Luca Scholz
@lscholz.bsky.social
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Luca Scholz
@lscholz.bsky.social
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New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
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by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
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The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
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My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
Reposted by Luca Scholz
This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
![The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...]
Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:643p6z4ydk2xnwv77maa6eec/bafkreidctt57eseamimgzctkjtu2ly2vmsugcjwcrargerohe5bljg7jie@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article:
"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article:
"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
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CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks.
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Current Research in Digital History
Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.
crdh.rrchnm.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks.
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
Reposted by Luca Scholz
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up!
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up!
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Ryan Heuser. This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments.
culturalanalytics.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
Reposted by Luca Scholz
What does #DigitalHumanities look like from/for the Global Majority?
If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you!
⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026!
📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight
msuglobaldh.org
If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you!
⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026!
📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight
msuglobaldh.org
Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026 – 13-17 April 2026 | Virtual and In-Person
msuglobaldh.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What does #DigitalHumanities look like from/for the Global Majority?
If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you!
⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026!
📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight
msuglobaldh.org
If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you!
⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026!
📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight
msuglobaldh.org
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
Reposted by Luca Scholz
The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!
Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.
Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.
RSVP 👇
Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.
Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.
RSVP 👇
Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
www.eventbrite.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!
Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.
Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.
RSVP 👇
Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.
Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.
RSVP 👇
Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely:
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Works in progress for the Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography which starts in less than two weeks! ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!
It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Works in progress for the Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography which starts in less than two weeks! ruderman.sites.stanford.edu
It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!
It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!
Reposted by Luca Scholz
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Reposted by Luca Scholz
"Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century, this article..."
What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.
What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.
On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Validate User
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century, this article..."
What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.
What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.
Reposted by Luca Scholz
This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai
Reposted by Luca Scholz
💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics
In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
Very excited to be in Melbourne this week to deliver a keynote at a workshop on digital methods in the humanities and social sciences! homo-calculans.blog/workshop
Workshop: Madness in Method – Homo Calculans
homo-calculans.blog
September 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very excited to be in Melbourne this week to deliver a keynote at a workshop on digital methods in the humanities and social sciences! homo-calculans.blog/workshop
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943)
À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam
À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam
July 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943)
À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam
À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam
Reposted by Luca Scholz
This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...
July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...
This was a fantastic summer school!
5 days of Digital Humanities from antiquity to modern history. “InkCode” Summer School (by SNS, with Stanford University and UCLA) brought students together on #AI, text #mining, geolocation & DH, all in the stunning Santa Chiara convent in San Miniato. Funded by MERITA (PNRR).
#DigitalHumanities
#DigitalHumanities
July 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This was a fantastic summer school!
Reposted by Luca Scholz
The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️
Special Issue Submissions - AHA
Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...
www.historians.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️
Reposted by Luca Scholz
Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)
Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)
Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities:
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social
@catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland".
#digitalhumanities #skystorians
@kmcdono.bsky.social