Activities

From 25 to 27 October 2023, the XII Atelier Héloïse – European Network on Digital Academic History, took place in Turin, on the theme Digital Approaches to University Cultural Heritage. Objects, Collections, and Places of Knowledge Production.

The Héloïse conference, organized by CISUI – Centro Interunivesritario per la Storia delle Università Italiane, brought together leading experts in the history of Italian and foreign universities. It also provided an opportunity to present the latest results from the Bo2022 database concerning the lives of students at the University of Padua from its founding to the present day.

MobiLab contributed by presenting the initial outcomes of the ViViBo! project, which offers a multimedia and interactive digital experience to explore the coats of arms at the Bo Palace.

ViViBo! allows for the exploration of the University of Padua’s extensive heraldic collection, both on-site and remotely, through a Virtual Tour.

The project, initially conceived as a social impact activity (or third mission) of the Department of Historical, Geographical and the Ancient World – DiSSGeA of the University of Padua, is coordinated by Prof. Maria Cristina La Rocca in collaboration with the Centre for the History of the University of Padua – CSUP.

Below, you can find the recording of the presentation by the two speakers: Giulia Zornetta, a former research fellow on the Bo2022 project and lecturer in Medieval History, and Marco Orlandi, the technician at MobiLab

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

Salerno, 5 aprile 2022 14:30-16:30 Aula 8 Dspc

Introducono

Federico Mazzini (Università di Padova)

Deborah Paci (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Serge Noiret (European University Institute)

Pratiche collaborative nella Public History Digitale

Manfredi Scanagatta (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Digitalizzazione delle fonti storiche: una possibilità contro la misinformation?

Discussione

Marcello Ravveduto (Università di Salerno)

Il terzo incontro del ciclo di seminari promossi dalla Sissco si inserisce all’interno dell’insegnamento di Digital Public History (titolare: Prof. Ravveduto) e delle attività del Dottorato in studi linguistici, letterari e storici (DILLS) dell’Università di Salerno.

Chi volesse partecipare al seminario in modalità streaming è pregato di contattare Camilla Zucchi (czucchi@unisa.it)

The MobiLab provided digital support to the project Mobilities, international business and global mining capitalism (19-20th centuries), managed by our MoHu member Marco Bertilorenzi. The project explores the mobility of French mining engineers during the 19th and 20th century. It would like to explore the nexus between the mobility of high skilled workers, like mining engineers, and the mobility of capitals, linking the movements of people to the ones of investments and multinational firms. The project is based on a large database of engineers (about 3000), the mobility of whom was tracked in several benchmarks and georeferenced/mapped through ArcGIS Online software. Marco Orlandi provided assistance in adapting the database to  ArcGIS Online and in setting new visual settings with maps.

The first internship hosted by Mobilab–the Digital Laboratory for Mobility Research has started in January 2021. Miriam from Local Development and Trung from Mobility Studies, two of DiSSGeA’s international Master programmes will be trained by Dr. Chiara Rabbiosi on the use of Atlas.ti, one of the most famous software for computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. This way, interviews and photos collected by Dr. Rabbiosi as part of her Travelling ideas of Europe pilot research project will be coded in a digitally supported participatory way. More internships will start in the next future fostering the role of MobiLab as a hub where students can learn how to do mobility & humanities research in practice, in line with the aims and scope of DiSSGeA’s project of excellence.

Dal 13.10.2020 al 11.05.2021

dal 13 ottobre 2020 all’11 maggio 2021 si svolgerà, nell’ambito delle iniziative del MobiLab, il ciclo di seminari Doing digital humanities @ DiSSGeA 2020/2021.

I seminari si terranno il secondo martedì del mese dalle 16.30 alle 17.30 in modalità telematica via Zoom previa registrazione.