What's on

SHL Digital has an active programme of events to help nurture the next generation of researchers, and support colleagues gain new digital skills and engage with cutting edge research.

A termly Seminar Series of external speakers and Open Workshops, plus our Incubator Programme which aims at igniting conversations across campus to generate and develop new ideas and collaborations, open-door fortnightly research & technical surgeries, social events, and Research Forums open to all scholars.

We also run an annual Call for Project Proposals to provide seed funding for emerging ideas.

 

  • SHL Annual Keynote speaker: Professor Judy Wajcman

    Feminism Confronts AI: The Gender Relations of DigitalisationIn  this talk Judy Wajcman (LSE & The Alan Turing Institute) examines the gender relations of digitalisation, with a particular focus on AI as the most contemporary feature of this.

    Date: 28 June

    Time: 4 - 5pm

    Venue: TBC

    Further details & registration

  • Open Workshops Spring 2024

     


     

    (Re)productive media: Experimental ‘record cutting’ for music and sound creation - This workshop will introduce experimental ‘record cutting’, a history of the record as productive medium and allow some hands-on experience with disc inscription technologies. Workshop leads: Dylan Beattie

    Date: Wednesday 6 March

    Time: 1:30 start to - 5:00PM (TBC)

    Venue: The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration coming soon


    DIY Signal Processing: Distortion

    Workshop leads: Adam Staff & Alex Peverett (Emute affiliated)

    Date: Wednesday 13 March

    Time: 1 - 4pm

    Venue: The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration 


    Research Data Management Plan - Writing a Data Management Plan (DMP) is essential for many grant applications. It’s also incredibly useful for the smooth running of your project. 

    Workshop leads: Helen Webb & Adam Harwood

    Date: Wednesday 20 March

    Time: 3 - 4:40pm

    Venue: The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration

     


    Cultural Heritage in 3D: Modelling the Past for the Future- Join our 3D modelling workshop, where we'll explore user-friendly platforms and guide beginners through the basics of creating 3D models for cultural heritage

    Workshop leads: Freja Howat & Jess Holland

    Date: 17 April 

    Time: 3 - 4:30pm

    Venue: The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration 


    Video Synthesis

    Workshop leads: Andrew Duff & Alex Peverett (Alternate Nows & Dead Tech Lib affiliated)

    Date: Wednesday 24 April

    Time: TBC

    Venue: The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration coming soon

  • Seminar/Events series Spring 2024   

     

     Concept Quest: Navigating ideas on and through linguistic concepts - This joint Sussex Humanities Lab  and  Mass Observation event focuses on concepts. More specifically, we aim to showcase the value of concept-based approaches in identifying patterns of thinking in textual data. 

    Date: Monday 11 March

    Time: 10:00 - 17:00

    Venue: Arts A108, Brighton, BN1 9RG

    Details & Tickets 


    Seminar with Rachel Falconer

    Date: TBC

    Time: 3-5pm

    Venue: Sussex Humanities Lab

    Full details & registration comming soon 


    A NIght at the APPera -  Throughout its evolution, opera has adapted and responded to the societal, cultural, and technological changes of its time. To investigate digital & analogue participation as potential operatic structures, Loré Lixenberg will be discussing her experiments in opera.

    Speaker: Loré Lixenberg

    Date: Monday 18 March

    Time: 3 – 5pm

    Venue: Sussex Humanities Lab

    Further details & registration

     


    CHASE event - AuralPluralities: Ecological Listening: from sound art to action - This talk will provide an introduction to the new ‘ecological sound art’ with the aim of highlighting the ways in which sound and listening represent a particularly powerful medium through which we might explore our perceptions of, relationships with, and responses to, contemporary ecological crises.

    Speaker: Jono Gilmurray

    Date: Friday 22 March

    Time: 12 – 17:15

    Venue: Sussex Humanities Lab

    Event Registration

    AuralPluralities is a research network led by academics and creative practitioners dedicated to addressing, and extending upon, the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in the Arts and Humanities research. This programme is supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England (CHASE) 

     


    AI Perform! - Robots & generative AI are all the rage these days, but the interest in creating artificial life goes back thousands of years. The arts – especially puppetry, dance, and music – have had a tremendous influence on how to make machines lively and lifelike. This talk highlights our fascination with artificial life, and looks at the impact of the visual and performing arts on recent developments in robots and AI.

    Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Jochum

    Date: Wednesday 27 March

    Time: 3 – 5pm

    Venue: The Creative Zone, Pevensey III, Falmer, BN1 9QH & ONLINE

    Further Details & Event Registration

     

  • Incubator Programme 2023-24

    Research surgeries every other Monday, starting 2nd Oct 2023 with the SHL Programme Manager

    An opportunity to meet with Elena Dennison to chat informally about your research, bounce ideas, & ask questions. These sessions will be of interest to those working in SHL research areas, or those wanting to develop a research proposal within SHL’s remit.

     

    Online weekly surgery sessions with Research Software Engineer (RSE) Nic Seymour-Smith -Tuesdays 11 - 12pm

    These are informal sessions to talk to Nic about your research idea and your possible needs for software development. 

    No booking required. Simply log onto the zoom call, and wait your turn and find out how Nic’s expertise can help you and your project.

    https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/2189488574

     

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    Data Dates: Thursdays, 2 – 4pm in the lab (in person)- 30 Nov 2023, 7 March 2024, 13 June 2024

    Having “data” is one thing, knowing what is possible computationally is another! To help bridge this gap, the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is hosting 3 data dates - simply bring your data to the session and speak to our team about the possible methodologies available.

    Registration for 30 Nov session 

    Registration for 7 March 

    Registration for 13 June COMING SOON

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    SHL Research Forums: Mondays, 2-3pm in the lab (in person and on zoom):

    30 Oct 2023, 11 Dec 2023, 12 Feb 2024, and 15 April 2024

    The SHL Research Forum is a space for UoS researchers & potential research partners to develop research projects, as well as nourish our research community. Each month we welcome three or more speakers to share projects at different stages of development:

    1. Updates on current funded projects.
    2. Feedback on projects in planning for support during bid development and submission.
    3. Nourishing seeds of future projects through brainstorming ideas to help shape research funding bids.  

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    SHL Lunches: Mondays, 1-2pm:

    2023: 2 Oct, 30 Oct, 4 Dec

    2024: 5 Feb, 12 Feb, 15 April, 22 April, 17 June

    SHL invites you to join them in the Lab & garden (SB211 Silverstone building) for some light lunch & informal conversation around research interests and ideas. All are welcome.

     

    Information and updates can be viewed on our Events Diary  

     


 SHL away day 2022

Events

 

Our Seminar series brings leading scholars from around the world to explore a diverse range of topics and disciplines. Seminars take place on selected Mondays in the Sussex Humanities Lab and are open to all.

Our Open Workshop series offers training in Digital Humanities tools and methods. Workshops are open to all staff and postgraduate students, with some places available to undergraduates and members of the public. Workshops are generally aimed at beginner and intermediate level, and focus on the research needs of the humanities and social sciences. 

Our Research Forum is a space for Sussex researchers and potential research partners to develop individual research projects, as well as nourishing our research community. At each forum we welcome three or more speakers to share projects at different stages of development:

  • Updates on current funded projects to keep the community informed;
  • Feedback on a project in planning to provide support during bid development and submission;
  • Brainstorming around initial seeds of ideas for future projects in order to shape research funding bids.

We also regularly hold one-off special research events as part of ongoing research projects. These bring together academics from all disciplines, creative practitioners, industry and all kinds of communities to participate in engaged, outward-facing dialogue and projects. In addition to this, we regularly host creative arts events including installations, performances and exhibitions.

You can find details of previous years’ programmes in our Directory of Past Events

Latest Events

Digital Arab Diasporas: archiving, curating, narrating

Wednesday 24 April 9:00 until 17:00

Sussex Humanities Lab, SILVERSTONE SB211

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