by Ron Chernow We had a short, succinct, deep and efficient meeting tonight affording me the luxury of reporting back promptly. There was no dissension amongst our compact cabal. As we gushed ver Hamilton we are grateful to Fergal for…
During our seminar on Network Analysis and Visualisation in DH6010/6019 this past semester as a group we enjoyed a case study involving network analysis of the Star Wars characters presented by Evelina Gabasova (). She does a superb job of combining analysis, explaining her…
by Jessie Burton All reported completed reading The Miniaturist and thanks for the mail in reviews from those not attending. Reviews came out largely, solidly favourable and despite a few quibbles and this made for a lively discussion. One glaring…
by Peter Frankopan Thanks again to Brian for sharing his thoughts in advance. A fine review covering in fine detail aspects which certainly helped stimulate our discussion. There were mixed, but I think generally favourable reactions to the book as…
The last week found me teasing out techniques for working with sidenotes as alternative to footnotes or endnotes. In a contentually brilliant PhD Dissertation on timelines as a digital collection visualisation tool – I was concurrently impressed by the quality of the…
by hanya yanagihara As always the spirit of discussion rises above the apparent literary quality of the book discussed. In this case, the literary quality is actually not in question and seemed to be generally respected and admired. However, there was…
by Plato Thanks all for thoughtful discussion and was very pleased to see the great engagement with Plato’s Socratic Dialogues. I think all expressed pleasure at having read the dialogues – in varying measures. All seemed to have engaged in…
[Cross Posted from QUBDH] So what about those hexagons? They were all the rage during the UK General Election last year – the BBC actually constructed a physical jigsaw in their atrium out of them. At the time I mused on there…
In what appears to be a second Trinity-flavoured posting, I share my thoughts on a provocative talk and session at Dr Steeven’s Hospital this noontime. Dr Steeven’s in conjunction with the Edward Worth Library invited Prof Eunan O’Halpin of TCD History…
A decade or so ago, I found myself live blogging academic talks and events (and being some weird exceptionalist on the fringe) – ’tis admittedly where I like to live. Over the years this has transmogrified itself into live tweeting…
Slack is a collaborative commercial messaging platform. It seamlessly organises communications and encourages informal discussions beyond the use of email or rigid discussion forums. Slack’s approach is characterised by the use of themed discussion channels that group users and subjects by content and…
by Steve Martin Thank you very much to those absent for sending in their comments and recommendations – your company was missed at the book club last night. Thanks to Mr Maye and Mr Hensey for a quite thoughtful and…