Lunch seminar du CAS : "Digital Humanities and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Discussing the Digital Project SlaveVoyages.org"

Lunch seminar du CAS : "Digital Humanities and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Discussing the Digital Project SlaveVoyages.org"
Le mardi 12 mai dès 13h en salle du CAS, E121

Le prochain Lunch seminar de l'axe 2 du CAS aura l'honneur de recevoir Jorge Gonzalez, Assistant Professor en Histoire à University of Texas San Antonio.

SlaveVoyages.org is a major digital humanities project developed over more than twenty-five years that brings together data on approximately 43,000 voyages that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic over a period of more than 350 years. It also includes data on intra-American trafficking, slave ship captains, merchants, investors, and the African names of 50,000 enslaved people carried on these voyages. Since its creation, the database has transformed the study of the transatlantic slave trade and has become one of the most widely used research tools in the field. I have worked on this project for over ten years as both an editor and a developer. In this lecture or workshop, I will discuss the origins, structure, and scholarly significance of the database, while also showing how to use it in one’s own research. More broadly, this will be an opportunity to reflect on the ways digital tools and quantitative methods can reshape historical scholarship.