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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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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UK historians: it's the final week to participate in the survey exploring how historians are using AI and how they see AI impacting on the discipline of History. Please participate and share widely! forms.gle/s2LnADZHerne... #twitterstorians #history
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UK historians: please participate in a survey exploring how historians are using AI and how they see AI impacting on the discipline of History: forms.gle/s2LnADZHerne... #twitterstorians #history
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Survey on AI use by historians
You are invited to participate in a research survey exploring how historians in the UK use artificial intelligence (AI) in their work. This study is being conducted by researchers at the University o...
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce that its two-day conference will be held in Sheffield on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September 2026. Registration now open 👇 www.dhi.ac.uk/congress
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Digital Humanities Congress 2026
Digital Humanities Congress 2026 University of Sheffield, 2nd and 3rd September 2026 Click here to register The full programme of 47 talks will be announced shortly The University of Sheffield’s&nb…
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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/
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
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 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...
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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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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
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
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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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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
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!
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Konf: Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1459… Paris, 23.10.2024-25.10.2024, Mareike König, DHIP; Julianne Nyhan, TU Darmstadt / University College London; Sébastien Poublanc, CNRS, …
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Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” #dhiha9
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Digital History CFP! Please consider submitting a paper for our postgrad panels for the IHR digital history seminar 2024-5! #dh #dhistory👇 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/07/ihr-...
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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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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
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
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Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
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 👇 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tues...
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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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