Workshop Digital History in Rio de Janeiro

Date: 28 February – 1 March 2024

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Venue: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional & Procuradoria Geral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Language of workshop: Portuguese and Spanish

Funding Institution: DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

I'm thrilled to share that I had the incredible opportunity to serve as one of the main organizers for the recent workshop Social networks, big data, and interethnic relations in global empires: documentary sources, historical research, and democratization of information! This event, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) brought together scholars from diverse fields, including history, digital humanities, and computer science, to discuss the cutting-edge methodologies, such as natural language processing and network analysis, to unveil the narratives embedded within a vast repository of digitized documentary sources. The collaborative partnership between National Library of Brazil Projeto Resgate Barão do Rio Branco and Portuguese Overseas Archives in Lisbon serves as the foundation for our exploration.

Together with a passionate team, Demival Vasques Filho, Juciene Ricarte Cardoso and João Carlos Nara, we curated an agenda filled with insightful talks, interactive sessions, and collaborative activities that sparked meaningful discussions and fostered new ideas with focus on Digital Humanities in Action, Heritage and Memory, Historical Databases, Harnessing Machine Learning for Data Extraction, Subaltern Agency and Resisting Colonial Oppression.

It was truly inspiring to see participants from diverse backgrounds come together, sharing their expertise and experiences to address some of the most pressing challenges in the Digital Humanities.

A huge thank you to all the speakers and participants who made this event a resounding success.

For those who missed out, please check:

Workshop: Big Data | MAPE (projectmape.org)