Over the past ten years we have witnessed the emergence of a global community interested in the Digital Humanities. The term ‘global’ refers both to the processes and the results of  globalization, and what we call globalization is always the successful globalization of one particular localism (De Sousa Santos, 2012).

Digital Humanities conferences, programs, and publications promote the capacity of technology to bring together researchers from different latitudes. This is a techno-utopic discourse. We need to consider more critically who holds the power in the scholarly  communications ecosystem and how it can reinforce cognitive capitalism (Moulier Boutang, 2007). It shouldn’t be forgotten, for example, that most of the DH tools and standards we use are built in the Global North.

How can we fairly define the Global Digital Humanities? How do we build a local field and, at the same time, collaborate? This talk looks at the Global Digital Humanities from a Latin American perspective. It discusses Latin American based practices and experiences of open and multilingual scholarly production and knowledge exchange, which promote strategies for positively transforming Digital Humanities on a global scale.

This talk is for anyone who is interested in digital humanities, and especially the (Global North-South) power relations at play in the field.

This event is co-hosted by Migration Mobilities Bristol and the School of Modern Languages. It will be followed by a drinks reception.

To book your place, please contact jo.crow@bristol.ac.uk.

This international collaborative activity has been funded by a Bristol International Research Collaboration Activities Award.