Digital Humanities Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in BE (Virtual Event)
Digital Humanities Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium is a space for students and researchers to come together to discuss current research in DH as part of an online discussion group. The series is geared toward early career researchers—students and researchers working in Belgian institutions who are interested in DH.
Monday 20 October, 15h-16h30 CEST via Teams
Speaker(s): Theodora Rontzova, KU Leuven
Title: Cultural Heritage in Virtual Worlds – the IMPULSE Project
Abstract: My presentation will introduce IMPULSE, a project that aims to enhance accessibility to digitized cultural heritage collections through immersive technology, fostering diverse narrative and public engagement. Over the course of three years, IMPULSE will enhance accessibility to digitized cultural content, optimize streamline digitization processes in the three focus areas of education, artistic creation and CCSIs, develop legal frameworks to mitigate risks and barriers in utilizing cultural heritage data, and foster collaborative creation on immersive platforms. My presentation will provide an overview of the most recent developments within the different Work Packages of the project, with focus on the findings of the two recent workshops in Leuven and in Malta. I will share insights from the development of the virtual platform that will lead to the project’s final Hackathon later this year, and I will finally invite participants to engage with our Community of Practice.
Monday 17 November, 15h-16h30 CET via Teams
Speaker(s): Sara Budts, VUB
Title: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI
Abstract: This presentation explores the patterns in lottery rhymes produced in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, with a focus on the rhymes written by women. The lottery was a popular fundraising event in the Low Countries. Lottery rhymes, personal messages attached to the lottery tickets, provide a valuable source for historians. We collected more than 11,000 digitised short texts from five lotteries held between 1446 and 1606. We have used GysBERT, a language model of historical Dutch, to identify distinctively male and female discourses in the lottery rhymes corpus. Although the model pointed us to some interesting patterns, it also showed that lottery rhymes written by men and women do not radically differ from each other. This is consistent with insights from premodern women’s history which stresses that women worked within societal, and in this case literary, conventions, sometimes subverting them, sometimes adapting them, sometimes adopting them unchanged.
Monday 15 December, 15h-16h30 CET via Teams
Session Description: This session features insights from 3-4 PhD researchers in our network who are working with DH methods.
Round Table Session – Speaker(s): to be confirmed
Registration viaDH Virtual Discussion Group — KU Leuven Libraries
Nodegoat Workshop 2025
28 November 2025, Ghent
Nodegoat is an object oriented relational web-based data management system which also provides network and geospatial visualizations in one platform. Nodegoat has the availability to develop custom data models, and then collaborate on this data and later generate visualizations and export data. The workshops will be given by the developers of the platform – Lab1100.
To support researchers in their use of relational data CLARIAH-VL & GhentCDH is hosting two Nodegoat workshops. In the morning workshop you will learn how to use nodegoat for your research. In the afternoon workshop nodegoat will present new features and review advanced features.
The workshops will be held on Friday 28 November from 10 – 12h & 14.30 – 17h at Ghent University. These are in-person workshops and will not be recorded. You need to bring your own laptop with you to access the nodegoat platform. Wifi is available via eduroam. The exact location will be confirmed two weeks before the workshops to registered participants.
Registration via https://event.ugent.be/registration/nodegoat25
Computational Humanities Research Conference 2025
December 9-12 2025, Luxembourg
The Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2025) has announced its Call for Papers. The conference will take place from December 9–12, 2025, at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg. CHR focuses on research in the humanities that uses computational, statistical, or mathematical methods. It provides a platform for work that combines formal modeling with traditional humanities questions—ranging from quantitative analyses to theoretical reflections on computational approaches.
The conference aims to:
- Promote best practices in research, including open data, reproducible workflows, and innovative peer review formats.
- Build an inclusive community of scholars working with humanities data through computational methods.
The deadline for full paper submissions is July 18, 2025. More information can be found in the full Call for Papers: Computational Humanities Research 2025.
For questions or special requests, the organizers can be contacted at pc@computational-humanities-research.org or via the CHR Discourse forum
