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Just released the Catalog
It has been a while since my last post here. Since then I have been working both on the catalog system and on collecting and checking data. Last week I have decided to make the website publicly available, and so far reception has been great (in Portuguese only, though). My main concern was the server — read more
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My Translation Experiments
Last year and the year before I studied some translation theory and decided it was time for me to practice a new skill. In this post I would like to share some of the wonderful texts I received authorization to translate. Conscious of my own limitations, I am always open to criticism, observations, and other — read more
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“Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Historical Theory”, my elective course for 2019
My current postdoc position does not have teaching duties. Nevertheless, I have talked to my supervisor and we decided it would be nice for me to offer an elective for undergrads this semester. So I drafted a syllabus and started working on a course that I think I would have liked to have during my — read more
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A Catalog of History Dissertations, part 2
Data on history dissertations from the old days is tricky to deal with. The existing analog catalogs are not always complete and often contain incorrect information. And while university libraries have incorporated these dissertations to their online catalogs, each library has done so with varying degrees of precision, depending on many variables. After considering some — read more
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A Catalog of History Dissertations
My current postdoc project consists in building a large database with (meta)data for all History PhD and MA dissertations defended in Brazil from 1942 to 2000. It has been a while since the last one was published, and the data from the Ministry of Education are inconsistent (to say the least) for entries older than — read more
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New Website
I have just reset and restarted the website so I could post about my project updates. For the time being I’ll start sharing some details on the database I’m currently working on, as well as some other parallel works. My goal is to reach colleagues which would not be able to follow this content if — read more
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João Ohara 