Public Speaking: Conferences and Outreach
Public Speaking: Conferences and Outreach
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Humanities and Cultural Heritage in the Digital World
Humanities and Cultural Heritage in the Digital World
Working with Galileo – with Digital Formats and Methods
Working with Galileo – with Digital Formats and Methods
On the left, top: a Galilean giovilabio, an instrument to measure periods and eclipses of Jupiter's satellites.
Source: Smithsonian Institution.
On the left, bottom: the frontispiece to Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger, Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610). Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
On the right: a word cloud visualization generated in Voyant Tools, from Caterina Agostini's blog post “Explaining Words, in Nature and Science: Textual Analysis in Galileo’s Works”, Northeastern University Women Writers Project (22 June 2020)
Digital Humanities Handouts
Digital Humanities Handouts
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
My research, teaching, and service experience has helped me achieve one of my personal goals as an academic, which is to create a safe space in a culturally diverse campus where ethnic, cultural, religious, and gender differences are respected regardless of personal demographic characteristics.
Open Access Scholarship
Open Access Scholarship
Open Access: My Assets in SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers)
The Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers (SOAR, https://soar.libraries.rutgers.edu) is a repository to collect, share, and circulate scholarship developed and published by the Rutgers community, through Rutgers Libraries digital collections and a shareable Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The goal is to champion open access scholarship, ranging from books, articles, and websites, to conference presentations and posters.
Open-Access Articles
“Art in the Time of Syphilis: A Digital Humanities Approach toward Considering a Medical Narrative in Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Volume 2, Issue 1 (2021), https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.97921c12
Published online on 14 September 2021. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH) is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal committed to publishing digital humanities research. IDEAH is a Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI; c-ski.ca) journal.
Review of Dario Rodighiero, Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization. Geneve, Switzerland: MetisPresses, 2021, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2021), free access, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab096 (8 November 2021). Free-access link in the Rutgers SOAR institutional repository
Published online on 8 November 2021. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH) is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities. DSH is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), formerly known as the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, a digital humanities organization founded in London in 1973. The journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities was previously known as Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Book Chapter, peer-reviewed
“Communicating across Cultures: The Case of Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, and Pliny the Elder.” In Translation, Globalization and Translocation: The Classroom and Beyond. Ed. Concepción Godev. New York-Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018: 63-77. Book Chapter, peer-reviewed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61818-0_4
Translation, Globalization and Translocation: The Classroom and Beyond, in the Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting series
Book DOI: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61818-0
Blog Posts
“The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard.” Invited guest blog post for Mainly Museums (3 August 2021)
URL: https://mainlymuseums.com/post/892/the-collection-of-historical-scientific-instruments-at-harvard
By 18 August 2021, the article had over 6,400 views (Source: Twitter analytics)
"Revealing Data: Ars de statica medicina, 1614." An invited blog post for the "Revealing data" series in the National Library of Medicine blog "Circulating Now" (5 November 2020)
URL: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/11/05/revealing-data-ars-de-statica-medicina-1614
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448904646
"Explaining Words, in Nature and Science: Textual Analysis in Galileo’s Works." This post is part of a series published by Northeastern University with projects from the 2019 Advanced Institute on Text Analysis, on Word Vectors, with support from the Women Writers Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities in July 2019 (22 June 2020)
URL: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/textual-analysis-galileos-works
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448804646
"Digital Humanities Tools in Online Humanities Classes." A blog post on digital pedagogical tools, for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (5 June 2020)
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448704646
Websites
Caterina Agostini (Co-Author, collaborator, and curator); Laura Morreale (Director); Monica Keane (Curator of an exhibition); Christine Kralik (Curator of an exhibition), et al., "Image du monde Challenge Project." Collaborative transcriptions of Image du monde, a medieval treatise by Gossuin (Gautier) du Metz (24 February 2021)
URL: https://imagedumonde.wordpress.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DG4N9
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031634849704646
"A Sourcebook for Health from the Sixteenth Century." A sourcebook on sixteenth-century treatises on syphilis. 1 July 2019. Funded by the Open Knowledge Practicum Fellowship at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia (May 2019)
URL: https://sourcebookmedicalhumanitiesscience.wordpress.com
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448504646
"Santorio's Medical Method." A digital presentation of the early modern physician Santorio Santorio (9 May 2018)
URL: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/science-and-vision/index
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448604646
Conference Poster
"Art in the Time of Syphilis." Digital Humanities Conference and Colloquium, 06/07/2019 - 06/08/2019, University of Victoria, British Columbia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7282/00000087
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031634849804646
More Blog Posts
"Renaissance Navigation." A reflection piece for La Sfera Challenge II (July 2020)
"Paleography and Digital Humanities." A reflection piece for La Sfera Challenge (May 2020)
Co-authored Blog Posts
Caterina Agostini and Francesca Giannetti, "Introducing Constellate for Text Analysis." A blog post on digital pedagogical tools for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (6 September 2020)
URL: https://dh.rutgers.edu/constellate-for-text-analysis
Caterina Agostini and Ben Bakelaar, "Introduction to IIIF." A blog post on digital pedagogical tools for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (29 June 2021)
URL: https://dh.rutgers.edu/introduction-to-iiif
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991031650849704646&context=L&vid=01RUT_INST:ResearchRepository&lang=en
Caterina Agostini and Ben Bakelaar, "Special Interest Group on IIIF." A blog post on digital pedagogical tools for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (21 June 2021)
URL: https://dh.rutgers.edu/special-interest-group-on-iiif
Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991031650849804646&context=L&vid=01RUT_INST:ResearchRepository&lang=en
Translating Italian Short Stories
Translating Italian Short Stories
Translation of Luigi Pirandello, "All for the best" (“Tutto per bene”), "The dearly departed" (“La buon’anima”), and "Without malice" (“Senza malizia”) from Stories for a Year (Novelle per un anno) by Luigi Pirandello, in Stories for a Year, eds. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, Digital Edition, 2022
Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Medieval Padua Painted City
Medieval Padua Painted City
“Medieval Padua Painted City” is my pedagogical project celebrating the 14th-century fresco cycles in my hometown, Padua, Italy when it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, May 2022
I presented this project at the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, in a panel sponsored by TEAMS, Teaching Association for Medieval Studies, and Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Here is what I said on Twitter
Cultural Heritage... without Borders
Cultural Heritage... without Borders
Recently, the beauty of medieval fresco cycles has earned Padua, my hometown, to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in July 2021.
Padua Urbs Picta: 'The Painted City'
Background image:
Giusto de' Menabuoi, A view of Padua in the 1300s, from the Chapel of the Blessed Luca Belludi in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
I am presenting this research at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI (May 2022, online):
“Digital Cultural Heritage: Medieval Padua Art in the UNESCO World Heritage List” for the panel “Teaching the Middle Ages Using Digital Mapping,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 (online)
Invited Talk, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022
Invited Talk, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022
“IIIF for Cultural Heritage,” Winter School on Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 July 2022 (online)
Themes: IIIF, cultural heritage, digital cultural heritage, Digital Humanities, IIIF outreach, underrepresented languages
What is Digital Storytelling? Learning at Europeana
What is Digital Storytelling? Learning at Europeana
Digital storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to create, tell, and share stories. This is a powerful tool in the cultural heritage sector, as it can help you communicate while you engage with your audiences.
In the Europeana Storytelling Task Force (1 September 2020 - 31 March 2021), I collaborated on the following projects and strategies:
Europeana Network Association, "New Task Force Launches: Europeana as a ‘Powerful Platform for Storytelling’ Task Force: Report and Recommendations" (16 September 2020). License: CC BY-SA
"Europeana as a Powerful Platform for Storytelling" (March 2021)
"Storytelling with Digital Culture Is Booming - Find Out Why" (12 May 2021)
"Explore Fantastic Examples of Storytelling with Digital Culture" (14 May 2021)
"How We Ran a Task Force Entirely Virtually during a Pandemic" (18 May 2021)
"Seven Tips for Digital Storytelling with Cultural Heritage" (31 May 2021)
"Digital Storytelling Festival" (31 May 2021), an online event by Europeana and The Heritage Lab, non-profits in Europe and India that share culture for users, digitally.
2021 Digital Storytelling Festival Contest, "the creative contest bringing people and cultural heritage together"
"Storytelling with Digital Culture" (10 June 2021).
In the Europeana Communicators Community, we discussed examined three case studies of digital storytelling:
“A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion” by Jason Farago (The New York Times, 7 August 2020), narrating Hokusai’s woodblock print through Storiiies, a IIIF-based digital tool
#MetKids, a digital resource from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, presenting an interactive map and a digital discovery strategy designed for, with, and by children
‘You are Flora Seville’ from the Egham Museum, on Twitter, made by the Egham Museum (@EghamMuseum) in the UK. Follow the story of Flora Seville in 1887, as she entered the new Royal Holloway College for Women.
The Europeana Storytelling Task Force
The Europeana Storytelling Task Force
Who are we at Europeana? Europeana, the cultural web portal for the European Union, runs projects and task forces through the Europeana Network Association. As an active member of the Europeana Communicators Community, I contributed to developing digital storytelling best practices (2020-2021)
More Resources at Europeana
More Resources at Europeana
For an overview of digital storytelling at Europeana, the cultural web portal for the European Union, click here.
Find more resources on:
Digital contents
Open access collections
Everyday objects and images
Nature and environment
Fair use
Diversity and inclusion
Women's History
Social media style guides
Digital tools
Creating timelines with Timeline JS Knight Lab (Northwestern University)
Making animated GIFs
Making digital books online with Book Creator
Creating AR galleries on Spark AR Studio
Voice-over narrations with Narakeet
Making visual stories through infographics with Piktochart
Creating interactive images, presentations, and infographics with Genial.ly
For a list of digital storytelling tools, click here
Literature Review: AI, Ethics, and Pedagogy
Literature Review: AI, Ethics, and Pedagogy
Here are some of the books I keep on my desk
AI and Pedagogy
AI and Pedagogy
Khan, Salman. 2024. Brave New Words. New York: Penguin.
Moral Standards
Moral Standards
Lucas, George. Ethics and Cyber Warfare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
Stay Tuned
Stay Tuned
This year, I have been working on:
Teaching a Graduate Seminar with Professor William R. Newman: Survey of History of Science up to 1750: The Experimental Tradition from Pythagoras to Galileo, Indiana University Bloomington
Curating a rare book exhibit: “Making Books Count: Tracing the History of Mathematics through Books,” a showcase of books relevant to the study of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei, at the University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (2024)
Seeing and reviewing the world premiere of a play on Galileo: “Galileo’s Daughter.” Theatre Journal, Volume 76, No. 3 (September): 377–79
Submitting a book proposal with Brill Publishers, A New Translation of Andreas Vesalius’ China Root Epistle (1546). Translator: John B. de C. M. Saunders. Biographical note by Polina Ilieva
Designing a digital edition of Monsignor Germano Straniero's Report (co-authored with Daniela Rovida, “A Monsignor in America: The Straniero Papers at Notre Dame Archives.” Catholic Library World, Volume 95, No. 1, 2024: 19–23, https://www.proquest.com/openview/846b18165b8d31af731db25036a1f681/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2030996)
Tracing back the history of women artists, printers, and intellectuals (co-authored with Daniela Rovida. “Women in Early Modern Italy: Art and Printing,” https://bit.ly/early_modern)
Discussing digital annotations and reading interfaces for the Edison Papers (“Reading Collections in the Edison Papers,” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, Vol. 4, Iss. 3, https://ideah.pubpub.org/pub/c7m4pp6e)
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