Digital Humanities Research Cluster
About us
The Digital Humanities Research Cluster is a new feature on the UWA research landscape. It is a forum for bringing together researchers from many disciplines across the whole University who are doing work related to ‘digital humanities’.
We use the term in a broad sense, to capture at least two directions in the relationship between digital technologies and humanistic research: the applications of digital technologies for humanities projects and how the use of digital technology for humanities projects changes the user’s experience, from a research or engagement perspective.
We value collaboration, plurality, investigation of human culture, reflection on traditional practices as well as the critical embrace of disruption.
Upcoming events
Next seminar
Friday 23 October, 11am
Richard Vokes (Anthropology & Sociology)
Digitising in a Tight Corner: More Reflections on the Practices, Processes and Politics of the Idi Amin Archive Project
This seminar introduces a new exhibition on the Idi Amin Archive Project, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
NB: the seminar will take place in the exhibition space, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Catch up on past seminars
Friday 11 September, 10am
Nadia Rhook (History and Indigenous Studies)
“Moving Tongues” History Exhibition: Translating Place-based Stories from Flinders Lane to the Web
Friday 28 August, 10am
Yasmin Haskell (Classics and Ancient History)
The Ark of Orpheus: Collecting the Poetry of Nature from Aboriginal Australia to Classical Antiquity (and back)
Eileen Gardiner & Ronald G. Musto (Centre for Medieval Studies, University Bristol)
The Digital Humanities and the Materiality Turn
Thursday 13 August, 4pm
Catherine Noske (English and Literary Studies)
Reading Piglets in a Digital Archive
Shino Konishi (History and Indigenous Studies)
Indigenous Biographies in the Online Australian Dictionary of Biography
Friday 31 July, 10am
Rob Wilson (Philosophy)
How to Build a Living Archive on Eugenics: Notes from Canada
Thursday 23 July, 4pm
Francesco De Toni (European Languages and Cultures)
ELICIT – Emotion Language in Italian: Change in Texts and time (a digital enquiry)
Friday 10 July, 10am
Richard Vokes (Anthropology and Sociology)
Digitising in a Tight Corner: Reflections on the Practices, Processes, and Politics of the Idi Amin Archive Project
Friday 3 July, 10am
Chris Mallan (Classics & Ancient History)
Ivan Lozic (Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis)
The Vienna Dexippus: New Contributions from Multispectral Imaging to Third Century History and Literature
Thursday 18 June, 4pm
Associate Professor Suzanne Wijsman (Conservatorium of Music)
Professor Susan Boynton (Department of Music, Columbia University)
Digital Humanities Approaches to Comparative Study of Medieval Musical Iconography
Watch the recording.
Friday 12 June, 10am
Professor Ben Smith (Associate Dean, Research, Arts, Business, Law and Education)
The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia
Watch the recording.
2020 seminar schedule
All seminars will take place online via Zoom or some similar platform until further notice. Times are AWST.
Friday 6 November, 10am
Ky Gentry (Political Science and International Relations)
Historic Sites and Place Attachment in a Mobile World
Community engagement
Collecting the West: we are working closely with the Western Australian Museum, State Library of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the British Museum to discover new understandings of Western Australia emerging from a critical study of collecting.
Burrup Field School: this a unit offered at The University of Western Australia to train undergraduate students in the rock art methodology deployed by CRAR+M researchers. The field school has been active since 2008, funded by Rio Tinto in collaboration with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation.
Centre for the History of Emotions: our members are involved with the ARC Centre of Excellence uses historical knowledge from Europe, initially from the period 1100 – 1800, to understand the long history of emotional behaviours.
Our staff
- School of Agriculture and Environment
- UWA Business School
- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
- School of Design
- Graduate School of Education
- School of Engineering
- School of Humanities
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- Associate Professor David Barrie
- Associate Professor Ethan Blue
- Associate Professor Alison Bartlett
- Dr Toby Burrows
- Dr Francesco De Toni
- Dr Kirk Essary
- Dr Paul Gibbard
- Professor Yasmin Haskell
- Associate Professor John Kinder
- Dr Chris Mallan
- Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
- Dr Catherine Noske
- Ms Rebecca Repper
- Associate Professor Jacqueline Van Gent
- Dr Clas Weber
- School of Indigenous Studies
- University Library
- Conservatorium of Music
- School of Population and Global Health
- Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
- School of Social Sciences
- UWA Oceans Institute
Related research centres
The Research Cluster will work closely with the new Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (DCWA). Opening in 2020, the Centre is an exciting collaboration between all Western Australian Universities (Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, Notre Dame University and The University of Western Australia), the State Library of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum.
The DCWA will preserve collections in digital format and make them accessible, for the first time, to people across Australia and beyond. This major piece of national research infrastructure is supported by each of the participant organisations and the Australian Research Council.
Digital Humanities is an exciting growth area in the other universities in Perth and around Australia. Nationally, the reference body is the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities.