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The MobiLab is representing DISSGEA at the first Digital Cultures and Cultural Analytics ARQUS Focus Group in Leipzig (15-17 June 2022). Three days of discussions among digital humanists from the 9 ARQUS Universities. Looking for connections, common research interests and laying the groundwork for future collaborations. 40 speakers and discussants for 20 talks on topics such as web archiving, text analysis and visualization, Big Data Analytics, Public History and much more!

During the spring of 2022 (from March to May), students in the Digital Philology course (held by our visiting professor Julie Giovacchini) received introductory training in digital humanities applied to textual data: distant reading, text mining, data processing and visualization, encoding with mark-up language. In the framework of this course, they realized, alone or in groups of 2 or 3, personal projects on topics of their choice, for which they had to put into practice in an autonomous way some of the tools discussed in the course, and produce a report explaining their subject and their methodology. Here are some examples of their achievements.

• Gonca Kuzuloglu, Secil Oznur Yakan Menexiadis, Ngoc Trang Dai Vu: Minoïde Mynas in search of manuscripts
• Ilaria Panarotto: Visualizing Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” – project’s report and website
• Ranran He: Colonial Hong Kong and the Twentieth Century Chinese Intellectual Society