Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) Meet-Up
John Rink (University of Cambridge)

John Rink became Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge in 2017, following his groundbreaking work developing landmark digital humanities research projects on critical editions of Chopin. In this meet-up, we will have the opportunity to hear from a great pioneer of the digital humanities about the process of producing traditional humanities scholarship on critical editions with the affordances of the digital age. In the process, we will also explore how the University of Cambridge conceived of and developed a robust digital humanities program that supports humanities scholars across disciplines.

Presenters

John Rink is the Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge and also Professor of Musical Performance Studies in the Faculty of Music, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at St John’s College. He directed the £2.1 million AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, which was based at the University of Cambridge from 2009 to 2015 in partnership with King’s College London, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, and in association with the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He currently directs the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies, which began at the University of Cambridge in 2015. He is a Series Editors of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition, and he directs two other digital research projects: Chopin’s First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). He was an Associate Director of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) and served on the AHRC’s Advisory Board and chaired the Science in Culture Advisory Group. He sits on the editorial boards of Music & Letters and Musicae Scientiae; is on the Advisory Panels of Music Analysis, Musica Humana, the ‘Academic Book of the Future’ project, and the Institute of Musical Research; and has been a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review College. He studied at Princeton University, King’s College London, and the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research was on the evolution of tonal structure in Chopin’s early music and its relation to improvisation. He also holds the Concert Recital Diploma and Premier Prix in piano from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He specializes in the fields of performance studies, theory and analysis, and nineteenth-century studies, and has published six books with Cambridge University Press.

Recommended Readings

University of Cambridge – Digital Humanities Network
Chopin’s First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council)
Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).
The UF Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) is a group of academic and library faculty, staff, and graduate students who meet monthly to discuss current topics at the intersection of digital technologies and the humanities and support each other in project development. The 2017-18 meet-ups will explore opportunities to animate humanities objects and artifacts in the digital age. These informal gatherings are open to UF faculty, staff, and students at any level of interest or expertise. Come join us for sharing and discussion!

For more information on the Digital Humanities at UF and to join the DHWG, see the DHWG webpage.
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The DHWG is a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and the George A. Smathers Libraries.