Digital Humanities has become a “hot” topic in academia over the last few years (as of 2012), primarily in research and scholarship. While many push forward into new realms of using technology to articulate cool findings, others at non research intensive universities are moving forward with engaging their undergraduate students in var ious for…[Read more]

This book brings together thirteen contributors from diverse backgrounds – mean and women born in Cameroon, England, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia. What they all have in common is years of service within their respective communities, working individually and within projects and programmes, with both young people and adults to build social c…[Read more]

In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

In this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]

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All the living beings are neurobiologically driven beings. Creative writers and artists are no exception to it. We as literary critics, think that creative writers and artists are also living beings and they are mostly driven by neuro-chemical reactions in the brain. In the world of neurology, each body and the parts of the body are the cause of…[Read more]

By applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]

This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

Every day, we lose the stories, traditions, and recipes in every corner of the world. With these natural human resources disappearing at an alarming rate, there is an urgent need to capture the culinary wisdom of our family, friends and elders. Using algorithms to parse through randomly captured, unstructured data from online and print big data…[Read more]

My research discusses challenges and opportunities of integrating big data generated by contemporary museums in data ecology and data fabrics of smart cities. In the age of increasing datafication and digitalisations, museums have transformed into powerful “information centres,” not only generating big data but also rapidly improving their cap…[Read more]

The Uvalde Shooting: A case of amplification of political polarization by social media The rise of social media, its vast adoption, and its ability to amplify voices has a deep impact on society and polarization of thought. The Uvalde shooting in Texas reignited these divisions on gun control. We hypothesized that analyzing patterns of Twitter…[Read more]

Digital Humanities projects tend to come and go. The reasons are legions, but to name a few — funding ends, faculty members loss interest, institutions change hosting agreements, code becomes too insecure and costly to upgrade. For the most part, this may not be a bad thing since the value for the field, faculty member(s), and/or student(s) is o…[Read more]

From the colonial age to contemporary novels and the digital world, the fantasy and imagination of African have intrigued the attention from artists, novelists, and literary and cultural critics, and game designers. This essay focuses on three video games published on itch.io: Lotus of the Nile (2020), which prompts the users to co-create African…[Read more]

From the colonial age to contemporary novels and the digital world, the fantasy and imagination of African have intrigued the attention from artists, novelists, and literary and cultural critics, and game designers. This essay focuses on three video games published on itch.io: Lotus of the Nile (2020), which prompts the users to co-create African…[Read more]

The Survival of a People lab takes its name from The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Themes in the Survival of a People by renowned documentarian Frank Espada. Between 1979-1981, Espada led a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded project documenting the lives, cultural organizations, and Puerto Rican community roots through nearly 130…[Read more]