Robert Darnton’s Distinguished Humanities Lecture @ Cardiff podcast

On 5 December 2011, Professor Robert Darnton (Harvard University) presented his stimulating and thought-provoking paper on the future of books in our emergent digital culture, as part of Cardiff University’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Using the metaphor of Jefferson’s Taper for the exchange of ideas (the transfer of light from one candle to another – a process in which one person gained while the other did not lose), Professor Darnton outlined ways in which digitization initiatives can be co-ordinated in order to provide a truly universal library for the 21st century.

Click on the link to open the videocast in a new window: Robert Darton, Cardiff University Distinguished Lecture, 5 Dec 2011.

Andrew Prescott on the future of digital humanities

Transcript of Prof Andrew Prescott’s excellent and stimulating inaugural lecture on #DigitalHumanities: blogs.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wip/2012/01/26…

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Visiting speaker, 21 Feb 2012: Gerard Carruthers on editing Robert Burns

Gerard Carruthers will be presenting his paper, ‘Academics, Enthusiasts & Fraudsters: Challenges in Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’, at 5.15pm on Tuesday, 21 February 2012. The talk will take place in the Cardiff Humanities Building, Room 2.48.

Abstract
The new Oxford University Press edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns contributes to a recent academic maturity in Burns Studies. Over a long period, previously, there was mutual suspicion between academics and ‘amateurs’, but much of this hostility is now dissipating. However, Burns Studies remains prone to findings that cause heated debate and even ‘work’ that is remarkable for its fabrications. Using a number of specific textual examples, Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow) looks closely at this situation and also the curious context of Burnsian ‘cultural politics’ that seems to engender it.