Flash fiction: 'Intense, urgent and a little explosive'

Flash fiction: 'Intense, urgent and a little explosive'

This new form of fiction is 'just right for our times - shorter than a novel, is it a shorter story?

Digital Cultures Workshop University College Cork

Last Thursday and Friday we had a Digital Cultures Workshop at University College Cork. There were distinguished local and international speakers over the two days of the event, with a subject range from Sociology through Psychology, Music, Literatures and Geography. Most importantly, the new DAH PhD cohort met, and shared their ideas for the first time. The students projects ranged from Erasmus' epistolary connections to capturing performances. The dahphd.ie is live - and content is being added.

Launch of Aigne

Last Wednesday Aigne was launched, after a long gestation. It is an international, interdisciplinary, postgraduate journal of the College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork, with the support of the Graduate School. It represents the best in collaboration, graduate education and publishing - with a sustainable URL within the UCC domain.

From many submissions, through a double-blind peer review process six are published, from the USA, Germany and Ireland. Through this process many PhD candidates within the CACSSS in the university have gained valuable experience of the peer review process and editorial skills. It is a huge case of 'WELL DONE' to all the team.

PhD Slam - School of English 15th September

David Puttnam on Ireland - Digitality and Research infrastructures

Interesting piece here on David Puttnam's vision for Ireland - his role as Digital Adviser to Gordon Brown has made clear his vision for innovative research communities -

What is DH and why is it relevant for PhDs

This is Melissa Terras' blogpost of her proposed talk on Big Tent Digital Humanities (now given) at 'Interface 2011' at UCL - it cuts through a lot of posturing to the core what key terms like 'humanities' and 'scholarship' are and is well worth a read - and yes - it is an endorsement of continuing professional development, the TEI and XML amongst other topics

Innovation - Intermediality and Bjork

Here's a link to some creative work by Bjork - each song on the new album has its own app, each one by a rival developer.