance Capitalism, Governance and Social Justice: Moving beyond Data Centrism” (Lina Dencik, Cardiff University), Wed 30th Jan 2019, 4pm: https://beyond-data-centricism.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Rethinking the Meaning of ‘Books’ and ‘Authorship’ in the Digital Age: The KITAB Project and Its Work on Text ‘Reuse’” (Sarah Savant, Aga Khan University), Thu 24th Jan 2019, 5pm: https://authorship-digital-age.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Digital Tools for the Study of Theatre” (Miguel Escobar Varela, National University of Singapore), Wed 23rd Jan 2019, 4.30pm: https://digital-tools-theatre.eventbrite.co.uk
• “No Business of Yours: How the Large Corporation Swallowed the Future” (Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University), Thu 17th Jan 2019, 6pm: http://no-business-of-yours.eventbrite.com
• “Data that Warms: Remaking our Relations with Data through Commodifying Infrastructural Discard” (Julia Velkova, University of Helsinki), Wed 16th Jan 2019, 4pm: https://data-that-warms.eventbrite.co.uk
•  “Seen by Machine: Machine Learning in the BBC Archive” (Daniel Chávez Heras, King’s College London), Thu 6th Dec 2018, 6pm: https://seen-by-machine.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Predictive Policing and Big Data Analysis” (Workshop organised by Department of Digital Humanities and Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), Tue 4th Dec 2018, 6pm: https://predictive-policing-big-data.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Situational Analytics” (Noortje Marres, University of Warwick), Wed 28th Nov 2018, 4pm: https://situational-analytics.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The Good Life after Work? Nostalgia and Digital Capitalism” (Alessandro Gandini, King’s College London), Wed 21st Nov 2018, 4pm: https://life-after-work.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Autonomous Smart Cities and Facts Beyond Smart Living” (Md. Mamunur Rashid, King’s College London), Wed 14th Nov 2018, 4pm: https://beyond-smart-living.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Networks and their Publics: A Public Data Workshop for the MiniVAN Project” (including researchers from King’s College London, Sciences Po, Public Data Lab), Fri 9th Nov 2018, 3pm: https://networks-and-their-publics.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Visualising Offshore Wealth: A New Map of Foreign Direct Investment” (Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex), Wed 24th October 2018, 4pm: https://visualising-offshore.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The Field Notes Plugin: Making Network Visualization in Gephi Accountable” (Karin van Es, Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa (Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University), Tue 19th June 2018, 4pm: https://gephi-field-notes.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Repurposing social media for social research? Questions after fake news” (Symposium with Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam), Thu 31st May 2018, 5pm: https://repurposing-social-media.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The World (Wide Web) through an App: The Challenges of Smartphone Users in the Global South” (Elisa Oreglia, King’s College London), Wed 30th May 2018, 4.30pm: https://smartphone-global-south.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Data Feminism” (Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech), Thu 24th May 2018, 4pm: https://data-feminism.eventbrite.co.uk
• “A Room of One’s Own? Period-trackers as Private Scopes to Escape the Stigma of Menstruation” (Amanda Karlsson, Aarhus University), Wed 16th May 2018, 5pm: https://period-trackers.eventbrite.co.uk
• “The Family as Machine: Cybernetic Kinship in Postwar America” (Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, King’s College London), Wed 2nd May 2018, 4pm: http://family-as-machine.eventbrite.com/
• “Can a Data Set be Art? Creating Critical Design, new Data, and Feminist AI” (Caroline Sinders, Artist), Thu 26th April 2018, 4pm: https://feminist-ai.eventbrite.co.uk
• “‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’: Moral Discourses and Affective Power of Selfies” (Kat Tiidenberg, Tallinn University), Mon 23rd April 2018, 5pm: https://selfies-book.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt” (Chris Anderson, University of Leeds), Fri 20th April 2018, 4pm: https://apostles-of-certainty.eventbrite.co.uk
• “When Data Science Meets the Present” (Sean Goggins, University of Missouri), Wed 16th March 2018, 4.30pm: https://datascience-present.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Fabricating ‘the People’ – Automation and Quantification in Social Media” (Carolin Gerlitz, University of Siegen), Tue 27th March 2018, 5pm: http://fabricating-the-people.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Using Web Archives to Chronicle Platform Evolution” (Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam + Fernando van der Vlist, University of Siegen/University of Amsterdam), Thu 22nd March 2018, 4pm: http://platform-evolution.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Phantasms of Reachability: The Technological Environments of Mobility and their Outside” (Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt), Thu 8 February 2018, 4pm: https://phantasms-of-reachability.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Save Our Air: Making Local Data Stories about Air Pollution” (Public Data Lab), Thu 25th January 2018, 4.30pm: http://saveourair.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Doing Research with Hyperlinks: London Launch of Hyphe 1.0” (Mathieu Jacomy, Sciences Po), Mon 22nd January 2018, 6pm: https://hyphe-london.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Platform Capitalism” (Nick Srnicek, King’s College London), Wed 22 November 2017, 4.30pm: https://platformcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Attribution / Stylometry / Macroanalysis / Distant Reading” (Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian University), Fri 10th November 2017, 3pm: https://stylometry.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Geographies of Trust and Practice in Internet Infrastructure” (Ashwin J. Mathew, UC Berkeley), Wed 25th October 2017, 4.30pm: https://internetinfrastructure.eventbrite.co.uk
• “Studying the Social Life of Fake News Online” (Tommaso Venturini, INRIA + Liliana Bounegru, Ghent University/University of Groningen), Wed 11th October 2017, 6pm: https://sociallifefakenews.eventbrite.co.uk