Martin Žemla delivered a talk at the Stavelot VERITRACE internal workshop in early February, sharing his insights on “The Taste and Beauty of Wisdom: Sensory Metaphors (Not Only) in the Renaissance.” The event fostered lively discussions in a warm and stimulating setting, blending scholarship with the unique atmosphere of the monastic surroundings—an experience Martin thoroughly enjoyed.
Lucie Storchová gave a talk titled “Reconstructing the Hassenstein Library: Identity and Memory Politics of Prague Humanists in 1570” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Conference (2025) in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to her presentation, she also chaired the panel “Libraries and Early Modern Education Across Europe,” contributing to the rich scholarly discussions at the event.
iWEEMS: Interactive Word Embeddings for Early Modern Science
This tool provides interactive visualizations of word embedding models trained on Early Modern scientific prints in Latin, using data from the Noscemus Digital Sourcebook.
AMeD: Automatic Metaphor Detection
Based on the MelBERT model, this app utilizes subword contextual vector representations from BERT to compare the sentence-specific usage of a word against its decontextualized representation, enabling precise metaphor detection.
Both applications offer valuable resources for researchers exploring historical scientific texts and linguistic patterns.
New dataset was published:
Hedesan, G., Huber, A., Kodetová, J., Kříž, O., Kubíčková, J., Kaše, V., & Pavlas, P. (2025). EMLAP (v0.4). Zenodo. See the dataset here.
Three new publications, although created outside TOME within different research projects, are still thematically very interesting for TOMEists:
Nannini, Alessandro (2024). Clinical aesthetics. Johann Christian Bolten and the aesthetic origins of psychotherapy. Intellectual History Review, 35(1), pp. 105–127.https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2024.2437193
Řezníková, Lenka (2024). Historiam videre: Zrak, svědectví a zkušenost v dějepisectví Jednoty bratrské (1600–1660). Praha: Skriptorium. 264 pp.
Szentpéteri, Márton (2024). Fruitful Ambiguities of Artistic Research. In: Szentpéteri, Márton (ed.), Varietas delectat: Research Cultures in Art and Design. 25th Anniversary of the Doctoral School.Budapest, Magyarország: Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem (MOME), pp. 124-141.
Lucie Storchová will be participating in the Nineteenth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, organized by the IANLS and Aix-Marseille University. The congress will take place from July 14 to 20, 2025, in Aix-en-Provence, France. She will present a poster on “The Origins of Modern Encyclopaedism (TOME): Launching Evolutionary Metaphorology”and deliver a talk on “Metaphors of Scholarly Love and Cooperation in 17th-Century Learned Correspondence.”Additionally, she will chair the section “Companion to Neo-Latin in Hungary II.” For more details, see the event.
Lenka Řezníková will be attending the 13th COMENIUS Conference, which explores the dynamic interplay between theology (and the philosophy of religion) and its historical and contemporary contexts. The conference will take place from May 14 to 17, 2025, at the Protestant Theological Institute in Cluj (Kolozsvár), Romania. See the event for more info.
At the invitation of Farzad Mahootian and his co-PI Justin Stearns (New York University), Petr Pavlas and Vojtěch Kaše will deliver a joint keynote lunch address at a workshop in Abu Dhabi, taking place from May 14–17, 2025. Other keynote speakers include Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) and Sarah Lang, Director of Digital Humanities at the Max Planck Institute.
Georgiana Hedesan is organizing a roundtable at the 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (“Chemistry and Capitalism”). Titled “New Computational and Experimental Methods in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry,” the discussion will feature a distinguished panel, including: Petr Pavlas, Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences), Farzad Mahootian (New York University), Carmen Schmechel (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Thijs Hagendijk (Utrecht University), Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art). Find more info here.
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