Georgia

3rd Summer School "Borderland Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region"
Dates: June 25 – July 4, 2023.
Venue: Labour Institute, Zimbrului 10 Street, Chișinău, Moldova.
Application deadline: April 15, 2023.
Organizers:
Center for the Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Program Description:

3rd Summer School
Borderland Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that its Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) will also be offered for summer study in Tbilisi, Georgia beginning in 2023. For more than 40 years, American Councils programs have provided U.S. students of Russian unique opportunities to engage with the Russian speaking world through intensive study and cultural immersion designed to produce measurable gains in language proficiency and cultural understanding. The application deadline for summer 2023 is February 15, 2023. 

Call for Papers:
Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective.
International workshop.
Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023

We are now inviting paper proposals for the international workshop Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective, that will take place in Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023.

Hi David,

Mr Carlson,

I am grateful for the replies both in and out of H-South. Most comments share a common focus on Enslaved.org and the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation as outlets for database file(s) once completed. I do, however, like what Stephen Berry and others have done with the digital history projects in making the raw files available but also providing extremely useful graphical interfaces, GIS displays, and traditional research write-ups on stand-alone websites.

I have some similar databases being developed in my current project, and I think the best places for them are the newish Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation which publishes peer reviewed data sets https://jsdp.enslaved.org/ and maybe a connection to freedomonthemove.org.

Best,
Adam

Adam Arenson (he/him)
Professor of History
Manhattan College
adam.arenson@manhattan.edu
718-862-7317

The short answer is YES, a database -- particularly a relational database with data focusing on the enslaved drawn from myriad sources -- will be enormously valuable. It will be valuable in ways you can and cannot conceive of now, and that's okay. Simply making information available for other scholars to use is enormously helpful to our shared project of understanding the past more fully and accurately.

I’m seeking a bit of guidance. For the past year or so, I have been working on a project that needs a bit of direction. For the past year or so, I have combed through newspapers and court records in southern Georgia between 1845 and 1865 to extract information on the region’s enslaved population. This began as a side-project/hobby as I worked on other projects. I am a Civil War historian, not a historian of slavery per se.