@thiagokrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
“Generative AI is really bad at doing history. But it can enable me to do good history.”
I paid $2.5 at Costco a couple of weeks ago. 🤷🏻♂️
Best thing of going to Fabrício Prado’s “Atlantic Exchanges” workshop at the Omohundro Institute was seeing friends, second the stimulating discussions, and last but not least getting a bunch of free books!
“I don’t mean to suggest that AI is useless or trivial, but there is a long history of time-saving digital technologies that at best make us more productive yet overwhelmed — and at worst, just make us feel overwhelmed.”
And once a friend - Arne Bialuschewski - told me he found some records on pirates who had attacked Brazil in the Bermudas archives! I guess I have an excuse to visit one day…
Never heard of it, I’m curious now
Great archive, even better city! I’d love to go back, although I mainly need to look at the Chambre records.
A PIG! Well, that seems like the best story ever.
Oh, there are a couple I really dislike! Brazilian archives are often very... peculiar, and not in a good way.
I was procastinating a while back and listed all archives I've worked in person.
I think my favorite archives are the Archives nationales de France, the British National Archives, and the Torre do Tombo (but I still need to visit a few more).
What are yours, #skystorians?
On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
French always does, I concede that.
I agree - my translator is arguing for Ancien Régime, but I don’t see the point.
Both "Ancien Régime" and "Old Regime" show up in Anglophone historiography. Which do you prefer, #skystorians?
Come spend a year with great colleagues in Guelph (Ontario, Canada)
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It really makes me wonder about other fields (or about these guys). LLMs can do transcription, yes, they can fake academic writing, yes, but I still can’t see a LLM-generated paper making past peer-review in any halfway decent history journal.
Now I’m curious…
I finally read Menz’s “O Senhor da Morte” this weekend and strongly recommend it… I like some of Tâmis Parron’s articles, such as “The British Empire and the Suppression of the Slave Trade to Brazil” (JWH, 2018)… But I must stop because I should be reading more stuff right now. 😜
I’m reading @svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new tome, worth reading for a global framework; I recently returned to Zahedieh’s great “The Capital and the Colonies,” but you know it better than me; I liked Shovlin’s “Trading with the Enemy” and Barth’s “The Currency of Empire”…
Hey historians, what are your favorite readings on political economy? Bonus points for anything that also related to cross-cultural trade, war, and violence.
Thanks!🗃️
Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Do send me a pdf, please, low!
Foi idiossincrático, admito!
EM é early modern, não coube no post! Tou lendo o Beckert. É uma atualização legal (estou na parte I ainda) do Wallerstein e Braudel, uma síntese bem organizada - mas ainda um tanto anglocentrica, supervalorizando Barbados (por mais que seja importante!).
Looking at EM sugar prices across multiple periods is fascinating, even though my series is incomplete. The collapse after Barbados enters the picture makes every other change look like peanuts. I knew that (and the literature has known it for ages), but it is still wild to see it plotted.
I’d like to bring you here in person next time!
But I finally transcribed and translated one of the documents of the Lima pardos case that is available online and some from Archivio Storico de Propaganda Fide on the extraordinary case of Lourenço da Silva de Mendonça to discuss them with my students next week. Looking forward to it!
One of my favorite classes to teach in my HIS 3000 course on slavery is a discussion of how to think about early opposition to slavery and an intellectual history of the enslaved. I always assign @kbgraubart.bsky.social's awesome WMQ article and the famous Quaker Germantown petition from 1688...
