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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Event: Traditional/Digital Humanities and cultural critici
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DESCRIPTION:\nTraditional/Digital Humanities and cultural criticism\n\nWe
 dnesday 10 December 2:00-5:00\nG19 Mansfield Cooper\n\nProf. Marilyn Dee
 gan (King’s College\, London and Simon Visiting Professor) Digital Cultu
 ral Heritage and the Healing of a Nation: Digital Sudan\n\nMarilyn Deega
 n was one of the moving forces behind the creation of the leading Depart
 ment of Digital Humanities in the UK at King’s College\, London. In this
  paper she will discuss her involvement in a project to digitise selecte
 d material of cultural heritage as part of a national initiative led by 
 the Sudanese Association for the Archiving of Knowledge (SUDAAK)\, a Sud
 an-based NGO\, to guarantee the long-term preservation\, integration\, a
 uthenticity and accessibility of important cultural content in respectiv
 e concerned national institutions. The project addresses some of the mai
 n issues related to digitisation networks and services in the cultural d
 omain and the safeguarding and reinforcing of Sudanese cultural heritage
  through new technologies.\n\nMartin Bright (CEO\, The Creative Society)
  Digital Doomsday: how we risk failing future and past generations throu
 gh a lack of ambition.\n \nBack in 2009 Martin Bright set up a charity t
 o help young unemployed people into the creative industry and imagined a
 n army of graduates digitising the nation’s heritage. The model was the 
 Roosevelt-era Works Progress Administration\, which put tens of thousand
 s of people back to work in museums\, libraries and oral history project
 s in the 1930s. Martin Bright\, political journalist and founder of The 
 Creative Society looks back on five years of work at the sharp end of wo
 rk creation and at his involvement in the Digital Doomsday project\, in 
 which the Creative Society put a number of people back to work using fun
 ding from the Future Jobs Fund to digitise dozens of unseen films made b
 y the British Council’s film unit in the 1940s.\n\n\nMichael Stocking (M
 anaging Director\, Armadillo Systems) Humanities Research in a World Wit
 hout Books\n\nAs more collections are digitised and more digital tools d
 eveloped\, how might humanities scholars develop new ways of working? Mi
 chael Stocking has been working with research libraries to answer this a
 nd other questions\, and will present an overview of the tools researche
 rs are using as well as a look at innovative ways to surface digital col
 lections. The talk will feature examples of work he is currently involve
 d in with the Bodleian Library\, the British Library and Stanford Univer
 sity amongst others.\n\nPLUS\n\nDigital ‘bytes’ including brief interven
 tions by:\nFrances Pinter (CEO\, Manchester University Press) Publishers
  and digitisation\nGuyda Armstrong (Dept. of Italian) Digital Humanities
 @Manchester\nCaroline Checkley-Scott\, (Head of Collection Care\, JRL)\,
  Conservation\, digitization and humanities research\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G19\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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