Monday 14 September (location: La Place Conference Centre)
12.30 Arrival, Lunch
13.30 Welcome and Introductions Hermione Giffard and Jaap Verheul
13.45-14.45 Session 1:18th and 19th Century
James Baker, University of Sussex: Acts of being in proxies for prints. People in the British Museum catalogue of Political and Personal Satire, 1770-1830
Ian Gregory, Lancaster University: Spatial Humanities: texts, GIS places and public health in 19thcentury Britain
14.45 Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 Session 2: 19th and 20th Century
Amelia Joulain Jay, Lancaster University: Exploring Victorian British attitudes towards France and Russia. The Era, 1840-1899
Tessa Hauswedell, University College London: Reporting on Cities, Reporting on Empire: The Pall Mall Gazette, 1870-1900
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Instanbul Bilgi University and Murat Güvenç, Kadir Has University: Revisting an old yet unsettled research question in Ottoman historiography: was there an ethno religious division of labour in the multi-ethnic, multi religious Empire?
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00-18.00 Professor Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, Public Keynote Lecture: What is digital history?
18.00 Drinks
19.00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 15 September (Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, 00.5)
9.15-10.45 Session 3: Contemporary
Paul van Trigt, Utrecht University: Microhistory and Big Data. Rewriting a History of Disability by Mixed Methods
Maarten van den Bos, Utrecht University: Unsupervised walks. Youth, mass culture and the changing future of society in Dutch public discourse, 1945-1965
Dino Mujadzevic, Ruhr University Bochum: Measuring Turkish influence in Bosnia? Corpus-assisted history of media discourses on Turkey in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002-2014)
10.45 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Session 4: Theory
Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels, LAB1100: An exploration of arguments on digital scholarship
Hermione Giffard, Utrecht University: Mining Newspapers. A Plea for Significance
12.00 Discussion, Future Projects, Closing Comments
12.30 Conference Close