The conference and workshop will revolve around the concept of “digital hermeneutics”, defined as the critical and self-reflexive use of digital tools and technologies for the development of new research questions, the testing of analytical assumptions and the production of sophisticated scientific interpretations.
This two-day event will address both the theory and practice of digital hermeneutics:
- Day 1 will have the format of a ‘traditional’ conference with sessions dedicated to the four key aspects of the concept of digital hermeneutics: source criticism, tool criticism, algorithmic criticism and interface criticism.
- Day 2 will consist of workshops where participants will discuss the challenges of introducing digital history training in the history curriculum and will demonstrate best practices in an interactive setting.
Keynotes by Edward Ayers (University of Richmond) and Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam).
Date: |
25-26 October 2018 |
Location:
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Technoport
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Programme
Thursday 25 October - Theory: Conference
| 08.45 |
Registration |
| 09.15 |
Welcome and Introduction by Andreas Fickers (C²DH) |
09.30 |
Session 1 |
| Pascal Föhr (University of Basel) Save your sources! ...but can you? |
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| Tim van der Heijden (C²DH) Doing Digital History and Hermeneutics in an Interdisciplinary Setting |
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| Marijn Koolen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities Cluster), Jasmijn van Gorp (Utrecht University) and Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science) A hands-on approach to digital tool criticism: Tools for (self-)reflection |
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| 11.00 |
Coffee break |
11.30 |
Session 2 |
| Andreas Müller (University of Halle) Digital - Is that all there is? A report from digital source criticism of Zedler-Lexikon.de |
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| Sofia Papastamkou (University of Lille) and Frédéric Clavert (C²DH) Twitter data as primary sources for historians: a critical approach. Lessons from two projects: the 2015 Greek referendum and the Centenary of the Great War on Twitter |
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| Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Combining digital and hermeneutic approaches for investigating source quotations in early modern historical texts |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Session 3 |
| Francesco Beretta (CNRS - Université de Lyon) Factoïd-based model versus CIDOC CRM ? Extracting structured data from historical sources |
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| Marten Düring and Estelle Bunout (C²DH) Implementing Transparency |
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| Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) Why We Should Think About a Domain Specific Computer Language (DSL) for Scholarship |
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| 15.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.00 |
Launch Ranke.2Stefania Scagliola and Andreas Fickers (C²DH) |
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17.00 |
KeynoteEdward Ayers (University of Richmond) |
Friday 26 October 2018 - Practice: Workshops
| 09.00 |
Workshop 1
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| 11.00 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30 |
Keynote
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
| 13.30 |
Workshop 2John Randolph (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH) |
| 15.00 |
Coffee break |
| 15.30 |
Workshop 3Ilja Nieuwland (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) |