Dear All,
It's good to see my views about the negative impact of weekday conferences supported by other list members.
However, perhaps a few emails direct to the AHC-UK would not go amiss.
One thing I've noticed in recent years is the extent to which more and more conferences seem to be graduating towards institutions within what I call the Oxbridge triangle formed by Oxford, Cambridge and London. Or, is this just my imagination?
On a related note mass higher education and the end of the binary divide, is I feel creating a far more unequal system of higher education in which the established univiersities are dominating academia more and more, whilst the new universities are becoming teaching institutions.
David Alan Gatley (Dr)
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From: From: Local-History list on behalf of Malcolm Dick
Sent: Fri 11/3/2006 15:58
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Subject: Re: Conference: Digital Deluge: History in the 21st Century, IHR, 17 November 2006
I would like to add my comments to the previous ones. This is obviously
a very important conference and I appreciate that the IHR is a
prestigious venue, but the day, location and cost of travel will
effectively skew the audience towards those from London and the
Southeast. Is this really the intention of the organisers? Should they
looking at weekend events in a central location?
Dr Malcolm Dick
University of Birmingham
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Behalf Of Zoe Bliss
Sent: 03 November 2006 14:09
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Subject: Conference: Digital Deluge: History in the 21st Century, IHR,
17 November 2006
Dear All,
Registrations can now be made for the 2006 AHC-UK conference 'Digital
Deluge: History in the 21st Century' on 17 Nov at the IHR, London.
Organised by the AHC-UK and AHDS - History this conference explores the
challenges facing historians from the increasing volume of electronic
and
digital sources. These sources can often be incomplete, difficult to
acce ss
and to preserve, but they also provide new opportunities for research,
teaching and collaboration. Five experts in their field will provide
perspectives from archiving, scholarship, research, teaching and
e-scienc e.
Together, these perspectives may enable historians to harness the
digital
deluge rather than be swamped by it. The format of the conference will
al low
presenters to cover issues in depth and provide participants ample time
f or
discussion.
Programme, abstracts and registration information can be found here:
http://www.ahc.ac.uk/conf.htm
Ian Anderson
Convenor AHC-UK
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