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Our team has published the following academic texts on oral history and the history of computing in the historical and humanites disciplines. Open access versions (where they exist) are linked to below. A zotero group with direct access to texts and their bibliographical metadata can be joined here.
Books
Computation and the Humanities
Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2016). Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities. Springer International Publishing.
On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley
Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G., Sinclair, S., & Ortolja-Baird, A. (Eds.). (2023). On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley. UCL Press.
One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words
Nyhan, J., & Passarotti, M. (Eds.). (2019). One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words. Springer International Publishing.
Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities
Nyhan, J. (2022). Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities: On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67. Routledge.
Articles
Democratising Access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories
Flinn, A., Boyd, D., Morgan, C., & Nyhan, J. (2024). Democratising Access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories. Oral History Journal: The Life Story in Oral History Practice, 52(3), 102–109.
Oral History and the Hidden Histories project: Towards histories of computing in the humanities
Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., & Welsh, A. (2015). Oral History and the Hidden Histories project: Towards histories of computing in the humanities. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(1), 71–85.
Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation - The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?
Smyth, H. K., Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2023). Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation - The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history? Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2), 720–736.
Book Chapters
Introduction, or why busa still matters
Passarotti, M., & Nyhan, J. (2019). Introduction, or why busa still matters. In J. Nyhan & M. Passarotti (Eds.), One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words (pp. 1–17). Springer International Publishing.
“A Tall, Stooping Figure in Black Crossing the Courtyard”: Philip Barras’ Recollections of Roberto Busa S.J.
Barras, P., & Nyhan, J. (2019). “A Tall, Stooping Figure in Black Crossing the Courtyard”: Philip Barras’ Recollections of Roberto Busa S.J. In J. Nyhan & M. Passarotti (Eds.), One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words (pp. 221–227). Springer International Publishing.
The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities
Nyhan, J. (2023). The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities. In J. Nyhan, G. Rockwell, S. Sinclair, & A. Ortolja-Baird (Eds.), On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley (pp. 129–147). UCL Press.
Oral History and the (Digital) Humanities
Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2022). Oral History and the (Digital) Humanities. In H. Paul (Ed.), Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches (pp. 153–170). Bloomsbury Academic.
Talks
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Nyhan, J. (2018). British Society for the History of Mathematics meeting, Oxford University, UK.
Nyhan, J. (2017). ITUG-Jahrestagung, TU Darmstadt (Keynote).
Nyhan, J. (2017). Digital Humanities, Siberian Federal University Conference.
Nyhan, J., & Terras, M. (2017). Digital Humanities 2017.
Jones, S. E., Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G., Sinclair, S., & Terras, M. (2017). Digital Humanities 2017.
Nyhan, J. (2017). The Making of the Humanities VI conference. Oxford.
Nyhan, J. (2015). ISKO. Strasbourg, France. (Keynote)
Nyhan, J. (2015). International Symposium of Information Science, University of Zadar Croatia
Nyhan, J. (2015). University of Babes-Bolyaiy / Transylvanian Digital Humanities Centre, Romania
Nyhan J. (2015). Technospaces, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Nyhan, J. (2015). TALK ART/TALK SOCIETY, Finnish Institute in London.
Nyhan J. (2015). Research seminar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Nyhan, J. (2014). Transforming Digital Methods conference, University of Exeter.
Flinn, A; Nyhan, J. (2014). Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground.
Nyhan, J. (2014). Faculty lecture
Nyhan, J. (2013). Digital Humanities 2013, University of Nebraska-Illinois, USA.
Nyhan, J. (2013). Les Humanités Délivrées / Humanities Unbound.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Digital Humanities Congress 2012.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Leipzig University, European Summer School lecture.
Nyhan, J. (2012). University College Cork, Historical Sciences Seminar.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Universitatet Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series
Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., Theobald, M. (2011). London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship.