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Alexandra Ortolja
@alexandraortolja.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Digital Humanities & History, University of Sheffield
Research: translation of Enlightenment rights discourses; colonial history/ legacies of early modern European collections.
Approaches: book history; DH; critical digital heritage studies.
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Looking forward to this exciting lineup for the autumn/ winter's IHR digital history seminar series. Join us online for a series of lunchtime and evening papers:https://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/category/2025-2026/
jwbaker.bsky.social James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · Sep 23
Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Join the IHR digital history seminar tomorrow (29 Oct) at 17.30 GMT online to hear Ashley R. Sanders discussing her book "Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research", Ottoman history, AI, NLP and more!👇 #dighist
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Tuesday 29 October 2024 - Ashley R. Sanders (UCLA): Identifying Latent Textual Bias: Making a case for traditional NLP tasks in the era of AI - Digital History Seminar
This seminar is 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97213610241 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chairs: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird and Alice Kinghorn. Abstract: Bias dete...
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October 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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jwbaker.bsky.social
I am delighted to announce that the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Sebastian Ahnert for their book 'Tudor Networks of Power' ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/10/2024... #dhist
2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian Ahnert for their book Tudor Networks of Power (2023). In at special lunchti...
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October 11, 2024 at 8:16 AM
alexandraortolja.bsky.social
Very excited to announce the line-up for the IHR Digital History seminar 2024-25! All papers are available via Zoom (and some in person at the IHR). Look forward to seeing you there!
October 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Konf: Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145947

Paris, 23.10.2024-25.10.2024, Mareike König, DHIP; Julianne Nyhan, TU Darmstadt / University College London; Sébastien Poublanc, CNRS, …
Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9
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August 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Digital History CFP! Please consider submitting a paper for our postgrad panels for the IHR digital history seminar 2024-5! #dh #dhistory👇
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IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2024-25 - Digital History Seminar
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...
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July 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM
alexandraortolja.bsky.social
The IHR digital history seminar might be over for 23-34 but you can still access all the recorded presentations via our Youtube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/@ihrdigitalh...

Look out for next year's line-up coming out soon! #dhist #digitalhistory
July 2, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Next Tuesday 19 June marks the final IHR Digital History seminar for the year. Nik Ribianszky will present “The Continuing Development of Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865.” Join online at 17.30 GMT #dhist 👇
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Tuesday 18 June 2024 - Nik Ribianszky (Queen's University Belfast): "The Continuing Development of Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865." - Digital History S...
This seminar is 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm BST live on Zoom (link https://zoom.us/j/5959205456), and later posted to our YouTube channel. This year the IHR Digital History seminar is support by the Programming...
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June 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM