The Fractured Narrative: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Identity, and Representation through Digital Humanities
Chair: Annitto, Jill

<em>Patterns of Despair: Digital Humanities Analysis of Despair and Self-Violence in Yiddish Sources, 1880–1940</em>

Levi, Yael

Harvard University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This paper explores the emotional and cultural dynamics of East European Jewish immigration to the USA and Israel/Palestine during the age of mass migration. Through Digital Humanities methods, the project analyzes emotional patterns among immigrants as reflected in Yiddish primary sources.


Digital Humanities Approaches for Unconventional Historical Data in the Global South

T, Shanmugapriya

University of Toronto, India

This research seeks to deploy digital humanities methods for extracting fuzzy toponyms from British India colonial historical corpus by employing advanced programming techniques, including BERT NER and DeezyMatch. The primary goal is to create a historical gazetteer for integration into the World Historical Gazetteer.


Immersive A-Frame Survey. Propuesta para el uso de la simulación arqueológica en el aula

Polo Romero, L. Alberto (1); Tobalina-Pulido, Leticia (2)

1: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; 2: Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, CSIC

Se plantea el uso de A-Frame, tecnología inmersiva de realidad extendida, para mejorar la enseñanza de la prospección arqueológica en el aula. Resuelve la limitación de la enseñanza tradicional al permitir al alumnado experimentar virtualmente situaciones reales. La simulación se crea con software libre y se evalúa mediante un cuestionario.


Liberal Sydney: A Digital Prosopography of Henry Parkes’ “Australia”

Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi; Pickering, Paul

Australian National University, Australia

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A central figure in the development of Australian politics was Henry Parkes, who emerged as a political force in the 1850s from an extensive socio-political network. We report on a data science examination of a digital prosopography of this network, as the first tranche of a multifaceted study, “Liberal Sydney”.


Towards a Bilingual Digital Scholarly Edition of the <em>Revue des Colonies</em>: the venue for abolitionist French discourse

Beliaeva Solomon, Maria; Viglianti, Raffaele

University of Maryland, United States of America

This paper introduces the initial stages of a bilingual digital edition of the Revue des Colonies, a French-language periodical (1834–1842) that served as a global antislavery venue, amplifying abolitionist discourse across the French colonial world. The edition's website is being designed with low-infrastructure requirements and longevity as a primary goal.