If you enjoy digging deep into data, check out these two websites: London Lives, 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty, and Social Policy in the Metropolis and The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913. Thanks to William I. Turkel for the tip (on Twitter). The first one has 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives; the latter includes 197,745 criminal trial records. About to catch up (but not open source) is Gale Cengage, according to a meeting today at the American Historical Association focus group, “World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean.” Their massive 1 million+ pages of digital Latin American resources will be launched in April.
NEH Summer Institute in Oaxaca
WHP, with the support of the National Endowmnet for the Humanities, is proud to announce our third Summer Institute on Mesoamerica to be held in Oaxaca, Mexico from July 4 – 29, 2011. We will be studying archaeology and architecture, ethnohistory, community arts, and film for four weeks. This scholarship opportunity is open to K-12 schoolteachers anywhere in the United States. NEH Summer Scholars will be provided a stipend of $3300.
For more information on the program and how to apply, please visit our website: http://whp.uoregon.edu/mesoinstitute.
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British Library Funding for Nahuatl Archive!
WHP collaborator Lidia E. Gómez García of the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Puebla, Mexico) reports excellent news. The British Library will underwrite the cataloguing of the Luis Reyes García Archive of recorded Nahuatl and Nahuatl-language manuscripts. This is a project of the Endangered Archives Programme, award #EAP383. Maestro Luis Reyes García (1935-2004) was a native speaker and scholar who achieved international fame for his outstanding research accomplishments. Many students of Nahuatl language and Nahua history will benefit from gaining access to the resources he collected. To read more about Luis Reyes, see this memory by Juan Julián Caballero (in Spanish).
Mixtec Cultural Heritage Preservation: Speaker
Please join us for a special presentation by Roberto Santos Pérez, Director of the Centro Cultural de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico.
“Radio Power: Rescuing Indigenous Heritage and Raising a Mixtec Cultural Center”
Monday, November 4, 2010 — 4:00–5:30 PM — Allen Hall 139
The Cultural Center in Tlaxiaco sponsors a project called the “Archivo de la Palabra” (Archive of the Spoken Word), which involves recording and archiving oral traditions of Mixtec speakers. Radio programs are also aired in Mixtec and include the sharing of local lore.
The talk is being co-sponsored by Ethnic Studies, Education Studies, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, the Latin American Studies Program, the School of Journalism and Communications, and the Wired Humanities Projects (Knight Library and the Center for Advanced Technology in Education). For further information, please write Stephanie Wood (swood AT uoregon DOT edu), or call 541-346-5771.
Yemeni Manuscript Studies Come to UO
WHP has been in conversation with David Hollenberg, the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Religious Literature at the UO, and director of the Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI). YMDI is a collective of scholars and librarians dedicated to preserving and virtually disseminating the manuscripts of Yemen, and is now hosted by the UO. Working with Princeton University Library and the Free University, Berlin, YMDI recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities/Deutschland Forschungsgemeinshaft Bilateral Digital Humanities Grant of $330,000 to train Yemeni technicians to produce archive-quality images of three private libraries of Yemen, virtually link them to manuscripts held by Princeton University and the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, and store and disseminate them through Princeton University Library’s digital library. These grants are administered by Princeton University and the Free University of Berlin. WHP is currently exploring ideas for a grant proposal hosted by UO which would develop scholarship around the manuscripts that are being digitized.
You can find more information on the project at YMDI’s website.
Professor Olko Visits UO (another new grant!)
Professor Justyna Olko of the University of Warsaw has received a grant in collaboration with the Wired Humanities Projects for a series of lectures on Nahuas of early Mexico entitled, “Encounters between the Old and New Worlds: Case Studies from the Aztec/Nahua Mexico.” The European Social Fund is underwriting her visit and some work we are doing together, while she is here, on Nahuatl-language manuscripts, on a loanword project she is directing, on WHP’s online Nahuatl lexicon, and our planning for a meeting in Vienna in 2012.
Professor Olko will be delivering the following presentations, all in the evening and all in 375 McKenzie Hall:
Thursday, September 23, 7:00-8:30: Aztec Universalism: Ideology and Status Symbols in the Service of Empire (lecture)
Monday, September 27, 7:00-8:30: Nahua Insignia of Rank: Functions and Meanings before and after the Spanish Conquest (lecture)
Tuesday, September 28, 7:00-8:30: Tradition, Novelty, and Prestige: Imagery of Elite Status in Colonial Central Mexican Indigenous Society (an ethnohistorical workshop)
Wednesday, September 29, 7:00-8:30: Public Talk: The Empire Strikes Back: The Ideology of Just War among Aztecs and Spaniards (public talk)
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE TALKS!
WHP Relocates!
The Wired Humanities Projects staff are in the process of moving offices from the University of Oregon Annex, Suites 3 & 4, into two new spaces. You can now find us in Room 142 in the Knight Library, on the east wall of the Reference area. We are hoping this central campus location will increase our accessibility to faculty with digital research projects and facilitate growing collaboration with library colleagues. It will also be a more convenient location for work-study students on our team. Please come give us a knock and say hello!
We also have space in the Center for Advanced Technology in Education, in Suite 215 of the Rainier Building. We have a growing number of grant-funded projects with colleagues at CATE, which prompted us to share some space there, as well.
Contact information: we are in the process of getting a new phone number in the Knight Library, so for now, please email: swood@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5771 (which rings at CATE).
Stephanie Wood Selected as Fulbright Specialist
WHP Director Stephanie Wood has been named by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to be listed on the Fulbright Specialist Roster. She will be available for collaboration with European institutions in the area of Mesoamerican Studies, particularly with a digital component, for a five-year period beginning in the academic year 2010-2011.
WHP Wins NEH Grant for Summer Institute, 2011
We have recently learned that WHP will have federal funding for another summer institute on Mesoamerican Cultures and their Histories, to take place again in Oaxaca, Mexico, in July 2011.
WHP Partner CAPS gets Title VI Grant
Hearty congratulations to the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, especially Jeff Hanes and Lori O’Hallaren and the many colleagues to helped contribute to the Title VI East Asian National Resource Center proposals, for winning nearly $2million in grant funds to be spent over the coming four years! WHP proudly had a small role in helping shape the proposal with regard to potential digital projects in the Library that have Asia as their focus. We look forward to helping carry these projects out through the new Center for Digital Scholarship proposed by Deb Carver, Dean of the Libraries.