News from December 2024 and January 2025

Participation in the Computational Humanities Research Conference

  • December 4-6, Jan Tvrz and Vojtěch Kaše attended the Computational Humanities Research conference in Aarhus (conference website), which marked its fifth 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” (coauthored with Jana Švadlenková and Petr Pavlas). The 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 by Cambridge University Press (journal 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 December 2, 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 website.

New Publications

  • Two new publications by Martin Žemla, although created outside TOME within different research projects, are still thematically very interesting for TOMEists:
  1. A collective volume titled Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526–1600, edited by Martin Žemla and published by Amsterdam University Press within the Scientiae studies book series: View details. 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, now published by Brill: View publication.

Upcoming Workshop: TOME & VERITRACE

  • A joint workshop for the TOME and VERITRACE (project website) projects is planned for May 26–27, 2025, in Pilsen. 

Call for Participation: Digital History Hackathon

  • The 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, all who are interested are welcome to join, and the inclusion of the NOSCEMUS corpus in the event adds relevance for TOMEists.

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