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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 4d

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:

Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 9d

Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:

ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 4d

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:

Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 7d

The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!

Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.

Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.

RSVP 👇

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

www.eventbrite.com

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 9d

Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:

ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 13d

Works in progress for the Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography which starts in less than two weeks! ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 20d

"Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century, this article..."

What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 20d

On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"

by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Validate User

doi.org

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 27d

This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 28d

💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.

culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788

Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.

culturalanalytics.org

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited to be in Melbourne this week to deliver a keynote at a workshop on digital methods in the humanities and social sciences! homo-calculans.blog/workshop

Workshop: Madness in Method – Homo Calculans

homo-calculans.blog

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · Jul 7

Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943)

À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam

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Łukasz Szulc @lukaszszulc.bsky.social · Jul 4

This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · Jul 4

This was a fantastic summer school!

Scuola Normale Superiore @sns.it · Jul 4

5 days of Digital Humanities from antiquity to modern history. “InkCode” Summer School (by SNS, with Stanford University and UCLA) brought students together on #AI, text #mining, geolocation & DH, all in the stunning Santa Chiara convent in San Miniato. Funded by MERITA (PNRR).

#DigitalHumanities

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Jun 25

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Special Issue Submissions - AHA

Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...

www.historians.org

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · May 16

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social

Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)

Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · May 16

More info on the seminar series here: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...

Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)

Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · May 16

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social

Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)

Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · May 12

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

www.loc.gov

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · Apr 23

overflowing centuries of visual abundance www.chartography.net/p/getting-lo...

Getting lost in Zuantu

A new catalog of 71,294 historic Chinese visualizations.

www.chartography.net

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · Apr 9

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Territorial Imaginaries

Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and...

press.uchicago.edu

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · Apr 12

Congratulations, that's amazing!

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · Apr 9

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Territorial Imaginaries

Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and...

press.uchicago.edu

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨

We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.

Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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