By Chelsea Clark It might be autumn in the northern hemisphere–but in the southern hemisphere, it is spring! My experience in helping to tidy up the Recipes Project website has felt much the same as the typical spring cleaning that goes on after a long winter with the intent of brightening up a household or workspace. […]
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The TEI Conference 2015 is now in full swing. After the opening keynote by Milad Doueihi that took us through the depths of literate coding yesterday, today’s program began with both a panel and a paper session which made me regret my lack of ubiquity. The panel dealt with the contribution of infrastructures and repositories […]
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Biographical experience and the formation of diplomatic theory: the example of Abraham de Wicquefort (1606-1682) The following text is a draft version, consisting of an abbreviated and manipulated speech I will be giving at the faculty of the University of Vienne in November. I rewrote this draft to fit a wider public. This draft will […]
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Collation page currently in beta on Dromio. By Rebecca Laroche Ninety-three transcribers! 208 pages triple-keyed! Tweets and stewed pigeons, chocolate and perfume, what a marvelous transcribathon we had!  So what’s next? Collation page currently in beta on Dromio. First, comes collation and vetting, as well as an answer to a question that has probably been burning for many of you: “Why so […]
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Leon Barkho: The Discursive and Social Paradigm of Al-Jazeera English in Comparison and Parallel with the BBC. In: Communication Studies, Vol. 62(1) (2011), 23-40 A piece grounded in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Linking 46 online news stories published during the war on Gaza from both channels 2008 and 2009 with social practices analyzed on the […]
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La revue Science Fiction Studies vient de faire paraître son cent-vingt-septième numéro. ARTICLES J.P. Telotte. Animation, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Imagination. This essay surveys a curious absence in accounts of science fiction’s cinematic development—the numerous examples of sf-themed animation during the 1920s and 1930s. In this formative period when sf was finding a scant place in live-action […]
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By Nancy Simpson-Younger As part of my Book in Society class, thirteen students took part in the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective’s Transcribathon on Wednesday, October 7th, For this group, transcribing Winche’s work was the culmination of a two-week unit on paleography, which covered italic and secretary hands as well as early modern print and […]
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[Paper by Albert Weber (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies) at the International Workshop Digitizing German-language cultural heritage from Eastern Europe on April 28, 2015:] I will present you in the following our proposal for the buildup of organizational structures which could serve the process of digitizing the German-language heritage in Eastern Europe. The current situation […]
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Valais (photo: Patrick Hofer under CC BY-NC 2.0)   “World Heritage sites” are defined as “heritage of mankind as a whole” by UNESCO in the World Heritage Convention from 1972. European countries have by far more sites than for example African or Latin American ones. Are the standards by which sites can become a “World Heritage Site” eurocentristic? Valais (photo: Patrick Hofer under […]
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From february 9th to february 14th 2015, students of the European Affairs Master’s degree at Sciences Po and those of the European Studies Master’s degree at Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University took part in a European summit simulation on energy issues, as a foretaste of negotiations of the COP 21, which is gong to be […]
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thylacine We are happy to present a first World Scripts report entitled 10 things I learned at World Scripts in Cape Town written by Piers Kelly, participant of the Winter Academy. The report can also be found on his blog Brave New Words where it was originally published.   It’s been some time now since the […]
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Capture d’écran 2015-10-27 à 13.43.00 There has been little activity recently on this blog due to these many factors that weigh on a scholarly life (classes, reports, dissertations, etc.). Yet we are back again and will resolutely maintain a flow of news on the Virtual Shanghai Project and its current and upcoming transformation. We are finally very happy to announce […]
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Ziziphus - Screenshot As a case study in the field of digital cultural heritage the project RetroDig develops infrastructure and workflows for retro-digitalisation and academic analysis of paper-based documents. The Project RetroDig concentrates on retro-digitalisation and academic analysis of analog records focused on preserving information. Retro-digitalisation also signifies standardised   digitalisation of analog media and transformation of information to […]
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By Andrew Sneddon There were only a handful of witch trials in early modern Ireland, and only one witch-lynching, of an old woman by her neighbours in Antrim town, Co. Antrim in 1698. The ‘witch’ was accused of using witchcraft to demonically possess a young girl of Presbyterian gentry stock. This case is detailed in […]
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On blood and words (ppt) Conférence donnée lors du panel “Ethnography of Contemporary Ritual LAndscapes”, dans le cadre de la Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society: “Landscapes, sociality and materiality”, tenue à l’université d’Helskinki (Finland), les 21 et 22 octobre … Lire la suite →
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