https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/63341 2026-04-12T12:18:07Z https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71130 Title: Graduate pedagogy at the intersection of colonial histories and digital methods Authors: Block, Sharon Abstract: The influence of digital methods on pedagogy has been primarily discussed in terms of undergraduate education. However, basic advances in digital humanities, including digitization, multimedia projects, social media, and common online applications can fundamentally transform graduate student teaching in ways that are particularly useful for empire and colonial histories. Standard digitally infused practices have not yet been applied to facilitate radical changes in pedagogy. Digital methods can be used to enhance graduate cohorts by enabling a community of learners in and outside the classroom; expand the definition of scholarship to challenge traditional academic hierarchies; draw regular connections between global colonial processes; question the ethics of writing imperial histories; and shift assessment practices away from students’ performance for the professor and toward individual self- reflection and communally defined standards. Together, these digitally enabled methods define scholars of colonialism far beyond their expertise in a specific historic field’s scholarly canon. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71129 Title: The Official mind's view of Empire; in miniature: Quantifying World geography in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates Authors: Guldi, Jo Abstract: For many scholars who are not themselves historians of political thought, the major use of official records is as a benchmark for studying other kinds of development. Official records of modern political bodies are widely available in digitized form and provide one of the primary sources with which digital historians have trained their methods. This article applies the process of “reducing” textual expressions to regular form to investigate how British members of Parliament talked about empire in extremely general terms: which places did they mention, how much, and in what context. Reducing parliamentary speech to regular occurrences makes it possible to quantitatively generalize about regular and predictable structures for example, the Eurocentric bias of Parliament and Parliament’s bias toward portion of the empire under long command, with certain notable exceptions. The technique lends itself to a wide variety of other scholarly contexts. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71128 Title: Digital tools and Ancient Empires: Using network analysis and geographic Information systems to study imperial networks in Hellenistic Anatolia* Authors: Horne, Ryan Abstract: An increasing number of historians and sociologists have theorized empires as a series of interlocking networks of social and political interactions. Less attention has been paid to how digital techniques can be deployed to study the structure of those networks, their geospatial context, or their visualization, especially in the construction of maps. Advances in digital gazetteers, social network analysis (SNA) software, and historical geographic information systems (HIGS) are fundamentally altering this paradigm, enabling the discovery, modeling, and visualization of complex geospatial networks. Through a study of the Hellenistic Attalid Kingdom in Anatolia (282-133 B.C.E.), this article demonstrates a digital methodology and analytical framework that enables any historical project to create a digital gazetteer of people, places, and events; use linked open data (LOD) enhance that gazetteer with data from other projects; and display the results as a dynamic geospatial network that can be used for research and pedagogy. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71127 Title: Lajos Kossuth and Multiple Imperialisms: Computational analysis and the international assessment of Empire* Authors: Parker, James Abstract: This paper uses international newspaper corpora from the oceanic exchanges digital humanities project to examine transnational perceptions of imperialism in the nineteenth century. Through the figure of Lajos Kossuth, whose publicity tour of the United States in 1852 generated support for Hungarian independence, this paper demonstrates that big-data and digital analysis tools such as topic modeling can reveal key details about how states and communities perceived European imperialism, depending on their own national circumstances. The paper shows how his journey came to be refracted through national and international political goals as well as the popular consumption of celebrity news. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z