News from December 2024 and January 2025

Participation in the 2025 Computational Humanities Research Conference

• On 4-6 December, Jan Tvrz and Vojtěch Kaše attended the 2025 Computational Humanities Research conference in Aarhus (see the conference website), which marked its 5th edition. The community continues to grow and establish itself as a distinct field within digital humanities.
  
  Jan presented a lightning talk titled “Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Philosophy: A Computational Text Analysis of the PhilPapers Database” (co-authored with Jana Švadlenková and Petr Pavlas). Jan’s computational-philosophical project serves as a platform for testing innovative algorithms, such as the MelBERT model.
• The conference proceedings are available online, and the event also saw the launch of the new Computational Humanities Research journal under the auspices of Cambridge University Press (see the journal’s website).
• The next conference will be held in Luxembourg, hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History.

Talk on Early Modern Paratexts

• On 2 December, Márton Szentpéteri delivered a talk at the 2nd Conference of the Design and Art Theory Section of the Hungarian Association of Cultural Anthropology (MAKAT). His presentation, titled “The Unvisible Turns Visible: Early Modern Paratexts”, focused on material paratexts and metaphorical frontispieces. More information is available on the association’s website.

New Publications

• Two new publications by Martin Žemla, although created outside TOME within thematically related but institutionally different research projects, can still be very interesting for TOMEists:

1. A collective volume titled Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526–1600, edited by Martin Žemla and published by the Amsterdam University Press within the Scientiae studies book series: This is a first monograph on Hagecius in English, with an extended Czech version expected later this year.

2. Khunrath in context, co-authored by Vladimír Karpenko, Ivo Purš, and Martin Žemla, was now published by Brill.

Upcoming Workshop: TOME & VERITRACE

• A joint workshop for the TOME and VERITRACE research projects is planned for 26-27 May 2025 in Pilsen. 

Call for Participation: Digital History Hackathon

• Call for Participation for the upcoming digital history hackathon is now open. The event is organised outside the TOME project and financed by EU Peace (http://www.eupeace.eu/). However, TOMEists and all who are interested are welcome to join, and the inclusion of the NOSCEMUS corpus in the event’s training datasets adds relevance for TOME.