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@glennroe.bsky.social

Professor of Digital Scholarship & French Literature, University of Oxford; Co-director of the Voltaire Lab.

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Ce livre est une merveille
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social

21.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 105    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1
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CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

30.09.2025 11:36 — 👍 19    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 2
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems) We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

10.10.2025 09:52 — 👍 35    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 0
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Text Embeddings Should Capture Implicit Semantics, Not Just Surface Meaning This position paper argues that the text embedding research community should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling goal. Text embedding models have become fo...

Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354

16.06.2025 17:56 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link

16.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 97    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 1
Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

16.06.2025 15:43 — 👍 23    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 1
4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025

#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱

🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻

You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

06.06.2025 18:13 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History
YouTube video by Voltaire Foundation Oxford Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History

I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...

03.06.2025 09:37 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Victor Hugo's artwork was amazing. Icymi, I wrote up a blog post about an exhibition in London at the Royal Academy with a ton of pics. ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2... #museums

08.05.2025 08:23 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Lyell Lectures 2025 The 2025 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Leah Price

You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

27.04.2025 11:15 — 👍 30    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies: Mikko Tolonen on Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to Eighteenth-Century Book and Intellectual History 9 May 2025 Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00 Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A…

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!

9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.

More information:
tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj

12.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 20    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2
DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériques DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériquesColloque organisé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Glenn Roe (Sorbonne-Université), Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal) e...

CFP: LLMs and DH, Paris, July 3-4 2025 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

16.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Call for Papers

CFP conference+journal track of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies CCLS2025 will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland. Deadline Jan 30! jcls.io/site/cfp/

15.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk’: The Latest Special Collection from MLO We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available…

New on the blog!

We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH

voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...

12.12.2024 10:50 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Digital Enlightenment Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(2) (2024) Janeway-Logo-Final

Just in time for the holidays, a new volume of #digitalenlightenmentstudies - text reuse ; revolutionary digital corpora ; Voltaire’s manuscripts, and more! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/5/info/ #digitizingenlightenment #lumieres #digital18c

12.12.2024 21:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling intertextual networks through data-driven research (ModERN) The European Research Council's ModERN project (Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling networks of modernity through data-driven research) is a pioneering five-year research initiative. This programme ...

A pair of interesting and helpful new accounts of studying C18 French text reuse from @glennroe.bsky.social and Dario Maria Nicolosi

digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/

12.12.2024 14:49 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...

BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CHR2024

04.12.2024 08:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
"L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk," published on MLO. The left side of the image has a blue background with the title in white text and the subtitle, "A Special Collection from Modern Languages Open," below. The right side of the image features a collage of handwritten manuscript excerpts and sketches of Voltaire, alongside a circular icon of his silhouette.

"L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk," published on MLO. The left side of the image has a blue background with the title in white text and the subtitle, "A Special Collection from Modern Languages Open," below. The right side of the image features a collage of handwritten manuscript excerpts and sketches of Voltaire, alongside a circular icon of his silhouette.

Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

03.12.2024 11:48 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

28.11.2024 08:31 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I'm sure I. A. Richards would interpret this as evidence that we need more and better teaching of poetry. That interpretation remains open!

15.11.2024 21:32 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0
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Releasing two trillion tokens in the open. huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...

13.11.2024 17:59 — 👍 118    🔁 42    💬 5    📌 2
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Hi new followers. 👋🏼

It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.

13.11.2024 20:31 — 👍 81    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 2

tolle, lege

14.11.2024 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716.
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716.
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

14.11.2024 06:09 — 👍 40    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 2
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

13.11.2024 18:00 — 👍 77    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 0
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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom “You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.

The part of this narrative I knew least about is Fei-Fei Li’s creation of the crucial ImageNet dataset. See beginning and end of this nice story for laypersons on the history of neural-network deep learning: arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/h...

12.11.2024 07:29 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

New year, new class. Teaching “Digital Texts in the Humanities” for the first time at Lancaster with lots of inspiration from @zoeleblanc.bsky.social @ryancordell.bsky.social @miriamkp.bsky.social @pfyfe.bsky.social @glennroe.bsky.social + Programming Historian & more! Will share the syllabus soon.

07.10.2024 08:02 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship Come join us for our brand new The programme can also be found under this link (pdf). 15 February 2024 Linacre College, Meeting Suite, 17:00–19:00 Tobias Hodel (University of Bern) Handwritten Text�...

New year, new lecture series!

We are excited to invite you to our brand new Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship 2024 - Digital Enlightenment Studies: Methods and Approaches!

The full programme can be found on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/vo...

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois In a world filled with AI skeptics and chatbot alarmists, Ted Underwood is making one of the strongest cases for the value of artificial intelligence.

Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-underwood-ai-optimist-humanities-language-literature-research-bill-gates-2023-12 (came across this article article about @tedunderwood.me !) #AI #humanities

06.12.2023 15:05 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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