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Utopian map
We've talked about the Great Utopians collection on this blog before. I've been working on it since my first couple of weeks at JRAAS, and since then I've created a database with all 77 entries, and written an article with Joana Pinela about it, which was published in the latest issue of Via Panoramica.
Picture From 1st CETAPS Meeting on Digital Humanities
During 1st CETAPS meeting on Digital Humanities, we interviewed Prof. Carlos Ceia, the director of the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) in Lisbon about Digital Lab and Digital Humanities. The interview includes prime insights into Prof. Ceia's ideas about the future of Education and morover, introduces his works in Digital Humanities.
Mapping utopias
JRAAS is organizing a workshop to be held on 22 January from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at FLUP in room 202. The aim is to provide participants with a practical introduction to mapmaking using R.
Lorella Viola: . The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

I am thrilled to share that my review article, “Viola, Lorella. The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023,” has been published in the Winter Issue of Via Panoramica. The issue, themed “Toward the Maelstrom,” explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital transformation of humanities, drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe’s A Descent into the Maelström.

Via Panoramica cover
The VIA PANORAMICA Winter Issue 2024 has just been published. The thematic section is dedicated to the Digital Humanities and the VARIA section includes three articles on Anglo-American Studies.
Federico Boschetti

On the 30th of October, we participated in the 3rd workshop of the Meeting on Digital Humanities. Led by Federico Boschetti, it was entitled “Shared Visions: Marco Polo’s Travels from Medieval Collective Imagination to Contemporary Computer-Assisted Imagery”. This event bridged the past and the present, exploring how Marco Polo’s journeys—as depicted in the medieval manuscript MS. Bodl. 264—can be reimagined and interpreted through modern technology, especially AI.