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Workshop 3: Exploring texts: revealing hidden heritage
The third workshop organised as part of the AHRC-IRC funded network: A Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World.
When and where
Date and time
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 06:20 - Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:00 PDT
Location
Online
About this event
‘Exploring text: Revealing hidden heritage through online resources’
Workshop 3: UCC, 25th and 26th March 2021
This workshop will build on the outcomes of the first two events with a focus on how digital resources have engaged a wider audience with the material and facilitated new forms of teaching language, literature and history within universities.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 25 March
13.20
Opening
13.30–15.30
Session 1: Online Teaching and its infrastructure
Chair: Beatrix Färber
Anne Marie O’Brien, DIAS – ‘Exploring Collections through Irish Script On Screen’
Kevin Murray, UCC – ‘Celtic Digital Initiative, Irish Sagas Online and the secondary digital environment’
Brendan Kane, UConn, with Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (MU), Emmet de Barra (UConn), Christina Cleary (DIAS) – ‘Exploring texts word-by-word: Léamh.org and networking the learning of Early Modern Irish’
15.00–15.30
30 min questions/discussion
15.30–16.00
30 min break
16.00–17.30
Session 2: Enhancing visibility and Impact on public engagement/self study
Chair: Greg Toner
Mairín MacCarron, UCC – ‘Digital Approaches for a Divided Archive: the Edgeworth family archive in the National Library of Ireland and the Bodleian Library’
Brian Ó Raghallaigh, DCU – ‘Logainm – Enhancing the public impact of the Placenames Database of Ireland’
Dennis Groenewegen, Stichting Van Hamel – ‘Mapping the sources with CODECS: some challenges and opportunities of developing a web-based project platform’
17.00–17.30
30 min discussion
Friday, 26 March
14.00–16.00
Session 3: Reaching out to communities: More public engagement
Chair: David Stifter
Nora White, MU – ‘Ogham in 3D and engaging digitally with our earliest writing in Irish’
Calum Cockburn, British Library – ‘Promoting The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Public Engagement in Online Environments’
Sharon Arbuthnot, SMO/Cambridge – ‘eDIL and Opportunities for Spreading the Words’
15.30–16.00
30 min discussion
16.05–16.25
Chair: Beatrix Färber
Orla Murphy, UCC – General Reflections: ‘DH as Enabler’
16.25–16.40
15 min break
16.40–17.40
Session 4: Roundtable discussion: Use and experiences of digital resources in teaching
Chair: Deborah Hayden
Geraldine Parsons (Lecturer, University of Glasgow)
Götz Keydana (Professor, Universität Göttingen)
Oksana Dereza (Doctoral student and Early Career Researcher, NUI Galway)
Nina Cnockaert-Guillou (Doctoral student, University of Cambridge)
17.40 Concluding remarks