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Alie Lassche

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NWO Rubicon postdoc fellow at University of Antwerp | vice-president CHR computational humanities scholar | historical information dynamics | literary history | early modern Low Countries | #computationalhumanities | 🚴🏻‍♀️

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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excited for this special issue on Peripheries, which I am guest editing together with Tim Tangherlini (UC Berkeley), for the Computational Humanities Research journal. 📅 Deadline for full papers: January 17, 2027. Looking forward to your submissions! #CHR #computationalhumanitiesresearch
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CHR has grown a lot over the past few editions, with the community coming together in a new place every year. But where are we going next? We are inviting proposals to host #CHR in December 2027, 2028, and 2029. Bids can cover multiple years. Send us your expression of interest by September 15!
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We are inviting proposals to host the annual #CHR conference! A single bid may now cover the coming three editions (December 2027, December 2028, and December 2029). 📝 Expression of interest: September 15 📝 Full proposal: November 10 More info: computational-humanities-research.org/hosting_2027/
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thrilled to announce the amazing keynote speakers for #CHR2027, @UoM in January 2027: Katherine McDonough and Fotis Jannidis! CFP is open: we look forward to welcoming you in Manchester! 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #CfP #CHR
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions. richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My best birthday present comes this year from NWO: I’ve been awarded a #Rubicon grant! 🎁 From summer 2026, I’ll join @uantwerpen.be with my research project on early modern echo chambers and the dissemination of information through pamphlets in the Low Countries. Excited! www.nwo.nl/en/news/twen...
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Twenty-four researchers broaden their horizons | NWO
Twenty-four talented and recently graduated researchers will have the opportunity to gain valuable research experience abroad. The Rubicon round 2025-2 organised by NWO had a budget of over 4.7 million euros.
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Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Hi @hathitrust.bsky.social wizards and/or American #historians (espc @uofcalifornia.bsky.social), can anyone able to help me get PDFs of this record? Really appreciate any help 🤝🙏!! catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/01031...
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century) 👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month! doi.org/10.5334/johd...
Abstract of the paper and turnaround time from submission to publication. Example double page of the Flora Batava series including illustration and text sections. Letters indicate the different segments of the text: a) “species names”, b) “flowering time”, c) “classification”, d) “sexual characteristics”, e) “species traits”, f) “habitat”, g) “medicinal use”, h) “domestic use”.
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester. We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Another year, another reminder that CHR really is my favorite conference. Loved the high quality of research at #CHR2025, the conversations with colleagues from all over the world, and meeting so many kind, smart people. Already looking forward to reuniting in Manchester for the next edition! ✨
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So nice to see our work on canonical status and literary influence in Danish literary novels being discussed outside of Denmark! 🇩🇰 Curious about the paper? Find it in the ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-...
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Canonical Status and Literary Influence: A Comparative Study of Danish Novels from the Modern Breakthrough (1870–1900)
Pascale Feldkamp, Alie Lassche, Jan Kostkan, Márton Kardos, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Katrine Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for D...
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
On 1 December, submissions close for the #DHBenelux2026 conference, which will take place in Maastricht in June 2026 with 'Digital Storytelling' as its theme. That means you have 10 days left to submit your abstract on any digital humanities research! See the CfP: 2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
On 1 December, submissions close for the #DHBenelux2026 conference, which will take place in Maastricht in June 2026 with 'Digital Storytelling' as its theme. That means you have 10 days left to submit your abstract on any digital humanities research! See the CfP: 2026.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/ Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A big thank you to the #CHR2025 reviewers who have already submitted their reviews - your time and effort are much appreciated! 🙏 Still working on yours? This is a friendly reminder to please submit your reviews before Monday, September 8, 2025 (midnight).
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Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science! Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Heel erg trots op mijn voormalige promotor @judithpollmann.bsky.social!
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We are looking for a host for #CHR2026! Read the Call for Bids on our website, and submit your proposal by November, 10. computational-humanities-research.org/hosting/
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We've updated our anonymity guidelines for CHR submissions! 📝 The anonymity period now runs until acceptance notification (Sept 18), and authors can post preprints on arXiv/Zenodo before submission. Learn more: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/anonymi...
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investico.bsky.social @investico.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Nieuws | Wetenschappers aan bijna alle Nederlandse universiteiten worden direct geraakt door de regering Trump: financiering verdwijnt, data-sets worden gewist en onderzoekers durven niet meer naar de VS, ism @nu.nl @groene.nl ‪@hopersbureau.bsky.social‬
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Trumps sloopkogel door de wetenschap raakt ook Nederlandse wetenschappers | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten
Wetenschappers in heel Nederland worden geraakt door het beleid-Trump: hun onderzoeken liggen stil, ze kunnen niet meer samenwerken met Amerikaanse collega’s of zien belangrijke data verdwijnen.
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We've got news! The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve got a #postdoc opening in #computationalhistory! 📜🖥️ Come join our team at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and dive into the Danish Golden Age (1750–1930). Great research, great colleagues, and a pretty nice city too 😊 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve got a #postdoc opening in #computationalhistory! 📜🖥️ Come join our team at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and dive into the Danish Golden Age (1750–1930). Great research, great colleagues, and a pretty nice city too 😊 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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NRC @nrc.nl · 24/02/2025
Amateurhistorici zijn onmisbaar voor het ontsluiten van de lokale geschiedenis. Maar de historische kringen staan onder druk, terwijl de lokale geschiedenis jongeren nodig heeft.
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Amateurhistorici zijn onmisbaar voor het ontsluiten van de lokale geschiedenis. Maar de historische kringen staan onder druk, terwijl de lokale geschiedenis jongeren nodig heeft.
Amateurhistorici zijn onmisbaar voor het ontsluiten van de lokale geschiedenis. Maar de historische kringen staan onder druk, terwijl de lokale geschiedenis jongeren nodig heeft.
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are looking for an Early Career Representative and a Proceedings Officer to join the #CHR board, and help us in evolving our community into a more organized and professional environment. The deadline of 21 February 2025 is approaching, so don't forget to send us your application!
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
a schematic depiction of a trend line and several causal forces that give it its shape
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
After publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR for 5 years, we need a new venue. 🚨 How do we ensure that the CHR proceedings remain free, accessible, and interdisciplinary? 🖥️ Join the discussion and share your thoughts here: discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...
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Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings
Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...
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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Kritiek op AI tiert welig onder vakgenoten (en op dit platform). Hoewel ik geen techoptimist ben, volgt vandaag een een iets ander (en wellicht hoopvoller) perspectief op AI en/in de geschiedwetenschap!
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are looking for an Early Career Representative and a Proceedings Officer. Come join us! #computationalhumanities
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Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New #OA article in @urbanhistory.bsky.social by Erika Kuijpers, @alielassche.bsky.social, @judithpollmann.bsky.social, Carolina Lenarduzzi and Theo Dekker on early modern chronicle(r)s from the Low Countries! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries | Urban History | Cambridge Core
Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Ooh, highly appropriate for the first day of the year... A new article by Erika Kuijpers, @judithpollmann.bsky.social et al. on more than 200 local chroniclers. Who were these people recording the passing of the years? #EarlyModern #OpenAccess 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Screenshot of the first page of an article entitled 'Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries' by Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Judith Pollmann, Theo Dekker  and Alie Lassche. The abstract reads: 'Early modern local chronicles are a largely neglected, yet stable genre of texts that can be used for comparative research over time and space. The NWO-funded research project Chronicling Novelty (2018–24) investigated the reception of new media and new knowledge among early modern chroniclers in the Low Countries. For this purpose, we created a digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles from the period 1500–1850. This article presents the methodological decisions made in creating this corpus and their implications for its representativeness. The second part examines the social, religious and political profile of the chroniclers: who wrote chronicles and what does this reveal about chronicling as a cultural and social practice? Particularly interesting in this respect is how the chroniclers’ strong involvement in local public affairs authorized their chronicling practices, and vice versa.'
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A late Christmas present of the Chronicling Novelty team: our article just got published in the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Urban History journal! We present our digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles (1500-1850) and their authors, analysing chronicling as a cultural and social practice.
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
See www.cambridge.org/core/journal... for more information.
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Missing Data in the Humanities
Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The past we study is shaped by what survived - but what about everything that didn't? The CHR journal wants your work on measuring, understanding, and accounting for missing data. Deadline has been extended to Jan 31, 2025. Guest-edited by @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and @mikekestemont.bsky.social
Diagram in which red dots stand for places where surviving planes were shot. This only tells you where planes can get shot and still come back to base. Survivorship bias: your only information is what has survived.
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🎥 Sneak Peek: Lauren Klein at #CHR2024 Don’t miss @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s keynote speech titled "When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research" at 9 o’clock this morning! 🕘
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Meet Mia Jacobsen, presenting at her first academic conference! Explore fanfiction, its writers and readers in her two presentations at #CHR2024 📅 Thursday (3A): Reader Reception in Fanfiction vs. Commercial Literature 📅 Friday (8B): Admiration and Frustration: Multidimensional Fanfiction Analysis
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#CHR turns 5! 🎂 From meeting in Gather Town during Covid, to our first in-person meet in Antwerp, Paris, and now Aarhus - watching our community grow has been incredible! #CHR2024 opens today with our strongest program yet. Big shoutout to our brilliant PC and LO! Looking forward seeing you all!
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Milan van Lange 🟥 @milanvlange.eurosky.social · 25/11/2024
20.000 mensen op het Malieveld! #woinactie
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Haven’t been here for a while, so I thought I’d share a few updates on things that happened earlier this month. First: I successfully defended my PhD in history at Leiden University! 👩‍🎓
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Transfer news! 🇳🇱--->🇩🇰 On August 1st, I will start as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Humanities Computing at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social. Related to that: my dissertation got recently approved, and I will defend it at @unileiden.bsky.social on November 5th!🎓
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
The challenge: distilling the rapidly evolving field of Quantitative Text Analysis into one overview paper. The outcome: our latest publication in Nature Reviews Methods Primers. I hope reading it offers you as many insights as co-writing it brought me! Read it here: rdcu.be/dErq6
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
The 'Call for Papers' for CHR2024 is out! 📝 Submission deadline is July 8. There have been some changes to submission types and you can also propose workshops 🛠️. More info can be found here: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ #CHR #cfp
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Computational Humanities Research 2024
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