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The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities [Nov 17, online, @17:00 CET]

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Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities

The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the ‘Code & Culture’ talk series.

Our first guest is Manuel Burghardt (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled “Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities“ (full abstract here). The lecture will take place on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. 

Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-lecture-series/registration.

This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our “Environments in and as Networks” Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digital-humanities-hackathon). 

EADH Small Grants (2025–2026) deadline approaching 16 November 2025

EADH Small Grants (2025–2026) deadline approaching 16 November 2025

These grants are intended to support a wide range of activities, from organizing research-related events such as seminars or workshops, to covering travel expenses for collaborative work or for consulting collections in galleries, libraries, archives, or museums. They can also provide support for research time on new or ongoing projects, or for the purchase of equipment and software licenses directly related to a project.

A maximum of five grants of €1,000 each will be awarded. The call is open to all current EADH members and members of our Associate Organizations (AIUCD, CzADH, DHd, DHNB), and we particularly encourage early-career researchers to apply.

Full details about the call and the application process can be found here.

AVOBMAT: Multilingual research tool Webinar [Nov 12, online, @15:00 CET]

Webinar on AVOBMAT: a new multilingual research tool 

Webinar on Wednesday, November 12 at 15:00-16:30 CET on AVOBMAT, a multilingual text & metadata mining platform for research & teaching DH.

AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Texts) is a multilingual text-mining service currently available in beta on the GWDG infrastructure. It provides sample databases from the ELTeC novel and DraCor drama collections, and users can request preprocessing and uploading of their own or public datasets with configurable analysis settings. AVOBMAT offers a transparent, reproducible workflow and a wide range of analytical functions, including an N-gram viewer, topic modeling, Named Entity Recognition and Linking, Keyword-in-Context, Part-of-Speech tagging, as well as measures of lexical diversity and network analysis.  Explore it at avobmat.hu.

You can register here: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1267/registrations/1027/ 

Generating Futures: Using AI to Imagine Sustainable Places [Nov 11-14, in person, Galway]

Generating Futures: Using AI to Imagine Sustainable Places

Dates: 11th – 14th November, 2025

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

Can Generative AI help us imagine a more sustainable world? Generating Futures brings together communities, artists, geographers and climate scientists to co-create visions of a sustainable future using the power of AI. Funded by Research Ireland as part of the Science Week 2025 programme, this series of interactive workshops are facilitated by PhD researchers based at the Centre for Creative Technologies.

Workshops:


Reimagining Nuns Island: A Speculative Design Walk

Collect Your Own Small & Local Dataset

Envisioning Future Placemaking through AI Visualisation Technologies

Brain Computer Interfaces and imagination – When Science and Art Meet

Full details and links to registration are available via: https://universityofgalway.ie/creative-tech/collaboration/science-week-2025/

GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization [Nov 6, 2pm, Online]

GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization

0900-1000 ET | 1500-1600 CET – Thursday 6 November, 2025

*The webinar is kindly hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark (https://www.kb.dk/) and organised by Kat Hoffman Gasser (khg). Once you have registered you should receive an email from Kat(khg) confirming your registration, a zoom link for the webinar and how to add the webinar to your online calendar.

Registration link for the webinar*:  https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/

The agenda for the webinar will include 3 presentations and an opportunity for questions:

*Agenda*

i. Introduction (10 mins)

ii. Presentations (45 mins)

1 – DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION: ‘I get by with a little help from AI’
by Filipe Bento, Head of Digital Resources and User Support, Library, Document Management and Museology Services of the Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro) and UAveiro RDM Center’ executive management

2 – FIXING THE FLAWS: RE-DOING OCR FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS
by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen, Special Consultant, Aarhus University

3 – BRIDGING AI AND LIBRARIES: REFINING & RELEASING LARGE SCALE LIBRARY DATASETS
by Matteo Cargnelutti, Principal Engineer, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and
Catherine Brobston, Program Director, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library

iii. Final remarks (5 mins)

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On behalf of the GLAM Labs Community

Details of previous GLAM Labs webinar:
AI-Powered Metadata, Hackathons, APIs & Notebooks, May 8, 2025 can be found on:
Zenodo – https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250371
and YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRpIW29NwYINQOqlpFJcff1QRyRzETIM7