Combining Social and Cultural with Digital History: Methodological Challenges and Practical Strategies

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Combining Social and Cultural with Digital History: Methodological Challenges and Practical Strategies

Organizer
Prof. Johann Buessow (Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Venue
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum, Saal 1
Funded by
ERC
ZIP
44780
Location
Bochum
Country
Germany
Takes place
Hybrid
From - Until
08.03.2023 - 10.03.2023
Website
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/orient/index.html.de
By
Nils Riecken, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

International kick-off workshop of the research project "Late Ottoman Palestinians: Social and Cultural Dynamics in an Eastern Mediterranean Society during the Age of Empire, 1880–1920 (LOOP)", Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Combining Social and Cultural with Digital History: Methodological Challenges and Practical Strategies

This international workshop is the kick-off event of the ERC funded project “Late Ottoman Palestinians: Social and Cultural Dynamics in an Eastern Mediterranean Society during the Age of Empire, 1880–1920 (LOOP)” at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

The project explores social and cultural dynamics in the Palestine region between 1880 and 1920, analysing largely untapped data.

In the Eastern Mediterranean region, the four decades between 1880 and 1920 were marked by European imperialism, Ottoman state building and globalisation. They were also an era of profound social differentiation, driven, among other things, by human mobility and migration on an unprecedented scale. Accordingly, numerous social formations that have often remained relevant to the present day have their roots in this epoch, such as specific forms of settlement or ethno-religious communities.

The research project studies these processes on the basis of hitherto largely unexplored Ottoman census data on the region of Palestine. In combination with other sources, the census provides insights into social categories as well as spaces and places that have so far been neglected by researchers. These include women, children or craftsmen as well as rural market centres and informal urban settlements.

The central research question is which strategies of action the inhabitants of Palestine pursued – across categories such as gender, language or religion – in order to cope with challenges on an individual or collective scale.

This workshop brings together experts on Palestinian and Ottoman as well as digital, social, economic, and cultural history to discuss methodological challenges and practical research strategies.

Please register with: Giselle.Milloch@rub.de.

Programm

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

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