Summers are nice for academics because it gives us a chance to work hard on research and other projects that seem to getcrowded out by service, teaching, writing conference papers, and the like during the academic year. One of my goals for this summe...
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog directly related to my own research on 18th- and 19th-century Quito. With help from a graduate research assistant, I’m finally getting around to transcribing more of the jail visitas (censuses) that I collected last summer at the ANE. My assistant is right now...
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This has been a banner year for ash spew. My guess is that we will see a short term global temperature dip as a result of all of the recent activity. Cue climate change denialists… Now. Volcán Pacaya near Guatemala City and Volcán Tungurahua returned to active eruption this past week. Pacaya apparently emitted...
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When I finally leafed through it, I was both impressed by the depth and importance of the library's Latin American holdings, and shamed that I had no idea what all was there until after I had moved on from graduate school in Albuquerque. ... The collection, according to its description , includes:...
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I took the plunge this Spring semester and started hosting my own installations of wordpress to run courses, using dreamhost. At the time I decided to do this, dreamhost was running a special in which a year’s hosting cost me all of $10.00! I mapped my main professional domain, chadblack.net, to dreamhost from using...
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Sessions I attended covered such topics as designing digital humanities/digital history curriculum for undergrads and grads, issues surrounding the conception of large and small scale digital projects, text mining small textual corpora, constructing a series of asynchronous, free online courses for mid-career humanities professionals who want to get digital skills, the limitations of TEI...
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A few weeks ago I posted this screenshot of transcribing documents using DEVONthink’s sorter and Lightzone. I’ve been working the past week or so on “transcribing” some jail census material from the 1780s that doesn’t lend itself to the sorter, and used this setup instead: I need tables for these documents. I simply split the...
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We end the course, and this blog concludes, with an examination of one location of struggle over the interpretation and continued meanings of the Spanish conquest, in this case the conquest and settlement of New Mexico. Acting as a microcosm of sorts, the modern dispute over how to remember/memorialize/monumentalize the Conquest is emblematic of...
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This week, we read six articles. • Elizabeth Archuleta, “Memorializing Po’Pay and Oñate, or Recasting Racialized Regimes of Representation,” New Mexico Historical Review (Summer 2007):317-337. • Kathy Freise, “Contesting Oñate: Sculpting the Shape of Memory,” in Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory (233-252). • Phillip Gonzales, “History Hits the Heart”: Albuquerque’s Great...
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In summing up our discussion of the conquest in this class it seems fitting that we ended on the articles for this week. The main theme of the articles is how the conquest is being dealt with today. While it has been over 500 years since Columbus accidentally found his way to the Caribbean...
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