Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 136.
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[1] From: Franz FISCHER <franz.fischer@unive.it>
Subject: "Deep Mapping Dialogues", Workshop in Venice and online, 24. Sept. 2025 (49)
[2] From: CSMBR - Andreas Hylla <ah@CSMBR.FONDAZIONECOMEL.ORG>
Subject: CSMBR Winter Schools: Humanities for the Future - REMINDER (69)
[3] From: Richard Rogers <rogers@govcom.org>
Subject: Cfp: Digital Methods Winter School '26 - Univ. Amsterdam (81)
[4] From: Liesbeth De Mol <liesbeth.de-mol@univ-lille.fr>
Subject: CfP Undone Computer Science 2026 (84)
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Date: 2025-09-17 20:14:15+00:00
From: Franz FISCHER <franz.fischer@unive.it>
Subject: "Deep Mapping Dialogues", Workshop in Venice and online, 24. Sept. 2025
Dear digital humanists,
We are pleased to announce the following workshop:
"Deep Mapping Dialogues: Towards a Systematic Deep Mapping Approach in
Archaeology and History", Workshop, VeDPHLab and online, September 24, 2025.
*Deep mapping* is increasingly recognised as a way to explore the complex
relationship between people, places, and memory. Over the last ten years,
humanities disciplines such as history, geography, and literary studies
have tried to refine the theory behind deep mapping to develop increasingly
sophisticated applications and interpretations of places (Bodhenamer,
Corrigan, and Harris, 2023). At the same time, despite being involved since
the early 2000s (Pearson and Shanks, 2001), archaeology has lagged behind
in the discussion. The fluidity that characterises deep mapping, makes the
development of a systematic methodology difficult, restricting the possible
applications, particularly for disciplines that mainly adopt quantitative
methods.
This workshop provides a *space for dialogue across disciplines*—archaeology,
history, literature, epigraphy, and historiography—focusing on how deep
mapping can integrate both objective data and subjective experience. Two
perspectives will be highlighted: a holistic approach, capturing the
spatial, temporal, and cultural dimensions of places; and an experiential
approach, attentive to narratives, perceptions, and emotions.
The workshop can be attended *either in person* at the Venice Centre for
Digital and Public Humanities Lab, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice,
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà (Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice), *or online by
registering in advance by September 17 *at the following link:
https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/2k9xpZTyT4u4qDKFhkS4fw.
See the full programme / poster at:
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/105337
--
Franz Fischer
Head of Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH)
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università Ca' Foscari
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
https://www.unive.it/persone/franz.fischer
https://www.unive.it/vedph, https://www.i-d-e.de/
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/collane/disclosing-collections/
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Date: 2025-09-17 19:24:51+00:00
From: CSMBR - Andreas Hylla <ah@CSMBR.FONDAZIONECOMEL.ORG>
Subject: CSMBR Winter Schools: Humanities for the Future - REMINDER
Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab
26-28 November 2025
Organised by
Fabrizio Bigotti - CSMBR Pisa
Francesco Cicala - Google Switzerland
Keynote Speakers
Orly Lewis, Andreas Lammer, Andreas Schneider, Audrey Borowski, Alain
Touwaide
Lecturers
Alessio Basti, Francesca Randone, Mattia Fabio Jr Pedota
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Early Bird Deadline: _22 September 2025_
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Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new Winter School is an
interdisciplinary format allows participants to get a feel for the
potential of new media, while acquiring basic coding skills, knowledge
of 3D modelling, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and key concepts in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), as well as
tools for communicating with experts in the field.
Its design meets the needs of individuals inside and outside academia
who are confronted with the digital revolution and wish to achieve
proficiency in digital humanities.
A Comprehensive Programme:
The programme will enable participants to engage with leading academics
who are or have been Principal Investigators (PIs) on significant
digital humanities projects in the fields of history, art, medicine,
science, philosophy, philology and archaeology.
Emphasising the acquisition of practical skills, the Winter School
requires no prior knowledge of coding or other skills. It caters for
individuals from different backgrounds and career stages. Participants
will receive training through frontal lectures, Q&As, workshops, and
exercises in breakout sessions. The goal is to equip them with the tools
to shape their own projects by transferring a comprehensive skillset and
familiarising them with the main features of the field.
Beyond this, there will be an opportunity to connect with a network of
international scholars from a variety of fields, including both emerging
and established figures.
Organisation:
The Winter School will take place over three days, from 10:00 to 17:00
CET each day. Each day will comprise two sessions: the morning session
(10 am–1 pm) and the afternoon session (2–4 pm). All sessions will be
recorded and made available for later viewing. There may be slight
changes to the working schedule and number of lectures, but these will
not affect the programme as a whole.
Info and Registration at:
<https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-2025/>
Andreas Hylla
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance
(CSMBR) - Assistant Coordinator
Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 - Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203
Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
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Date: 2025-09-17 08:07:42+00:00
From: Richard Rogers <rogers@govcom.org>
Subject: Cfp: Digital Methods Winter School '26 - Univ. Amsterdam
Hello all,
The call is out for the upcoming Digital Methods Winter School. Would be
pleased to welcome you to Amsterdam.
Best regards
Richard Rogers
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Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2026
Media Studies, University of Amsterdam 5-9 January 2026
Call for Participation
Research-with-AI Critique
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual
Winter School on 'Research-with-AI critique'. The format is that of a
(social media and web) data sprint, with tutorials as well as hands-on
work for telling stories with data. There is also a programme of keynote
speakers. It is intended for advanced Master's students, PhD candidates
and motivated scholars who would like to work on (and complete) a
digital methods project in an intensive workshop setting.
Just a part of the pipeline
Chatbots have become a ‘part of the pipeline’ in a number of research
methodologies in the social sciences and humanities, contributing to
formatting, summaries, annotation, labeling and the generation and use
of synthetic data. One question is how to go about using chatbots in the
first place for such research tasks, and make use of the many best
practice guides that have been shared across the research landscape.
These guides contain steps about how to prompt and query chatbots
properly. But they also advise that the chatbots explain themselves and
that researchers validate their outputs and claims. How does one gain
confidence in how the chatbots work for the researchers? In other words,
at each of these steps, one could consider how to ground chatbot
findings, raising a series of questions such as when and now to
undertake a manual and/or multiple chatbot comparison.
Digital methods and AI
Taking such a series of steps is in keeping with a digital methods
outlook that would ask, what does this medium have to offer, and how can
those offerings be repurposed for social and cultural research? And
under which conditions can the findings be grounded in the medium? But
it would also ask, what are AI native or medium methods? Can chatbots be
used as societal and cultural reflections such as the promise of
'synthetic data'? How does the medium or the platform affect the data?
Here is where guardrail auditing comes into the picture. How to detect
the guardrails that have been put up by the chatbots so that they can
interact with users without offence? How do they affect the quality of
the data? The Winter School is dedicated to how to undertake research
with AI through a critical, digital methods lens.
Applications: Key Dates
There are rolling admissions and applications are now being accepted. To
apply please send a letter of motivation, your CV, a headshot photo and
a 100-word bio to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net. Notifications of
acceptance are sent within 1 week after application. Final deadline for
the rolling applications is 12 December 2025. The full program and
schedule of the Winter School are available by 19 December 2025.
Full call for participation and all additional information is here:
https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2026
Prof. Richard Rogers
Media Studies
University of Amsterdam
T. Venturini & R. Rogers (2025) Digital Methods: A Short Introduction.
Polity.
R. Rogers (2024), Doing Digital Methods, Los Angeles: Sage. 2nd edition.
R. Rogers (ed.) (2023). The Propagation of Misinformation in Social
Media: A Cross-platform Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
R. Rogers (2023) Métodos Digitales. Guadalajara: ITESO - Universidad
Jesuita de Guadalajara.
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Date: 2025-09-17 07:40:29+00:00
From: Liesbeth De Mol <liesbeth.de-mol@univ-lille.fr>
Subject: CfP Undone Computer Science 2026
Dear all,
not sure this call for papers for the computer science undone conference
was sent on this list. Could be interesting at least to some of you on
this list,
best wishes,
Liesbeth
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd conference on Undone Science in Computer Science
A conference to explore epistemological and ethical dimensions of
computer science through the concept of undone science
* Luxembourg, 23-25th March 2026 (hybrid)
* Calling for short talk proposals (1-3 pages abstracts)
* Submission deadline: *October 9th 2025* (anywhere on Earth)
* Post-proceedings model: we will send a call for full papers after
the conference
* Some travel funding available for speakers
* More information at <https://www.undonecs.org/2026/>
PRESENTATION
As researchers, we are committed to advancing computer science
in a way that is both epistemologically and ethically sound.
With the Undone Computer Science conference, we provide an informal
venue to pause and reflect on these aspects of our scientific
practices. Our goal is to bring together computer scientists from
across the field, but also social scientists, philosophers and
historians of science, and other scholars interested in discussing the
ethical and epistemological dimensions of our work.
We welcome abstracts exploring these dimensions, and encourage
submissions from a wide range of perspectives. *Abstracts should be
1-3 pages*, clearly outlining the main arguments and contributions of
the proposed talk.
As a guiding question, we propose to apply the concept of undone
science [1] to computer science. Undone science refers to questions
that are left unaddressed, ignored, or unfunded for various reasons,
yet demonstrably worthy of exploration. It highlights the idea that
the production and dissemination of knowledge are variously
influenced, leading to biases in the choice of research that is done,
and eventually in a “systematic non-production of knowledge” [2].
We might want to understand, for instance, whether the way in which
computer science is established eventually leaves out some potentially
crucial questions and areas of investigation, and what pushes some
questions or methods to be ignored whilst others might be favoured.
The striking example of AI ethics indeed reminds us of some of the
society-impacting case studies which originally motivated the
analytical concept of undone science—including corporate influence
denounced by critical voices [3], and the debate on requirements and
evaluation criteria to improve research by acting on what is funded
and published [4].
But undone science could also refer to the consequences of
“theoretical commitments” [2], i.e., dominant paradigms, when they
blind us collectively about what is worthy or not of exploration—all
the while accounts of paradigm shifts in our young domain remain rare.
It could refer as well to technical or methodological biases, such as
when the availability of certain software or hardware at the right
time determines which research idea “wins” [5], or when the haste
towards automation in algorithm design leads to a loss of valuable
insights compared to alternative paths where people are involved in
data exploration [6].
Undone science also refers originally to questions first recognised by
actors from civil society—for computer scientists, the free software
movement and civil liberties organisations come to mind.
We believe that the concept of undone science can further help bring
out the epistemological and ethical aspects of research in computer
science, and encourage submissions from a wide range of perspectives.
Undone Computer Science is an informal peer-reviewed conference with
separately reviewed post-proceedings: depending upon the eventual
number and quality of submissions, we intend to follow up the conference
with a call for full papers to be published in an open-access journal.
(Presenting at the conference does not commit to submit a full paper;
nor is it necessary to present at the conference to respond to the call
for full papers.)
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