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Opening Ringvorlesung Series with the talk “Anthracite Oral Histories and text Mining” by Dr. Madeline Brown and Dr. Paul Shackel.

The video recording of the video is available online via the following link.


The lecture titled “Anthracite Oral Histories and text Mining” will be given by Dr. Paul Shackel and Dr. Madeline Brown at the opening of the Ringvorlesung Series on 21st October at 14:25.

The seminar series ‘Voices Unbound’ is convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt), Andrew Flinn, Andreas Vlachidis, and Marco Humbel (UCL), Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute), and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), offering an an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history.

The seminar will accommodate a hybrid format, with TU students participating in the TU building and other colleagues joining online. To attend, registration is required. Please navigate to the Eventbrite page to secure your spot!

Dr. Madeline Brown. Image courtesy: https://anth.umd.edu/facultyprofile/brown/madeline
Dr. Paul Shackel. Image courtesy: https://anth.umd.edu/facultyprofile/shackel/paul

Dr. Madeline Brown is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. Her work applies mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to tackle questions about contemporary and past human-environment interactions.

Dr. Paul Shackel is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. He has worked in the anthracite coal mining region for 15 years and focuses on issues related to race, labor, and immigration.

The abstract of the talk is as follows:


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