This "show-and-tell" presentation April 4 at 1 p.m. hosted by the Digital Humanities Collaborative will be delivered by Andrea Davis about a project she directs at Arkansas State University. "Memory and History: Transforming the Narrative of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorship" is a collaborative Digital Humanities project that enhances access to the audiovisual testimonies of the Spanish Civil War Memory Project through the creation of 1) time-coded and searchable Spanish-language transcriptions, 2) English translations, 3) bilingual indexes that capture narrative structure and map natural language to concepts using the project’s dedicated subject thesaurus; and 4) multimodal scholarly entries based on the thesaurus’s hierarchy of terms that link out to the enhanced testimonies. Reflecting on the history of the project, this talk examines how scholars can draw on the Digital Humanities to navigate critical research decisions related to the adoption of tools, establishment of project guidelines, and creation of alternative scholarly communities and forms of communication.

Andrea Davis is Assistant Professor of History and Digital Humanities Director at Arkansas State University, where she researches the memory cultures and urban social movements of 20th-century Spain.

Contact elissa.auerbach@gcsu.edu for the Zoom access link.