Convenor: Mihnea Dobre (ICUB Humanities)
The series on Digital Humanities (DH) hosted by the ICUB is a place for discussing research projects with a digital component. We focus on examples of good practice, discussing case studies, digital research infrastructures, digital research tools, methods or digital workflows. We encourage collaborative events between faculties and research groups at the UB. Topics include, but they are not limited to:
- Digital methods in humanities and social sciences.
- The use of AI in Digital Humanities.
- Digital research tools.
- From computational linguistics to digital humanities.
- What is data? How to deal with the data? How to curate it?
- In the archives. Challenges of the digitization process
- Cleaning the Data. Databases in Digital Humanities
- Conceptual Models and Planning a Digital Project
- Research projects and digital infrastructure
- Scaling a digital project. How to build a DH project?
- Tools and forms of visualization.
- Data mining and Network analysis.
- Dissemination of results: Digital vs Traditional models of dissemination in Social Sciences and Humanities
- Digital forms of publication.
For questions about the program, please send a message at mihnea.dobre@icub.unibuc.ro.
Please register for attending the meetings. For registration, please send a message to humanities@icub.unibuc.ro.
Venue
DH Seminar 2023-2024
The seminar takes place at the ICUB-Humanities (Str. Dimitrie Brandza, Nr. 1).
Program:
Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 11:00-12:30 (Bucharest time), Andrei Moran-Nae (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest), “Colonial Realism in Video Games”
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 11:00-12:30 (Bucharest time), Andra Jugănaru (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest)
Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 11:00-12:30 (Bucharest time), Sergiu Nisoi (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest)
Digital Humanities Seminar 2021-2022
The ICUB-Humanities DH Seminar is organized by Mihnea Dobre together with Anca Dinu, in collaboration with the DH Center of the University of Bucharest and the MA program in Digital Humanities.
Format: online. Access link: meet.google.com/rmm-fqzc-ppr.
Program:
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 15:00-16:00 (Bucharest time): Gábor Palkó (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), “Digital Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University”
Wednesday, 09 February 2022, 15:00-16:00 (Bucharest time): Christos Papatheodorou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), “Curation of Metadata”
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 15:00-16:00 (Bucharest time): Serena Ammirati (Roma Tre), “In Codice Ratio: Artificial Intelligence meets Palaeography”
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 (Bucharest time): Madalina Chitez (Centre for Corpus Related Digital Humanities, West University of Timisoara), “Corpus Related Digital Humanities for Interdisciplinary Research”
Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 (Bucharest time): Timothy Tambassi (University of Salerno), “A Formal Ontology for the History of Philosophy” – this meeting takes place in a hybrid format – online (meet.google.com/rmm-fqzc-ppr) and at the institute (Dimitrie Brândza 1)
Monday, 24 May 2021, 16h – Bucharest-Athens Workshop: Digital approaches in the history of science
Online, 16-18 (Bucharest and Athens time)
The aim of the event is to bring together groups of scholars working in the history of science (broadly conceived) at the University of Bucharest and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It explores the new digital trends, beyond the constraints of virtual work produced by the pandemics. We’ll discuss the various ways in which available digital collections, computational techniques, and digital workflows complement the traditional work in the history and philosophy of science. For example, is there any lesson to learn from new forms of conceptualization and visualization of scientific change?
We explore ongoing research projects at both universities and reflect upon recent developments in the history and philosophy of science and related fields. Not least, we are keen to discuss about the interplay between “science” and “humanities” in the history (and philosophy) of science.
The format of the workshop is a roundtable discussion. You can join us with this link (via Google Meet): https://meet.google.com/pgz-spvw-nqh
Speakers include:
Theodore Arabatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Ovidiu Babeș (University of Bucharest)
Ioana Bujor (University of Bucharest)
Jean Christianidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
Christos Papatheodorou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Michalis Sialaros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest)
Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 18:00-20:00, Dan Dediu (Université Lumière Lyon 2) – Câteva metode cantitative aplicate la studiul diversității lingvistice și a proceselor care o generează
A common event with the “Solomon Marcus” Seminar, Faculty of Mathematics.
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 16:00-18:00, Dan Dediu (Université Lumière Lyon 2) – Limbajul și vorbirea sunt influențate nu doar de mediul în care vorbitorii trăiesc, ci și de biologia lor
In collaboration with the Digital Humanities M.A. program.
Thursday, 23 January 2020, 12:00-13:30, Roundtable discussion on Digital Research Infrastructures (The event will be hosted by RODA, Faculty of Sociology, Șoseaua Panduri nr. 90-92)
Participants: Ruxandra Cosma (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest), Mihnea Dobre (ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest), Adrian Dușa (Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest), Anca Ileana (IT, University of Bucharest).
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 11:00-13:00, Adrian Dușa (Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest), Working with R
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 11:00 – 13.00, Anca Dinu (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest), Digital humanities and text – Beyond text digitization.
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 11:00-13:00, Gabriel Hancean (ICUB Social Sciences), Research notes on whole, ego and personal networks. Lessons learnt from the iCoNiC research project
Monday, 3 December 2018, 11:30-13:00, Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence), On the Reference Corpus of the Contemporary Romanian Language (CoRoLa)
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 11:00-13:00, Roundtable discussion: Open Access (OA) and Digital Infrastructure, Koen Vermeir (CNRS) & Mihnea Dobre (ICUB)
- Abstract. Recent years have witnessed an increased process of digitization of many historical sources. Most of these resources are openly available to the public via an internet connection. However, there is a high-level of fragmentation among Digital Humanities (DH) projects. Furthermore, most of the secondary literature remains behind paywalls. The roundtable discussion hosted by the Humanities division of the ICUB aims to stimulate a debate along two of the key components of DH: the promotion of open access (OA) and the need of strong digital infrastructures at the university level.
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 17:00-19:00, Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest), From proto-word reconstruction to word production: tools for computational historical linguistics.
Thursday, 20 June 2019, 13.00 – 15.00, Roundtable discussion: Early Modern Texts and Modern Libraries – Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge University)
Thursday, 02 November 2017, 11:00-13:00, Crystal Hall (Bowdoin College), Computing Galileo’s Library: The Humanities’ Role in Shaping Computation
- This presentation explores the creation of a digital humanities project as an opportunity for humanists to intervene in design thinking in ways that have broad ramifications. The case study of building an interactive, digital laboratory for the study of Galileo Galilei’s library, offers a way to assert the value of ambiguous and missing data, database design for exploration rather than retrieval, and experimentation via historical epistemologies. Examples will be drawn from Galileo’s works and books related to literature and natural philosophy from early modern Italy. Website: https://research.bowdoin.edu/galileos-library/.
Thursday, 07 December 2017, 11:00-13:00, Octavian Gordon (University of Bucharest), A Possible Digital Lexicographical Tool for Classics
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 11:00-13:00:
- Nicola Barbuti (University of Bari) – A Graphic Matching Process for Searching and Retrieving Information in Digital Libraries of Manuscripts
- Francesco Stella (University of Sienna)– The advantages of digital analysis in textual and literary criticism: some experiments with the Lexicon software
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 10:00-13:00:
- Maria Bostenaru (“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism) – Research Networking Programme of the European Science Foundation NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities) – Romanian participation 2012-2015
- Giorgio Guzzetta (University College Cork): Extreme Reading: Scalable Text Analysis and Interpretation with Voyant
- Federico Boschetti (CNR): Euporia: Using Domain Specific Languages for Textual Annotation without Mark-up
- Timothy Tambassi (ICUB, University of Bucharest): Thinking Bucharest Geo-ontologically
Thursday, 9 March, 11.00-14.00, Roundtable discussion on Digital Humanities
- Invited speaker: Prof. Andreas Witt (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim & University of Heidelberg).
- Participants: Alexandra Cornilescu, Marius Diaconescu, Anca Dinu, Emil Ionescu, Ioan Pânzaru, Roxana Utale.
Friday, 7 April 2017, 11.00-14.00, Roundtable discussion on Digital Humanities
- Participants: Ruxandra Cosma, Corina Doboș, Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici, Alexandru Nicolae, Constantin Vică
Friday, 12 May 2017, 14.00-17.00:
- Fabio Ciotti (University of Tor Vergata), Digital Textual Studies: from representation to analysis.
- Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest), Towards a map of distances between Romanian and European languages.
- Maurizio Lana (University of Eastern Piedmont), Ontologies and semantic annotation in the Humanities.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 17.00-20.00:
- Rafael Chelaru (Facultatea de Arhivistică din cadrul Academiei de Poliție, Bucuresti), prezentarea proiectului UEFISCDI “Arhiva genealogică virtuală – instrument informatic pilot destinat Arhivelor Naţionale ale României”.
- Stefania Matei and Cosima Rughinis (ICUB, Social Sciences), Playing with the past in memorial video games. Digitally mediated historical awareness and interactive knowledge-making.
- Corina Moldovan (Transylvania Digital Humanities Centre (DigiHUBB), Cluj), Challenges of Establishing a Digital Humanities Center in Romania.