Thursday, October 31 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 48
Coping with the Colonial Gaze - Mapping Colonial Latin American Sources

Chair: Werner Stangl, EHESS-CRH

1. Enlightened and Digital Representations of Empire: Confronting Antonio de Alcedo’s Diccionario histórico-geográfico de las Indias Occidentales and the Historical Geographic Information System “HGIS-Indias”Werner Stangl, EHESS-CRH; Jean-Paul Zúñiga, EHESS-CRH; Carmen Brando, EHESS.

2. Indigenous Action and Morphology of European Conquest. Some Considerations on the Case of Portuguese AmericaTiago Gil, Universidade de Brasília; João Ramalho, UFPA; Manoel Rendeiro, UC - Davis; Carlos Carvalho, UnB; Lana Sato, UnB; Vinicius Maluly, EHESS.

3. Ghost Landscapes: Creating Humanistic Visualizations to Recover Indigenous & Other Lost SpacesJeremy Mikecz, Dartmouth College.

4. Towards the Development of a Linked Open Visual Natural Language Processing Approach and Decolonial Technologies for Mesoamerican and Colonial MapsPatricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster University.

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