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CFP: tweedaagse workshop text-mining, Utrecht, 7-8 november 2017

Call for Participation tweedaagse workshop text-mining Utrecht, 7-8 november 2017   De afgelopen jaren is via de applicatie Delpher van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag een grote hoeveelheid gedigitaliseerde Nederlandstalige kranten beschikbaar gekomen. Een van de manieren om deze grote hoeveelheid data toepasbaar te maken voor onderzoek is textmining. Met deze digitale onderzoekstechniek isoleer…

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THATCAMP Utrecht, 28 en 29 januari 2015

Het THATCamp Utrecht wil een platform bieden aan alle geesteswetenschappers in Nederland om met dataproviders, IT’ers en elkaar ervaringen of vragen te delen rondom het gebruik van digitale middelen in hun onderzoek of onderwijs. Volgens de ‘regels’ van het THATCamp wordt het tweedaags programma op 28 en 29 januari 2015 grotendeels door de deelnemers zelf…

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Colloquium 2 October: Ben Wubs on European fashion textile fairs

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Ben Wubs (Erasmus University) will compare the historical evolution of two competing fashion textile fairs: Première Vision in Paris and Interstoff in Frankfurt. Date: Thursday 2 Octber, 15.30-17.00Place: Janskerkhof 13 (room 0.06), Utrecht

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Conference “Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires from a Western Perspective, 1850-2000”

Conference ‘Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires’ On 11, 12 and 13 June 2014 the conference ‘Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires from a Western perspective, 1850-2000’ will be held in Utrecht. Since a broad range of topics will be discussed by many international speakers this conference may be interesting to many of you. The conference is…

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Colloquium 26 June: Mark Thompson and Joanne van der Woude

At the next Translantis/AsymEnc colloquium, Mark Thompson and Joanne van der Woude (University of Groningen), will introduce, explain and demonstrate the application Amerigo, which allows users to explore connections through space and time between the Netherlands, the United States, and the Atlantic World at large. Date: Thursday 26 June, 15.30-17.00Place: Muntstraat 2a (room 1.11), Utrecht

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24 april 2014: Jaap Verheul, “Moving beyond Ctrl-F: Cultural Text Mining and other Digital Utopia’s,” KNAW, Amsterdam

Moving beyond Ctrl-F: Cultural Text Mining and other Digital Utopia’s Jaap Verheul, Utrecht University KNAW series “New Trends in e-Humanities” Amsterdam, 24 April 2014, 3PM This talk will explore the many possibilities – and some limitations — of digital humanities from the perspective of cultural history. It will explore how the different conceptual questions that…

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12 December: Translantis Colloquium “Negotiating health and illness”

Translantis Colloquium Thursday 12 December 2013, 9-11am, Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal dr. Hieke Huistra: Risking lives: Constructing risk group identities in Dutch public discourse, 1890–1990 In my research, I investigate the construction of (health) risk groups in Dutch society in the twentieth century (1890–1990), in order to improve our understanding of identity formation in public discourse, and…

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