ITrust: Computational Methods in Historiography

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PROGRAMME 

10:15 - 10:30             
Opening

10:30 - 11:15
Early Modern Encyclopaedism and Metaphors of Knowledge: A Potential of Static Embeddings for Cross-Corpora Comparison of Semantic Spaces
Petr Pavlas (Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague)

11:15 - 12:00 
 “Remote Sensing” Conceptual Ecosystems: History of Ideas at Scale through Contextual Embeddings and Phylogenetics
Vojtěch Kaše (CCS-Lab, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)

12:00 - 14:00              
Lunch break

14.00 - 14:45              
Socio-Spatial Situatedness of Roman Professions and its Impact on Religion in the Roman Empire: A GIS Modeling Approach
Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University, Brno)

14:45 - 15:30             
An Ancient Recipe Knowledge Graph
Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague)

15:30 - 15:45              
Coffee break

15:45 - 16:30             
Creating Bespoke HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) Solutions for Complex Historical Manuscripts with Generative AI [online]
Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)

16:30 - 17:15                       
LLM-Assisted Detection of Scholastic Structure in Historical Documents
Joakim Skarding (Institute of Computer Science, CAS, Prague)

17:15 - 17:30              
Tea break

17:30 - 19:00              
What the Dynamics of Chemical Knowledge Reveal About the Unfolding of Scientific Knowledge [keynote lecture]
Guillermo Restrepo (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig)

19:00 - 22:00
Closing, dinner, and informal evening

This event is organised within the project OP JAK: Knowledge in the Age of Distrust, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008711.