In 1971, Paul Fortier created a computer program to save significant time in analyzing French literary theme words connected to semantic fields. The system, aptly called THEME, harnessed the capabilities of computer-generated keyword concordances with frequency and distribution calculations to create research reports for user-defined literary…[Read more]

The central objective of this paper is to analyze anti-immigrant rhetoric towards Syrian refugees in the framework of Barker’s (2001) ‘new racism’ (cultural racism) on YouTube. This mediated-cultural racism is, in principle, based on the idea that third world migrants are a group of “othered-others,” who disrupt the taken-for-granted stable na…[Read more]

This paper describes the background and development of Check Your Privilege (https://privilege.huc.knaw.nl/), a digital privilege game designed to create awareness in the context of diversity and inclusion workshops.

In this presentation we quantify the signs of abandonment to measure the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects. We intend this study to be a step forward towards better preservation strategies for the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects.

Loyalist Migrations is a spatial history project in its early stages. It visualizes the movement of exiles and refugees who fled the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The project is a partnership between the Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the Map and Data Centre at Western, and the United Empire L…[Read more]

While a range of approaches and techniques for linguistic annotation and classification are currently available, they have not been designed to handle multimodal texts with a pronounced visual dimension such as posters, webpages, or moving images (i.e., film, TV). In this paper, we present an approach for annotation and classification of…[Read more]

Images present in paper for CSDH 2020 but available here as reference.

“The Culture of Curiosity Project” studies the discourse and cultural context of early modern collections of rarities and curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700. Central to this research is the Digital Ark, a web archive of some fifty XML-encoded catalogues, inventories, and records of these collections. Our focus in phase two of this pro…[Read more]

This conference paper represents a work in progress on interface in the videogame Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. By observing the ways in which the user is able to make Shakespeare’s work their own, this paper argues that the failure and reimagining of the early modern work is celebrated and that in…[Read more]

This research aims to analyze the role of the U.S. program of Alliance for Progress in Chile and Venezuela, between 1961 1963. Starting with a review of the Chilean and Venezuelan foreign policy toward the United States during the administrations of Jorge Alessandri and Romulo Betancourt, respectively. The idea of President John F. Kennedy’s p…[Read more]

The following investigation has the main purpose to reconstruct the social and institutional work development by Doctor Arturo Uslar Pietri in the camp of Venezuelan education during the historic time that should be to live. Uslar Pietri practiced educational as a vocational way in diverse moments of his life, outstanding like Professor in…[Read more]

This article analyses the influence of the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) on the conceptual history of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), as well as the intellectual relationship between them. In this sense, the main biographical features of both academics have been revised, and a re-examination of the ideas —of temporality and l…[Read more]

This essay analyzes the relationship between the Catholic Church and Chi- lean politics during the sixties, specifically from 1961 to 1970, to coincide with the rise of Archbishop Raul Silva Henriquez to in 1961 to the Archbis- hopric of Santiago and the presidential election of 1970. During this several decade sensitive issues of public life…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the relationship that existed between Latin American writers, the Venezuelan Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936) and the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889- 1957). From a historical perspective, revealer an intellectual and emotional relationship, as well as literary, social and personal interests: through a series of scattered…[Read more]

The period from 1948 to 1958, relating to the so called ” military decade ” in Venezuela, has been portrayed by the traditional historiography, as the big works of ” I make concrete armed “, of pursuit and political violence. Slightly certain. But staying of side, several emptinesses, lagoons, for explaining and to understand in his just…[Read more]

This essay analyzes from the perspective of historical revisionism the Communism during the first half of the twentieth century, based on the specialized historiography. It is part of the analysis of Communism as an ideology, system and use of political violence and it is compared with Nazism. In both, Nazism and Communism, similar features are…[Read more]

This paper analyses the study and discussion of the concept of “unconventional warfare” in different Chilean military reviews between 1960 and 1970, with a view to clarifying the military thought of this period in Chile. Research has shown that the Chilean military discussed variants of this type of conflict, such as “revolutionary war” at the str…[Read more]