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Tadeusz Manteuffel
Institute of History
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw/Poland



Redefining the Portuguese Overseas Archives (AHU): Digital Humanities and AI for Global Knowledge Accessibility
From left: Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms and Irene María Vicente Martín, Barcelona 2025. We participated in the International Archives Congress, ICA Barcelona 27 – 30 octobre 2025, “Knowing Pasts, Creating Futures.” This global event brought together archivists, historians, digital humanists, and professionals to reflect on how archival practices shape our understanding of the past and help build more inclusive futures. I was especially pleased to organize our roundtable, "
Agata Bloch
7 gru5 minut(y) czytania


Research Stay in Naples
In early October, together with Dr. Anna Horeczy, I spent a week in Naples as part of the CNR–Polish Academy of Sciences bilateral project I co-coordinate with Dr. Idamaria Fusco: Lessons from Crises and Disasters: The Role of Information Flows between Individuals, Communities, Institutions (16th–19th c.). Our goal was to deepen scientific collaboration and conduct archival research on information flows during crises in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. The first days
Agata Bloch
6 gru3 minut(y) czytania


Our article in The Journal of African History: Decolonizing Archival Narratives: Exploring Digital Bias in the Catalogs of Portuguese-Colonized African Territories
This study discusses the intersection between Black/African Digital Humanities, and computational methods, including natural language processing (NLP) and generative artificial intelligence (AI). We have structured the narrative around four critical themes: biases in colonial archives; postcolonial digitization; linguistic and representational inequalities in Lusophone digital content; and technical limitations of AI models when applied to the archival records from Portuguese
Agata Bloch
22 paź1 minut(y) czytania


CALL FOR PAPERS: The Baltic Sea and Global Currents: 400 Years After the Battle of Oliwa. Maritime Expansion, Domination, and Water Spaces in a Globalizing World
Location Poland Subject Fields Archaeology, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Maritime History / Studies,...
Agata Bloch
5 paź3 minut(y) czytania
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