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      Speakers: Iza Romanowska, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and Tom Brughmans, University of Oxford Iza Romanowska is working on Agent-Based modelling and Tom Brugmans on network analysis, both of them have been focusing on archaeology and Roman history. Why did human ability to colonise diverse environment evolve? How did the transport system structure economic flows … Continued

Speaker: Christian Zschieschang Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Department "Man and Environment", Leipzig Abstract: Micro-toponyms - Perspectives on an underestimated source

Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen, Prof. em. of Romanian Philologie, University of Jena Vortrag in deutscher Sprache: Probleme bei der Edition älterer rumänischer Texte und Lösungsmöglichkeiten im Zeitalter der digital humanities Abstract in english

Speaker: Christof Schöch, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier   This talk will provide an introduction to Word Embeddings in the Digital Humanities, particularly in Computational Literary Studies and Digital History. Word Embeddings represent meaning in a high-dimensional vector space and therefore make semantic meaning amenable to calculations and measures. They promise to bring … Continued

Speaker: Dr. Sara Uckelman, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Durham University (U.K.) In an ideal world, digital humanities collaborations would involve experts on both sides: Experts in some field of the humanities pooling their resources with experts on the technical and computational side of things. Unfortunately, the world is not always ideal. Many DH projects … Continued

  Speaker: Professor Emerita Nelly Oudshoorn, Technology Dynamics and Health Care at the University of Twente, the Netherlands   Science, Technology, and Society (STS) scholars have convincingly shown that users play an active role in all phases of technological development, from design to implementation and use. In this lecture I will discuss recent developments in … Continued

Speaker: Dr. Sara Tonellli, Head of Digital Humanities research group at FBK 1st Oct 2020 | 14:00-15:00 Online-Lecture | Registrations with vanessa.napolitano@ext.uni.lu welcome In this talk, I will present the main challenges in dealing with documents in the political domain, discussing how agreement and disagreement between two opponents can be automatically captured. The task is … Continued