I'm much looking forward to discussing corpse roads in the London Month of the Dead festival. 7th October, 1.30pm in the Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery. To celebrate, here is a coffin stone from the Swaledale Corpse Way.
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Stuart Dunn
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mastodon 4.7.2Professor of Spatial Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities (@kingsdh@hcommons.social), King's College London. Amateur folklorist.
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New blog, with some thoughts on the UK's ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. TL:DR - it's a good start, but opens up some really big questions that will need ambition to tackle. https://stuartdunn.blog/2024/02/18/uk-ratification-of-the-unesco-convention-on-intangible-cultural-heritage/
Some reflections on Digital Folklore, in anticipation of the Folklore Society's annual conference that we will be hosting in June on that theme: https://stuartdunn.blog/2024/01/23/digital-humanities-digital-folklore/
Arborfield Churchyard in Berkshire. Pencils, from a couple of weeks ago.
Found today in a second hand book shop. A petition from 1937 against the intolerable menace of traffic lights in London.
Very happy to share that Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe from UCL Press, eds Rodney Harrison, Nelia Dias and Krisrian Kristiansen is now out, including my contribution
"Datafied Landscapes: Exploring Digital Maps as (Critical) Heritage" is now out: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210610
@kingsdh@hcommons.social is co-hosting this year's Folklore Society conference, on the theme of Digital Folklore: https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/digital-folklore-conference-call-for-papers/. Extended call for proposals is February 16th.
My new(ish) project at King's, looking at how the pedestrianisation of the Strand, our northern facade, is helping the area.
Unmapped Strands - King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/unmapped-strands
Well, someone had to get this office.
It is a truly batshit thought that there are some people in this world who do DIY ***FOR FUN***
Autumn gourds. Pastel on black paper.
Daffodil. Various pastels on black paper.
Does anyone on here know if there is a (preferably free) SHP file of English churches knocking about somewhere? I feel there must be... #GIS #Landscape