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Giovanna Ceserani | What Can Data Do for Public Humanities: The Case of "A World Made by Travel"

How can data reshape the way we approach public humanities? This talk explores the transformative potential of digital tools and datasets in making complex historical phenomena more accessible, inclusive, and engaging for diverse audiences. By integrating data visualization, interactivity, and open-access principles, digital public humanities can challenge established narratives, amplify underrepresented voices, and invite new forms of collaborative inquiry. Using the Grand Tour as a case study, this talk highlights how data-driven approaches can open up new perspectives on eighteenth-century travel and its cultural significance. Digital projects like "A World Made by Travel" illustrate how combining historical datasets with dynamic interfaces enables us to go beyond elite histories, offering a more inclusive view of travelers, workers, and communities previously excluded from traditional scholarship. About the Speaker: Giovanna Ceserani works on the classical tradition with an emphasis on the intellectual history of classical scholarship, historiography and archaeology from the eighteenth century onwards. She is interested in the role that Hellenism and Classics played in the shaping of modernity and, in turn, in how the questions we ask of the classical past originate in specific modern cultural, social and political contexts. She has been the faculty director of ‪@CESTAStanford‬, Stanford's hub for digital humanities, since 2019.