Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja

Alexandra Ortolja

@alexandraortolja.bsky.social

Lecturer in Digital Humanities & History, University of Sheffield Research: translation of Enlightenment rights discourses; colonial history/ legacies of early modern European collections. Approaches: book history; DH; critical digital heritage studies.

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Tuesday 29 October 2024 - Ashley R. Sanders (UCLA): Identifying Latent Textual Bias: Making a case for traditional NLP tasks in the era of AI - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97213610241 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chairs: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird and Alice Kinghorn. Abstract: Bias dete...

Join the IHR digital history seminar tomorrow (29 Oct) at 17.30 GMT online to hear Ashley R. Sanders discussing her book "Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research", Ottoman history, AI, NLP and more!👇 #dighist
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

28.10.2024 11:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian Ahnert for their book Tudor Networks of Power (2023). In at special lunchti...

I am delighted to announce that the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Sebastian Ahnert for their book 'Tudor Networks of Power' ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/10/2024... #dhist

11.10.2024 08:16 — 👍 69 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 4

Very excited to announce the line-up for the IHR Digital History seminar 2024-25! All papers are available via Zoom (and some in person at the IHR). Look forward to seeing you there!

04.10.2024 16:55 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9

Konf: Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145947

Paris, 23.10.2024-25.10.2024, Mareike König, DHIP; Julianne Nyhan, TU Darmstadt / University College London; Sébastien Poublanc, CNRS, …

20.08.2024 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Speaking for the C18th, there were regulations in some places which dictated how many books needed to have been printed in Britain. There were also monopolies on printing some genres (Bibles, psalters etc.).

13.08.2024 09:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2024-25 - Digital History Seminar Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...

Digital History CFP! Please consider submitting a paper for our postgrad panels for the IHR digital history seminar 2024-5! #dh #dhistory👇
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/07/ihr-...

19.07.2024 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

The IHR digital history seminar might be over for 23-34 but you can still access all the recorded presentations via our Youtube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/@ihrdigitalh...

Look out for next year's line-up coming out soon! #dhist #digitalhistory

02.07.2024 13:39 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Cathy, I'll make sure to do that!

14.06.2024 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday 18 June 2024 - Nik Ribianszky (Queen's University Belfast): "The Continuing Development of Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865." - Digital History S... This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST live on Zoom (link https://zoom.us/j/5959205456), and later posted to our YouTube channel. This year the IHR Digital History seminar is support by the Programming...

Next Tuesday 19 June marks the final IHR Digital History seminar for the year. Nik Ribianszky will present “The Continuing Development of Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865.” Join online at 17.30 GMT #dhist 👇
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tues...

13.06.2024 19:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Cathy! Finally caved and moved over to escape the nonsense!

13.06.2024 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@alexandraortolja is following 20 prominent accounts

Alex Wragge-Morley
@wraggem

Science & Medicine Historian @ Lancaster University. Author of Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London http://tinyurl.com/yy4nhqn7

Dr Claire Cunnington
@drcisme

By day a researcher fighting for a better life for the traumatised, by night asleep. Currently writing about a Victorian VIP #CSE scandal. Co-convenor of the BSA Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. Agent: Jason Bartholomew, BKS. she/her

Jeremiah J Garsha
@jjgarsha

Assistant Professor of Global History at University College Dublin. Researching global microhistories of violence, colonialism, and the collection, display, and return of human remains and looted artefacts

Pierre Purseigle
@purseigle

Historian at the University of Warwick Writing a global history of urban disasters for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Brycchan Carey
@brycchancarey

Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com

Ginny Dawe-Woodings
@helloginnybatty

Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Aprendiendo español.

Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies

English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick

Andrew Ayton
@andrewayton

Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.

Brian Kjær Olesen
@briankolesen

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Research interests include Intellectual History, Political Thought, Enlightenment, Monarchism, Republicanism

Dr Cath Feely
@cathfeely

Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.

CDT Europe
@cdteu.org

Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights. Part of @cdt.org's Global team. https://cdt.org/eu/

Dr Bethan Jones (she/her)
@memorieschild

Research Associate at Cardiff Uni; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; co-editor of Popular Communication; @fanstudies.bsky.social & @scmsfaas.bsky.social boards. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos and other fun stuff.

D. ANDREW JOHNSON
@dajohnsonii

Historian, etc.

Steven Van Impe
@svanimpe

Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.

Catherine Fletcher
@cathfletcher

Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.

Danielle Terrazas Williams
@drdanielletw

Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.

Molly Warsh
@mwarsh

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)

Eli Cumings
@elicumings

early modern literary scholar interested in bodies and their meanings | postdoc @ columbia | trying my best

Zanna Van Loon
@zannavanloon

Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern hiﬆory ❦ Book hiﬆorian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books

Julie Hardwick
@juliehardwick