Stuart Dunn

@stuartdunn@mstdn.social
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Professor of Spatial Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities (@kingsdh), King's College London. Amateur folklorist.

#DigitalHumanities
#SpatialHumanities
#Folklore
#DigitalPedagogy
#Archaeology
#DigitalArchaeology

Bloghttp://stuartdunn.blog
Official websitehttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/stuart-dunn
Stuart DunnFeb 26, 2024
Daffodil. Various pastels on black paper.
Stuart DunnFeb 19, 2024
New blog, with some thoughts on the UK's ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. TL:DR - it's a good start, but opens up some really big questions that will need ambition to tackle. https://stuartdunn.blog/2024/02/18/uk-ratification-of-the-unesco-convention-on-intangible-cultural-heritage/
UK ratification of the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage

The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has launched a consultation on ratifying the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. Intangible Cultural Heritage …

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Stuart DunnJan 25, 2024
Peter GleickJan 25, 2024

Tip of the Day!

Here is a reminder to everyone [rightly] pissed at the incredibly high cost of peer-reviewed journal articles behind paywalls:

If you send an email to the lead/corresponding author (whose contact is almost always provided in the article, or easily found with google) and ask for a copy of the article, the author will almost universally be delighted to send a copy [legally] to you, free.

We authors LOVE it when someone asks for a copy of our articles!!!

Stuart DunnJan 25, 2024

Some reflections on Digital Folklore, in anticipation of the Folklore Society's annual conference that we will be hosting in June on that theme: https://stuartdunn.blog/2024/01/23/digital-humanities-digital-folklore/

@kingsdh

Digital Humanities, Digital Folklore

The idea of “Digital Folklore” has gained a cachet in recent years; much as “Digital Humanities” did from the mid-2000s, and as other “Digital” suffixes have more recently – such as Digital History…

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Stuart DunnJan 18, 2024
Arborfield Churchyard in Berkshire. Pencils, from a couple of weeks ago.
Stuart DunnJan 9, 2024
@kingsdh is co-hosting this year's Folklore Society conference, on the theme of Digital Folklore: https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/digital-folklore-conference-call-for-papers/. Extended call for proposals is February 16th.
Digital Folklore conference: Call for Papers-Deadline extended - The Folklore Society

Digital Folklore The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, a hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2024 Online and at King’s College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK Digital and networked technologies offer a wealth of new modes of folklore genre, performance and transmission....

The Folklore Society
Stuart DunnDec 15, 2023
Tomás CriadoDec 15, 2023

“We are not inhabitants of the Earth; we inhabit the atmosphere”

– Emanuele Coccia (2019: 35) The Life of Plants. Polity

Stuart DunnDec 14, 2023
MiaDec 13, 2023

Looking for a unique job that needs imagination and technical expertise; linking the worlds of ancient manuscripts and algorithms, historical newspapers and large language models? Make a difference at one of the world's biggest libraries

BL Labs Technical Lead, £51k, closes Dec 20 <- not Dec 22!
https://www.vercida.com/uk/jobs/bl-labs-technical-lead-british-library-st-pancras

More on this job, also Product Owner, Research Software Engineer and Test Engineer posts in the @BL_DigiSchol Universal Viewer product team, close Jan 3 https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/digital-posts-at-the-british-library/
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/join-the-british-librarys-universal-viewer-product-team.html

#JobFairy #JobKlaxon #RSE #UniversalViewer #IIIF #MuseTech #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #HASS

BL Labs Technical Lead - St Pancras, London, UK

Available position as BL Labs Technical Lead in St Pancras, London, UK at British Library

VERCIDA
Stuart DunnNov 23, 2023

My new(ish) project at King's, looking at how the pedestrianisation of the Strand, our northern facade, is helping the area.

Unmapped Strands - King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/unmapped-strands

@kingsdh

Unmapped Strands

The identity of King’s has always been closely linked with the identity of the Strand.

King's College London
Stuart DunnNov 22, 2023
Well, someone had to get this office.