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Women Workers in the News

History major and DH minor Maria Shimota mined historic newspapers to capture popular attitudes towards women workers in Oregon during and between the World Wars. Her spring 2023 capstone project, “Changing Attitudes Towards Women’s Labor: How Newspapers Reflect Popular Ideologies,” is published as a static website that Maria built using GitHub pages. The front page is a multimedia essay featuring visualizations of trends across roughly 100 newspaper articles that Maria painstakingly curated for analysis in VoyantTools.

As Maria shows, newspapers helped to reinforce

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Text: Map of Victorian London with colored stickers indicating elements from the soundscape map.

The Lyon Archive

Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive.

The Lyon Archive is a collaborative project between UO Professor Heidi Kaufman, her students, and members of the Anglo-Jewish Lyon family, which has members living in Jamaica, England, Australia and the U.S. As avid fiction writers, editors, diarists, scholars, philanthropists, and scholars, they have created and gathered a multitude of documents, which are now showcased in the Lyon Archive. These historical artifacts offer the public a glimpse into fragmentary life narratives through maps, movies,

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Indigenous Protocol and AI

Kamapuaʻa/kalo. Image by Kūpono Duncan, 2019 for the position paper.

Anyone interested in the Digital Humanities will sooner or later come across AI. Perhaps you’ve already played around and asked an AI program to compose a Valentine’s poem for you, or a painting of John Oliver marrying a cabbage. But have you ever thought about how Indigenous methodologies can inform our practices with AI?

UO’s Professor Ashley Cordes (Coquille; affiliated with Indigenous Studies; English; DH; Environmental Studies) has! In “Gifts of Dentalium and Fire: Entwining Trust and Care with AI,”

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