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Joe Williams
@joewilliamshistory.bsky.social
PhD history researcher (University of Coimbra), censorship and propaganda in Portugal in the 1930s. Learning a lot about digital humanities. Freelance translator. Bon vivant.
https://independent.academia.edu/joewilliams71
www.joewilliamstranslation.com
I spoke to Hamid Dabashi about his book "After Savagery," on the moral crisis the destruction of Gaza symbolises and how liberated art and philosophy in the wake of this destruction may provide paths forward towards universal humanism.

newbooksnetwork.com/after-savagery

#Gaza #Palestine
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My latest publication "Censorship and Sacralisation of Politics in the Portuguese Press during the Spanish Civil War," is now available in the "First View of issue 87 of Ler História:
Enjoy!

#history #censorship #EstadoNovo #Salazarism

journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...
journals.openedition.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm delighted to announce that my article "Censorship and Sacralisation of Politics in the Portuguese Press during the Spanish Civil War," has been accepted for publication by Ler História (QI).

I'm less pleased to announce that my freezer has stopped working.

#History #Censorship #EstadoNovo
September 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Have a lot of character flaws—in your scanned documents, that is? CDH Senior Thesis Prize winner James Zhang ’25 can help! Read our Q&A with James on the limitations of #OCR, using #LVLMs to analyze visual elements, and building his open-source tool #MetaScribe. 🏆
Award-Winning Project Explores Optical Document Recognition (ODR) in Princeton Prosody Archive
Award-Winning Project Explores Optical Document Recognition (ODR) in Princeton Prosody Archive
cdh.princeton.edu
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Liliana Corobca and I gave an interview to @joewilliamshistory.bsky.social at Trafika Europe Radio on The Censor's Notebook (@sevenstories.bsky.social/@sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social), with a reading starting at 5:10. Always love introducing this ingenious book to new readers!

bit.ly/censors-note...
Trafika Europe Radio - Trafika Europe
bit.ly
July 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Our conference has kicked off! We were welcomed by History Lab's Chair @thomascryer.bsky.social, Director of @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, and Professor Neil Forbes from Coventry University who is delivering his keynote speech 👨‍🏫

Don't forget that you can join us online! 💻
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I can't quite put my finger on it, but something doesn't seem quite right here...
#OCR #digitalhumanities #DH2025 #textualanalysis
July 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM