Join us for a memorable day dedicated to the integration of digital tools and traditional humanities disciplines!

Why Attend?

Be Inspired by Our Keynote Speakers: Hear from leading DH scholars from UCL and UC Berkeley as they share groundbreaking insights and innovative research on historical corpus linguistics.

Explore New Horizons in Our Practical Workshops*: Specifically designed for non-science participants, discover how digital technologies can transform research, teaching, and scholarly communication.

Unlock New Possibilities: Dive into humanistic research projects and uncover new patterns, connections, and insights from K-pop dance poses and sequences.

Collaborate and Connect: Network with peers and experts, breaking geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

Date: 7 March 2025 (Friday)
Time: 09:30 – 17:30 (lunch will be provided)
Location: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F University Library, CUHK

Target Audience: All academics, researchers, and administrators with an interest in DH

Speaker 
Dr. Barbara McGillivray
Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and
Prof. Timothy Tangherlini, School of Information and Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley

Barbara is a digital humanist and computational linguist. Before joining King's in 2021, Barbara was Turing research fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and at the University of Cambridge between 2017 and 2021. Before that, she worked as language technologist in the Dictionary division of Oxford University Press and as data scientist in the Open Research Group of Springer Nature. She obtained her PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2010, after a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Firenze (Italy). She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities at King’s.

Timothy R. Tangherlini is the Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education. He is a Professor in the Dept. of Scandinavian and in the School of Information. A folklorist and ethnographer by training, he is the author of Danish Folktales, Legends and Other Stories (2014), Talking Trauma (1999), and Interpreting Legend (1994). He has also published widely in academic journals, including The Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, Folklore, Scandinavian Studies, Danske Studier, PlosOne, Computer and Communications of the Association for Computing Machines. He iwasa co-PI on an international team developing ISEBEL: Intelligent Search Engine for Belief Legends, as well as an international lead on the Norwegian SAMLA project, which digitized the historical ethnographic collections of Norway. He is interested in the circulation of stories on and across social networks, and the ways in which stories are used by individuals in their ongoing negotiation of ideology with the groups to which they belong. In general, his work focuses on computational approaches to problems in the study of folklore, literature and culture.