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SUMMARY:Visualizing History’s Fragments with Ottoman Algerian Registers
DESCRIPTION:Invited talk for eLaboratories\, University of Virginia. \nThe few extant fragments of knowledge from Algeria’s Regency period emerge from French and Algerian chronicles of the governors\, travel narratives\, diplomatic correspondence\, a few surviving Ottoman registers\, and commercial records from the French coral concessions. But through close reading\, structured notes\, and developing a custom\, context-specific classification schema\, Dr. Ashley Sanders has reconstructed data sets on the governors of Ottoman Algeria (1518-1837) for prosopographical study. \nThis reconstruction aims to avoid recreating imperial ontologies and instead aims to describe these men and women with categories that they themselves would have likely employed. Historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive and use the tools of the colonizers to do reparative work. \nSlides are available on the event page.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/talk-at-elaboratories-university-of-virginia/
LOCATION:University of Virginia\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Redressing Colonial Knowledge Systems through Restorative Data Justice
DESCRIPTION:Invited talk for the Humboldt University\, Berlin Digital History Research Colloquium. \nWhile “data” is often understood today in computational terms\, as information coded and organized for interpretation with digital tools and algorithms\, the term has a long history dating back to at least the seventeenth century. In its earliest uses\, data was defined as a “given” and a basis for decision-making—and thus power. A study of colonial knowledge systems offers numerous examples of the link between power and data regimes. Revealing the integral role of data in the building and maintenance of empires\, this talk takes up several methodological questions: How do we handle colonial data\, both data generated by colonial administrations and data we recreate from fragmentary sources to address the absences in the historical record born from conquest? And how do we ensure that our own research does not replicate imperial extractive colonial data practices? \nDuring the 1830 French conquest of Algeria\, witnesses watched\, aghast\, as officers looted administrative buildings\, and soldiers used official Ottoman documents to light their pipes. In the following years\, the plunder continued until most of the official records from Algiers and neighboring cities were either lost\, stolen\, or destroyed. The case of Algeria\, a palimpsest of overlapping Berber\, Roman\, Arab\, Ottoman\, and French legacies\, highlights the problematic nature of colonial and colonized archives and the question of what decolonizing data means in such a complex context. \nThe few extant fragments of knowledge from Algeria’s Regency period emerge from French and Algerian chronicles of the governors\, travel narratives\, diplomatic correspondence\, a few surviving Ottoman registers\, and commercial records from the French coral concessions. Through close reading\, structured notes\, and developing a custom\, context-specific classification schema\, Sanders reconstructed data sets on the governors of Ottoman Algeria (1518-1837) for prosopographical study. This reconstruction does not simply reconstitute imperial ontologies but rather seeks to describe these men and women with categories that they themselves would have likely employed. Historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive. Similarly\, through text mining to identify named and unnamed entities and social network analysis to illustrate and study their relationships\, unnamed women’s spectral presence may be recovered and represented despite their absence in the archival record. Hand-in-hand\, these techniques allow us to reassemble data lost in the violence of colonial conquest and to resurrect the stories\, if not the voices\, of men and women long silenced. In this way\, we subvert colonial weapons of quantification and convert them into tools for restitution. \nThis talk will present “restorative data justice” as a theoretical framework\, building on the work of Alexandra Ortolja-Baird\, Julianne Nyhan\, Alex Gil\, Roopika Risam\, and Adeline Koh\, among others whose work seeks to ameliorate some of colonialism’s violences by highlighting and addressing archival silences. Restorative data justice is one response to common scholarly challenges we face when undertaking studies of marginalized populations\, especially using colonial archives. It is also a response to this present moment\, this era of capitalistic datafication and increasingly urgent calls for social change and justice. Sanders will show how this concept of restorative data justice may serve as a bridge between academic studies and work in current data cultures. It offers one way to redress the problematic past of colonial knowledge production and its legacy in information structures and systems still at work today in the present age of capitalistic surveillance and widespread data misuse.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/redressing-colonial-knowledge-systems-through-restorative-data-justice/
LOCATION:Humboldt University\, Berlin\, Unter den Linden 6\, Berlin\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Identifying Latent Textual Bias: Making a case for traditional NLP tasks in the era of AI
DESCRIPTION:Invited talk at the UK Institute of Historical Research – Digital History Seminar. \nBias detection remains an area of interest for digital humanists\, computational linguists\, and information studies scholars\, who point to biases inherent in our algorithms\, software\, tools\, and platforms\, but we are only just beginning to examine how computational methods could be used to interrogate our primary textual sources. This project presents a method for bias detection that can be used at a study’s outset with little initial knowledge of the corpus\, requires little pre-processing\, and is both beginner-friendly and language-agnostic. Pairing topic modeling with sentiment analysis and targeted close reading of documents most closely related to topics of interest (based on document-topic weights) uncovered the stories of lesser-known actors in the history of Ottoman Algeria\, as well as biases inherent in the writing of their histories. The anti-Arab and/or anti-Turkish sentiments one might expect to observe in French colonial texts were absent\, but a latent anti-Semitic sentiment appeared in the topic models\, indicated by sentiment analysis scores of topics related to Jewish people and verified through a close reading of related passages. \nMore details and slides are available on the page for this talk.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/talk-at-the-uk-institute-of-historical-research-digital-history-seminar/
LOCATION:Institute of Historical Research\, Senate House\, Malet Street\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Humanistic Statistics: New Insights in Ottoman Algerian History
DESCRIPTION:Invited Talk at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Data Working Group\, George Mason University \nFor the Ottoman military-administrative elite in imperial provinces\, alliances were essential to garnering respect and support among Algerian notables\, legitimizing their authority and solidifying their positions of power. This talk explores how descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing open new windows into Ottoman governors’ experiences in early modern Algeria. Using quantitative descriptive statistics\, it calls into question historians’ assumption that Ottoman Sultans actually followed their stated practice of moving governors every three years and suggests a new periodization for Constantine’s history\, deepening our understanding of the social\, political\, and environmental forces at work in this region over time. Furthermore\, through hypothesis testing\, we uncover local perceptions of Ottoman officials’ ethnicity and the extent of local elites’ influence in provincial political careers. \nMore details and slides are available on the page for this talk.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/humanistic-statistics-new-insights-in-ottoman-algerian-history/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Virtual\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:UCLA Book Release Party
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URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/ucla-book-release-party/
LOCATION:UCLA\, Royce Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:DH Consultation: University of Oklahoma
DESCRIPTION:Strategic planning consultation to define the nature and structure of the library’s Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Initiative and its integration into the larger campus environment. \nOU Consulting\n\n\n\n\n	PurposeTo define a DH Initiative within the Library that is built on partnerships with campus departments and centers\, as well as key faculty stakeholders.\n\n\n	Why is it important?The work of Digital Humanists intersects with the mission of the Libraries – data and information access and services\, the care and preservation of all forms of scholarship\, as well as accessibility and validation for that scholarship. Close partnership in the creation of new knowledge that the library will ultimately become the stewards of.\n\n\n	Why now?Humanities Forum is launching a strategic plan that specifically calls out Digital Humanities as a priority. The DSDS unit in the library has restructured and needs to develop its service model.\n\n\n	Expected outcomesIdentify stakeholder needs\, interests\, and concerns. \nCraft shared vision and mission. \nDefine DH and Digital Scholarship. \nDraft tiered service model. \nDraft communication strategy about services. \nIdentify champions\, key partners and outreach strategies.\nIdentify resource and service needs among faculty.\n\n\n	Expected deliverablesPresentation: Trends in DH/DS Services at Academic Libraries. \nPresentation: Current trends in DH research: librarians\, library staff\, and faculty. \nStakeholder analysis\nValue proposition\, mission\, vision statements\nStrategies and programs for transformation\nNext steps\nProfessionally documented material will be provided as a report
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/dh-consultation-university-of-oklahoma/
LOCATION:University of Oklahoma\, 401 W Brooks St.\, Norman\, OK\, 73019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Consulting
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SUMMARY:Graphs & Networks for Humanists Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn to construct and analyze graphs and networks using real-world examples related to humanistic questions and research agendas. Throughout the workshop\, participants will become familiar with the mathematical concepts that are foundational to networks as they learn to format network data\, analyze and interpret network structures. They will emerge from this workshop with a knowledge of the relationship between graphs and networks; the underlying mathematical concepts of a network; how to format humanities data for network analysis; and how to quantitatively analyze and interpret network structures. They will also be introduced to popular cross-platform digital humanities tools for the visualization and analysis of networks.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/graphs-networks-for-humanists-workshop/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Virtual\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:DH 2024 Conference Talk
DESCRIPTION:Computational Methods for Restorative Data Justice \nIntroduction  \nWhile “data” is often understood today in computational terms\, as information coded and organized for interpretation with digital tools and algorithms\, the term has a long history dating back to at least the seventeenth century. In its earliest uses\, data is defined as a “given” and a basis for decision-making—and thus power. A study of colonial knowledge systems offers numerous examples of the link between power and data regimes. Revealing the integral role of data in the building and maintenance of empires\, this paper takes up several methodological questions: How do we handle colonial data\, both data generated by colonial administrations and data we recreate from fragmentary sources to address the absences in the historical record born from conquest? How does a “collections as data” approach situate colonial archives themselves as data to be analyzed? And how do we ensure that our own research does not replicate the extractive colonial data practices of empire?  \nThe Case Study   \nDuring the 1830 French conquest of Algeria\, witnesses watched\, aghast\, as officers looted administrative buildings\, and soldiers used official Ottoman documents to light their pipes. In the following years\, the plunder continued until most of the official records from Algiers and neighboring cities were either lost\, stolen\, or destroyed. The case of Algeria\, a palimpsest of overlapping Berber\, Roman\, Arab\, Ottoman\, and French legacies\, highlights the problematic nature of colonial and colonized archives and the question of what decolonizing data means in such a complex context.  \nRestorative Data Justice: A Definition  \nThe few extant fragments of knowledge from Algeria’s Regency period emerge from French and Algerian chronicles of the governors\, travel narratives\, diplomatic correspondence\, a few surviving Ottoman registers\, and commercial records from the French coral concessions. Through close reading\, structured notes\, and developing a custom\, context-specific classification schema\, I reconstructed data sets on the governors of Ottoman Algeria (1518-1837) for prosopographical study. This reconstruction does not simply reconstitute imperial ontologies but rather seeks to describe these men and women (in the social network study) with categories that they themselves would have likely employed. Historical data set (re)construction is one way we can begin to address voids in the archive. Similarly\, through text mining to identify named and unnamed entities and social network analysis to illustrate and study their relationships\, unnamed women’s spectral presence may be recovered and represented despite their absence in the archival record. Hand-in-hand\, these techniques allow us to reassemble data lost in the violence of colonial conquest and to resurrect the stories\, if not the voices\, of men and women long silenced. In this way\, we subvert colonial weapons of quantification and convert them into tools for restitution.   \nThis is how I define “restorative data justice\,” a theoretical framework that builds on the work of Alexandra Ortolja-Baird\, Julianne Nyhan\, Alex Gil\, Roopika Risam\, and Adeline Koh\, among others whose work seeks to ameliorate some of colonialism’s violences by highlighting and addressing archival silences. I present restorative data justice as a response to both common scholarly challenges we face when undertaking studies of marginalized populations\, especially using colonial archives\, and it is a response to this present moment\, this era of capitalistic datafication and increasingly urgent calls for social change and justice. I argue that this concept of restorative data justice may serve as a bridge between academic studies and work in current data cultures. It offers one way to redress the problematic past of colonial knowledge production and its legacy in information structures and systems still at work today in the present age of capitalistic surveillance and widespread data misuse.    \nRestorative data justice is not simply a concept\, but\, as suggested above\, it is also a process that involves three steps:\n– thinking of\, and working with\, our sources as data or generating data from them specifically on/about people who have been marginalized\, \n– structuring the ontology of that data based on their own epistemologies (or as close as we can come) and not those of the colonizing or otherwise oppressive forces\, and \n– conducting analyses of that data in ethically and historically responsible ways that highlight the experiences and roles\, if not the voices\, of those who have been marginalized\, restoring them to their historical context\, restoring information about their lives to a general\, if not specific\, archive of knowledge not\, as the colonial archive once did\, to control and dominant\, but to resist imperial narratives of the past.   \nIn the historical context\, this means returning actors to the narrative through data gathering and analysis. I use my own work on re/creating Ottoman Algerian registers as a case study for this process. In identifying governors\, specific details of their lives and their families through prosopography and social network analysis\, I seek to bring their actions\, experiences\, even their very existence\, to light\, to literally restore people to the historical record\, recreating a historical record that has since been lost or destroyed\, and outlining the limits of what is or can be known about this specific past. Through this work we notice the spectral presence of those long-since dead\, as well as the shadow of records of their lives that may have once existed and those that only ever existed in our imaginary archive.   \nReferences \nAgostinho\, Daniela (2019): “Archival Encounters: Rethinking Access and Care in Digital Colonial Archives”\, in: Archival Science 19\, 2: 141–65. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-019-09312-0.  \nBastian\, Jeannette Allis (2006): “Reading Colonial Records Through an Archival Lens: The Provenance of Place\, Space and Creation”\, in: Archival Science 6\, 3: 267–84. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-006-9019-1.  \nDrake\, Jarrett M. (2019): “Diversity’s Discontents: In Search of an Archive of the Oppressed”\, in: Archives and Manuscripts 47\, 2: 270–79. DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1570470.  \nGhaddar\, J. J.\, and Michelle Caswell (2019): “‘To Go beyond’: Towards a Decolonial Archival Praxis”\, in: Archival Science 19\, 2: 71–85. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-019-09311-1.  \nGilliland\, Anne J.\, and Michelle Caswell (2016): “Records and Their Imaginaries: Imagining the Impossible\, Making Possible the Imagined”\, in: Archival Science 16\, 1: 53–75. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-015-9259-z.  \nJohnson\, Jessica Marie (2018): “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads”\, in: Social Text 137: 57–79.  \nOrtolja-Baird\, Alexandra and Julianne Nyhan (2022): “Encoding the Haunting of an Object Catalogue: On the Potential of Digital Technologies to Perpetuate or Subvert the Silence and Bias of the Early-Modern Archive”\, in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37\, 3: 844–67. DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqab065.  \nSchönpflug\, Karin\, Christine M. Klapeer\, Roswitha Hofmann\, and Sandra Müllbacher (2018): “If Queers Were Counted: An Inquiry into European Socioeconomic Data on LGB(TI)QS” in: Feminist Economics 24\, 4: 1–30. DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2018.1508877.  \nSmallwood\, Stephanie E. (2016): “The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved”\, in: History of the Present 6\, 2: 117–32. DOI: 10.5406/historypresent.6.2.0117.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/dh-2024-conference-talk/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Virtual\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Statistics for Humanists Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn to program in R to run statistical tests and write functions to express statistical ideas in a guided\, scaffolded\, and structured way. Prior to the workshop\, participants will download and install R and RStudio\, and the instructor will offer virtual office hours to troubleshoot any installation issues. During the workshop\, participants will learn how to create data visualizations\, as well as calculate and interpret the meaning of measures of central tendency\, variance\, hypothesis tests\, and other statistical methods in response to humanistic questions with quantitative and qualitative (categorical) data.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/statistics-for-humanists-workshop/
LOCATION:George Mason University\, Virtual\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Historical Arguments and the Digital 2024 Conference Talk
DESCRIPTION:Recovering archival specters with digital historical methods \nHow might historians use digital research methods to study archival specters – people who lived\, breathed\, and made their mark on history\, but whose presence in the archives and extant documents remains limited\, at best\, if not altogether lost? A number of scholars have written cogently and movingly about power and archival silences\, and a growing number of tutorials provide pragmatic guidance on the use of computational techniques\, but few studies exemplify how digital research methods may be used to address archival voids\, nor do they model a complete research life cycle from sources to data to quantitative\, qualitative\, and visual analyses. Feminist literary theory\, postcolonial studies\, and critical information studies provide theoretical frameworks with which to “listen to the silences\,” and read archives “against the grain”. Now\, developments in topic modeling\, text mining\, data visualization\, as well as statistical and social network analysis offer practical methods to investigate latent patterns in our available source materials. Therefore\, this study responds to these needs by demonstrating how digital research methods may be used to explore the ways in which ethnicity\, gender\, and kinship shaped early modern Algerian society and politics. The approaches presented in this study have applications far beyond English\, French and Arabic language sources and the history of the Middle East and North Africa. More broadly\, these methods will be of use to scholars interested in identifying and studying relational data\, demographics\, politics\, discourse\, authorial bias\, and social networks of both known\, as well as unnamed\, actors. Digital tools cannot metaphorically resurrect the dead nor fill archival gaps\, but they can help us excavate the people-shaped outlines of those who might have filled these spaces. \nThe few extant fragments of information emerge from European and American travel accounts\, consular records\, nineteenth-century French scholarship\, as well as French and Algerian chronicles of the provincial governors of Constantine\, Algeria. The original sources are in French\, English\, and Arabic; the data mined from them have been translated into English for comparative and presentation purposes. Through the application of topic modeling\, statistical hypothesis testing\, text mining\, data visualization\, and network analysis\, this project demonstrates how computational techniques may be used to read both colonial and Algerian sources “with” and “against the grain\,” in order to foreground the experiences of some of history’s most marginalized people. \nQuantitative approaches are not entirely new to historians who embraced them in the movement toward social history in the 1960s. However\, by the 1980s\, many scholars had largely concluded that computation had little to offer the field. With increasingly sophisticated computational methodologies that are now readily available and more accessible\, I argue that it is time to revisit this assumption. Using documents related to Ottoman Algeria as a case study\, I show how new digital research techniques have much to offer humanists\, especially when sources are scant\, difficult to find\, and even more challenging to access.
URL:https://ashleyrsanders.com/event/historical-arguments-and-the-digital-2024-conference-talk/
LOCATION:University of Luxembourg\, 11 Porte des Sciences\, Esch-Belval Esch-sur-Alzette\, Luxembourg
CATEGORIES:Talk
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