Spring Summer Events 2023
SHL SPRING & SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES
AI & Archives Symposium
AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges explores the possibilities and challenges afforded by AI in archives, and does so specifically from an intersectional, eco, feminist perspective.
Date: 27 April
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab & online
Further details & registration
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Research with Impact forum: Sussex Humanities Lab
SHL is one of the University of Sussex’s four strategic research programmes, concerned with the eco-socio-cultural potentials and impacts of an increasingly digital world.
SHL's research covers a broad range of interdisciplinary research which is exemplified through our four current research clusters: Critical Digital Humanities and Archives; AI, Computational Society and Culture; Creative Computing and Play; Experimental Ecologies. The speakers in this event represent these clusters and their intersections.
Date: 10 May
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Venue: Online
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Communicating Climate Complexity: Arts and Pedagogy
As educators and researchers in a university, how do we embed sustainability themes across our activities? This workshop will be a space to explore strategies for addressing the uncertainties and complexities around sustainability (especially climate change and biodiversity) within pedagogy, public engagement activities, and advocacy and activism.
Date: 12 June
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab & online
Further details & registration
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SHL Exhibition Week
Date: 20 - 23 June
SHL week kicks off on the 20th June with a week-long exhibition showcasing SHL research at the Sussex Humanities Lab (Silverstone, Level 2 opposite SB211), and a programme of events including:
- Exhibition in the Sussex Humanities Lab, showcasing some of our research projects for the week 20-23 June
- Interdisciplinary workshop AI for a better world (20 June)
- MAH away day research drop-in sessions (21 June)
- SHL Annual Keynote, Anthropocene in the ACCA (23 June)
- The week will conclude with a social gathering to celebrate the end of SHL week and the academic year. Further details coming soon
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Domestic Light Project
Ian Winters award-winning media and performance artist launches Domestic Light a year long time-lapse media art project, using a global network of multi-spectral color sensors hosted in home windowsills in every time zone worldwide (if possible).
Date: 21 June 2023 - 21 June 2024
Venue: Online
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SHL Annual Keynote: Jamie Perera - Anthropocene In C Major
SHL Annual Keynote: Jamie Perera’s audio-visual live performance, Anthropocene in C plus panel on Arts, Activism and Positive Transformation.
Date: 23 June
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: ACCA - Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
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Co-reConstructing Local Histories in the Virtual spaces
In collaboration with the Sussex Humanities Lab and FACT (Feminist Approaches to Computational Technology Network) Judith Ricketts, Artist and Senior Lecturer of Games Art & Design in University of Brighton, will deliver this workshop to explore the use of data mapping to co-create new visualisations of local histories on a digital map, as a virtual space.
Date: 27 June
Time: 10:00-13:30
Venue: Sussex Humanities Lab
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Data Carpentry Workshop on Social Sciences with Python (x 3 days)
The Sussex Humanities Lab, Sussex Neuroscience, and DISCUS in collaboration with Data Carpentry are running a 3-day Python workshop. The event arises from a shared mission for closer collaboration between disciplines that use programming languages, such as Python, for qualitative and quantitative analysis of research data. The 3-day workshop will be co-facilitated by Data Carpentry and is an opportunity to gain valuable experience and insight into using Python.
Date: 4,5,6 July
Time: TBC
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
Further details & registration coming soon
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Artists Discussion Full Stack Feminism, Art, Intersectionality & The Digital
The Irish Museum of Modern Art partners with Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities, to host a discussion that explores digital art practice through an intersectional lens. Our guests, artists Yarli Allison, Lauren Kelly and Roibí O’Rua address the opportunities afforded by decentering traditional voices, practices and histories in digital art and humanities
Date: 6 July
Time: 5:30pm - 7:15pm
Venue: ONLINE
Further details & free tickets
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PAST EVENTS - Details of past events can be found here
ChatGPT and Higher Education
Might the emergence of ChatGPT be an opportunity to grow the more radical aspects of our pedagogic practices? Might it even be ... good? This SHL interactive 90 minute workshop will focus on assessment
Date: 3 April
Time:16:00- 17:30
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
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Coding Otherwise for SOFTer futures
Speaker: Winnie Soon (Associate Professor at Aarhus University and visiting researcher at (CSNI), London South Bank University)
Date: 23 January
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab & online
Further details and registration
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Queering Bash talk & discussion (morning)
Speakers: Winnie Soon Associate Professor (on leave) at Aarhus University and visiting researcher at the Centre of the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) & Mara Karagianni a developer, sysadmin and artist.
Date: 6 March
Time:10:30 - 12:00
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
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Democratizing the Datafied Society: Public Interventions into Data Governance
Speaker: Dr Arne Hintz Reader(Associate Professor) at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media & Culture and co-Director of its Data Justice Lab.
Date: 27 March
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab & online
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SHL SPRING OPEN WORKSHOP SERIES
Oscillographics workshop
Speakers: Andrew Duff & Alex Peverett (SHL & Emute workshop)
Date: 8 March
Time:14:00- 16:00
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
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Queering Bash Workshop (afternoon) + (morning talk & duscussion 10:30 -12:00pm)
Speakers: Winnie Soon Associate Professor (on leave) at Aarhus University and visiting researcher at the Centre of the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) & Mara Karagianni a developer, sysadmin and artist.
Date: 6 March
Time:10:30- 16:00
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
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DIY Audio Electronics: Building a Simple Analogue Filter
You turn the knob, the sound goes wub. But what’s happening inside the black box? This workshop will demystify the filter and, through it, common approaches to analogue signal processing
Date: 29 MARCH
Time:14:00- 17:00
Venue: Sussex Hums Lab
Further details & registration
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Workshops coming soon - details TBC
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Solar Pi workshop
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Transkribus workshop
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RNBO workshop
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WEEKLY OPEN LABS
OPEN LAB THURSDAYS (Thursdays 10:00-16:00h) see SHL events page for details
FEMINIST QUEER CODING COLLECTIVE (Fridays monthly 10:00-13:00h) see SHL events page for details
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SHL INCUBATOR EVENTS see here
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CHASE EVENTS
AuralDiversities, Entanglement 1: Against Sonic Certitude
Carson Cole Arthur . Dr. Petero Kalulé . AM Kanngieser .Abolitionary Listening: Propositions & Questions
Date: 18 January
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Venue: online
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AuralDiversities, Entanglement 2: Gathering Place Edward George - Towards Listening, Dub, and Memory
Date: 25 January
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Venue: Online
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AuralDiversities, Entanglement 3: Poetry Workshop
James Goodwin and Nisha Ramayya
Date: 3 February
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Event Reservation: please email helenfrosi@mac.com for a reservation.
NB. Reservations are prioritised for PhD researchers at CHASE affiliated universities. The public are welcome to make reservations 1-month before activities commence
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AuralDiversities, Confluence 2: Future Acoustemologies
Grant Smith & Mort Drew (Soundcamp - will introduce their Acoustic Commons project and give a hands-on introduction to hardware and software techniques necessary to create your own affordable live streaming equipment)
Date: 24 February
Time: 9:45 - 5pm
Event reservation: currently open to CHASE students plus 2 additional spaces for those who are interested.
Consortium for the humanities and Arts South-East England (CHASE) - Cohort Development Fund (CDF)
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Auraldiversities: Confluence | Session Two: Presentation with Soundcamp
As we enter the UN decade of ecosystem restoration we consider what role listening can play in shaping and serving conservation agendas. In this online presentation, Soundcamp will introduce their Acoustic Commons project.
Date: 24 February
Time: 10 - 11am
Venue: Online
Information & Registration