Ashgate’s African Studies books span a range of subject areas, including:
View all our African Studies books online or download our 2013 catalogue from: www.ashgate.com/africanstudies
Will you be at ECAS2013? If so, you can pick up a copy of our 2013 catalogue and take a look at some of our most recent books on the Iberian Book Services stand.
We publish a wide range of African Studies books, in the following areas:
Why not browse what’s available through the African Studies page on our website?
At an event being held this Friday at King’s College London, experts in the Visual Arts and Humanities in KCL’s Department of Digital Humanities will display how digital visualisation and virtual worlds are transforming research, teaching and contemporary artistic practice.
Ancient Roman villas at Boscoreale and Oplontis, van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, Dublin’s Abbey Theatre of 1904 and Mondrian’s Paris studios are subjects of some of the highlighted, innovative computer-based projects by staff from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s and their postgraduate students.
The latest books published by members of the Department of Digital Humanities will be launched at this event, including Paradata and Transparency in Historical Visualization, edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker.
The event is curated and presented by Drew Baker, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Martin Blazeby, Hugh Denard and Michael Takeo Magruder. For more information, visit the KCL Department of Digital Humanities events page.
Visit the companion blog for Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage
We are delighted to learn that Willard McCarty has won the 2013 Busa Award. The announcement was made on behalf of Matthew Jockers, chairman of the Busa Award committee, at the recent Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg.
The Busa Award is “named in honour of Father Roberto Busa and is given to recognise outstanding lifetime achievement in the application of information technology to humanistic research”.
From Matthew Jockers’ announcement:
“The winner of the 2013 Busa Award is a man of legendary kindness and generosity. His contributions to the growth and prominence of Digital Humanities will be familiar to us all. He is a gentleman, a scholar, a philosopher, and a long time fighter for the cause. He is, by one colleague’s accounting, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” of Digital Humanities. And I must concur that “the force” is strong with this one. Please join me in congratulating Willard McCarty on his selection for the 2013 Busa Award. ”
Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
He is co-editor, with Marilyn Deegan, of Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities, a book which celebrates the contributions of Harold Short to the Digital Humanities field.
With G4S and security for the Olympic sites in the news, it seems a good time to highlight once again our recently published book: Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City.
‘This is a very interesting interdisciplinary study of the security construction for the London 2012 Olympic Games, which enriches the nascent field of Olympic Security. Its documented analysis of the serious “glocal” security processes and their social impacts are very important and useful not only for the London Olympic City’s specific case, but for all future Olympics and sporting mega-events.’ Minas Samatas, University of Crete, Greece
Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City is written by Pete Fussey, (University of Essex, UK), Jon Coaffee, (University of Birmingham UK), Gary Armstrong, (Brunel University, UK) and Dick Hobbs, (University of Essex, UK), and it explores the logistical issues of both developing and securitizing the Olympic neighbourhood in Stratford, East London.
More information about Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City.
Ashgate publishes a wide range of research level books focussing on Asia. Our Asian Studies book can be browsed on our Asian Studies web page, or you can download our 2012 Asian Studies catalogue.
Our Asian Studies publishing covers Sociology, Politics, Business, Law, Human Geogprahy, Religion and Philosophy, History, Art, Literature and Music.
At a special seminar being held this Friday at the University of Melbourne, Professor Harold Short of the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, will talk about researching the humanities and social sciences in the digital age.
Drawing on the twenty years’ experience in multidisciplinary research projects of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, Harold Short will present some reflections on the challenges faced in large collaborative projects and possible approaches to meeting those challenges. Particular emphasis will be given to the points of stress, the continuing areas of difficulty and the problems faced by collaborative research in the arts and humanities in a wider academic culture that is slow to change.
Harold Short is Professor of Humanities Computing at King’s College London, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Western Sydney in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. At King’s, Professor Short founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, now the Department of Digital Humanities, of which he was the Head until his retirement in 2010. He is a former Chair of both the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and is a general editor of the Ashgate series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities.
“Thoughtfully conceived, effectively executed, and a very important contribution to the field of Animal Studies” is how Nigel Rothfels describes Considering Animals, an exciting new collection from Ashgate.
The volume was formally launched at the 4th Biennial Australian Animal Studies Group conference that took place from July 10th through 13th. There Nigel Rothfels, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (2002), responded enthusiastically to the publication of the volume:
“It was an honor to be asked to help launch the book and a pleasure to reflect a bit about the origins of the project. The editors and contributors never lose track of how ‘considering animals’ is about not only how humans think about other animals in the world, but also how other animals think about us in the world! It was inspiring to read the completed volume, and it was an intellectual and personal pleasure to meet the editors and several contributors during my time in Brisbane.”
From left to right: Nigel Rothfels, Elizabeth Leane, Carol Freeman, and Yvette Watt. We don't know the name of the eagle on the far left.
Ashgate congratulates volume editors Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette Watt—as well as the contributors—on the publication of Considering Animals. We are proud to have this timely volume in Ashgate’s growing list in Animal Studies.
Onlinecollege.org has a useful blog posting with a list of 20 of the best blogs in the digital humanities. Worth a look if this is an area of interest to you.
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