A seminar will take place titled “Tracing Nazi-Fascist Violence to Reinterpret World War II History: Deportation and War Massacres in Italy between 1943 and 1945 from the Archive to Digital"
On May 22 at 15:00 (EEST), the second seminar in the series organized by digitalhumanities.lv in collaboration with CLARIN-LV and DARIAH-EU will take place online, focusing on digital humanities and historical research.
This time, the topic “Tracing Nazi–Fascist Violence to Reinterpret World War II History: Deportations and War Massacres in Italy between 1943 and 1945 — From the Archive to Digital Format” will be presented by associate professor Giovanni Pietro Vitali.
The aim of the seminar is to analyze the historian’s work when engaging with archival sources and the possibilities offered by digital tools. Using data visualization methods, the speaker will present the results of a five-year project based on archival sources documenting violence against civilians in Italy between 1943 and 1945. The seminar will also invite participants to reflect on methodological questions and share experiences on how the digital format can confirm or challenge historiographical narratives.
Giovanni Pietro Vitali holds a PhD in linguistics and Italian literature. He is an associate professor in digital humanities at Université Paris-Saclay and secretary of the board of the Francophone Association for Digital Humanities “Humanistica.” Since 2018, he has been an associate researcher at the University of Oxford, serving as a digital humanities advisor for the project Prismatic Translation (https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/). His research interests include digital humanities, contemporary history, linguistics, onomastics, modern literature, and cultural studies.
The language of the seminar is English, and all interested participants are welcome to attend.
To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://ej.uz/digitalhumanitiesLV-22052024
The seminar is organized within the framework of the project “Latvia’s 20th–21st Century History: Social Morphogenesis, Heritage and Challenges” (VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003) in collaboration with “Development of an Open and FAIR-Compliant Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia” (VPP-IZM-DH-2022/1-0002).
