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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 28/08/2026

The Digital Historian's Craft 📖 doi.org/10.4337/9781... (I'd be happy to send you the preprint if you don't have access to the original here, just ask!)

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 03/08/2026

Can embeddings be useful as a way to explore large corpora of historical data? Three recent conference papers: 1️⃣ doi.org/10.63744/R2L... Embeddings to analyze news collections (fig.1) 2️⃣ doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Media coverage analysis (fig.2) 3️⃣ doi.org/10.5281/zeno... UMAP vs. network viz? (fig.3)

UMAP of press articles and radio transcripts

Similarity network based on text embeddings

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 20/07/2026

The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 begins today in sunny Torino, Italy. More than a hundred colleagues talking about how they apply network analysis to historical sources! Conference website: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/turin/ #hnr2026

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 24/06/2026

Next week: “Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?” @unil.bsky.social @impresso.bsky.social 📆 Here is the program! Registration is still open if you want to join us online: impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne... 📘 The Book of Abstracts is available here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 04/12/2025

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations! 🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual... 📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 04/09/2025

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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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 22/04/2025

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 · 02/04/2025

"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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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 02/04/2025

"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 · 21/11/2024

"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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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 04/07/2024

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 · 15/05/2024

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 · 16/11/2023

[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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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 09/11/2023

Big news: after years of organizing workshops, archaeologists and historians are joining forces to offer a summer school in network analysis! www.pastnetworks.net 25-29.06.2024, Barcelona with Marten Düring, Tom Brughmans, Cindarella Petz, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Luce Prignano, Matteo Mazzamurro and me

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 08/11/2023

"Patrimoine(s) numérique(s)" Le programme du colloque NUCLEUS est en ligne: news.unil.ch/display/1699... Rendez-vous les 30 novembre et 1er décembre !

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 23/10/2023

Élections fédérales 2023 : bis repetita ? Tradition oblige, je mets à jour ma frise de l'évolution de la composition du Conseil national (qui fait beaucoup relativiser les "victoires" et "défaites" des uns et des autres) : www.martingrandjean.ch/elections-fe...

Evolution de la composition de Conseil national

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