Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

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Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He studies exchanges between West and not-West in the 16th and 17th centuries, with a focus on the interactions between Spain, Italy and Portugal and Brazil, Mexico and China. More information in this location.

Research Interests:
16th and 17th century Colonial Literatures; Ethnography; Perspectivism; Translation; Travel Narratives; History of Science; History of Technology

Featured project

Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age

Following the assumption that the IT-blog sphere represents an avant-garde of technologically- and socially-interested experts, Jens Pohlmann and researchers at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities present a research platform to investigate IT-blogs’ impact on public discussion of matters situated at the intersection of technology and society. Using text and metadata from about 400 IT-blogs from Germany and the U.S.

Announcements

Lacuna Team Presents at Microsoft Berlin

Friday, May 20, 2016

Brian Johnsrud and Daniel Bush presented at Microsoft Berlin this week, as part of the "iAnnotate Conference," which focuses on the future of digital annotation.

Lacuna Team explores "Critical Reading" in Annotations

Monday, June 27, 2016

In a new project headed by Emily Schneider and Iris Howley in Stanford's Lytics Lab, student annotations are being analyzed using natural langauge processing to see if patterns emerge to distinguish different annotations as taking part in characteristics of critical reading.

Poetic Media Lab Receives Hoagland Award

Monday, June 29, 2015

Amir Eshel and Brian Johnsrud received a Stanford Hoagland Award for Innovations in Undergraduate Education. This grant, along with a seed grant from the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, will support the launch of a new project in the Poetic Media Lab: Poetic Thinking.

Lab Members Attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Brian Johnsrud and Daniel Bush, both Phd researchers in CESTA's Poetic Media Lab, attended the University of Victoria's Digital Humanities Summer Institute, for a week of "Drupal for Digital Humanists." Look out for a couple new projects in the lab being launched soon as a result of this great week!

Foothill Faculty Collaborate using Poetic Media Lab's "Lacuna Stories"

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Four faculty members from the English Department at Foothill Community College participating in the EPIC (Education Partnership to Internationalize Curriculum) Fellowship program are using their fellowship year to collaborate with Lacuna Stories in creating new curricular units for their courses.

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Announcements

Lacuna Team Presents at Microsoft Berlin

Lacuna Team explores "Critical Reading" in Annotations

Poetic Media Lab Receives Hoagland Award

Lab Members Attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Foothill Faculty Collaborate using Poetic Media Lab's "Lacuna Stories"

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