Category: 2025-2026

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 21 October 2025 – Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre (Trinity College Dublin): Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm BST live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93388586494 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Abstract: This paper explores how digital experimentation can reshape our...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 4 November 2025 – Deswarte Prize Seminar – Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp): (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96338659032 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for the 2025...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 18 November 2025 – Ruben Ros (Leiden): Between Necessity and Contingency: Modelling the History of (De)Politicization, 1945-

This seminar was 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/91028456235 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Mara Oliva Abstract: What does it mean for ideas and issues to...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 9 December 2025 – Aleksandra Kaye, Malte Vogl (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology), and Raphael Schlattmann (Technische Universität Berlin): Science Across Borders: Text-Mining and Network Analysis Insights into the Polish Diasporic Periodical Press, 1830-1930

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97424109081 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker Abstract: Migration has played a significant role in Polish history...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 20 January 2026 – Thomas Smits and Melvin Wevers (Amsterdam): Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/98599080376 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This talk explores how digital methods can uncover hidden patterns...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 17 February 2026 – S. Wright Kennedy (University of South Carolina): Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93298609780, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, life expectancy rose dramatically in...

2025-2026

22 September 2025

Tuesday 17 March 2026 – Vincent Hiribarren (KCL)

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97943434361, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This paper compares how a historian and AI approach the...