141. Monumentalizing Memory: Symbolic Struggles and Urban Landscapes in San Salvador (03:13)

Date:
2022-04-22
Main contributors:
Suárez Morales, José Luis
Summary:
My project maps the monuments erected during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) and especially after the peace process in San Salvador (1992-1993) related to this conflict. The Salvadoran Civil War, fought between the guerrillas unified under the FMLN and the US-backed Salvadoran army, was one of the fiercest conflicts in Latin America during the 20thcentury and one of the last to be produced in the context of the Cold War. In addition to the intensity of the armed struggle and the high number of civilian casualties, this conflict is notorious because it had no clear winner and was the first peace process mediated by United Nations. Furthermore, one of the recommendations of the UN’s Commission on the Truth for El Salvador was the erection of a monument for the civilian casualties of the conflict. Although Salvadoran governments ignored this recommendation for years until The Monumento a la Memoria y la Verdad was inaugurated in 2003, many more monuments have continued to populate San Salvador’s landscape. My project tracks the patterns of memorialization that emerged during the transition to democracy in this country and aims to document information that is not easily accessible on the internet about these sites of memorialization. Furthermore, I argue that both sides of the armed struggle, now institutionalized political actors, have continued to memorialize and monumentalize their perspective of the conflict up until a point of saturation, which, in turn, coincides with the current crisis of Salvadoran democracy.

144. Network Analysis and Geography (1:05:55)

Date:
2019-02-05
Main contributors:
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Daniel Story, Kalani Craig
Summary:
Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, some basic visualization and analysis options, and how to locate points in your network in geographic space. Participants will need a laptop with Gephi already installed.

145. New Isaac Edition Website: Companion site to critical musical edition (22:26)

Date:
2022-04-22
Main contributors:
Giovanni Zanovello
Summary:
Through this digital project the members of the editorial team are developing a set of online tools to complement the edition of Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac’s works. While the modern score of Isaac’s works will be published in physical format, a companion website will contain the critical notes. The structure of the information, however, will give access to the information to users of our printed critical edition, but also to musicians and scholars using the published facsimile of the music, or even its digital reproductions freely available online. This multiple-access philosophy creates an exciting twist—while critical notes have historically been an appendix to published editions, in our case they become a digital hub, as it were, linking the editorial work done for the printed edition, the reading reconstructed by the editorial team, and the reproductions of the original source, and allowing for different and complementary usage models.

146. Old Familiar Faces: The Library and Works of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton (03:37)

Date:
2024-04-05
Main contributors:
Damien Thomas
Summary:
Stylometrics is a discipline that aims to mathematically determine the style of an author by examining the placement or co-occurrence of particular words and phrases in that author's body of written work. It is typically used to try to attribute authorship to an anonymous piece of text by matching the stylistic "fingerprint" of an author or set of authors to the stylistic fingerprint of that text. This project, however, examines known-author works to draw connections between two sets of volumes: the published works of Victorian author Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, and the many books he received as gifts from his lifelong friend, celebrated author Algernon Charles Swinburne. One might expect that the volumes in the latter set would have some stylistic influence on the former, and the project ultimately finds a pair of volumes with significant stylistic overlap: Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, and Watts-Dunton's The Coming of Love, and Other Poems.