Global Horizons of the Digital and Public Humanities

Global Horizons of the Digital and Public Humanities is an international research institute developed in collaboration between Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) with the support of the Stanford Humanities Center.

The institute will convene an international cohort of faculty, graduate students, and practitioners at two convenings in 2023-24. The first meeting will be hosted at VeDPH in Venice between October 9-13, 2023, and the second will meet at CESTA between February 26-March 1, 2024.

The goals for the inaugural year are to promote intellectual exchange between scholars at CESTA and VeDPH and to produce a collaborative white paper on the digital public humanities. As both Stanford and Venice confront existential challenges related to water, the theme for the inaugural year is Cities and Water.

The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) is an internationally renowned digital humanities center based in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Affiliate students, researchers, and practitioners explore places, global spaces, texts, textual artifacts, data visualization, digital curation, preservation, linked data and interoperability, and sustainability. As a scholarly community, CESTA supports and encourages cutting-edge work across the humanities and the interpretative social sciences.

The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) is part of the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. VeDPH supports and encourages the improvement, accessibility, and dissemination of advanced projects in the fields of Digital and Public Humanities. The Centre seeks to promote collaboration between students, researchers, and organizations.

The Stanford Humanities Center (SHC) sponsors advanced research in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences by investing in experiences—fellowships, workshops, lectures, and other events—that enrich knowledge in and across the disciplines. Through a partnership with the renowned Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Humanities Center, also based in the School of Humanities and Sciences, embraces emerging digital methods to complement traditional kinds of analysis and interpretation.

Please contact Will Fenton (wdfenton [at] stanford.edu) with any questions about this new initiative.