Looking for Revolution in the Data Pool: Some Observations from CESTA at Stanford

Conférence de Keith Baker, résident de l'IEA de Paris, à l'Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities - ACDH-ÖAW.

Présentation

Professor Baker will discuss two projects. „Writing Rights“, on which he is engaged at Stanford University in collaboration with Dan Edelstein (Professor of French) and specialists in academic technology and design from Stanford and Sydney, Australia, seeks to use techniques of textual analysis and visualization to understand the process by which the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was drafted in 1789. „Revolutionizing Revolution,“ his contribution to the volume he has just edited with Dan Edelstein on „Scripting Revolution. A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolution“, has explored the transformation of the meaning of “revolution” between 1650 and 1789.

The ACDH Lecture will address the Digital Humanities dimensions of both projects against the academic background at Stanford. – This event immediately follows a workshop at the University of Vienna and is co-organized by Austrian Science Fund Project "Benedictines, Church Reform and the State in Austria, 1720-40" (P-28016).