Cagnotte terminée pour le volume en hommage à @benoitmelancon.bsky.social. Objectif atteint et même dépassé. Merci @glennroe.bsky.social @mariedmartel.bsky.social @marcandea.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy @msonnet.bsky.social et les autres ! #lumières #québec

Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium View of Sárospatak from the castle. Image by the author. In November I travelled to Hungary to go digging around the archives of the Sárospatak Reformed College (Sárospataki Református Kollégium). …

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@zenothankyou.bsky.social on Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium

voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/e...

Gale Fellowships information session - 2026/27

Interested in applying for a Gale Digital Humanities fellowship for 2026/27 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - join our online informational session on Wednesday! www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/gale-f...

Fostering in eighteenth-century Britain

Very much looking forward to @kategibson.bsky.social speaking about 'Fostering in 18th Century Britain' to @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social on Wednesday. All welcome either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interdisciplinary research ftw…!

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

So pleased to have officially joined the Fellowship of @jesusoxford.bsky.social today - a vibrant academic community at the @ox.ac.uk since 1571.

Ce livre est une merveille
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social

CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Text Embeddings Should Capture Implicit Semantics, Not Just Surface Meaning This position paper argues that the text embedding research community should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling goal. Text embedding models have become fo...

Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱

🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻

You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History YouTube video by Voltaire Foundation Oxford

I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...

Victor Hugo's artwork was amazing. Icymi, I wrote up a blog post about an exhibition in London at the Royal Academy with a ton of pics. ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2... #museums

The Lyell Lectures 2025 The 2025 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Leah Price

You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...

Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies: Mikko Tolonen on Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to Eighteenth-Century Book and Intellectual History 9 May 2025 Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00 Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A…

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!

9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.

More information:
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CFP: LLMs and DH, Paris, July 3-4 2025 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

CFP conference+journal track of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies CCLS2025 will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland. Deadline Jan 30! jcls.io/site/cfp/

Introducing ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk’: The Latest Special Collection from MLO We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available…

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We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH

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Just in time for the holidays, a new volume of #digitalenlightenmentstudies - text reuse ; revolutionary digital corpora ; Voltaire’s manuscripts, and more! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/5/info/ #digitizingenlightenment #lumieres #digital18c

Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling intertextual networks through data-driven research (ModERN) The European Research Council's ModERN project (Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling networks of modernity through data-driven research) is a pioneering five-year research initiative. This programme ...

A pair of interesting and helpful new accounts of studying C18 French text reuse from @glennroe.bsky.social and Dario Maria Nicolosi

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digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/

BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...

BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CHR2024

"L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk," published on MLO. The left side of the image has a blue background with the title in white text and the subtitle, "A Special Collection from Modern Languages Open," below. The right side of the image features a collage of handwritten manuscript excerpts and sketches of Voltaire, alongside a circular icon of his silhouette.

Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social

Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

I'm sure I. A. Richards would interpret this as evidence that we need more and better teaching of poetry. That interpretation remains open!

Releasing two trillion tokens in the open. huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...

Hi new followers. 👋🏼

It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.

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