Nils Riecken, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Wednesday, 08 March 2023
07.00 pm
Short walk through downtown Bochum, dinner at restaurant “Yamas”, Bochum
Thursday, 09 March 2023
09.00 am–10.00 am
Johann Buessow, Olaf Berg, Sarah Buessow, Nils Riecken (RUB): Opening Remarks and Questions from the Research Project “Late Ottoman Palestinians”
10.00 am–11.00 am
Keynote speech
Beshara Doumani (Birzeit University/Brown University)
Coffee
11.30 am–01.00 pm
Panel 1: The History of Censuses and Censuses as a Source (Chair: Sarah Buessow)
Michelle Campos (Pennsylvania State University): Methodological Challenges for Reconstructing Social “Mixing and Unmixing” in Late Ottoman Jerusalem
M. Erdem Kabadayı (Koç University): Developing Computer Vision Applications for Ottoman Studies: Can Information Retrieval from Handwritten Texts, Historical Maps, or Aerial Photos Be Automated?
Lunch
02.00 pm–03.30 pm
Panel 2: Economic History (Chair: Nils Riecken)
Jörg Baten (University of Tübingen): New Evidence on Numeracy Development in Palestine and South Eastern Europe: An Economic History Perspective
Mohamed Saleh (London School of Economics): A “New” Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa: Novel Data and Revisionist Historical Narratives
Coffee
03.50 pm–05.20 pm
Panel 3: Historical Geographical Information Systems (HGIS) (Chair: Johann Buessow)
Motti Zohar (University of Haifa): Advancing Historical Research Using GIScience and Visual Sources: The Study of Late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as a Test Case
Yuval Ben-Bassat (University of Haifa): Several Case-Studies from Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham in which GIS Usage Can Help Historical Research
Break
05.30 pm–06.00 pm
Joint discussion
What Are the Prospects of OCR for Arabic Script Documents? (Chair: Olaf Berg)
8.00 pm
Dinner at restaurant “NhyStar”, Bochum
Friday, 10 March 2023
09.00 am–10.00 am
Keynote speech
Silke Schwandt (University of Bielefeld): Modelling History: Digital History Methods and Practices
Coffee
10.30 am–12.00 pm
Panel 4: Digital Humanities I: State of the Art, Recent Advances, and Debates (Chair: Olaf Berg)
Hugo Barbosa (University of Exeter): Mobility and Socioeconomic Segregation in Cities
Till Grallert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Computational Approaches to Mundane Texts in Under-Resourced Languages: The Case of Arabic Periodicals
Lunch
01.00 pm–02.30 pm
Panel 5: Digital Humanities II: State of the Art, Recent Advances, and Debates (Chair: Johann Buessow)
Moshe Lavee (University of Haifa): Geo-Temporal Mapping in the Digital Humanities: Pipelines and Initiatives
Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History
02.30 pm–03.00 pm
Closing Discussion (Chair: Erdem Kabadayı)
04.00 pm
Field trip to “Zeche Zollverein” in Essen
05.00 pm
Guided tour through the “Zeche Zollverein” coal mine
06.30 pm
Dinner at restaurant “The Mine”, Essen