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James Baker is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. James is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and holds degrees from the University of Southampton and latterly the University of Kent, where in 2010 he completed his doctoral research on the late-Georgian artist-engraver Isaac Cruikshank. James works at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and digital technologies. He is currently working on a history of knowledge organisation in twentieth century Britain. In 2021, I begin a major new Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women’s Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950'. Previous externally funded research projects have focused on legacy descriptions of art objects ('Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship', Arts and Humanities Research Council), the preservation of intangible cultural heritage ('Coptic Culture Conservation Collective', British Council, and 'Heritage Repertoires for inclusive and sustainable development', British Academy), the born digital archival record ('Digital Forensics in the Historical Humanities', European Commission), and decolonial futures for museum collections ('Making African Connections: Decolonial Futures for Colonial Collections', Arts and Humanities Research Council). Prior to joining Southampton, James held positions of Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, Digital Curator at the British Library, and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, a convenor of the Institute of Historical Research Digital History seminar, a member of The Programming Historian Editorial Board and a Director of ProgHist Ltd (Company Number 12192946), and an International Advisory Board Member of British Art Studies.
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Cradled in Caricature live stream

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For those who are unable to make Cradled in Caricature this Friday (27 April), we are pleased to announce we have managed to coax a live audio broadcast into life (a huge thank to Tim Keward for all his efforts). By using this you will be able to hear the speakers and post questions via the chat feature in Blackboard Collaborate. It will (almost) be like being in a wet and windy Canterbury.

Details. From around 9.45 [BST] on the day follow this link which will take you to Blackboard Collaborate, enter a name, download the file, open it up and then wait for the session to appear. The software can take some time to load, so I’d recommend starting it with plenty of time before the session you want to listen to and participate in.

Please note: we have not tested the stream off-site. If you have problems accessing the stream or with its quality, please contact me on Twitter via @CinCaricature or #CiC12. All sessions will be recorded and made available as podcasts after the event, thus (as the BBC used to say) making the unmissable, unmissable.

Finally, Powerpoint (or similar) presentations will be made available below as I receive them so that online participants can attempt to replicate the full audio-visual experience of Cradled in Caricature (I recommend you download them rather than attempt to view in Google docs). Documents now removed.