Jane Ohlmeyer presents a case of successful interdisciplinary research in the digital humanities

A professor of modern history and chair of the Irish Research Council (IRC), Jane Ohlmeyer will be at the IEA on August 24 for the conference The Power of Interdisciplinary Research: the Example of Digital Humanities, which will start at 2 pm in the Events Room with live webcast.

The researcher will report the importance of interdisciplinary research and her experience in the field of digital humanities with the 1641 Depositions project, a collaboration of researchers from the arts, humanities, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Ohlmeyer will also present an institutional overview as director of the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Guilherme Ary Plonski, deputy director of the IEA, will open the conference, which will be moderated by José Teixeira Coelho Netto, a professor at USP's School of Communications and Arts (ECA) and coordinator of the IEA's Study Group on Computational Humanities. Martin Grossmann, also a professor at ECA and academic coordinator of the Olavo Setubal Chair of Arts, Culture and Science, will make the final comments.

The Trinity Long Room Hub is the Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin. It is one of five flagship research institutes of the University, and the one dedicated to promoting and facilitating innovative research across its nine Arts and Humanities member Schools. It is a member of the UBIAS network of university-based institutes for advanced study.