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Call for Papers: The Quantitative Turn in Holocaust Research
Submissions are invited for a special issue of the journal 'Eastern European Holocaust Studies', the interdisciplinary journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre, published by De Gruyter. This special issue aims to explore the growing role of quantitative methods, ranging from statistical techniques to natural language processing to deep learning and data visualizations in Holocaust research. We invite scholars from diverse fields, including history, sociology, demography, economics, and digital humanities, to submit abstracts.
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Elyonim veTachtonim. System of Analysis of Supernatural Entities
The Elyonim veTachtonim project (Heb. “those above and those below”, a merism for the totality of divine creation) offers two databases of supernatural entities in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud.
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Conference recording: EHRI Academic Conference in Warsaw: Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age
On 18 June 2024, the international academic conference “Researching the Holocaust in the Digital Age” took place in Warsaw. The conference recording is now available, find out more on this page.
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European Hebrew Text Cultures: Deciphering Entanglements through Close and Distant Readings
This conference aims at contextualizing Hebrew literature and exploring its creation from a European Jewish Studies and Hebrew Literature scholarly perspective. Moreover, we would like to establish a connection with researchers focusing also on the reception and perception of the rising Hebrew literature from the perspective of its surrounding cultures, mainly Yiddish, German, French, and various Eastern European literary traditions. Deadline for abstracts: 27 July 2024.
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From Camp Survival to Camp Life: Digitising Greek-Jewish Social Networks in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Since the mid-1980s, the structure of all major audiovisual Holocaust archives has rested on the conceptual triangulation of 'testimony', the 'witness', and 'survival'. The audiovisual testimony becomes the organising unit of the digital Holocaust archive and thus determines its serial logic. This webinar will discuss these conceptual problems and suggest a novel approach to Holocaust audiovisual archives, through the digital reconstruction of social networks.
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AJS 56th Annual Conference
The Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies will take place from 15-19 December 2024 online. This year it features for the first time a Digital Humanities division.
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The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon
The second international #DHJewish Conference, including a Hackathon, will take place from 10-12 April 2024 in Potsdam. The program is out now.
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Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
Final Call for Papers: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources. This is a pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, which will be held on Tuesday, 21st May, 2024, in Torino, Italy. The extended final date for paper submission is  28 February 2024.
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