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📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker
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Introducing the forthcoming special issue on "Comparative Development in colonial Africa" in @rhi_ihr edited jointly with @DacilJuif & Kate Frederick at the @AfEconHis Meeting 2024 @SapienzaRoma, including 5 papers on Portuguese 🇦🇴🇲🇿 French 🇸🇳🇧🇯🇲🇱 and British African 🇿🇲 colonies.
The team - @coetzeelauren and @KarinPallaver - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas @AfEconHis. Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, @ale_decola and @Edkerby
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What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa?
Article summary by @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in @EcHistSocReview :
African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)
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Fascinating work: 230,000 pages of travel diaries exploring 500 years of Africa's economic history. In a way, a wake-up call on the key role of the observer (bias) at generalizing historical knowledge. @EcHistSocReview
Now on Early View:
'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?'
By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Among the most exciting datasets and innovative approaches in (African) Economic History asking new questions by @MoradiAlexander & @Edkerby
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Now on Early View:
'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?'
By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Had a fantastic time visiting @Harvard Houghton’s special collections library, collecting some more data for @TimeTravelData @LEAP_SU 📈📖
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LEAP's @Edkerby & co-authors use computational methods to uncover new perspectives
Kerby, E., Moradi, A., and Odendaal, H., 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?', The Economic History
Review, (2024), pp. 1-38.
doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13344
Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the @EcHistSoc. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.
We can also compare adjective frequencies for descriptions of Villains, Victims, and Hero's across the corpus. European hero's are adventurous, but African hero's are loyal.
This will be a fascinating @EcHistSoc Culture and Narratives session (6th April, 0900 - 1030,
room - Harvard 403) with @Melanie_Xue and @MarvinSuesse.
The Time Travellers are at the 2nd Bolzano Historical Economics Workshop @unibz_news, presenting Rimorfacta. Are Travellers to Africa (1500 - 1900) writing about facts or making up fiction? – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige
But how can we use these facts over 500 years? Well, first how did people describe each other in Africa. Derogatory language amplifies with slavery in 1700. Prejudice then changes. Cultural transmissions evolve but remain. – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige
Rimorfacta is a new #digitalhumanties discipline. We turn Traveller texts into data. Check it out at timetraveller.voyage. #econ #NLP #devecon #africaisacountry – at Avio, Trentino-Alto Adige