The Oral History & Digital Humanities Academy (ODA) is member of GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship.
In a constantly changing (academic) world, GIRES highlights the significance of Oral History (OH) and its role in the shaping of Global History through the recollection of memories and stories of people in their own words and voices. We wish to actively engage in what we believe is our legacy to the next generations.
Advocate of (multi/trans) interdisciplinarity, GIRES believes that Digital Humanities (DH) should be an integral part of scholarship. The discipline, an intersection of digital technologies and humanities, offers the tools for a contemporary approaches of collaborative, interdisciplinary and computational research and teaching.
Our Academy is a unique institution where the two disciplines connect and collaborate under one flag, the ODA with a common cause: the support of interdisciplinary approaches to research and education. The academy teaches and trains scholars and enthousiasts from all over the world, in the crafts of Oral History and Digital Humanities aiming at connecting academia with society and sharing the tools, methods and techniques that will lead to innovative approaches to scholarship.
We welcome all opportunities to engage in a rich and constructive dialogue with scholars interested in the interconnected disciplines of Oral History and Digital Humanities.
TRAINING
COURSES-WORKSHOPS-SEMINARS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
-DH Tools
-Cultural Analysis
-Textual Mining & Analysis
-Data Visualization
-Analysis of Macroscopic Trends
-Hypertext
-Hypermedia
-Information Retrieval
-Statistics
-Digital Mapping
-Computational Linguistics
-Natural Language Processing
-Open Access/Creative Commons
-Metadata
-Virtual Reality
-Voyant Tools
ORAL HISTORY
-Project Proposal
-Research Tools
-Preparation
-Methodologies
-Techniques
-Equipment
-Interviewing: Techniques
-Digital Tools/Software
-Legal Issues
-Creating Forms/Agreements
-Material Elaboration
-Information Management
-Limitations & Barriers: Solutions
-Preservation (Oral,Text,Video)
-Storage
-Dissemination
ACTIVITIES
CONFERENCES
International conferences focusing on different aspects of DH and OH (see program of forthcoming conferences)
PODCASTS and LIVE CONVERSATIONS
Generating dialogue through multiple channels and media on subjects related to DH and OH
MEETINGS
Creating clusters of scholars working on specific fields
(In)formal meetings with scholars from all over the world interested in subjects related to DH and OH
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Open-Access material for organizations, foundations, communities, societies and educational institutions of all levels of education in order to share knowledge about subjects related to DH and OH
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
-Engage in Research projects-
-Grant Writing for external research proposals through GIRES Biro
-Collaboration with other organizations-
-Prepare and support young researchers-
-Search external funding for research projects (EU, US)-
-Fund and co-fund research projects-
PUBLISHING
PUBLISHING
Publications dedicated to relevant topics, aiming at the support of scholarship on Digital Humanities, Oral History and the interconnected disciplines,
promoting both the values of multi-interdisciplinarity & the collaboration between the various fields interconnected to the discipline through GIRES PRESS
READING SESSIONS & AUTHORS
Learn about the new publications on the discipline
Meet with authors
Read and analyze publications
GIRES LIBRARY (ARCHIVES & PRIMARY SOURCES)
LIBRARY
-Virtual, accessible Archives of Primary Sources-
-Oral history,Photographic and Video Archives-
-Teaching material-
FACULTY
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
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