WHP Director Stephanie Wood has won support from Fulbright for a collaboration with the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin to help advance digital collections relating to Mesoamerica. This collaboration, involving the museum director Dr. Viola Koenig, the Mesoamerican Curator Maria Gaida, and additional staff, will take place July 25–August 15, 2012. This work also relates to WHP contributions to the Getty Research Portal.
WHP Director Stephanie Wood joined the Advisory Board of the Getty Research Portal and had the pleasure of giving a presentation about digital scholarship relating to Mesoamerica at the Getty Resesarch Institute on the date of the public launch, May 31, 2012. Check out the new research portal at: http://portal.getty.edu/portal/landing. This tool is aimed at art historians and indexes open access e-books and some journal articles. As it grows, it will become more global in content. Increased coverage of Mesoamerica and Asia (especially East Asia) are major goals.
WHP joined Carlos Aguirre (History, Latin American Studies) and Gabriela Martínez (SOJC) in multiple collaborations in Guatemala in March, signing an accord with the human rights archive, Archivo Histórico de la Policia Nacional (AHPN), and preparing to work with the Archivo General de Centro América and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. This is all part of a larger collaboration with Steve Huter and the Network Startup Resource Center, which generously provided funding for this third outreach to Guatemalan colleagues. We also had the helpful assistance of UO Libraries videographer Andrew Kirkpatrick and UO law student Greg Krupa. Professor Martínez is producing a documentary about the AHPN; see the trailer.
WHP faculty partner David Hollenberg and his Yemeni Manuscript project has been featured in the Spring 2012 issue of the Oregon Quarterly. We will be together in Berlin in May to present some of the details of our recent collaboration to add scholarship to the manuscripts that are being hosted by Princeton.
Nineteen native speakers of Nahuatl from different parts of the country have assembled at IDIEZ in Zacatecas, Mexico, this week to discuss cultural themes and compare vocabulary across language variants. Nahuatl has 30 variants (according to INALI). We are recording the audio for insertion into our online Nahuatl Dictionary.
One of our colleagues, Ethelia Ruiz, shares links relating to a notable movement to establish community museums that is sweeping the Mixteca Alta in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. These are YouTube videos (in Spanish) about efforts to preserve and disseminate indigenous perspectives on the past and strengthen community appreciation for local history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYAD206Jxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgGy_xJDJg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajJvE4Tiuc&feature=BFa&list=ULDsgGy_xJDJg&lf=mfu_in_order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTr8QOZ2RqE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSU_4AS3HlI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI), a collaborative endeavor of research libraries and leading scholars of classical Islam, Middle Eastern history, and Arabic Literature, whose mission is to preserve and make accessible the Arabic manuscripts in the private libraries of Yemen, is making great progress under the leadership of Professor David Hollenberg (UO, Arabic Language and Literature). The first batch of manuscripts, which includes codices from libraries in Yemen, Berlin, and Princeton, is now accessible online at: http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0079
For further information, please also see: http://ymdi.uoregon.edu/.
We have just been honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities with a Digital Enhancements Grant for our Virtual Oaxaca project, now housed inside the Smithsonian’s Latino Virtual Museum. Come check us out in Second Life! We have three short documentaries by Associate Professor Gabriela Martínez, and we are beginning to build links to curricular materials created by our NEH Summer Scholars! Watch us grow.
We are pleased to announce that we will have an opening for the academic year 2011–2012 for a GTF at Wired Humanities. You must be a student enrolled in Fall 2011 in a graduate program at the University of Oregon to be eligible. Please follow this link for further information. Deadline for applications: May 16, 2011.
The blog of new, exceptional websites of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid has just recognized our Nahuatl Dictionary. ¡Muchos saludos a nuestr@s colegas en Madrid!
