World History and Digital Scholarship- One-day Conference

The Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, is organizing a one-day conference on 'World History and Digital Scholarship' on 29th October 2010.

The aim of the conference is to assess the role played by digital humanities in the history curriculum and in inter-disciplinary research projects. The event will promote discussions concerning issues of history and digital scholarship, visual colonial identity and interactive archival practices, the reinterpretation of imperial records from visual anthropology perspectives, and the impact of digital culture on the higher education curriculum.
The conference is intended as a meeting place for historians, anthropologists and media scholars. The speakers will discuss various methodologies employed when critically negotiating historical, cultural, ethical and political questions raised by digital scholarship.

Among the invited speakers are Prof. Elizabeth Edwards and Dr Mathew Mead (University of the Arts, London, LCC), Dr Lee Grieveson (Centre for Intercultural
Studies, UCL), Susanne Hammacher (RAI, London), Nico de Klerk (Film Instituut
Nederland), Dr Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr Heather Norris-Nicholson
(Manchester Centre for Regional History), Susannah Rayner (SOAS), Dr Susan Whitfield (British Library, London), and Dr Kevin Greenbank and Dr Annamaria Motrescu (Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge). Prof. C. A. Bayly (University of Cambridge) will lead a plenary session at the end of the event.