Luca Scholz
@lscholz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
"Liberté de circulation" un beau titre pour le n°166 qui s'annonce, Direction Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social et Grégoire Le Quang, deux membres de la rédaction des Cahiers. Pourquoi la liberté de circulation, revendiquée comme droit fondamental, n'a jamais fait l'objet d'une histoire longue ?
***Digital History Grant*** The IEHS invites submissions for 2 awards, up to $2,000 each, to support grad students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with historically grounded digital scholarship tied to migration history and beyond. Deadline: 8/1 iehs.org/awards/seed_...
Digital History Seed Grants
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Join us Manchester for the Computational Humanities Research conference 2027, hosted by our Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media! @ggrig.bsky.social @lukaszszulc.bsky.social @andreanini.com @uomsalc.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social
Computational Humanities Research@comphumresearch.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!
Join us online on April 15 for another Environmental Digital Humanities seminar: Michaela Mahlberg on "Water Stories - Language and Action" #DH #envhum
@ggrig.bsky.social · 4mo agoDon’t miss the chance to join Prof. Michaela Mahlberg for a compelling discussion on water narratives at the Environmental DH Seminar on *Wednesday, April 15th at 12:00 PM*. Secure your spot now! Click on the link below for more details #Water #EnvironmentalDH #DHseminar #CorpusLinguistics
12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings
All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands
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Join us online on April 15 for another Environmental Digital Humanities seminar: Michaela Mahlberg on "Water Stories - Language and Action" #DH #envhum
@ggrig.bsky.social · 4mo agoDon’t miss the chance to join Prof. Michaela Mahlberg for a compelling discussion on water narratives at the Environmental DH Seminar on *Wednesday, April 15th at 12:00 PM*. Secure your spot now! Click on the link below for more details #Water #EnvironmentalDH #DHseminar #CorpusLinguistics
It's Easter so I thought it would be appropriate to be back from the dead to announce that this is coming out at the end of this month: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...
Vector Media
Dispelling the notion of “generative” AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability....
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“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...
Les @annales.ehess.fr ont l'immense tristesse d'apprendre le décès de Jacques Revel. La revue doit tant à son intelligence et à sa générosité. Secrétaire de rédaction de la revue de 1975 à 1980, il observait et analysait avec une acuité extraordinaire les évolutions de l'historiographie. 1/2
#jobklaxon Do you want to do PhD in #digitalhumanities, wanna work at a cool institution in the UK?! check this out! Maybe of interest to the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community.
Luca Scholz@lscholz.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH
Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series #dh #dhist #skystorians
Katie McDonough@kmcdono.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH
Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH
Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series #dh #dhist #skystorians
Katie McDonough@kmcdono.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
Join us for an in-person workshop on fluid environments and the digital spatial humanities in Lancaster on February 27. Our fantastic speakers include: @kmcdono.bsky.social @ggrig.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6hc4yy
📚 12–13 mars 2026 Journées ANR DESIGNSHS Design graphique, recherche & patrimoine des sciences sociales 📅12 mars @Archives nationales et 13 mars @inha.fr Restitutions, archives Jacques Bertin, plateforme DESIGNSHS 👉+ info : shorturl.at/aQDfo @ehess.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social l
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources
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L’historien et résistant juif Marc Bloch entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin Dans une lettre au président de la République, sa famille a demandé que «l’extrême droite, dans toutes ses formes, soit exclue de toute participation à la cérémonie»
L’historien et résistant juif Marc Bloch entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Sa famille a demandé que «l’extrême droite, dans toutes ses formes, soit exclue de toute participation à la cérémonie». L’auteur de «L’étrange défaite» a été fusillé par l’occupant allemand en 1944 après avoir été torturé.
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Join us for an in-person workshop on fluid environments and the digital spatial humanities in Lancaster on February 27. Our fantastic speakers include: @kmcdono.bsky.social @ggrig.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6hc4yy
This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
Tuesday 17 February 2026 - S. Wright Kennedy (University of South Carolina): Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915 - Digital History Seminar
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 ...
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Save the date for the "Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities" workshop @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Feb 27 (in person only)! Details being finalized, but we have stellar speakers incl @robertsuits.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social & more!
Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities
In-Person Workshop at Lancaster University
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
The central place of the bogeyman ‘positivism’ in how social scientists caricature each other’s work is nicely captured here by @adrianblau.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Social Science and Its Critics: An Ideological Analysis | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core
Social Science and Its Critics: An Ideological Analysis - Volume 41 Issue 1
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U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
5/ “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
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Tristes Tropiques, 70 years later @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
"Tristes Tropiques", retour sur un livre visionnaire
Il est des livres qui marquent une génération de lecteurs. "Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss, est de ce ceux-là. En 1977, plus de 20 ans après sa parution, trois collaborateurs poursuivent le...
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New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA*
Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a
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This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
![The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...]
Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:643p6z4ydk2xnwv77maa6eec/bafkreidctt57eseamimgzctkjtu2ly2vmsugcjwcrargerohe5bljg7jie)