Archives Of The Present: Possibilities Of The Past And The Future.
The challenges of translating humanities to digital
Online Talk. June 10th, 10:00-11:30 hrs. (Chile) | 15:00-16:30 hrs. (UK)
Among their multiple developments, Digital Humanities projects have enhanced the value of historical archives and have generated new readings of history, its processes, protagonists, and contexts, thus providing a fresh look at our legacies and their inscription on the contemporary horizon. These contributions open a series of questions regarding the creation and resignification of archives, and about the very notions of heritage and the role that studies in Digital Humanities have in the preservation of individual and collective memories of the present.
“Archives of the Present” seeks to establish a dialogue between different projects in Digital Humanities, carried out in very different contexts. In this conversation will converge research on the Digital Library of Morocco, the process of creating the national digital heritage strategy of the State of Chile, the complexity of preserving analog presidential archives in a digital context, and the challenges of preserving digital creativity when archiving Latin-American digital literature.
While research experiences will be shared, the aim is also to investigate what these specific projects have contributed to the usual questions of the humanities in the broadest sense: Does this work change the way we approach the past and define what we consider valuable in the present in a world permanently reconfigured by technology?
Organized by: Global Humanities Network, Centre for the Humanities (Universidad Diego Portales), and Digital Laboratory from the Faculty of Communication and Letters (Universidad Diego Portales).
Collaborator: Cambridge Digital Humanities, Cambridge University.
This discussion will be conducted entirely in English.
Presentations & Speakers
Unlocking the potential: Towards a National Strategy for Digital Heritage in Chile, for what? for whom? Daniela Serra and Barbara Ossa, Department of Heritage Studies and Education, Under-Secretariat of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage (Chile).
The Digital Library of Morocco. Theo Dunkelgrün, Associate of Cambridge Digital Humanities (Cambridge University Library, UK) and Assistant Professor of Jewish History, University of Antwerp.
Digitizing Presidential Archives: Challenges and Implications in the Case of the Archivo Ricardo Lagos. Alejandro Martínez, Archives Programme Director, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).
Cartography of Latin American Digital Literature: The challenges of preserving digital creativity. Carolina Zúñiga, Digital Laboratory Director, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).
Moderator
Dr. Manuel Vicuña. Director of the Centre for the Humanities, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).