Digital Humanities | Lorella Viola | Researcher

"Fatti non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza"

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This space lets you get to know me, my research, and what I am up to a bit better. You'll find updates about my research but also rare pearls about me :-) Are you ready?

Ok, so...it all started when I was 9...

Lectures, Workshops, Digital Humanities Training

I am always interested in networking opportunities with my fellow researchers, eager to talk about my research and share my findings. I am also available for delivering Digital Humanities training sessions. Let's connect :)

Introducing Multilingual Digital Humanities: A Must-Read Exploration

Introducing Multilingual Digital Humanities: A must-read on the impact of monolingualism, with a focus on challenging Anglocentrism

My new book "The Humanities in the Digital" is now out Open Access!

Watch my book launch presentation at the University of Luxembourg!🤩 On the 3rd May 2023 I presented my new book "The Humanities in the...

Do narratives shape crisis responses? How was the #covid-19 crisis narrated in Europe?

Crisis narratives shape public understanding and, consequently, the response to the crisis itself.

Blind Data

How automated and unbiased automated processes are? Are data synonyms for exactness? Listen to this talk I gave last October!!!

What has meant for heritage to become digital? My Keynote at HistoInformatics 2021!!🤩

Has being digital changed how we understand memory and knowledge? Listen to my keynote at HistoInformatics 2021

How has the Digital impacted migration studies? Our IMISCOE Panel report is out!

Have you missed our Panel on Digital migration at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference? Worry not! Here's a short highlights summary :)

DeXTER finally up an running 🤩

After one year of VERY hard work, in the middle of a global pandemic, and all related challenges along the way, on the 24th March 2021 DeXTE

My research featured by FNR - Luxembourg National Research Fund

Read here how I talked about mass digitisation and the importance of empowering critical digital humanities practice

DeXTER, the alpha version

Amazing turn up for the online demo of the alpha version of the DeXTER app!!! Watch the demo here!!!

Research visiting in times of Corona

In October, I visited the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin as part of the research visiting...

How will the Covid-19 pandemic be remembered in the future?

A digital archive of contemporary memories to understand how day-to-day lives are affected by the pandemic #covidmemory offers all people...

My new project on deep learning to contextually enrich digital heritage collections

I was awarded the Thinkering Grant, the C²DH grant to experiment with technological and digital tools for the interpretation and...

The GeoNewsMiner (GNM): An interactive spatial humanities tool to visualize geographical references

An App to offer historians and migration scholars new perspectives on the geographies of the past Thanks to the Research Fund for...

The added value of topic modelling for the humanities

Humanities scholars and the challenge of analysing very, very large collections As digitally available textual repositories are becoming...

The DharpaProject. Let's open the black box

What if there was software to facilitate computational analysis, replicability, transparency, Open Access publication, standardization...

ICAART 2020 - A.I. for digital heritage

In this paper, I talked about how A.I. is the next level of access to and (re)use of digitized collections Digital heritage professionals...

How did information and concepts flow between Europe and America at the turn of the 20th century?

Historical newspapers are truly a fantastic source for historical enquiry and Digital Humanities offer the best toolbox for accessing it....

What does being Italian mean? Come with me on a journey from Italy to the USA, from 1800 to today

This is the story of a journey made of conflicts, rivalries, self-given defects and illusions of superiority. This is the story of how...

What a great success DH2019 was!

#DH2019 was a fantastic ride! 5 days of workshops, tutorials, panels, keynote lectures, networking, coffee breaks, dinners and great work...

Book presentation in Pamplona + Eastminster interview!

Me and Andreas Musolff went to the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (University of Navarra) to present our book Migration and Media:...

Does the 'Italian Brain drain' still exist?

For their feature 'Successful Italians abroad', I was interviewed by the online magazine castelvetranonews.it Why did I leave Italy and...

Postcards from the International Summer School 'Inequality and Society in the globalised world'

I designed and taught this four-week Summer School in which learned how to become more effective intercultural mediators in international...

Do you think that talking about gender discrimination is boring? Think again.

Two radio shows to talk about gender discrimination in academia and intercultural communication. The students told me about The students...

Cultural Awareness, Brexit, and Freedom of Speech

The 15th March 2017 was World Speech Day. Over 170 events from all over the world took place to celebrate the power and joy of speech! In...

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LORELLA VIOLA

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Linguistics & Digital Humanities

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Lorella Viola

"Fatti non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza"

Meet me

Lectures, Workshops, Digital Humanities Training

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I am always interested in networking opportunities with my fellow researchers, eager to talk about my research and share my findings. I am also available for delivering Digital Humanities training sessions. Let's connect :)

LORELLA VIOLA