#152 Building Community and Breaking Barriers w/ Digital Humanities (Recorded Live at ASEEES 2019)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, recorded live from the 2019 convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in San Francisco, Ben chairs a panel featuring scholars who are working on new, exciting and very important digital humanities projects that bring together scholars from different fields, and connect those inside the university to communities outside of academia.
Our guests Anasttasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Russian Higher School of Economics) and Mikhail Melnichenko are Russian scholars currently working on Prozhito, which collects and digitizes diaries and other personal primary sources from the Soviet period, many of which were previously unavailable to anyone except family members and other holders of these sources. Our other guest Kelly O'Neill, oversees The Imperiia Project at Harvard University, which creates maps that connect people to history by creating a visual record of the lives and events of those who otherwise left few visual records of their own. Collectively, these scholars are breaking new ground, creating new and innovative ways of engaging others, and providing the sources that historians of the future can use to understand the past, so we are excited to share this work with our listeners.
A special thanks to Andy Janco (who joins Ben in the intro) and Svetlana Rasmussen for the many hours of work that they invested to make this roundtable a success. We are also grateful to ASEEES for allowing us to record this panel and share this important work with our listeners.
Links:
The Imperiia Project
-The Imperiia Project at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
-Link to the map Kelly O'Neill discusses in this episode
-The Imperiia Project on Twitter
Prozhitto
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| 0:43.3 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the Rhodes Now live from the 2019 conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, also known amongst the experts in the field as Aces. |
| 0:57.5 | And we're here in San Francisco just recorded a live panel as a part of this conference. |
| 1:03.4 | It was fantastic. |
| 1:04.9 | We had some great scholars who are doing what I think is some really important work in terms of using new sources, |
| 1:11.6 | creating more access to sources. It's just really fascinating. And right now, we just |
| 1:17.4 | wrapped up the panel. I'm sitting here with my friend and colleague, Andy Janko, from Haberford |
| 1:22.7 | College. Andy, how you doing, ma'am? I'm great. This was really a fantastic experience. It was. And I know Andy, for those of you guys who remember, Alex Galarza, who we had on with Matt |
| 1:34.2 | Negren for the World Cup episode, like over a year ago now, they were colleagues a while back. |
| 1:40.0 | And so I've known Andy from being a Soviet historian, but then got to know him better through |
| 1:43.6 | Alex. |
| 1:44.7 | And he's really working on some exciting projects. |
| 1:47.0 | And one of their partners now is Projita. |
| 1:50.6 | Could you talk a little bit about what you're doing at Haverford |
| 1:53.0 | and how you got related with these guys? |
| 1:54.7 | Yeah, so I started out as a historian |
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