Programme

Thursday 23.11

13:00 – 13:30 – Opening
13:30 – 15:00 – Keynote
  • Glenn Roe (Sorbonne University), Early Modern Influencers: Networks of Text Reuse in 18th-century France
15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30 – 18:00 – Session 1
  • Monica Berti (University of Leipzig), Text Reuse Detection for Measuring Influence and Reception in Ancient Greek Corpora
  • Maciej Janicki (University of Helsinki), Text similarity and alignment in the study of Finnic oral poetry
  • Kira Hinderks (University of Helsinki), ‘Though this be Madness, yet there is Method in’t’: An attempt at systematising the study of text reuse in historical documents

Friday 24.11

9:00 – 10:30 – Session 2
  • Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki), From Textual Overlaps to Meaning Matching: Conceptualising the Relevance of Transformer Models for Intellectual History
  • Filip Ginter (University of Turku), Text reuse and Meanings: from Lexical to Semantic
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 – Session 3
  • Hannu Salmi, Jani Marjanen & Petri Paju (University of Turku & University of Helsinki), Text reuse in the transnational Swedish-language press, 1645-1918: Reflections on a project
  • Erik Edoff (Umeå University), Remembering the past: Swedish-language nineteenth-century newspapers’ reuse of eighteenth-century press items
  • Johan Jarlbrink (Umeå University) & Patrik Lundell (Örebro University), Examining the temporalities of newspaper genres in the 19th century
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 – Session 4
  • Kaspar Beelen (Turing Institute), Reflections on Text “Reuse” in the Context of Generative AI: Analysing Queer Literature and Historical Newspapers with Large Language Models
  • Marten Düring (University of Luxemburg), impresso Text Reuse at Scale. A Prototype Interface for the Exploration of Text Reuse Data in Semantically Enriched Historical Newspapers
  • Yann Ryan (University of Leiden), Tracing the sources of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Through Text Reuse
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 – Session 5
  • Ville Vaara (University of Helsinki), Text reuse trends in 18th century historiography in Britain
  • Ananth Mahadevan (University of Helsinki), End-to-End Data Science Pipeline for Historical Text Reuse
17:00 – 18:00 – Discussion, wrapping up

 

Place for the workshop: University of Helsinki, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, Helsinki, Finland

You can participate remotely by registering here.