Luca Scholz

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.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

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

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.

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 👇

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography

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

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!

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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

"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.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers We align the aligners

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

💻 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

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

Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943)

À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam

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...

This was a fantastic summer school!

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...

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. 🗃️

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

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

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

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...

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

Getting lost in Zuantu A new catalog of 71,294 historic Chinese visualizations.

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

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...

"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...

Congratulations, that's amazing!

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...

"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...

🚨 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/

The cover of a white paper booklet titles Early Modern Digital Itineraries and featuring an early printed map of Europe

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2024)

Just in time for the final day of the @dataculture.bsky.social project, our experimental article, ‘Reading Maps at a Distance’ is published (OA) in Imago Mundi: doi.org/10.1080/0308..., which was a blast to write with @kmcdono.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen and Rosie Wood… #dh 🗃️ 1/2

You should read everything that @lscholz.bsky.social writes but this is particularly excellent, regardless of the epoch you are studying.

Thanks - there’ll be a book soon!

Thanks Mateusz, very kind!