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The Text+ Task Area Infrastructure/Operations (IO) regular lectures have become a popular format for providing insights into numerous topics related to working in and with the Text+ data domains and infrastructures. This includes, of course, the vast field of open access publishing, which was the subject of a recent lecture…
Seeking Sources for a Recipe for Aqua Caelestis in the Catchmay Manuscript (1629), Part 1
by Annabel Cords, St. Olaf College When I first came across this short recipe in the middle of the Frances Catchmay Manuscript, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. It seemed nearly impossible to read – not only was it written in secretary script and chock full of abbreviations…
Trust, archives, and history. The IEG LivArch Workshop on documenting the ongoing war in Ukraine
by Ian Marino, Thorsten Wübbena1 During the last two days of January 2025, the IEG had the pleasure of holding an online workshop in the context of the joint project “LivArch – Documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine: The challenges of living archives for historical knowledge production”. This project, which was…
Policy Conference: Dealing with conflict, preparing for sustainable peace
Authors: Julia Grauvogel & Christof Hartmann Despite considerable efforts to foster peace, multiple interlinked security challenges persist in Africa. While decentralized forms of violence such as Jihadism, urban riots and smaller insurgencies are a...
Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2024: Ancestral Knowledge for Contemporary Transformation
Author: Toyin Fayola The 2024 MIASA Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture explores the significant impact of ancestral knowledge and how it can guide development in contemporary African nations. By examining traditional practices in areas such...
Back to Applications in Academia 101 [A Survival Guide, Part 5]: How Academic CVs are different
As you may remember, I did a blog post series about applications in academia roughly one and a half years ago. Now, with stipend committee duties back on my plate, I’ve realized there are a few things I forgot to explain last time. Looking back at the series, I still…
Into the Archives: Pocket Books, Almanacks and the Punch Contributor Ledgers
Given that I have dedicated over a dozen years to the study of Punch Contributors, since being awarded the Curran Fellowship for the pilot of the project in 2009, it is no surprise that when the Punch’s Pocket Book Archive...
Lexibench: Towards an Improved Collection of Benchmark Data for Computational Historical Linguistics
Computational approaches in historical linguistics have made great progress during the past two decades. As of now, it is much more common to propose subgroupings based on phylogenetic analyses than on traditional considerations using shared innovations. We have also seen a drastic increase in openly available datasets that share cognate…
Lexibench: Towards an Improved Collection of Benchmark Data for Computational Historical Linguistics
Computational approaches in historical linguistics have made great progress during the past two decades. As of now, it is much more common to propose subgroupings based on phylogenetic analyses than on traditional considerations using shared innovations. We have also seen a drastic increase in openly available datasets that share cognate…
Policing the Roma in the Service of Whiteness. Post-Pandemic Reflections from Bulgaria
By Francesco Trupia After the World Health Organisation declared the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, some pundits and scholars touted the SARS-CoV-2 infection as a “great equalizer”. However, minority groups and indigenous people bore the brunt of the epidemiological crisis worldwide [1]. In Bulgaria, state authorities declared a state of…
Knowledge and Responsibility. Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Historiography and Morality on the Occasion of the 5th INTH Conference (Part II)
Georg Gangl - Having advocated a three-pronged historiographic, sociological and philosophical approach towards questions of historiographic morality in the first part of this text, I will now zoom in on some of the philosophical issues that for the most part have to do with morality’s supposed (negative) impact on historiography’s prime goal:…
Urban life in a Roman military camp? Two examples from Switzerland: Vindonissa and Augusta Raurica
A Roman military camp, also known as a castellum or castrum, was a fortified place where soldiers lived and trained. The camps were located wherever the Roman Empire expanded and reached or created borders. They formed the starting point for military actions or were themselves the site of battles. Through…
Miscellaneous Identifications III: A New Early Arabic Six-Books Dormition Fragment
1. This is the third post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes (you can find the first two posts here and here). This post is about a fragment of the early Arabic translation of the so-called Six-Books Dormition of…
Where is the Hungarian artist’s book?
Dieser Blog war immer als Instrument der Vernetzung gedacht. Umso schöner der hier folgende Beitrag von Barbara Fejes. Sie ist Graphikdesignerin und Künstlerin – und gehört zu den Wenigen, die in Ungarn Künstlerbücher schaffen und für deren Verbreitung eintreten. Als stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Ungarischen Künstlerbüchervereinigung formuliert sie hier ihren Blick…
Where is the Hungarian artist’s book?
Dieser Blog war immer als Instrument der Vernetzung gedacht. Umso schöner der hier folgende Beitrag von Barbara Fejes. Sie ist Graphikdesignerin und Künstlerin – und gehört zu den Wenigen, die in Ungarn Künstlerbücher schaffen und für deren Verbreitung eintreten. Als stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Ungarischen Künstlerbüchervereinigung formuliert sie hier ihren Blick…
Blogcast: The Latino Vote in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
In the latest episode of the HCIAS podcast, Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González, Junior Professor for Migration and the Americas at...