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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 7d

📅 Reminder: The call for papers for the @impresso.bsky.social "Radio and Newspapers" conference closes next Monday, November 10. We look forward to reading your proposals and welcoming you to Lausanne (@unil.bsky.social)!

CFP in English and French: impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026

Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 12d

📣 Le colloque #Humanistica2026 aura lieu à Paris en mai prochain : nous venons tout juste de publier l'appel à communications !

Une excellente occasion de présenter et discuter vos recherches en #humanitésnumériques dans un cadre francophone.

> humanistica2026.sciencesconf.org

Colloque Humanistica 2026 - Sciencesconf.org

Le 7ème colloque de l'association francophone des humanités numériques

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 14d

This fall, we are launching a short series of online lunchtime seminars to keep up to date with the latest research in media history 🗞️ 📻 📺

ℹ️ Program and registration here: impresso-project.ch/events/histo...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Oct 7

CFP: Historical Network Research conference 2026 in Turin, Italy! (deadline Dec. 1 2025) historicalnetworkresearch.org/cfp-hnr2026-...
HNR looks forward to meeting colleagues from Italy and beyond who are involved in the analysis of historical networks.

CFP: HNR2026 in Turin, 20-22 July (deadline 1 December)

Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026 The Historical Network Research community is very pleased to announce the call for papers for the Historical Networks Research conferen…

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Impresso Project @impresso.bsky.social · Sep 15

📣 CfP: Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?
The Impresso project is pleased to invite you to participate in its next conference, to be held in Lausanne in June 2026!
📆 The call is open until November 10, 2025
👉 Find out more here: impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great Call for Papers for #media historians working on #radio & #magazines! 📻📰
The 'Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?' conference (Lausanne, 30.06-01.07.2026) is looking for contributions.
L'appel est aussi disponible en français.
impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026

Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Sep 4

CALL FOR PAPERS: Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?
The @impresso.bsky.social is pleased to invite you to participate in its next conference @unil.bsky.social in June 2026!
Call open until November 10, 2025. Find out more here 👉 impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

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Florian Windhager @windhagr.bsky.social · Jun 4

VIS4DH is back at @ieeevis.bsky.social, November 2025 in Vienna! Find the Call for Papers here, focusing on the Visualization of Conflict and Peace: vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Apr 22

Mardi 29 avril, le Centre NUCLEUS (@unil.bsky.social) a le plaisir de recevoir Michael Sinatra pour un état des lieux du champ des humanités numériques et un partage des expériences menées dans le centre qu'il dirige à Montréal !

Bienvenue à toutes et tous: www.unil.ch/events/17453...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Apr 2

"Geneva's Press and Radio Microcosm and the League of Nations in the Interwar Period"

My short paper for the "Transmedia History" conference, a brief overview of studies still to be carried out on these issues. PDF here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Undated photographs of the Radio-Nations station in Prangins.

"Broadcast of Manchurian Report Proved Value of "Radio-Nations" at Geneva", New York Times, 26 February 1933, p.X10. The technical feat is celebrated with a photograph of the Prangins station.

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Marie Blanc @blcmarie.bsky.social · Apr 2

Merci aux organisatrices et organisateurs de ce colloque, pour les échanges en janvier et aujourd'hui pour la publication de ce recueil de résumés ! Pour ma part j'y ai parlé approches visuelles et transmédiatiques du tourisme, tous les détails à retrouver ici ⤵️

Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Apr 2

"Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies" - The Book of Abstracts of the @unil.bsky.social/@impresso.bsky.social conference is now online!

Read the post here: impresso-project.ch/news/history...
Or go directly to the PDF on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Apr 2

"Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies" - The Book of Abstracts of the @unil.bsky.social/@impresso.bsky.social conference is now online!

Read the post here: impresso-project.ch/news/history...
Or go directly to the PDF on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · Feb 18

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · Feb 18

📣 Job offers
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Mar 28

Postdoc position: Join @impresso.bsky.social (Luxembourg)!

Impresso Project @impresso.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Digital History! Join our Luxembourg-based team for a 21-month Postdoctoral Researcher position. If interested, or know someone who might be, you can learn more and find the link to apply here 👉 impresso-project.ch/news/2025/03...

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Impresso Project @impresso.bsky.social · Mar 26

📣 Impresso is now live on Bluesky !
An interdisciplinary project exploring historical newspapers and radio archives through machine learning—across time, languages & borders.
Follow us here for research updates, tools & collaborations.
🔗 Visit our homepage & explore the app: impresso-project.ch

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Marcella Tambuscio @marcella-tambuscio.bsky.social · Feb 4

Historical Network Research (HNR) is organizing HISTONET, a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social to connect with the community of network scientists! #hnr
The call for papers is open until February 15th!
Details can be found here:
historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/netsci-maast...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Nov 21

"Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies"

The conference program is now online! impresso.github.io/transmedia/

Come and discuss the combined use of media for historical research in Lausanne on January 27-28, 2025! Free registration, also via Zoom. @unil.bsky.social

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · Nov 19

A rare "I drink your milkshake" chart
www.economist.com/business/201...

A chart showing how directional drilling works

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Liz Grumbach @emgrumbach.bsky.social · Aug 7

@martingrandjean.ch reminds us that DH2014 was a decade ago, and looks back at the things that have changed since. I absolutely remember looking for my name on that amazing network viz on the ground! I'm loving hearing how DH has been strengthened at Lausanne since then. #DH2024

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Jul 4

Next week (July 8-10), I'm hosting the Historical Network Research Conference 2024 at UNIL. It's still possible to register if you're interested in the applications of network analysis to the historical sciences: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/ #HNR2024

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · May 29

New paper just published in International Studies Quarterly : a study of the network of international health organisations reporting on their collaborations over almost 50 years! doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance

Abstract. In this paper, regime complexes are conceptualized as dynamic networks constituted by relations between international organizations (IOs). We int

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · May 17

Help us spread the word: #CfP for the first Impresso conference! "#Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies" on 27 and 28 January 2025 in Lausanne - the submission deadline is 15.7. and all infos are here: impresso.github.io/transmedia/

Call for papers (EN) | Transmedia Conference 2025

How can “transmedia” history be put into practice from both theoretical and empirical perspectives? The international conference “Transmedia History”—held by the impresso project and the University of...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · May 15

I'm pleased to announce that the final program for the Historical Network Research Conference 2024 #HNR2024 is now available: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/pro... (8-10 July 2024)
Join us in Lausanne or online! Registration here (free): hnr2024.sciencesconf.org

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Jan 31

Last call! ⚠️🤓 Last day to submit a paper proposal for the HNR2024 conference: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/
Let me know if you have any problems uploading your abstract, or if you need a little more time.

[Yes, this is the very last reminder, sorry for the spam]

Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · Nov 16

[CFP] I am pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for the #HNR2024 conference: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/ Do you apply network analysis to historical subjects? Come to Lausanne in July! Deadline January 31, 2024 Please share!

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