Paul Spence
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⛔ Second statement in one week #saveleicesterml #saveleicesterlanguages
Following last week’s formal letter to the University of Nottingham, AHGBI has now issued a second statement—this time to the University of Leicester—regarding the proposed closure of its Department of Modern Languages.
Following last week’s formal letter to the University of Nottingham, AHGBI has now issued a second statement—this time to the University of Leicester—regarding the proposed closure of its Department of Modern Languages.
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
⛔ Second statement in one week #saveleicesterml #saveleicesterlanguages
Following last week’s formal letter to the University of Nottingham, AHGBI has now issued a second statement—this time to the University of Leicester—regarding the proposed closure of its Department of Modern Languages.
Following last week’s formal letter to the University of Nottingham, AHGBI has now issued a second statement—this time to the University of Leicester—regarding the proposed closure of its Department of Modern Languages.
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AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.
#SaveNottinghamLanguages
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🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Arts & Humanities Doctoral School launches new studentships programme | King's College London
Over 30 Doctoral studentship places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities at King’s.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
my.corehr.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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📣 Open Call: Share Your Content on the #OpenMethods Blog!
Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch!
ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/
Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch!
ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📣 Open Call: Share Your Content on the #OpenMethods Blog!
Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch!
ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/
Have you come across some interesting content or methodology on Digital Arts & Humanities you would like to share? Have you published exciting content or contributed to inspiring venues? Get in touch!
ℹ️ openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call/
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
my.corehr.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025
Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
July 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
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📢 Public service announcement: if you were part of the #dh2025 / @dh2025 crowd, now is the time to become part of the #dh2026 crowd as well by following @dh2026daejeon !
July 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📢 Public service announcement: if you were part of the #dh2025 / @dh2025 crowd, now is the time to become part of the #dh2026 crowd as well by following @dh2026daejeon !
Great to see so many old/new faces at the #DH2025 conference in Lisbon.
Busy one this time: #Multilingual Manifesto; paper on Transnational evaluation; presenting 'Transnational Connections & Barriers in #DigitalHumanities: a UK-China Case study' report- zenodo.org/records/1603...
Busy one this time: #Multilingual Manifesto; paper on Transnational evaluation; presenting 'Transnational Connections & Barriers in #DigitalHumanities: a UK-China Case study' report- zenodo.org/records/1603...
Transnational connections and barriers in DH: a UK-Chinese case study
This report presents the findings of a comparative study of the digital humanitieslandscapes in the UK and China, based on a literature review and 45 in-depth interviewswith academics, funders, policy...
zenodo.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Great to see so many old/new faces at the #DH2025 conference in Lisbon.
Busy one this time: #Multilingual Manifesto; paper on Transnational evaluation; presenting 'Transnational Connections & Barriers in #DigitalHumanities: a UK-China Case study' report- zenodo.org/records/1603...
Busy one this time: #Multilingual Manifesto; paper on Transnational evaluation; presenting 'Transnational Connections & Barriers in #DigitalHumanities: a UK-China Case study' report- zenodo.org/records/1603...
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Would you like to know more about multilingual DH? want to develop infrastructures to meet the realities of researchers working in other-than-English languages in DH? Register to the next Friday Frontiers Webinar "Multilingual DH & its Users" before April 11th 👇
Join us on April 11th at 11:30 CET for "Multilingual DH & Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration" with Cosima Wagner, David Wrisley, and myself, as part of the
@dariaheu.bsky.social #FridayFrontiers webinar series!
Free and open to the public! Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/03/12/f...
@dariaheu.bsky.social #FridayFrontiers webinar series!
Free and open to the public! Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/03/12/f...
Friday Frontiers Webinar on Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration | DARIAH
www.dariah.eu
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Would you like to know more about multilingual DH? want to develop infrastructures to meet the realities of researchers working in other-than-English languages in DH? Register to the next Friday Frontiers Webinar "Multilingual DH & its Users" before April 11th 👇
Excited to attend (virtually) launch of the new #DigitalHumanities Intersections (DHI) journal: "an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities"
dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dh...
Submission Deadline for 1st issue June 5, 2025
dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dh...
Submission Deadline for 1st issue June 5, 2025
Digital Humanities Intersections (DHI)
DHI, an open-access peer-reviewed journal by KSHIP, IIT Indore, explores multilingual digital humanities with AI, GIS, and digital archiving.
dhi.iiti.ac.in
April 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Excited to attend (virtually) launch of the new #DigitalHumanities Intersections (DHI) journal: "an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities"
dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dh...
Submission Deadline for 1st issue June 5, 2025
dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dh...
Submission Deadline for 1st issue June 5, 2025
OpenMethods Metablog relaunched with Call for new Volunteers & Editors: openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call-fo... An excellent European open science initiative celebrating #DigitalHumanities methods. OpenMethods is Multilingual/would be great to see people from new languages & geographies involved too!
Open Call for Volunteers and Editors to join OpenMethods Metablog
The OpenMethods platform is intentionally interdisciplinary and multilingual, aiming to showcase the richness of DH discourses as they take shape in different regional, national and language commun…
openmethods.dariah.eu
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
OpenMethods Metablog relaunched with Call for new Volunteers & Editors: openmethods.dariah.eu/open-call-fo... An excellent European open science initiative celebrating #DigitalHumanities methods. OpenMethods is Multilingual/would be great to see people from new languages & geographies involved too!
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Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
@kingsdh.bsky.social
@kingsdh.bsky.social
Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
@kingsdh.bsky.social
@kingsdh.bsky.social
Just back from research trip to Mexico - on digital linguistic diversity, in particular relating to indigenous languages. Incredibly grateful to everyone who met with/helped me. Some points of concern but also optimism as lower resourced languages fight for 'territory' in new digital landscapes
February 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Just back from research trip to Mexico - on digital linguistic diversity, in particular relating to indigenous languages. Incredibly grateful to everyone who met with/helped me. Some points of concern but also optimism as lower resourced languages fight for 'territory' in new digital landscapes
Congratulations to my student Mariana Gomes www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-g..., who this week was been awarded a PhD for her project ‘Towards a digital representation of oral literature performance: Miranda, Northeastern Portugal, as a case study for integrated multimodal features of transmission’!
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January 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Congratulations to my student Mariana Gomes www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-g..., who this week was been awarded a PhD for her project ‘Towards a digital representation of oral literature performance: Miranda, Northeastern Portugal, as a case study for integrated multimodal features of transmission’!
Preocupante noticia desde España: Comunicado del Colectivo de Investigadores Afectados por la Convocatoria de proyectos de investigación en cooperación en el área de la inteligencia artificial iacolaborativa.wordpress.com/comunicado/
Comunicado
Comunicado del Colectivo de Investigadores Afectados por la Convocatoria de proyectos de investigación en cooperación en el área de la inteligencia artificial Firma el comunicado Naturaleza e impor…
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January 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Preocupante noticia desde España: Comunicado del Colectivo de Investigadores Afectados por la Convocatoria de proyectos de investigación en cooperación en el área de la inteligencia artificial iacolaborativa.wordpress.com/comunicado/
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Yay! Please welcome @modlangopen.bsky.social to Bluesky! 👋
@svshh.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social
@svshh.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Yay! Please welcome @modlangopen.bsky.social to Bluesky! 👋
@svshh.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social
@svshh.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social
Multilingual DH in the UK & Ireland: Summary Report & Future Recommendations just out! digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2024/09/26/m... covers: language-inclusive spaces; #multilingual tools & resources; under-resourced languages; digital culture/theory; cross-sector work; advocacy in/beyond UK & Ireland
Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland: Report and Recommendations | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org
September 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Multilingual DH in the UK & Ireland: Summary Report & Future Recommendations just out! digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2024/09/26/m... covers: language-inclusive spaces; #multilingual tools & resources; under-resourced languages; digital culture/theory; cross-sector work; advocacy in/beyond UK & Ireland
KCL is offering CMA CGM scholarships for postgraduate scholars from Lebanon, which include one PhD studentship for entry next academic year, deadline in May www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy... Please contact me if you know anyone in #digitalhumanities who might be interested
March 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
KCL is offering CMA CGM scholarships for postgraduate scholars from Lebanon, which include one PhD studentship for entry next academic year, deadline in May www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy... Please contact me if you know anyone in #digitalhumanities who might be interested
Come and work for us @kingsdh.bsky.social ! 12 new jobs at the Department of #DigitalHumanities at King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh in Cultural Computation, Digital Methods, Digital Curation and Computational Creativity www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
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February 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Come and work for us @kingsdh.bsky.social ! 12 new jobs at the Department of #DigitalHumanities at King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh in Cultural Computation, Digital Methods, Digital Curation and Computational Creativity www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...
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Today we are hosting our 2nd forum on 'unpacking the software development life-cycle'. Following on from these sessions we are hosting 3 workshops in March (feel free to attend all or pick & choose) in which we "remodel" the life-cycle from a feminist perspective www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remodellin...
Remodelling The Software Development Lifecycle (workshop 3)
'We aim to unpack and remodel the software development lifecycle (SDLC)'
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 21, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Today we are hosting our 2nd forum on 'unpacking the software development life-cycle'. Following on from these sessions we are hosting 3 workshops in March (feel free to attend all or pick & choose) in which we "remodel" the life-cycle from a feminist perspective www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remodellin...
Really happy to have this in my hands at last. Great to work with Lorella and all our wonderful authors on this www.routledge.com/Multilingual... #MultilingualDH
January 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Really happy to have this in my hands at last. Great to work with Lorella and all our wonderful authors on this www.routledge.com/Multilingual... #MultilingualDH
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DHTech is organizing a mini-conference for DH2024: "DH Inside out"
Please consider submitting a talk or signing up to be a reviewer. Submissions are due March 15
dh-tech.github.io/blog/2023/12...
Please consider submitting a talk or signing up to be a reviewer. Submissions are due March 15
dh-tech.github.io/blog/2023/12...
DH Inside Out - Mini-conference at DH2024
DHTech will hold a mini-conference at DH2024 themed “DH Inside Out”. Typical DH conference presentations are focussed on the research with a slight nod to the …
dh-tech.github.io
January 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
DHTech is organizing a mini-conference for DH2024: "DH Inside out"
Please consider submitting a talk or signing up to be a reviewer. Submissions are due March 15
dh-tech.github.io/blog/2023/12...
Please consider submitting a talk or signing up to be a reviewer. Submissions are due March 15
dh-tech.github.io/blog/2023/12...
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Look what came in the mail! The Routledge volume, Multilingual Digital Humanities includes our essay "Towards Multilingually Enabled Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Qualitative Survey Analysis" co-authored with @cosima_wagner @djwrisley & Cornelis van Lit
Happy reading! #multilingualdh
Happy reading! #multilingualdh
January 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Look what came in the mail! The Routledge volume, Multilingual Digital Humanities includes our essay "Towards Multilingually Enabled Digital Knowledge Infrastructures: A Qualitative Survey Analysis" co-authored with @cosima_wagner @djwrisley & Cornelis van Lit
Happy reading! #multilingualdh
Happy reading! #multilingualdh