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Dear all, Here is the announcement for a workshop I am organising in London. If you would like to present a short paper, or simply to attend, please send me an email: [log in to unmask] Workshop, DH@Lboro School of Advanced Study, London, 21 June 2018 Privacy, Open Data and the Humanities The Cambridge Analytica scandal has led to a privacy backlash and to calls for tighter regulation of Facebook and other Internet Giants. Social and computer scientists fear that legitimate researchers could be collateral damage. Yet, there has been no discussion on the plight of Humanities researchers confronted to “dark archives.” For example, the archive of the poetry publisher Carcanet in Manchester contains hundreds of thousands of emails, but it is currently closed due to data protection issues. With the forthcoming introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (May 2018), it may be even more complicated to access data in the future. This workshop will bring together academics, archivists and open data advocates to discuss the issues of privacy and access to data. We will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on cultural data and the case of the Humanities. Best wishes, Dr Lise Jaillant | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) School of the Arts, English and Drama | Loughborough University, UK