Centre for 21st Century Humanities Newsletter September

Connecting industry with humanities

Pitchfest 2018

$28,000 in financial support was gained at the first ever Pitchfest event held by the Centre for 21st Century Humanities. An app that connects consumers with ethically made goods, a symposium on the risks to humanity and a linguistics project that will preserve an endangered Torres Straits language were some of the projects that attracted funding and support at the first ever humanities Pitchfest.

Pitchfest was held on August 23 2018 at NeW Space and was attended by 60 Newcastle industry representatives who gathered to hear about opportunities to partner with six humanities researchers and entrepreneurs.

Got a great idea that will help humanity? Need funding to get it off the ground?

The Centre is running a competition open to anyone with an idea for a startup business that will in some way help improve humanity. Enter now by sending us a video pitch and you could be awarded a $1000 grant to get your startup going! Forward this email to someone you think might be interested.

How to enter:

Film a video pitch explaining your idea and how it will help humanity
Video length - 1 minute maximum. Tell us who you are, your idea and what problem it will help solve
Send your video, your contact details and a short resumé to Dannielle.Burke@newcastle.edu.au
Deadline - 5pm Friday 19th October 2018

Best Digital Map 2018

Massacres map wins GeoCart award

The Colonial Frontiers Massacres Map has won the best digital map award at the 2018 New Zealand Cartographic Society GeoCart Conference.

The map was submitted to the National Map Exhibition at the conference and a panel of judges decided on how successfully the map delivered on its stated purpose, taking into account its design, execution and presentation. The cutting edge online tool took out the digital category with map software developers Dr Bill Pascoe and Dr Mark Brown at the conference to accept the award.