Nostalgia A Digital History 2012–13

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NOSTALGIA: A DIGITAL HISTORY • Rebekah Baglini, PhD Candidate, the Department of Linguistics • Jonathan Schroeder, PhD Candidate, the Department of English • A project of the Arts, Science Culture Initiative Graduate Collaboration Grants: This project uses emerging techniques of digital analysis to reconstruct the history of nostalgia. One of the chief problems we seek to answer is how nostalgia, which designated a medical pathology in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, was transformed into a retrospective, wistful emotion in the twentieth century. Through the permission of Hathi Trust, Baglini (Linguistics) and Schroeder (English) will build a digital database with over 200,000 public domain documents to construct a precise account of the evolution of nostalgia. The larger purpose of this case study is to show the value of constructing and analyzing targeted databases for the writing of conceptual history. To this end, Baglini and Schroeder plan to show how the large-scale analysis of nostalgia transforms established scholarly understandings. This history will serve as a model of how new approaches can contribute to future research in the humanities. • ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/UCHICAGOARTSytSubscribe • About #UChicagoArts: Where scholars, students, artists and audiences converge, explore, and create at @UChicago. The arts are central to the mission of the University of Chicago. With a strong tradition of cross-disciplinary practices, intricately mixed with intellectual curiosity and creative energy, UChicago Arts fosters a bustling arts community on Chicago’s South Side. • #UChicagoArts on the Web: • Home: http://bit.ly/uchicagoarts • Facebook: http://bit.ly/UCHICAGOARTS-FB • Twitter: http://bit.ly/UCHICAGOARTS-TW • Instagram: http://bit.ly/UCHICAGOARTS-IG • University of Chicago on YouTube: / uchicagoarts • *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email [email protected].

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