Symposium
Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
- Date
- Friday 31 January 2025
- Time
- Address
- Huizinga Building (on campus)
- Room
- 0.06
During the Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025. the recepients of the 2024 Small Grants for Research Projects will talk about how they incorporated digital humanities into their research. Learn more about applying digital tools & methods from recent research results. A fascinating afternoon of digital research projects and discussion.
The symposium is held to end off the Digital Humanities Winter School: a week full of interesting workshops on digital tools and how to use them for your research. If you would like to know more, please go to the event item for the Winter School.
(Provisional) Schedule
Want to know more about the projects which will be discussed? Click on their titles to go to the project overview.
- 13:30 - 13:50: Welcome & Opening of Symposium with Angus Mol
- 13:50 - 14:10: Dear Digital Diary: An Exploration of the Huydecoper Diaries (1648-1704) through Handwritten Text Recognition (Tessa de Boer & Ramona Negrón & Jessica den Oudsten)
- 14:10 - 14:30: Lontara Digital: Developing Text Recognition Model for Lontara Manuscripts Using Transkribus and PyLaia (Louie Buana & Muhammad Asyrafi)
- 14:30 - 14:50: Reading Metaphor in Literary Machine Translation and Post-Editing (Lettie Dorst, Alina Karakanta, Katinka Zeven & Mayra Nas)
- 14:50 - 15:10: Mapping the development of Quranic Reading Traditions (QRTs) with the HAMaLaT-Quran Database (8th–11th centuries CE) (Jeremy Farrell)
15:10 - 15:30: Break - 15:30 - 15:50: The Effect of Immersive 360 Tasks on Aspects of L2 Speaking (Nivja de Jong & Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez)
- 15:50 - 16:10: Virtual reality storytelling, embodied experience, empathy and understanding (Correspondents of the World) (Sarita Koendjbiharie)
- 16:10 - 16:30: D or t? Using Big Data to Explore Linguistic Factors in Dutch Verb Spelling (Alex Reuneker)
- 16:30 - 16:50: Interviews Going Open! Developing Interdisciplinary Guidelines on How to Publish Qualitative Interview Data as Open Data (Naomi Truan)
- 16:50 - 17:00: Closing comments & social drinks
Registration
Please use the registration form (accessible via the button below) to sign up for the Symposium only.
The Winter School Workshops for HTR and QGIS are FULL.
Email lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl to join a WAITING LIST for Quarto or ATLAS.ti. Please let us know if you need to cancel a registration so we can give your place to someone else.