Combatting Bias

📢 NEW BLOG POST | In this blog post, Manjusha Kuruppath examines the several forms of bias that a researcher encounters in the written archive.

Read it here! ➡️ combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/histori...

#blog #bias #archive #history #knowledgeproduction

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Another international company of Turkish, Portuguese, Polish and Armenian/Persian merchants doing business at a notary's office in Amsterdam, with the help of Isaac Chamis who knew the Armenian, Turkish and Italian language (1643).
#Amsterdam750 #migrantcity

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1/2: On Tuesday, colleagues from GLOBALISE, Necessary Reunions and @combattingbias.bsky.social presented in a lunchtime webinar, with fruitful discussions amongst speakers and the audience. Speakers: Lodewijk Petram, Manjusha Kuruppath, Leon van Wissen, Amber Zijlma, and Mrinalini Luthra.

20.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Towards Creating Meaningful Infrastructures for Colonial Archives - Combatting Bias

📢 NEW BLOG POST | Our colleague Renate Smit provides a great overview of the successful proceedings at the Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructures Symposium in January 2025.

➡️ combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/meaning...

(cross-posted from @globalise.bsky.social's website)

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Webinar: from Scribe to Screen - GLOBALISE Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to historical research? Co-organ...

📣 Join us for the webinar ‘From Scribe to Screen’ on Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 12-1.30 PM CET, co-organized with Leiden University’s COGLOSS series. This event explores the digitization and accessibility of archives alongside new approaches to global history.

More info: edu.nl/c4my3

#DH #Archives

05.03.2025 13:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

GLOBALISE newsletter March 2025 GLOBALISE newsletter March 2025

Our latest newsletter is out. A few highlights:

• Upcoming webinar on March 18th, exploring digital approaches to global history
• New project, 'Necessary Reunions', on historical maps from Kerala
• More: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc...

#DH #Archives

05.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ethical Commitments - Combatting Bias

📝 Accountability is a core part of responsible research. We have published our Ethical Commitments, as one way to keep ourselves accountable for the work we are producing.

➡️ Read them here! combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/about/ethica...

#Accountability #EthicalCommitments #ResearchEthics

20.02.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Screenshot of 'SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models.' SHADES is in multiple grey colors (shades).

⚫⚪ It's coming...SHADES. ⚪⚫
The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.

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💡Today our team is in Utrecht co-hosting the Seminar on 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐒𝐇 together with the FAIR Expertise Hub!

We are discussing the key challenges that emerged from FAIR implementation, as well as use cases and possible solutions!

@angelicamaineri.bsky.social

13.02.2025 09:33 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Combatting Bias

The Combatting Bias project is now on Bluesky!

A 1-year project funded by the NWO TDCC-SSH, aiming to produce practical guidelines to help SSH researchers identify, analyse, articulate, and reduce biases embedded in their work.

Check out our website! 👉 combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl

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