Speakers

The ATNU Virtual Visiting Speaker series is a speaker series event that features digital humanists and textual scholars from all over the world to talk about and discuss their latest research. The topics covered by past events are as diverse as Digital Humanities itself, although our specific focus is on the treatment of text and literary works through computational methods. Each event runs for approximately one hour, with the invited speaker giving a short presentation followed by a lively discussion with the audience. The series is organised by ATNU (Newcastle University) primarily led by the School of English but in collaboration with other stakeholders at the university. This series showcasing the latest research in digital humanities is entirely free and open to everyone, with most of our past lectures available online as recordings.

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ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Sophie Whittle - 2024-12-11

 

Dr Sophie Whittle (University of Sheffield) talks to us about "Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Reflections on the use of generative AI for digital scholarly editing and the university classroom". 

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Suzanne R. Black - 2024-10-28

A Good Reads Rating

Dr Suzanne R. Black ( CoSTAR Foresight Lab at the University of Edinburgh) talks to us about 'New literary canons: A digital approach to reviews of fanfiction on Goodreads'. 

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Gimena del Rio Riande - 2023-06-09

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Elena Spadini - 2023-04-26

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Ellen Forget - 2023-03-29

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Clark and Connell - 2022-12-12

 

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Dombrowski, Nomura, Ge, Sherman - 2022-11-09

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Elisa Beshero-Bondar - 2022-06-14

Elisa Beshero-Bondar discusses the delights and provocations of an experiment in collating five versions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to prepare a digital variorum edition.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Elli Bleeker - 2022-05-18

Elli Bleeker talks to us about the training and education of scholarly editors and what this means in the digital world and the Companion for Digital Editing Methods.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Kerri Andrews - 2022-05-05

Kerri Andrews talks to us about will talk to us about becoming a digital convert using the Letters of Hannah More, a Digital Edition, as an example.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Rahul K. Gairola - 2022-03-31

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Rahul K. Gairola talks to us about the how digital technology in the 21st century is re-shaping literacy, textuality, identity, and activism in queer culture throughout the Indian diaspora

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Kirstyn Leuner - 2022-01-27

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Kirstyn Leuner talks to us about the problems of text colour for digitization projects using Anne B. Poyntz’s 'Je ne sçai quoi' (1769) as a case study.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Diane Jakacki - 2021-05-27

A screenshot of REED London

Diane Jakacki talks to us about REED London, an exciting collection that gathers records of performance in London before 1642, and how it can help us to understand and map everyday life.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Christof Schöch - 2021-05-06

A graph from ELTEC

Christof Schöch talks about how to perform computational research with multilingual corpora, focusing specifically on the creation of the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC).

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Laura Estill - 2021-03-25

Laura Estill talks about how to bring digital resources into the literary classroom, and how to best equip students to understand, use and engage with the digital materials we use every day in our research.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Mike Kestemont - 2021-02-23

Mike Kestemont discusses how the use of methods derived from ecological studies might reveal the degree to which medieval manuscripts have been lost to history, and how this reveals an unexpected link between medieval studies and ecology.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Roopika Risam - 2021-01-25

Roopika Risam talks about the challenges and questions raised by the publication of her recent co-edited volume, The Digital Black Atlantic.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Martin Paul Eve - 2020-12-16

Martin Paul Eve talks about how the gap between the computational approaches favoured by most scholars in distant reading can be reconciled with the more enjoyable close reading methods favoured by Humanists, based on his recent book Close Reading with Computers.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Katherine Bode - 2020-11-26

Katherine Bode talks about the crucial and thorny concept of computer modelling print cultural objects: what happens to these objects when they are digitised, how do they relate to each other within and without the same collection, and what does this all mean for research.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Ted Underwood - 2020-10-30

Ted Underwood's brief talk focuses on how computational methods have affected literary theory, drawing important lessons from the history of textual analysis.

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Elaine Treharne - 2020-09-24

Elaine Treharne gives a lively discussion on textual representation, beautiful books and, just as a sample text, Beowulf.