A Day of Digital Learning: Perspectives from Across Disciplines

This colloquium brings together scholars, data-science specialists, librarians and archivists from across the Melbourne University community for a day-long series of conversations about the futures of digital scholarship in the humanities: from the scholar’s desktop, to the undergraduate classroom, and beyond.

We will begin with some framing remarks from Professor Richard Freedman and members of the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform team, offering big-picture insights that emerge from current research initiatives and archival projects in Melbourne, and at other institutions around the world. We will also share lessons learned during the Plaine and Easie workshops. In talks, and in breakout sessions for ‘birds of a feather’, the aim will be to develop a set of priorities and goals that can build a sustainable community of digital scholars and digital pedagogies.

Program coming mid-August 2026.

Image: Drew Echburg

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PARKING 

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ACCESSIBILITY 

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