Prof. dr. Joris van Eijnatten

Hoogleraar
Cultuurgeschiedenis
Geesteswetenschappen
j.vaneijnatten@uu.nl
Afgesloten projecten
Project
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network program CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe (2017-2020) 01-06-2017 tot 01-06-2020
Algemene projectbeschrijving

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network grant for the program CHEurope: Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe - towards an integrated, interdisciplinary and transnational training model in cultural heritage research and management.

The consortium consists of 21 European academies and museums, led by the University of Gothenburg. Utrecht University participates in the € 3,9 million project with one of the 15 PhDs in the subprojects project “Mining transnational reference cultures in multilingual and multimedia repositories” that is developed with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. 

CHEurope aims to develop a new integrated theoretical and methodological framework to enhance the academic and professional training and open future job opportunities in cultural heritage preservation, management and promotion. Heritage has commonly been perceived through its contingent relationship to other areas, preventing it to be considered as a “legitimate” scientific discipline. Moreover, research and practice in this field are still too often seen as separate dimensions. Thus, there is an increasing need to address these diverging trends in the expanding heritage industry with a critical approach that situates cultural heritage in its social, economic and political frameworks, as well as in professional practice.

Bringing together a network of key European academic and non-academic organisations, the project will explore the processes by which heritage is “assembled” through practice-based research in partner institutions that connect students to their future job markets and publics. Our aim is to inform more conventional aspects of cultural heritage designation, care and management with a strong focus on present and future consumers. The project will develop an advanced learning strategy based on the emerging field of Critical Heritage Studies, which combines theoretical and instrumental knowledge at a transnational and interdisciplinary level, in a series of research seminars, summer schools and secondments.

The program is based on themes where cultural heritage is undergoing profound change, such as Heritage Futures, Curating the City, Digital Heritage, Heritage and Wellbeing and Management and Citizen Participation. In so doing, this research will have a direct impact on future heritage policies and be linked explicitly to new modes of training. These will enable future practitioners to facilitate a more democratic and informed dialogue between and across various heritage industries and their users, promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in this field.

Rol
Uitvoerder
Financiering
3e geldstroom - EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network program
Project
Stageplaatsen t.b.v. een interdisciplinair open-access tijdschrift in de Geesteswetenschappen 01-01-2015 tot 31-12-2017
Algemene projectbeschrijving

Het open-access tijdschrift wordt gemanaged door gemotiveerde, talentvolle studenten, die in een leer-werkplaats ervaring op doen in de organisatie en bedrijfsvoering van een interdisciplinair open-access tijdschrift binnen de Geesteswetenschappen. De leer-werkplaats neemt de vorm aan van een stage. In de loop van drie jaar doen twaalf studenten ervaring op met acquisitie, publicatiesoftware, financiële en logistieke aspecten van bedrijfsvoering, web management en sociale media, marketing, ontwikkeling van protocollen, communicatie­technieken, beeldredactie, Engelse taalvaardigheid, mondiale cultuur­(geschiedenis) en het functioneren van het wetenschappelijk bedrijf.

Rol
Onderzoeksleider
Financiering
3e geldstroom - overig Subsidie K.F. Heinfonds
Projectleden
Project
Facilitating and supporting large-scale text mining in the field of Digital Humanities (Texcavator) 01-09-2014 tot 31-03-2015
Algemene projectbeschrijving

The purpose of this project is to have a stable, reliable IT environment for the innovative generic text mining application “Texcavator” which is an integral part of the NWO-funded program “Translantis: Digital Humanities Approaches to Reference Cultures.” One of the aims of the Translantis program is to test and further develop Texcavator to research “big data” sets. This will allow a multidisciplinary team of humanities scholars to address conceptual historical questions by mining large textual repositories such as the collection of digitized historical newspapers as provided by National Library of the Netherlands (KB). Texcavator is implemented as a set of modules. It combines xTAS – a scalable open source text analysis service developed by ISLA (UvA) – with Elasticsearch – a big data search and analytics platform. We ask support from the eScience centre in dealing with the challenges of creating a stable IT environment for Texcavator that can be used on a day-to-day basis by a user group of 15-30 historians. The supply of eScience infrastructure (server and computing capacity) will guarantee stable access for users to a prototype of Texcavator within an OTAP-structure. The development capacity of the eScience engineer will be essential for expanding Texcavator’s text mining functionalities.

Rol
Onderzoeksleider
Financiering
2e geldstroom - overig Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC)
Projectleden
Overige projectleden
  • prof.dr. Toine Pieters
Project
Asymmetrical encounters: Digital humanities approaches to reference cultures in Europe, 1815–1992 20-08-2013 tot 30-09-2016
Algemene projectbeschrijving

This project proposes, firstly, that the emergence of trans-national reference cultures was one of the most significant consequences of cultural encounters within the European framework between 1815 and 1992, and, secondly, that these encounters were asymmetrical. ASYMENC investigates how these reference cultures, defined as spatially and temporally identifiable cultures that offer a model to other cultures, have been established in public debates. The availability of large digital data collections enables us for the first time to study long-term developments and transformations of such cultural imaginaries in a systematic, longitudinal, and quantifiable way. This enables us to chart the regional and national public discourses in which collective frames of orientation and cultural cross-referencing to European "others" have been established. ASYMENC explores how public discourses about reference cultures contributed to the formation of communities, from local to trans-national, and thus foster adherence or resistance to particular versions of “Europe”.

ASYMENC strives to accomplish three related objectives: a. explore the concept of reference cultures as a way to understand asymmetrical cultural encounters within Europe; b. develop a digital humanities demonstrator to map and analyse the vectors of asymmetrical encounters in European public debates; and c. build an interdisciplinary consortium of three European research centres around the crosscultural study of printed media in Europe by means of multilingual text mining.

ASYMENC uses the innovative digital humanities methodology of multi-lingual text mining to map
the dynamics, intensity, and direction of intercultural references within European public discourse. Innovative semantic-text analytics will be applied to large corpora of digitized newspapers in the Benelux countries and the surrounding countries that served as reference cultures. The demonstrator will be applied to case studies in which regional, national, and European dimensions of cultural encounters are visible, such as references to European urban centres, mass media, and consumer products.

Rol
Onderzoeksleider
Financiering
2e geldstroom - overig Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
Overige projectleden
  • Prof.dr. Caroline Sporleder (Digital Humanities Centre / Trier University)
  • Dr. Ulrich Tiedau (Centre for Digital Humanities / University College London)
Project
E-Humanity Approaches to Reference Cultures: The Emergence of the United States in Public Discourse in the Netherlands, 1890-1990 01-10-2012 tot 30-11-2017
Algemene projectbeschrijving

Op welke manieren hebben de Verenigde Staten in de afgelopen eeuw als cultureel model gefungeerd voor Nederland? De term referentiecultuur verwijst naar het feit dat sommige culturen een dominante rol spelen in de internationale uitwisseling van ideeën, producten en praktijken. Zij fungeren als een cultureel model dat geïmiteerd, aangepast of juist verworpen kan worden. Met behulp van digitale technologieën zoals text mining gaat dit HORIZON-project de rol van de VS als ‘referentiecultuur’ analyseren in Nederlandse debatten over sociale veranderingen en collectieve identiteiten. De Universiteit Utrecht spreekt in dit project de ambitie uit om in de toekomst een leidende rol te spelen bij de verdere ontwikkeling van het veelbelovende gebied van de digitale humaniora.

Dynamiek van referentieculturen
De historische dynamiek van referentieculturen is nog nooit systematisch onderzocht en eigenlijk weten we er te weinig van af. Om er meer inzicht in te krijgen, richt dit project zich op drie onderling samenhangende vragen:
1. Hoe waardeerde het Nederlandse publieke debat tussen 1890 en 1990 de ideeën, producten en praktijken die het associeerde met de Verenigde Staten?
2. Hoe kan text mining software worden gebruikt om trends en verschuivingen in het publieke debat te traceren, vooral op het gebied van economie, cultuur, en wetenschap en technologie?
3. Hoe weerspiegelt en beïnvloedt een publiek debat de opkomst en inwerking van referentieculturen?

Om de ontwikkeling van referentieculturen in kaart te kunnen brengen, is het nodig om het publieke debat over een langere periode te volgen. Enorme gedigitaliseerde krantenbestanden in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) maken het voor het eerst mogelijk om grootschalige ontwikkelingen in het nationale discours systematisch te analyseren. Dat gebeurt met innovatieve en krachtige ‘text-mining’ software, waarmee patronen en trends kwantificeerbaar uit de teksten kunnen worden gedestilleerd. Deze gegevens kunnen vervolgens worden gekoppeld aan cijfers over bijvoorbeeld economische en maatschappelijke trends, en aan resultaten van meer traditioneel kwalitatief onderzoek.

Rol
Promotor & onderzoeksleider
Financiering
2e geldstroom - NWO
Overige projectleden
  • prof.dr. Toine Pieters
  • dr. Charles van den Heuvel
  • prof.dr. Maarten de Rijke
Project
International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 01-08-2012 tot 31-07-2015
Algemene projectbeschrijving

The International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM) is a new, peer reviewed journal that offers a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship in the domain of the humanities. The aim of the journal is to stimulate research and a lively academic exchange on the cultural history of global modernity. The journal welcomes new historical approaches, especially those contributing to present-day debates and facilitating a global perspective.
HCM intends to fill a niche within historical scholarship: now that postmodernism seems to be in decline, ‘modernity’ has resurfaced as a highly topical and relevant theme, deserving to be studied from a global, cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. There are very few English-language journals in the field of cultural history and none of them addresses the global and/or transdisciplinary aspects of ‘modernity’. 
HCM’s mission statement dovetails with the philosophy of open access: a critical historical perspective implies unlimited access, by scholars from anywhere in the world, to the results of scholarly research via the internet.

The International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM) considers scholarly contributions that relate topics in cultural history to the wider context of modernity. The journal welcomes new and critical historical approaches, especially those contributing to present-day debates and facilitating a global perspective.

Rol
Uitvoerder & contactpersoon
Financiering
2e geldstroom - NWO