Digital Philology in practice: an overview of students' end of term projects
Digital Philology in practice: an overview of students' end of term projects
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
Quindicimila passi. Divagazioni geoletterarie sulle orme di Vitaliano Trevisan - 5 Jun 2022
Photo: Ignazio Lambertini
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Geographies and Histories of the Appennini: Taking Care of the Present to Move Towards the Future - 5 May 2022
Geographies and Histories of the Appennini: Taking Care of the Present to Move Towards the Future - 5 May 2022
On May 5th the Museum of Geography hosted an event titled “Geografie e storie degli Appennini. Prendersi cura del presente per muoversi verso il futuro” [Geographies and Histories of the Appennini: Taking Care of the Present to Move Towards the Future] organised in collaboration with the Touring Club Italiano. During the encounter we presented the latest volume edited by the TCI titled Appennini, with the President Franco Iseppi and the journalist Tino Mantarro. This was also the start of a prolific collaboration between the DiSSGeA, the Museum and the TCI around key topics, like tourism, environment and sustainability.
The event has read one of the “internal areas” of our country, the Appennini, from the interdisciplinary geo-historical perspective, aiming to overcome the stereotyped representation of these areas as marginalised and peripheral. What emerged from the discussion with Prof. Varotto was a more promising vision of an area that represents a laboratory for experimenting new models of development and sustainability. The event was followed by a guided tour of the Museum for the members of the TCI.
Since more than 120 years the TCI has been a point of reference not just for the tourism in our country, but also for the history of mobilities and environmental protection in Italy: with its journals, guides, maps and publications the TCI helps us reading mobilities from a “slow” perspective, inviting us to take care of our country and its heritage as a common good.
[map/cover image from: Appennini, 2022, Touring Club Italiano]
Mobilities, international business and global mining capitalism. The French mining engineers abroad (19-20th cent.)
Mobilities, international business and global mining capitalism. The French mining engineers abroad (19-20th cent.)
Digital project coordinated by Marco Bertilorenzi
Project overview
This research project investigates the mobilities of the French Ingénieurs civils des mines (ICM – Civil mining engineers) during the 19th and 20th century.
Usually, the scholarly studies about engineers mainly focus on the transfers of technologies and techniques that came along with the mobility of these skilled workers. Although technology transfer is an important aspect, this research project would like to extend our understanding about the engineers’ mobility, integrating the transfer of capital (foreign direct investments, explorations, multinational companies) and of commodities behind their mobilities. On the one hand, the study of the mobility of French ICM can be used to chart and account the spread of French capitals abroad, both in the French colonial empire and in other countries. Engineers only seldon move following their own personal goals, in many cases they were sent as agents of large firms that had clear strategies of foreign direct investments or resources exploitation/exploration.
On the other hand, the linkage, through ICMs, between France and other countries can shed light on the creation of complex commodity chains, exploitation of resources and a growing integration of the global mining economy. Actually, the impact of French investments abroad was not only an outcome of the colonial policy, but it entailed the creation of private strategies of business groups in a wide range of countries outside the French colonial empire, like in Russia, Latin America, and Arabian and Far East regions. The research project adopts both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. It is based on a large database of ICM, who were formed in the French Ecole des mines de Saint-Etienne between 1880 and 1970, and tracks the mobilities of engineers through several benchmarks were it is recorded the firm for which ICMs worked, the hierarchical position they had and the place of their activity.
The prosoposophical study of this group can reveal the nexus between personal choices of economic actors in their mobilities and the macro-economic position of the flow of French investments abroad. The project also involves the adoption of new technologies and tool, like ArcGis and StoryMaps , thanks to the involvement of Mobilab.
Research team:
- Prof. Marco Bertilorenzi
- Dr. Jean-Philippe Passaqui (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Prof. Nadine Dubruc (Ecole des mines de Saint-Etienne)
- Dr. Marco Orlandi
Goals:
The publication of a workable database including the carrier of about 4000 French civil mining engineers
Joint publications and workshop on this topic, in collaboration with the international partners
Attract interns to assign some work on the construction of the database
