AIAS Seminar: 'Diplomacy Designers: Bottom-Up Practices in Building Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures '

Abstract

International research is often presented as cross-border collaboration, while the infrastructures that enable it remain largely invisible. Diplomacy Designers focuses on this crucial yet under-analysed dimension: the building of sustained international research infrastructures. Drawing on two digital humanities case studies, it reframes science diplomacy as a set of everyday practices embedded in infrastructure design and governance, showing how trust-building, coordination across epistemic cultures, and negotiation of difference take place long before research becomes policy-relevant.

Short Bio

Rachele Pierini specialises in the historical linguistics of Greek, from its earliest attestations in the Bronze Age. Her research explores the interplay between substrate and Greek languages and cultures, with a focus on the role of natural resources as a key category to analyse socio-political and cultural change in the Bronze Age Aegean. She is co-founder of MASt (Meetings on Aegean Studies) and co-editor of Dress for Success. Textiles, Furniture, and Power Accessories Expressing Status in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean (2024) and Thronos. Historical Grammar of Furniture in Mycenaean and Beyond (2021). 

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

All seminars are in-person and held in English. To attend online, please contact us at info@aias.au.dk by 9:00am on the day of the seminar as the latest to request a link.