Our first session, a talk by Prof. Willard McCarty of King’s College, London) turned out to be a “new media” talk, because Prof. McCarty was not feeling well and couldn’t travel to Switzerland–so he spoke on Skype up on a screen at the front of the room. The video feed was very jerky, but the…
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The Digital Past as Seen From Switzerland
My friend and colleague Peter Haber of the historical seminar at the University of Basel (and co-editor with Jan Hodel of the excellent blog Hist.net) has just published an excellent book that everyone who can read German needs to read: Digital Past: Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter. The book provides an excellent overview of the history…