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Symposium: Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure

Join us for a symposium on Colonial Archives, exploring innovative approaches to colonial archives and digital infrastructure.

Key topics include:

  • Colonial archives and global significance
    Reflect on the relevance of these archives for understanding shared histories and their broader implications.
  • Text recognition and digital access
    Explore what comes after digitization and how to create meaningful tools for using complex historical records.
  • Biases in the archive
    Address the inherent biases in colonial records and their impact on research and public access.
  • Reaching new audiences
    Consider how digital infrastructures can engage diverse groups, including descendants of colonized communities.

Date and time: 24 January 2025, 10 am – 3 pm CET
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen
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Announcement: Inaugural Lecture by Matthias van Rossum

Join Matthias van Rossum's inaugural lecture as he assumes the special chair of Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University. The lecture, De ‘jongens’ van Bontekoe? Over nut en noodzaak van mondiale geschiedenissen van kolonialisme en arbeid, will be held in Dutch.

Date and time: January 24, 2025, 3:45 pm
Location: Radboud Aula, Nijmegen
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GLOBALISE seminar: CAPASIA, The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism

Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00, drinks afterwards
Location: Room 2.18 of the Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
Join us for a seminar featuring Maarten Draper and Sebastian Majstorovic, discussing the CAPASIA project's exploration of European 'factories' in maritime Asia and their role in the origins of global capitalism. Learn how CAPASIA and GLOBALISE projects are interconnected and how they enhance historical research.

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GLOBALISE Datasprint: What on Earth is This? Defining, Labeling and Classifying Early Modern Commodities

Date: Monday 4 December
Time: 13:00 – 16:15
Location: Room F0.01 at the Humanities Labs, University of Amsterdam (Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam).
Tools: Bring your own laptop!
Are you a historian or a student of history at university with a keen interest in trade, material culture, commodity histories or just good old historical research? If yes, we at the GLOBALISE Project, in collaboration with the CREATE Lab (UvA), invite you to participate in a workshop to contribute to and enrich our thesaurus of commodities traded in the early modern Indian Ocean world.

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GLOBALISE seminar: Historical Events and Frames Annotation Processes

28 NOVEMBER 2022 Jens Aurich (Junior Researcher | International Institute for Social History)“Finding and Annotating Collective Labour Actions in Newspapers with INCEpTION” Stella Verkijk (Developer | GLOBALISE)“Towards Automatic Event Detection…

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GLOBALISE seminar: Classification of Historical Data and Collections

31 OCTOBER 2022 Shannon van Muijden (Datamanager | Zuiderzeemuseum)“Classification and Linked Data for Heritage Collections” Toine Pieters (Professor | Utrecht University)“Classification of pharmaceutical and botanical data in TimeCapsule” Kay Pepping…

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