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From Boccaccio to Pico, and Garibaldi: The Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University

Time: April 24, 2019, 12:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Location: Spector Room, 608 Bird Library

Massimo Riva (Brown University)

Riva discusses an important digital humanities project developed at The Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) at Brown University, created in 2004 from a two-year grant from the NEH. Since its inception, Massimo has coordinated this international endeavor with contributions from scholars across the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Early projects included The Decameron Web and the Brown-University of Bologna Pico della Mirandola Project.

In its early phase, collaborative editing was seen as a meaningful way to engage new techniques and methodologies applied to a textual typology representative of the Italian humanist tradition. More recently, in collaboration with the Brown Library, the VHL has included projects which focus on the development of special collections and archives, with an emphasis on visualization, such as the Garibaldi Panorama & the Risorgimento Archive, and the Theater that Was Rome. 

Finallythe presentation will touch upon the latest initiative led by Riva: a pilot project of the Brown Digital Publications Initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, consisting in a digital monograph focused on a genealogy of Virtual Reality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. All are welcome to this free, public talk.

Supporters include:

  • Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
  • SU Libraries
  • Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
  • Syracuse University Humanities Center

 

Stefano Selenu, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics