Presentation deck for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023

Abstract for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023

Global sporting events are a source of nationalistic pride for the host country. However, many recent host countries have been spotlighted for alleged human rights abuses. Qatar, the 2022 FIFA World Cup host, invested enormous resources into its infrastructure while deploying a worldwide public relations exercise to project a positive societal…[Read more]

Presentation deck for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023

Abstract for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023

Global sporting events are a source of nationalistic pride for the host country. However, many recent host countries have been spotlighted for alleged human rights abuses. Qatar, the 2022 FIFA World Cup host, invested enormous resources into its infrastructure while deploying a worldwide public relations exercise to project a positive societal…[Read more]

Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

Using a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]

Black QR code * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND

En 1978, Monique Wittig afirmó que las lesbianas no son mujeres y, en este ensayo, las autoras plantean que las gordas tampoco lo son. El activismo gordo se apartó de ciertos movimientos del feminismo de la segunda ola al proponer la emancipación de «la gordura» —en general concebida como transtorno— de significados cómplices del orden social. L…[Read more]

Art Attack! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND

This article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the…[Read more]

While the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]

El autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
“Redimimos a quien se esfuerza en vano”…[Read more]

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

Syllabus for 2022 edition of DH285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the undergraduate Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field, has no prerequisites, and is open to students from any major. Twenty-eight students were in the course.

This article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot