Six guest lectures at RTU on digital humanities
From October 22 to December 10, six guest lectures will be given by Stuart Dunn, an experienced researcher and head of the Department of Digital Humanities at the King’s College London, as part of the the Riga Technical University (RTU) Master's programme "Digital Humanities".
Stuart Dunn started out as an archaeologist, with interests in the history of cartography, digital approaches to landscape studies, and spatial humanities.
His research interests and supervised PhD topics are related to Digital Geography, Data visualisation and Digital approaches to landscape archaeology.
Everyone who wants to listen to the lectures is welcome to write to dh(at)lulfmi.lv and apply. The lectures start at 16:30.
October 22 – 1st lecture
The Spatial Humanities: Maps, Mapping and the Human Record
November 5 – 3rd lecturee
The Spatial Humanities and Landscape Studies
November 26 – 4th lecture
Literary GIS
December 3 – 5th lecture
Crowdsourcing place: The Age of Neogeography
December 10– 6th lecture
Mapping contemporary culture: Power, Politics and Postcolonialism
The guest lectures are organised within the frameworks of the SRP project “Digital Resources for Humanities: Integration and Development” (No. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001).