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Thinking about interpretation: Pliny and scholarship in the humanities

http://pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk Our Digital Humanities community has been arguably in existence for about 50 years, and its pioneers – people like JB Smith and Rosanne Potter – expected right from the start that computing would have an enormous effect on scholarship. In fact, however, our effect on how most scholars work has been very small. Although tremendously innovative techniques have been deve...

Thinking Differently About Aging: Changing Attitudes Through the Humanities.

Ageism has many cumulative negative health effects, so reducing ageism in college-age youths can have a significant, long-term impact on public health. Reduced ageism decreases the prevalence and severity of many negative health events, such as myocardial infarctions, and can add an average of 7.5 years to the life span. One of the few proven methods for reducing ageist ideation is through part...

Arts Humanities

The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities. The symposium highlights arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice....

Computational Humanities