This page offers an overview of the conference program. For information on how to get to the locations, see the practicalities page.
- Tuesday 3 June – Pre-conference Workshops
- Wednesday 4 June – Day 1
- Thursday 5 June – Day 2
- Friday 6 June – Day 3
(note: the program is subject to change).
The updated abstracts can be found at the Digitial Humanities Benelux 2025 Conference Zenodo page
Tuesday 3 June – Pre-conference workshops
On Tuesday 3 June, the pre-conference workshop day takes place in the NU Building of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. There are a number of workshops on offer covering many topics, tools, and methods in digital humanities. You are free to choose either a full day workshop or combine a morning offering with an afternoon offering.
You can find the complete list of workshops, rooms and descriptions on the Workshop page.
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| W01 | Working with colonial Digital Cultural Heritage. Approaches, Tools, and Transnational Insights |
| W02 | Contextualizing and Connecting Collections of Letters (CCCL) |
| W03 | Storing oral history and qualitative interview data for reuse |
| W04 | Workshop: Design Qualitative Research on Large Text Corpora using I-Analyzer |
| W05 | Let’s talk FAIR: (Re)using FAIR vocabularies and schemas in humanities and social sciences research |
| W06 | Multilingual Digital Knowledge Production Facing Language Variation and Change: BoF Discussions, Lightning Talks, and Networking for the Humanities |
| W07 | Impresso Datalab Workshop. Programmatic Access and Annotation Services for Multilingual and Multimodal Historical Media Collections |
| W08 | So everything is biased … now what?! |
Wednesday 4 June – Day 1
Registration: 8:30-9:20
Location: Auditorium
Opening Ceremony: 9:20-9:30
Location: Auditorium
Opening Keynote: 9:30-10:30
Location: Auditorium
Chair: A. Seza Doğruöz
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Parallel Session 1: 11:00-12:30
Session 1a
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Julie M. Birkholz
- What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo – Julia Neugarten and Marieke van Erp
- Nose Witnesses and Nosebooks: Describing Olfactory Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Collections – Arno Bosse and Inger Leemans
- Nostalgia computing: testing affective responses for digital engagement and digital preservation –Megan Gooch and Emily Fildes
Session 1b
Location: HG-2a33
Chair: Tom Gheldof
- With a Trowel in Hand and a Database in Backpack: Archaeology 2.0″ – Katarzyna Ewa Langenegger
- Strengthening small disciplines: New Perspectives on Byzantine Studies through Digital Humanities” – Sviatoslav Drach, Benedikte Löbbert, Claes Neuefeind and Jan Bigalke
- Who’s who? Towards automatically disambiguating mentions of people in Ancient Greek texts by linking to a domain specific Knowledge Base – Marijke Beersmans, Evelien de Graaf and Tim Van de Cruys
Session 1c
Location: HG-2a24
Chair: Lorella Viola
- Performing Gender on the Early Modern Stage: a Computational and Cross-lingual Approach to Male and Female Speech in European Drama – Alie Lassche and Lucas van der Deijl
- Mapping the Real and Fictional Geographies of Avignon’s Theatre Festivals – Antonios Lagarias, Jeanne Fras, Nicolas Foucault and Clarisse Bardiot
- Operationalizing Theatrical Rhythm: Comparing Stopwatch-Based and Speech Recognition Methods for Measuring Speaking Rate – Théo Heugebaert and Jacob Hart
Lunch: 12:30-13:30
Parallel Session 2: 13:30-15:00
Session 2a
Location: HG-2a33
Chair: Steven Claeyssens
- The times are a-changin’: présent vs passé simple in French novels (1811-2024) – Simon Gabay, Jean Barré and Florian Cafiero
- Mapping the Semantic Variations of the Words “Feminism” and “Feminist” in the French Language Belgian Press (ca. 1850 to 1950) – Isabelle Griboomont and Brecht Deseure
- Toponyms in a digital era: analysing the (un)changing nature of toponyms using the Belgian Historical Gazetteer – Léa Hermenault, Christophe De Coster and Iason Jongepier
Session 2b
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Hannah Busch
- HITL, ML, and the Bible: Leveraging High-Quality Data from a Digital Scholarly Edition – Kirsten Vad, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo and Katrine Baunvig
- Narrative Tension: Estimating Literary Quality Through Coherence and Unpredictability –Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp and Kristoffer Nielbo
- “Here’s strangeness.” A Collaborative Approach to Visualising Textual Variation – Elli Bleeker, Elena Spadini, Bram Oostveen, Beatrice Nava and Ronald Haentjens Dekker
Session 2c
Location: HG-2a24
Chair: Marieke van Erp
- 100 DOLLAR REWARD: Exploration of a Historical Crime Journal – Liam Downs-Tepper
- Integration of Systemic Functional Grammar to improve automated sentiment analysis with GPT-4o – Lorella Viola
- LLM for Contextual Contentiousness Classification in Historical Dutch Newspapers – Yahui Zhao and Laura Hollink
Coffee Break and Poster Session: 15:00-16:30
- READ-COOP and Transkribus: A Cooperative Model for Responsible Technology – Melissa Terras, Bettina Anzinger, Günter Mühlberger, Florian Stauder, Christel Annemieke Romein and Andy Stauder
- Access to Context: Data-envelopes for Digital Cutlural Heritage in Practice – Maria Eskevich, Sebastiaan Derks, Juliette Huygen, Roeland Ordelman, Niek Verhoeff and Mari Wigham
- Making an Archive Accessible: AI and the Overijssel Case Study – C. Annemieke Romein, Jos Mooijweer and Andreas Weber
- LeTTuce PoS-Tagger: A Sprout of Innovation in Multilingual NLP – Cynthia Van Hee, Pranaydeep Singh and Els Lefever
- Boendale’s Many Faces: Modelling Historical Positionality in Jan van Boendale’s Oeuvre (c. 1280-1351?) – Caroline Vandyck
- Twi-XL & SANE: a new way of exploring the KB web collection – Iris Geldermans, Michel de Gruijter, Sophie Ham and Fedor Wiedenhof
- EXCALIBUR Glossing Service – Jan Odijk and Mees van Stiphout
- Go with the (Work)flow! Creating Reusable and Replicable Workflows for Digital Humanities Research – Anne Baillot, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Megan Black, Toma Tasovac and Matej Durco
- Sensitive data sharing: The Hows, the Whys, and the Whats – Louise de Béthune and István László Gyimes
- A Decade of Excellence: Reflecting on 10 years of Researchers-in-Residence at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands – Celonie Rozema, Steven Claeyssens and Rosemarie van der Veen-Oei
- Building DutchDraCor: A new corpus for computational approaches to Dutch drama (1500-1800) – Lucas van der Deijl and Willem Jan Faber
- Developing a Semi-automatic Annotation Workflow for Historical Toponyms: Challenges and Insights from the Itinera Nova Project – Benedikte Löbbert, Sviatoslav Drach and Claes Neuefeind
- Digitizing Historical Regesta: A Comparative Analysis of Computer Vision and Neural Network-Based OCR Methods – Dennis Kramer, Hannah Busch and Claes Neuefeind
- The Hybrid Intelligence Museum Case – Shenghui Wang, Victor de Boer, Agnes Axelsson, Maddalena Ghiotto, Loan Ho, Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Atefeh Keshavarzi Zafarghandi and Anna Puzio
- Leveraging Pessoa’s Heteronymous System to Analyze Stylistic Flexibility – Gheorghe Septelici and Henry Alexander Hornung
- The Unseen Hand: Stylometric Analysis of Authorial Influence in Classic Literature – Theodora Stavroula Korma, Olga Rojas Valle and Ece Demirtas
- Unpacking the weight of spices: a preliminary exploration of long-tail contexts in the VOC trade – Gauri Bhagwat, Teresa Paccosi and Marieke van Erp
- A Medieval Source Pipeline for Distant Reading – Mart Makkink
- My Rock and My Salvation: A Geospatial Study of Fortified Churches – Liam Downs-Tepper
- The Impact of Her Decision – Apurva Chitte
- Building a Dataset of English-Language Podcasts on Apple Podcasts – Loren Verreyen
- From data to GPT-NL: using valuable data collections for Dutch large language model training – Simone van Bruggen
- Working on a Dream: Publishing and Linking Belgian Person Observations using Citizen Science – Sytze Van Herck, Rick Mourits and Lise Foket
Welcome reception and library tour: 16:30-18:00 (drinks 17h)
A VU University Library tour and welcome reception will be organized on Wednesday. Please see the social program page for more information and to register for the library tour. The tours start at 16.45 and the drinks and snacks will be served from 17h onward.
Thursday 5 June – Day 2
Opening Keynote: 9:30-10:30
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Lamyk Bekius
Lise Jaillant – AI to Unlock Archives: Revolutionising Access to our Digital Past
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Parallel Session 3: 11:00-12:30
Session 3a
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Marijn Koolen
- A critical evaluation of tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data – Bas Vercruysse, Derrick Muheki, Krishna Kumar Chandrasekar, Julie M. Birkholz, Wim Thiery, Koen Hufkens and Christophe Verbruggen
- One-step extraction of key-value information from personal cards: automatic indexing of a 1940 Paris police control file – Christopher Kermorvant and Karen Taieb
- Filling the Gaps and Shifting Narratives: a digital methodology for collecting and analysing data for global histories – Josephine Läuferts, Teun van Kasteel and Amber Zijlma
Session 3b
Location: HG-2a33
Chair: Els Lefever
- Probing Transnational Networks in the History of Digital History: Uppsala 1973 and the First Historical Computing Conference – Gerben Zaagsma
- Intellectual Traditions in Ancient Greek and Latin texts: A Co-occurrence Network Approach- Evelien de Graaf
- A network of 19th century paintings – the oeuvre of François-Joseph Navez quantified – Fien Messens, Julie Birkholz, Marjan Sterckx, Christophe Verbruggen and Frédéric Lemmers
Session 3c
Location: HG-06A32 (room change!)
Chair: Julia Neugarten
- Form and plot: the influence of genre, author gender and quality ratings on narrative arcs in Dutch-language novels – Maaike de Jongh
- Tracing the invisible translator: stylistic differences in the Dutch translations of the oeuvre of Swedish author Henning Mankell – Martje Wijers
- Building an Evaluation Framework for Innovative Research Outputs in Social Sciences and Humanities – Magdalena Wnuk, Françoise Gouzi and Maciej Maryl
Lunch: 12:30-13:30
During this lunch break the Steering Committee meets
Parallel Session 4: 13:30-15:00
Session 4a
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Nooshin Shahidzadeh Asadi
- Distancing the writing process: A stylometric approach to the session versions of Gie Bogaert’s novel Roosevelt – Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Lamyk Bekius
- Building a Wikibase Instance for African Literary Metadata: First insights – Gijs Aangenendt, Ursula Oberst and Ashleigh Harris
- Style in Eight Syllables: Metric Annotationand Stylometry of Chrétien de Troyes andContemporaries – Florian Cafiero, Phillipe Chaumet-Riffaud, Damien Conceicao, Ulysse Godreau, Emilie Guidi, Alexandre Lionnet, Pierre Alexandre Nistor, Théo Moins, Benedetta Salvati and Jean-Baptiste Camps
Session 4b
Location: HG-2a33
Chair: Thomas Smits
- From Stage to Data : Ontologies for Performing Arts and Linked Open Data – Clarisse Bardiot, Bernard Jacquemin, Antonios Lagarias, Jeanne Fras, Nicolas Foucault, Jacob Hart and Alexandra Béraldin
- Interpretable Visual Feature Discovery using Multiple Instance Learning: A Case Study of Colonial Korean Print – Aron van de Pol, Jelena Prokic and Angus Mol
- Layouts Galore: A Multilingual, Historical OCR Pipeline for Early Modern Printed Books, as part of the VERITRACE project – Jeffrey Wolf
Session 4c
Location: HG-06A32 (room change!)
Chair: Megan Gooch
- Microservice-Based Data Management and Processing: A Workflow using GitHub Repositories and Actions – Jonas Widmer and Dana Rebecca Meyer
- Multimodal Pipelines for Search and Discovery – Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton
- Supporting the Hypothesis Creation Process via Pattern Illumination in Knowledge Graphs – Xander Wilcke, Rick Mourits, Auke Rijpma and Richard Zijdeman
Coffee Break and Demo Session: 15:00-16:30
- The Antikythera Mechanism: Web-based VR as a Hypothesis Checking Tool – Thomas Weibel
- Unlock every Doc: Transkribus and Document Recognition—an interactive tutorial. – Annemieke Romein
- The New Rijksmuseum Data Services – Coen Wilders and Chris Dijkshoorn
- Flexible and generic (meta)data editor and browser: A demonstration on how to model, tweak, create, and publish your metadata with the Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI) toolkit – Menzo Windhouwer, Rob Zeeman and Liliana Melgar
- CLARIAH data Stories Editor: an open interactive environment to create and publish data-driven research narratives – Rob Zeeman, Menzo Windhouwer and Liliana Melgar
- Much to discover. KADOC’s large datasets and their research potential. – Katrien Weyns
- Digital resources of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag – Vincent de Keijzer
- The Belgian Historical Gazetteer, a tool for researchers. – Léa Hermenault
- Textlens: an online dashboard for digital text analysis – Jonas Doumen, Vincent Prins and Vincent Vandeghinste
- Navigating oral history interviews using LLM-based transcription and annotation for the Amsterdam Time Machine – Simone van Bruggen, Boudewijn Koopmans, Leon van Wissen, Ingeborg Verheul and Annette Langedijk
- Enabling new scholarly research scenarios using web APIs: the goetgevonden case – Hennie Brugman, Sebastiaan van Daalen and Marijn Koolen
Dinner 18:00 (approximately)
Dinner will be at IJver Amsterdam, see the Social Program page for information and to get your ticket now!
Friday 6 June – Day 3
Parallel Session 5: 9:00-10:30
Session 5a
Location: Auditorium
Chair: Tom Gheldof
- Modelling the enslaved as historical persons: Extending the Persons in Context (PiCo) model to fit a 19th century slave society – Rick Mourits, Thunnis van Oort, Kay Pepping, Britt van Duijvenvoorde and Pascal Konings
- Can we predict the collapse of human communication? Using computer simulations to finetune our theories – Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman and Freek Van de Velde
- Using Bluesky for Social Media Analysis – Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Session 5b
Location: HG-2a33
Chair: Leah Budke
- A Computer-assisted Stemmatic Analysis of the Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant – Sofie Moors
- Firstlings: Early Results on Attitudes towards Animals in Early Modern Dutch Texts – Arjan van Dalfsen
- Revisiting multiple-witness text alignment – Ronald Haentjens Dekker and David Birnbaum
Session 5c
Location: HG-01A33
Chair: Floor Buschenhenke
- Enhancing C-CLAMP: Metadata Mining and Improved Network Clustering – Tuur Schockaert, Julie Nijs, Anthe Sevenants and Freek Van de Velde
- Why Novels (Don’t) Break Through: Dynamics of Canonicity in the Danish Modern Breakthrough (1870-1900) – Alie Lassche, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni and Katrine Baunvig
Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00
Panel Session: 11:00-12:30
Panel Session 6a
Location: Auditorium
- Pursuing a PhD in DH: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices – Lucas van der Deijl, Milan van Lange, Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros and Kim Smeenk
Panel Session 6b
Location: HG-2a33
- Bridging Dimensions: Conceptualising, Developing and Exploring 3D Scholarly Editions – Costas Papadopoulos, Susan Schreibman, Kelly Gillikin Schoueri, Tim van der Heijden, Chiara Piccoli and Louise Tharandt
Panel Session 6c
Location: HG-01A33
- The Powers That Scrape: Ethical Considerations in Using Fan-Generated Data in the Digital Humanities – Julia Neugarten, Mona Allaert, Xiaoyan Yang, Divya Mathur and Xiaoyu Zhou
Closing session: 12:30-13:00
Location: Auditorium
Brown bag lunch 13:00
A brown-bag lunch will be included on the closing day.