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Beginnings and firsts mark the start of a semester here with a gathering of researchers and the formation of a new research community with the MA Digital Arts and Humanities 2016-2017.

 

The potential of technology to transform research and to augment human experience remains a focus in our research community and this event is an opportunity to introduce a new cohort to new colleagues here.

At the beginning of another term we are delighted to welcome everyone to our Digital Humanities Institute at UCC 2016, and particularly to acknowledge the PhD researchers whose ideas and experience will offer insight and support for our incoming students.

Beginning at 10.30 we will have a PhD Slam session where we will hear about the research of some of our current PhDs:

Orla-Peach Power
Orla-Peach is a recent graduate of the MA in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork where she studied the application of photogrammetry in recording at risk commemorative stone monuments from the 16th – 18thcenturies respectively. She recently began her PhD within the same discipline to assess the role of 3D visualisation techniques on a larger dataset of 13 extant historic graveyards and planned cemetery sites in Cork City. Orla-Peach is a research assistant on the IRC funded Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures project which is a transdisciplinary project between the School of English and the School of Biological Environmental, and Earth Sciences. Orla-Peach will be responsible for visualising and communicating the range of data collated as part of the Deep Maps project, and is also charged with the task of developing and maintaining an online presence via social media platforms and an integrated website.
@orlapeach

Jane Shen
Zheng Jane has completed a M.A. in English Language and Literature (Rhetoric) in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2013, another M.A. in English (Education) in Kristianstad University (Sweden) in 2012 and a B.A. in English (Technology) in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2010.
After graduation, I have worked as Head of Academic Affairs Office and Principal’s Secretary in Shanghai University-Mod’Art International Institute of Fashion and Arts from March 2013 to July 2015. At the same time I have been as a part-time English lecturer in College of Continuing Education of Shanghai University.
I am interested in research on Fashion, Digital Humanities and Arts, Social Media, Marketing and Education. Currently I am working on the project named Social Media Marketing in the Fashion Industry.
@janeshen0916
Website:3D Fashion Show

Orla Egan
Orla Egan is a third year PhD student in Digital Arts and Humanities in UCC.
She has been actively involved with the Cork LGBT community since the 1980s, organising various events including the first ever Irish LGBT float in a Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork in 1992. She has published and presented a number of papers on the history of the LGBT community in Cork and is currently developing a Cork LGBT Digital Archive. She is a member of the Linc Drama Group and has been involved in writing and preforming in a number of productions.
She also has over 20 years experience working in the Equality, Education, Social Inclusion and Community Development arenas in Ireland. She is currently a part-time lecturer / tutor in Digital Arts and Humanities, Women’s Studies and Applied Social Studies. Having recently secured funding from the Irish Heritage Council for the storage and cataloguing of the Cork LGBT Archive and from the Cork City Council Heritage Publication Grant for the production of a publication on the History of the Cork LGBT Community this project is ongoing …
http://corklgbtarchive.com/
https://orlaegan.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @OrlaEgan1 @CorkLGBThistory
https://www.facebook.com/CorkLGBTArchive/

Patrick Egan
Patrick Egan has a BSc in Information Technology and an MA in Ethnomusicology. After obtaining his masters he spent a number of years working in the IT industry as a consultant. His experience has included developing innovative projects for an Irish language organisation and he also worked with a number of web development agencies. He spent one year researching in the department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London before moving to Cork in 2014. He is currently in third year of his PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities with Music at UCC. Patrick’s research is now focused on designing, modelling, and demonstrating digital representations of material from the Seán Ó Riada Special Collection. He is also a founding member of the online resource Outreach Ethnomusicology www.o-em.org

Jessica Jones
Jess Jones is researching how the use of digital tools aids (or undermines) the creation of textual identities. The research is a refinement of the areas explored in her MA Thesis entitled “Status Code 301. Towards an Understanding of Death in Ireland in the Digital Age.” This investigated the nature and degree of change that digital technology has brought about in the death industry in contemporary Ireland with a particular focus on the effects of online memorialization services.
website: http://statuscode301.org/
@LoJo2013

Patricia O’Connor was awarded an Excellence Scholarship for the Taught Masters “Texts and Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance Literature” by the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS) in University College Cork. In 2014 Patricia was awarded a Doctoral Studentship to pursue the findings of her MA thesis, “The Thematic and Contextual Affinities Between the Old English Bede and its Old English Marginalia in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41”, within the Digital Arts and Humanities PhD in University College Cork. Her thesis, for which she was awarded an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship in 2016, is entitled “Retrieving the Textual Environment of the Old English Bede: A Digital Remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41.” She is also PhD representative of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI).
@trishaoconnor88
Website: www.trishaoconnor.com

Presentation today: https://www.powtoon.com/c/b6sug5tu427/1/m

Marilyn Reidy’s research interest is primarily in twentieth century Irish history, with a particular focus on Ireland’s involvement in the First World War, the War of Independence, the Civil War and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Her thesis seeks to reconcile the long-standing critical neglect of Irish veterans of the First World War and their role in the War of Independence. The digital element of the work will consist of a combination of an online archive and the use of various visualisation tools to examine the social networks of the period.
Marilyn holds a BA Honours in History and English (University College Cork) and an M.A.in Historical Research (University College Cork).
@MarilynMReidy
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/marilyn-reidy-23852139

Larkin Cunningham
Larkin is in his fourth year of a Digital Arts and Humanities PhD in UCC (on a part-time basis, so a bit to go yet). He has a BSc in Computing (CIT) and an MSc in Creative Writing (University of Edinburgh).
He is a lecturer in Cork Institute of Technology where he coordinates the higher diploma in cloud and mobile software development and teaches subjects such as game development, software development frameworks, agile development, and programming in Java, C, Python.
His main research interest lies in story and character-driven serious games and how they can explain the systems of the world; the current focus is on the topical issue of doping in sport and how few are blameless.
Twitter: @LarkinDC
LinkedIn: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/larkincunningham
Blog: http://larkin.io
Academia.edu: https://cit-ie.academia.edu/LarkinCunningham

Penny Johnston
My research focuses on the role that digital technologies play in the articulation and construction of experiences of belonging and local pride in a globalised world. For the past three years I have been working in close collaboration with the Cork Folklore Project (http://www.ucc.ie/en/cfp/), a public oral history group. Using an ethnographic approach, I am looking at how cultural heritage knowledge is created and constructed within the Cork Folklore Project, and how this is disseminated online. The particular focus of my research is the Cork Memory Map (http://www.ucc.ie/research/memorymap/). Much of my DH work over the past few years has involved overcoming (and/or working around) problems in order to build a new and sustainable Memory Map (http://storiesofplace.org/neatline/show/stories-of-place) that will hopefully continue to grow long after my PhD has been completed.
Further details at http://pennyjohnston.org

And by Special Request:

Jack Murray: Games from a Critical Theory Background – Game Authorship

Anthony Durity: On HOT (Homotopic Type Theory) Theory – Apply Computational Methods to Philosophy

11.30 Dr J. Griffith Rollefson from the Department of Music will introduce Approaches to Digital Musicology and his CIPHER project exploring Hip Hop Interpellation.

Coffee Break (provided) to facilitate follow up and discussion…

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LUNCH – not provided

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Reconvene at 1.30

Introduction to the MA in DAH

Introduction to staff teaching on the MA.

• Dr Orla Murphy (@omurphy16)
• Dr Mike Cosgrave (@mikecosgrave)
• Mr Shawn Day (@iridium)

Introduction to the new class group.

UCC’s Virtual Learning Environment – Blackboard.

An introduction to Reclaim Hosting and your own VPS Virtual Personal Server space.

Introduction to a selection of Social Media applications that the team will use to create our virtual community of research, teaching and learning.

Twitter: #UCCDH

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/uccdh/

Web: https://uccdh.com

Slack: https://uccdh.slack.com

You may wish to bring either a smartphone or tablet, or laptop.

If you have time in the next few days and you are in the Cork area, you may wish to sign up to UCC’s on campus wifi service.