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:
- 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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