Project Publications
Books
Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2016). Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities. Springer International Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319201696
Articles
Submitted. On the history of peer review in the Digital Humanities: social and institutional considerations. In Susan Schreibman and Jennifer Edmond Eds. Digital Methods and the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem. Open Book publishers.
Terras, M., & Nyhan, J. (2016). Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives. Matther K. Gold & Lauren F. Klein (Eds.) Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press. Pp. 60-65.
Nyhan, J. (2016). 'In search of identities in the Digital Humanities: the early history of Humanist'. In Molloy, J (Ed.) Social Media Archaeology and Poetics. MIT Press.
Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., & Welsh, A. (2015). Oral History and the Hidden Histories project: towards histories of computing in the humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 30(1), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqt044
Nyhan, J., & Duke-Williams, O. (2014). Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 29(3), 387–399. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu018
Nyhan, J. (2013). What can modern-day Digital Humanities learn from studying its past? Some recommendations and suggestions. University of Lille.
Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., & Welsh, A. (2012). A short Introduction to the Hidden Histories project and interviews. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 006(3).
See details of published interviews on the Oral History page.
Talks
Nyhan, J. (2018). Voices heard, voices silenced: on hidden contributions to the emergence of Digital Humanities c.1954-67. British Society for the History of Mathematics meeting, History of Computing beyond the computer", Oxford University, UK.
Nyhan, J. (2017). What are the longer-term origins of the asymmetrical power structures that shape so much of the practice of Digital Humanities? ITUG-Jahrestagung, Technischen Universitaet Darmstadt (Keynote).
Nyhan, J. (2017). ‘‘Techies’ versus scholars: Roberto Busa’s Index Thomisticus project and its role in the establishment of the iniquitous power structures of Digital Humanities’. Digital Humanities at Siberian Federal University Conference. Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Nyhan, J., & Terras, M. (2017). Uncovering ‘hidden’ contributions to the history of Digital Humanities: The Index Thomisticus’ female keypunch operators. Presented at the Digital Humanities 2017.
Jones, S. E., Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G., Sinclair, S., & Terras, M. (2017). Reverse engineering the first humanities computing center. Presented at the Digital Humanities 2017.
Nyhan, J. (2017). The social history of Digital Humanities: an oral history perspective. The Making of the Humanities VI conference. Oxford.
Nyhan, J. (2015). 'Knowledge organisation systems and Digital Humanities: looking back in order to look forward.' ISKO Knowledge organization systems and digital humanities. Strasbourg, France. (Keynote)
Nyhan, J. (2015). 'New paths through the histories of Digital Humanities: uncovering hidden contributions to Busa's Index Thomisticus' International Symposium of Information Science, University of Zadar Croatia
Nyhan, J. (2015). An introduction to the Histories of Digital Humanities. University of Babes-Bolyaiy / Transylvanian Digital Humanities Centre, Romania
Nyhan J. (2015). Collaboration and Digital Humanities: two studies and a plea. Technospaces. Persistence - Practices - Procedures - Power. University of Darmstadt, Germany
Nyhan, J. (2015). Nyhan J. Invited panel member. TALK ART/TALK SOCIETY Merging technology and historical research: What are the future archives like? The Finnish Institute in London, UK.
Nyhan J. (2015). Digital Humanities: origins and future directions. Invited research seminar: University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Nyhan, J. (2014). Collaboration and Digital Humanities: on the past, present and future. Transforming Digital Methods conference. University of Exeter.
Flinn, A; Nyhan, J. (2014). Whose project is this? Whose stories do we tell? Participatory frameworks for community-based oral history projects. In: (Proceedings) Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground.K
Nyhan, J. (2014). Memory, narrative and disciplinary identity: an investigation. In: (Proceedings) Faculty lecture
Nyhan, J. (2013). Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: findings and reflections on the pilot project. In: (Proceedings) Digital Humanities 2013. (pp. pp. 326-328). Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities: University of Nebraska-Illinois: USA.
Nyhan, J. (2013). Through memories and times: reflections on reflecting on the histories of computing in the Humanities. In: (Proceedings) Les Humanités Délivrées / Humanities Unbound.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: an overview of our key findings. In: (Proceedings) Digital Humanities Congress 2012.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Digital Humanities: histories or memories and what in between? In: (Proceedings) Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology evening lecture.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Contributions towards a history of computing in the Humanities. In: (Proceedings) University College Cork, School of Historical Sciences Seminar Series.
Nyhan, J. (2012). Contributions towards a history of computing in the Humanities. In: (Proceedings) University College Cork, School of Historical Sciences Seminar Series.
Nyhan, J. (2012). What is oral history and what role can it play in the history of Digital Humanities? In: (Proceedings) Universitatet Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series
Nyhan, J. (2012). What is oral history and what role can it play in the history of Digital Humanities? In: (Proceedings) Universitatet Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series
Nyhan, J Welsh, A Theobald, M. (2011). Hidden Histories: Computing in the Humanities, c. 1949-1980: pilot study. In: (Proceedings) London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship.
