Wednesday 22. 4. 2026 10:15
workshop | Academic Conference Centre, IP CAS, Husova 4a, Prague
ITrust: Computational Methods in Historiography
Organized by the Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History
Detailed information
PROGRAMME
10:00 - 10:30 Opening
Radim Hladík, Tomáš Havelka, Lucie Storchová,
and Petr Pavlas (Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague)
Session I: HISTORY IN THE MAKING
AND RECONSTRUCTION
(chair: Guillermo Restrepo)
10:30 - 11:15 From Retweets to Influence:
Reconstructing Social Networks from
Information Spreads
Nina Reščič (Institute of Computer Science, CAS, Prague)
11:15 - 12:00 “Remote Sensing” Conceptual Ecosystems:
History of Ideas at Scale through
Contextual Embeddings and Phylogenetics
Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
Session II: COMPUTING THE ANTIQUITY
(chair: Vojtěch Kaše)
13.00 - 13:45 Socio-Spatial Situatedness of Roman
Professions and its Impact on Religion
in the Roman Empire:
A GIS Modeling Approach
Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University, Brno)
13:45 - 14:30 An Ancient Recipe Knowledge Graph
Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague)
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee
Session III: AI AND HISTORICAL TEXTS
(chair: Petr Pavlas)
14:45 - 15:30 Creating Bespoke HTR (Handwritten
Text Recognition) Solutions for Complex
Historical Manuscripts with Generative
Artificial Intelligence [online]
Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)
15:30 - 16:15 LLM-Assisted Detection of Scholastic
Structure in Historical Documents
Joakim Skarding (Institute of Computer Science, CAS,
Prague)
16:15 - 16:30 Tea break
Session IV: KEYNOTE LECTURE
(chair: Sean Coughlin)
16:30 - 18:00 What the Dynamics of Chemical
Knowledge Reveal About the Unfolding
of Scientific Knowledge
Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute
for Mathematics in the Sciences,
Leipzig)
18:00 - 20:00 Closing and dinner
This event is organised within the project OP JAK: Knowledge in the Age of Distrust, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008711.
