News from the Lab
The Voltaire Lab saw its first intake of postdoctoral
researchers and a graduate student (in collaboration
with the Humanities Division). This year, we were
delighted to welcome Roman Kuhn, British Academy
Newton International Fellow (report on p.7), Zoe Screti,
Astra Foundation Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies
(report on p.6) and Joana Roqué Pesquer, one of the
first generation of the Humanities Division’s new MSc
course in Digital Scholarship and the first recipient of
the Voltaire Foundation Bursary for this course (report
on p.9).
We are also participating for the first time this year in
UNIQ+, an innovative scheme run by the University
News
Launch of Digital Enlightenment Studies
This year saw us prepare the launch of our new
online journal, Digital Enlightenment Studies (DES), in
association with our long-standing publishing partner
Liverpool University Press.
DES is an open-access, international, peer-reviewed
online journal dedicated to digital humanities, their
methodologies and resources, in 18th-century studies.
The journal will publish in English and French and
welcomes contributions in areas such as digital editions,
building and exploiting corpora, database construction,
linked open data, domain adaptation of methods,
operationalisation of concepts, text annotation, and
the interpretability, transparency and reproducibility
of results.
The team in the Voltaire Lab ofce
Standing l.t.r.: Gillian Pink, Roman Kuhn, Zoe Screti, Joana Roqué
Pesquer, Birgit Mikus
Seated l.t.r.: Hayley O’Connell, Nicholas Cronk, Alison Oliver
(photography ©Keiko Ikeuchi)
of Oxford providing research internships for talented
undergraduate students from under-represented
backgrounds and giving them the opportunity to
experience postgraduate study and research over the
course of a seven-week summer programme. Find out
more about what our four interns have been doing with
us on p.8-9.
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