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Sofia Papastamkou

@spapastamkou.bsky.social
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Currently C²DH, University of Luxembourg (Ranke.2). Also, CNRS staff. Historian of IR, digital history, digital history pedagogy.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/09/2026
On 20th October I'll be participating in an online panel hosted by Indiana University Bloomington titled 'The Cost of Openness: AI, Extraction, and Scholarly Governance'
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The Cost of Openness: AI, Extraction, and Scholarly Governance
Generative AI has intensified a long-standing governance gap in scholarly communication.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
On the Value of Shallow Reading open.substack.com/pub/computat...
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On the Value of Shallow Reading
Or, the AI as Intern
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/04/2026
Donald Trump’s presidential library, in Miami, erases any remaining distinction between his presidency and his business empire—it stores “some of his presidential power in a commercial skyscraper that will outlast his second term,” Henry Grabar argues.
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The Trump Library Symbolizes His Presidency Perfectly
Plans for a new Miami skyscraper reveal a monument fit for a real-estate mogul.
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Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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The Lost Promise of Digital History
And why computational history is now needed more than ever
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If A.I. Is a Weapon, Who Should Control It? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...
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Opinion | If A.I. Is a Weapon, Who Should Control It?
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/02/2026
The Chinese University of Hong Kong is searching for an assistant professor in AI Humanities. Application deadline March 29.
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Assistant Professor (AI Humanities)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Currently attending the workshop "History of Digital History Between East and West" - the presentations are of high quality and super interesting! www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
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History of Digital History between East and West
This workshop will address the history of digital history by enlarging the scope outside of the United States and Western Europe, taking into account crucial developments elsewhere which have often be...
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump confuses Greenland with Iceland 🤔 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Live Updates: Trump Drops Tariff Threat Over Greenland After Assailing Europe
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The newly launched portal of diamond open access journals in HSS of the Chinese university of Hong Kong www.ojhhk.com/EN/home
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Open Journals Hub Hong Kong
Open Journals Hub Hong Kong
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Currently in mode "Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method" conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong dh2025.tra.cuhk.edu.hk
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Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II
free website template
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
a reasonably sized and dedicated public for the #chr2025 conference session on the ancient world - with much focus on Ancient Greek inside
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very much enjoying the #chr2025 lightning talks session - a lot of interesting research in progress presented here!
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Interested in analyzing TV at scale? Changes in sitcoms over the 20th century? Check out the latest development in the full #chr2025 paper at anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
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Sitcom Form and Function: Pacing and Production in a Collection of Thirty U.S. Series
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Sofie Moors @sofiemoors.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Very happy to present the paper that @joeymccollum.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy at #CHR2025 :)
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lorenverreyen.bsky.social @lorenverreyen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I just presented my podcast dataset at #CHR2025. Interested in analysing 412 days worth of podcast episodes? You can find the fully transcribed dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1746... 🎙️
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Podcasts as Data
Description: This dataset provides bag-of-words (BOW) representations of podcast transcripts derived from a large-scale corpus of English-language podcasts. The corpus spans all 19 Apple Podcasts genr...
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We have been informed that spam emails are being sent to some #CHR2025 participants. Unfortunately, we can’t prevent these, but please ignore them and stay cautious - we trust everyone will recognise them for what they are.
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) This year it will take place in Luxembourg, at the @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu #History #Technology #skystorians www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Avez-vous déjà pensé à évaluer une leçon de @proghist.bsky.social? Vos commentaires nous aideront à développer des ressources de haute qualité pour les humanistes numériques du monde entier. Exprimez votre intérêt : tinyurl.com/fr-appel-eva...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/07/2025
A cat in Odesa, Ukraine, memorized the route to and from a bomb shelter in an apartment building. Viktoria Ilkiva said her cat knows to head home after the air-raid alerts end. The ginger kitty leads the way through a parking garage, onto an elevator, and to their front door.
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Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Êtes-vous partisan de la #ScienceOuverte ? Participez à l'évaluation ouverte par les pairs de @proghist.bsky.social en donnant votre avis sur notre récente série de soumissions. Rejoignez notre communauté d'évaluateur·ices : tinyurl.com/fr-appel-eva...
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 @mpuren.bsky.social @floriancafiero.bsky.social are discussing text analysis of Colette to look into author attribution. Using (the best named model) CamemBERT among other LLMs to identify jokes.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Such an excellent panel this was #dh2025
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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@laurenfklein.bsky.social is asking „Are LLMs our limit case?“ in the panel Rethinking the Ethics of „Open“ in the Shadow of AI. #dh2025
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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry. Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX... #DH2025
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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the first, ...
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
learning the existence of Nwulite Obodo Open Data License for sharing African datasets datasciencelawlab.africa/nwulite-obod... - #dh2025 session on Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI
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Nwulite Obodo Open Data License — Made for sharing African datasets equitably – Data Science Law Lab
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Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Questions on DH conferences have changed from „how do we teach humanities students to code“ to „how do we teach humanities students to remenber that they are humanists“ – observation by Renana Kedar at #DH2025 I very much feel the struggle of the 2nd question.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
www.edut710en.org/testimony-form #dh2025 Database of recorded testimonies related to the 7th October 2023 attacks and available online
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Contact form to give testimony to Edut 710
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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026). Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬. Submission deadline: 31 August. 2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/ #HKADH
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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Slides from our #DH2025 presentation: "Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹" bit.ly/1001echo #DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
First slide of our presentation showing the title, authors and their affiliation.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Apologies for the invasion #dh2025, but the cfp for #CHR2025 (deadline: 18 July!) might be interesting for participants here!
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#dh2025 poster session - Teaching DH methods to humanists using LLMs @c2dh.uni.lu
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The submission deadline for #CHR2025 is fast approaching! Authors, you have until Friday, 18 July, to submit your short and long papers, lightning talk abstracts, and workshop ideas. ⚠️ Please note: there will be NO extension of this deadline. 🔗 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
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Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History @c2dh.uni.lu · 14/07/2025
#CfP Conference in Northern Luxembourg on 26-27 February 2026 on the topic of national-socialist internment sites in Western Europe Deadline for submission: 15 September www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news... #Holocaust #WW2 #HistoricalSites
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CfP: Transit zones: Western European internment sites in the interspaces of Nazi persecution
International conference organised by the C²DH / University of Luxembourg and the Centre Cinqfontaines / Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZPB) on 26.-27. February 2026.
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ReDICo @redico.eu · 28/04/2025
📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
Conference poster: Online Conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality". 23 - 24 June 2025. Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Ethan Zuckerman, Ramesh Srinivasan.
Program and registration: Scan QR-Code
ReDICo is a project of the University of Jena sponsored by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
très contente d'être aux journées Wikimédia Culture et Numérique 2025, organisées par une vibrante communauté, à Paris meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Journ%C... pour présenter la leçon de @ranke2-c2dh.bsky.social sur l'utilisation de Wikipédia pour initier à la critique des sources numériques
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Journées Wikimedia Culture et Numérique 2025/Programme - Meta
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This Thursday, seminar online organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at @uni.lu with @c2dh.uni.lu Presentations by students from all around the world www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #student #history
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Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)
International Public History online seminar. For student - by students.
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New #ReviewsinDH dropped. @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the May issue, from our Reviews in the Classroom editors R.C. Messier, Lu Wang & Kalani Craig. They partnered with Danica Savonick to integrate reviewing into the classroom with excellent results! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n5
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Vol. 6, No. 5: May 2025 - Reviews in the Classroom · Reviews in Digital Humanities
Vol. 6, No. 5 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...
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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
5/14 @epikt.bsky.social & @ceyingst.bsky.social share #ByteSizedPedagogy: teaching student video editing to glitch media, & digital=>analog: analyzing a videogame w/paper, scissors, paste, yarn cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14429559 +
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ByteSizedPedagogy - Andrew Ferguson and Carlisle Yingst
This event was postponed from April. We hope you can join us! It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Now more than ever, we need to chat about who owns our data. This goes for everyone. In a few weeks we'll be gathering at Yale to talk about Who Owns Black Data specifically, who owns historical data, who controls the material past. Open to the public! wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/
Promotional card for Who Owns Black Data 2 conference at Yale, May 14.
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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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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Programming Historian is such a wonderful resource for digital scholarship. We’re delighted to support it and its brilliant team.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Public history for contested and conflicting past(s): cfp for the seminar organized by the students of the master in Digital & Public History of the @uni.lu - deadline 22 April www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
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CfP - Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)
The online seminar 'Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)' is organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History (MADiPH) at the University of Luxembourg on Thursday,...
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Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History @c2dh.uni.lu · 11/03/2025
On 1 March, Valérie Schafer stepped into the role of Deputy Director at the C²DH, succeeding Denis Scuto. With an impressive academic background, Schafer is a strong advocate for diversity, inclusion in academia, and promoting a healthy work-life balance. 🔗 www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
SCIROS project at the @c2dh.uni.lu 24-25 March 2025 - glad to present @ranke2-c2dh.bsky.social at this occasion! www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
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SCIROS visit at the C²DH and at the University: let’s collaborate on Open Science!
The SCIROS project—Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities is an initiative aimed at creating an international research network for...
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block - Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block (Gift Article)
Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.
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Sofia Papastamkou @spapastamkou.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Is this the Last Generation of Historians? open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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Is this the Last Generation of Historians?
OpenAI’s Deep Research is a strange and shockingly powerful agentic AI research assistant that offers a clear glimpse of the future. But where do we fit in?
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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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