CUNY Academic Commons | Davide G. Colasanto | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/davidecolas/activity/ Activity feed for Davide G. Colasanto. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6daba34fef63f3f7a4a543786124627b Davide G. Colasanto and Sarah Covington are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1122335/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:19:02 -0500 d56a6db7ff7dc568cdf3a87a25db8e4c Davide G. Colasanto created the site GC HISTORY MENTORS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/565329/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:44:24 -0400 266cd7b9a13d06f53e5192795636f1a7 Davide G. Colasanto joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/492318/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:41:14 -0500 652521812acf7d79e09fae1940322b5f Davide G. Colasanto joined the group International Students https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/492317/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:38:36 -0500 90ba663353c46772f64d9e4f4165f341 Davide G. Colasanto joined the group Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/451998/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:57:31 -0500 b7f5c521eca6b308eeb97ae96337365a Davide G. Colasanto's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/424899/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:22:29 -0500 14ae8b73915d14f8c77d7d8d1652fdc8 Davide G. Colasanto and David Campmier are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/422441/ Wed, 09 Dec 2015 04:44:33 -0500 364ca7fcff6e400201e7f2b40bb03c9e Davide G. Colasanto commented on the post, Data Set Project, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/28/data-set-project-3/#comment-130 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:45:50 -0500 Hi Brooke,
I just found this article and video about terrorist attacks in the last 15 years. It could be interesting for your project and it provides another application of DH to a similar issue.

Best,

Davide

]]> 883cd2ed449275024c2b653b221e07e2 Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Dropbox https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421622/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:24 -0500 2a47827fc4918c6f430e45955a21589a Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Google Docs https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421621/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:20 -0500 39eb1c749e8b86474a6a4b13ea381c0e Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Google Drive https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421620/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:19 -0500 f2efc9113ec751bcd435657672fba4df Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Skype https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421619/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:14 -0500 d796cde0b62401281b1be92fbfcce413 Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Twitter https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421618/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:13 -0500 006910cd7f02abbc685f12ce22a6625f Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool WordPress https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421617/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:12 -0500 caa02b8808034e11c7530c4f760dbde1 Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Zotero https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421616/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:09:07 -0500 328873fa7a9a39770f52732e2e88d003 Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Evernote https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421615/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:08:58 -0500 60ea4040e2e46d5263de4fa80f395bb5 Davide G. Colasanto uses the digital research tool Excel https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421614/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:08:56 -0500 700daafff02978184b12bae8754fcfd3 Davide G. Colasanto commented on the post, On Critical Theory, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/28/on-critical-theory/#comment-18 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:42:12 -0400 I think that the link you posted offers a good definition of critical theory but for me it restricts the understanding of critical theory mainly to a few categories (race, gender, class, etc.).

Critical theory […]

]]> 531ed66cbbaaa5218a7e3e0f1e96dccc Davide G. Colasanto commented on the post, Addition to the syllabus?, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/25/addition-to-the-syllabus/#comment-8 Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:35:37 -0400 In line with Destry’s contribution, I would like to point out this article of the American Historical Association. Not only it proposes it’s understanding of DH, it provides certain guidelines for the evaluation […]

]]> 426a537659095572c3e6e44b7bb2a332 Davide G. Colasanto commented on the post, @AcademicsSay, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/08/academicssay/#comment-3 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 02:51:37 -0400 In “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” Kirschenbaum says “Twitter, along with blogs and other online outlets, has inscribed the digital humanities as a network topology, that […]

]]> c64fce65e282fa3e4a75046d983918aa Davide G. Colasanto wrote a new post on the site Cliommonplacing http://cliommonplacing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=67 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:57:13 -0400 Our epoch has initiated sexual heterogeneities.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol.1, (Vintage Books, 1990), 37

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…there’s more to history than presidents and generals, and there’s more to culture than the literary canon.

Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli, (SUNY Press, 1991), viii

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Emotion is certainly a psychological entity, but it is no less and perhaps more so a cultural and social one: through emotion we enact cultural definitions of personhood as they are expressed in concrete and […]

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…I learned that history implies extracting meaning, including political meaning, from both collective and individual experiences. History can be the interpretation of human change over time in a given society. […]

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All societies experience crime, but punishment reflects the very nature of a polity.

Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, (W. W. Norton, 2008), 139.

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History, unlike a scientific experiment, does not repeat itself exactly, but it does offer lessons for those alert to them and sufficiently unbiased to avoid twisting them for political or personal gain.

John H. […]

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Little wonder that these reformers regarded the revolutionary family as both touchstone and taboo.

 

As in so many other arenas, the French Revolution left behind bitterly contested questions. But it had also […]

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“The sense of dialectic requires a critical perspective on the Enlightenment; the sense of responsibility requires admiration for it. To deny either of these terms is to risk sinking into superficial veneration […]

]]> 8d92761978cd50f99678433f38986fce Davide G. Colasanto wrote a new post on the site Cliommonplacing http://cliommonplacing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=32 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:27:50 -0500

It may seem that the past is by definition over, but the past is always changing because historians and the purpose of history are changing too.
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Every new age looks for an understanding of its time, and […]

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“The truer history is, the more powerful it is.”

Anthony Grafton, Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 18.

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“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Marc Bloch, Benjamin Léopold The Historian’s Craft (Manchester […]

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