Please join the Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library for our next two Digital Humanities Open Office Hours. All events are online and open to the public; please register for the Zoom link to attend.

 

 

 

Wednesday March 2 at 12pm EST -- Mapping Ignatius Sancho's London with Dr. Olly Ayers

 

Register for Zoom link: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/8949295

 

This work-in-progress talk will report on a collaborative project between NU's London and Boston campuses that is mapping the world of Ignatius Sancho–one of the eighteenth century’s most important Black Britons. A prodigious letter writer, Sancho owned a shop at 19 Charles Street in Westminster, a vantage point—at a literal cross-roads in London—that allowed him to meet innumerable people and observe various events that are narrated in the letters. By creating a digital map of his experiences and connections, and layering this alongside new data capturing the experience of Black Londoners more broadly, the project also aims at the larger imperative of improving scholarly and public understandings of the local and international cross-currents within Black history.

 

Speaker biography

Dr Olly Ayers is a Associate Professor in History. He received a first-class honours degree in History from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was a Lecturer in American History before joining NCH. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Historians of Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) and has a wide-ranging set of academic interests spanning the histories of racial protest, urban environments and global politics. He is the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Faculty, responsible for the delivery of the MA in Historical Research and Public History.

 

 

Wednesday March 9 at 12pm EST -- Time, Technology and Globalization. A study of the role of technology in processes of modernization and globalization using the Press, Big Data, and Computational Research Methodologies with Dr. Elena Fernández

 

Register for Zoom link: https://northeastern.libcal.com/event/8808493

 

The EU-funded GLOTECH project comprises a study of the role of technology in processes of modernisation and globalisation using the press, big data and computational research methods. It will explore the role of technology as a factor of time standardisations in Western industrialised societies as well as a booster of cultural homogenisation, and as a consequence, an agent of modernisation and globalisation. The analysis will focus on the press in European countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The methodology will include different computational research methods, contributing to significant advances in digital humanities and computational social sciences.

 

Speaker biography

Elena Fernández is a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral researcher based at the Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, and the Principal Investigator of GLOTECH. From 2019-2021, she was a Eurotech Post-Doctoral Fellow, and the Principal Investigator of PRESSTECH. She completed a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley (2019), a M.A. in Spanish Studies at the University of Virginia (2013), and a B.A. in English Philology at the University of Salamanca (2011). Her research profile that lies at the intersection between Computational Social Science, Digital Humanities, and Media and Communication Studies