Conference Programme 2025

Data Biographies

13-14 February 2025, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland

 

13 February

Tool and software demonstrations

14.00 – 17.00

Florian Kräutli (University of Zurich) «Charting Known Unknowns in an Ego-Network: Insights from the Johannes Itten Linked Archive»

Niclas Bodenmann (Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv) «EKIH Karteikarten: A Project Towards a Linked Dataset of the Swiss Internment Networks during the Second World War»

Stephen Hart (University of Bern) «Geovistory, a LOD Research Infrastructure for Historical Sciences»

17.30 – Keynote lecture, speaker TBC

18.30 – Apero sponsored by the Institute for History and Theory of Art and Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana

 

14 February

Paper presentations

9.00 – 10.15. Session 1

Seyma Aksoy (Yıldız Techical University) «A Turkish Educator in Germany at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century – Hüviyet Bekir Bek Örs: Biography of a Transnational Knowledge Carrier»

Javier Vera Zúñiga (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), Magally Alegre Henderson (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) «From Altona to Peru Transnational networks of biographies in the diary of Heinrich Witt»

Aleksandra Kaye (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology), Raphael Schlattmann (Technical University of Berlin), Malte Vogl (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) «Reanimating Biographies: Historical Biographical Dictionaries and the Computational Approaches to Leveraging Their Data»

10.45 – 12.00. Session 2

Fabian Dombrowski (Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute), Sebastian Klaes (Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute) «Naming the Network. Mining Prosopographic Data Sources with NER and NEL for Reconstructing Networks of 19th Century Textbook Production»

Marcella Tambuscio (University of Graz) «Biographies to Connections: a prosopographical analysis of the court of Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)»

Ana Bazzan (UFRGS) «History of Computer Science Courses in Brazil – The Network of Pioneers»

13.00 – 14.40. Session 3

Martina Melillo (Politecnico di Milano), Tommaso Elli (Politecnico di Milano), Michele Mauri (DensityDesign Lab, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano) «Reimagining the “Archipelago of Names”: Co-Design Strategies for Visualizing Literary Data in DH»

Maria Levchenko (University of Bologna) «Literary communities in St. Petersburg 1999-2019»

Botond Szemes (HUN-REN RCH Institute for Literary Studies), Kata Dobás (HUN-REN RCH Institute for Literary Studies) «Network of the Literary Memory Among the Visegrad Countries»

Sepideh Alassi (University of Basel) «Leveraging Federated Search and Data Annotation for Enhanced Analysis of Biography Networks and Network Biographies»

15.20 – 17.00. Session 4

Victor Beauvalet (CNRS), Armelle Couillet (CNRS), Emmanuel Eliot (Université de Rouen Normandie), Raphaëlle Krummeich (Université de Rouen Normandie), Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq (Université de Rouen Normandie) «Public health landscape in Cyprus under British colonial period : dealing with uncertainties of reported data on malaria epidemic issues»

Jose Antonio Motilla (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí), Edgardo Galan (Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas), Edgardo Ugalde (Instituto de Física UASLP), Martín Zumaya (PUEDJS-UNAM), Diego Espitia (PUEDJS-UNAM) «The structure and dynamics of the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico: 1767-1821. Latency, spectrality, presences and absences, from data science»

Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography) «Every map helps tells the story that can be (a part of a) biography»

Maroussia Bednarkiewicz (University of Tübingen) «Muwatta, the sayings of Malik ibn Anas, foundational text of a major Islamic legal traditions»