This talk will focus on a “think global, act local” approach to digital humanities, through the perspectives of North-South, Western-Eastern, Canon-Corpus, and Center-Periphery, with the aim of reflecting upon the trajectory of the discipline. Case studies on epistemological diversity from the global South will enable an understanding of the global effects of its institutionalization. An emphasis on some Humanidades Digitales projects and initiatives from Latin America and the Caribbean will demonstrate how concepts such as the commons have been reshaped, significantly advancing the rethinking of Open Access and Open Science.
Gimena del Rio Riande is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires. Her scholarship focuses on the use and methodologies of scholarly digital tools as “situated practices.” She is the cofounder of the Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales, Madrid, and of Revista de Humanidades Digitales, the first Spanish digital humanities journal; she is also vice president of the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales.
